Mason Tee
2D Game Platforms and their Limitations
Handheld
The first handheld game made available to the public was the Mattel Auto Race back in 1976 and is
considered as the first ever all-digital handheld game but is also largely forgotten by many...
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Mason Tee
2D Game Platforms and their Limitations
Handheld
The first handheld game made available to the public was the Mattel Auto Race back in 1976 and is
considered as the first ever all-digital handheld game but is also largely forgotten by many because
of the success of Mattel Football that would be released only a year later.
After less than 100,000
units were sold, Sears predicated that Mattel Football would not be a big seller, so they took Mattel
Football and Mattel Auto Race off the market.
But within 6 months, Sears came to realise that they
were wrong about their predictions so they re-started production and continued to sell the units,
this time reaching about 500,000 units a week by March 1978.
(Mattel Football was first released in
June 1977.
)
Next was Microvision, the first true handheld gaming system, was first released in 1979.
Microvision
gained little success due to the fact that the Microvision had a small screen and only a few games to
play on.
After 2 years
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