I'm hardly definitive source of
information on the WonderSwan series of handheld game consoles,
seeing as I'm not Japanese, but I do consider myself to be something
of a portable system connoisseur, so I recently made a point to track
one down. I guess I'll start with a history lesson. In the late
90's the Game Boy was nearly ten years old and while the refinements
of the Game Boy Pocket was nice, the improvements of the Game Boy
Color weren't quite impressive enough to revitalize the aging market.
There must have been the idea Nintendo wasn't quite as powerful as
it had been because multiple companies tried to push devices into the
market. Before this point there had been competitors, but they all
ended disastrously.
