PSP is definitely the handheld with the most time on it for me. I was hanging around on QJ.net when the original Wipeout Pure exploit was released. Then came a tidal wave of homebrew and emulators. It was an amazing time.
At one point it wasn't possible to downgrade firmware yet, so I was (as a kid) hassling a Best Buy employee to help me find one with v1.50 instead of v1.51 or higher.
Gameboy Advance SP. So many fond memories of playing Mario pinball land on road trips and spending a majority of my time in Sonic Advance 2 in the chao garden :3
Glad to see many enjoyers of the GBA SP too. I played endless hours of Pokémon Sapphire and Emerald on that thing at home, while visiting family, on long trips to catechism (fuck LA). So many fond memories!
Gameboy Color or GBA-SP for sure.
"Finishing" Pokemon Crystal and seeing an entire other REGION still to go was the most insane videogame moment ever to me that still hasn't been topped.
OH MY GOD! this has been my favorite gaming moment ever. finishing the game and then just casually swimming on the right side and seeing THE FIRST GAME'S WHOLE REGION blew my mind, it will always be my favorite
Game gear, I loved that thing. Sonic games, the Itchy and Scratchy game, and I also remember a creepy vampire game too that I would play late at night and it would scare me so much.
I also have some memories of a Spiderman game that was my brother's.
I still have my green Gameboy and some games, and that was awesome too. I just wish I still had my Game Gear.
Gameboy advance was my favorite as a kid. I remember I actually got grounded right at I got but at night I would take it out of the box play it and then put it back. I remember having to act so excited to play games I had been play for day already when I became ungrounded.
I grew up in the 1980s and I loved my original brick Game Boy. I have all the accessories like the lense and the front light etc. My parents wouldn't let me play video games on the TV so I never got a SNES or Mega Drive etc. Later I got the original psx on my own but that was in 1997 or 1998 when Final Fantasy 8 was released in Europe.
It's hard to imagine now, but the original Game Boy blew my mind because it used cartridges. I don't know of an earlier handheld that had interchangeable games.
SEGA/PlayStation kid. Never liked Nintendo first parties but man, the library on DS is amazing even if you exclude all the Marios and Zeldas and whatnot.
I also had a PSP 1000 and later I did chores to save for a PSP GO and then a VITA, but even after CFWing all of them, 8/10 times I’d pick up my DSi over the other handhelds. To this date I still sleep with my DSi and New 3DS XL next to my bed.
As much as I loved my Psp during my college era with it's local multi-player games, favorite is hands down the DS. So many good games and a lot of jrpg in an era where it was no longer the triple A of games
that was our first handheld, it was so cool being able to play games on the go, but having to have attachments so you can see better or play better was a mess haha imagine not having a light on your screen now, it was painful!
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