Jeff Sparkman is a copy editor at CNET who also writes about goofy and retro gadgets and contributes lame jokes where needed. Instant cool in the early 1980s: having a car like K.I.T.T. or the ...

The new Game & Watch, made to look like the original with all its ’80s styling, is decidedly more modern – it has a color LCD screen and a rechargeable battery with a USB-C connector.

But Fessler, the founder and chief executive officer of Handheld Games Inc., ... the popular system that started showing up in many living rooms of the late 1970s and early ’80s. ...

Nintendo is feeling nostalgic lately, and it’s reviving a yet another ’80s relic. The Game & Watch portable console, first introduced in 1980 and produced until 1991, was responsible for ...

TL;DR: This $79.99 handheld plays 10,000+ retro games from 20+ classic consoles with a crisp display, 6-hour battery, and ...

The new Game & Watch, made to look like the original with all its ’80s styling, is decidedly more modern – it has a color LCD screen and a rechargeable battery with a USB-C connector.

The LCD displays were still crude and the sound warbly, but hey, this was the closest we could get to jumping over barrels on a handheld in the early 80s. Pros: long battery life, pocket-sized design.

Nintendo was looking for any reason to develop titles for the Game Boy, as the massively popular handheld system created by Gunpei Yokoi was a dominant force in the late 80s and early 90s.

That’s where the cheap LCD games of the late ‘80s and ‘90s excelled. They were bite-size snippets of action with a goal that was rarely more involved than registering a new high score.

Nintendo is feeling nostalgic lately, and it’s reviving a yet another ’80s relic.. The Game & Watch portable console, first introduced in 1980 and produced until 1991, was responsible for ...