The Atari Lynx is a 16-bit handheld game console that was released by Atari Corporation in 1989.

The Lynx was released in 1989, the same year as Nintendo's best-selling, monochromatic Game Boy.

However, the Lynx failed to achieve the sales numbers required to attract quality third party developers, and was eventually abandoned.

The Lynx was also the first gaming console with hardware support for zooming / distortion of sprites, allowing fast pseudo-3D games with unrivaled quality at the time and a capacity for drawing filled polygons with limited CPU intervention.

The Lynx system was originally developed by Epyx as the Handy Game.

Atari Corp. then showed the Lynx to the press at the Summer 1989 CES as the " Portable Color Entertainment System ", which was changed to Lynx when actual consoles were distributed to resellers.

At $ 90, it was much less expensive than the Lynx, without the color or custom chips.

However, the Game Gear was backed up by significantly more popular titles and consequently the market became dominated by Nintendo followed by Sega in a distant second and the Lynx in third.

In 2008 Atari was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for pioneering the development of handheld games with its Lynx game unit.

Although it was innovative and unique for its time, gamers found the Atari Lynx to be quite large and bulky, even the 2nd version of the unit.

By March 1996, pre-standard HTTP / 1. 1 was supported in Arena, Netscape 2. 0, Netscape Navigator Gold 2. 01, Mosaic 2. 7, Lynx 2. 5, and in Internet Explorer 2. 0.

In 1992, Lynx was born as an early Internet web browser.

In 1986 at the University of Rochester Lynx was ported to the Chrysalis operating system running on a BBN Butterfly multiprocessor.

Kid attempted to find Lynx in her childhood after Lucca's death, but was stopped and saved from certain defeat by Magil, who accompanied her thereafter.

Based on an 8-bit processor, it was the third commercially available color handheld console, after the Atari Lynx and the TurboExpress.

The Lynx was originally envisaged for surface combatants that were too small for the Sea King, but now equips most surface ships of the Royal Navy.

McCoughtry led her team to the Finals for the second straight year, but despite breaking her own Finals scoring record, the Dream was swept for the second straight year, this time by the Minnesota Lynx, which won its first title behind a fully healthy Seimone Augustus.

The owners, facing a lawsuit from the City of Ottawa if they moved the Lynx, filed a lawsuit against the City of Ottawa on October 17, 2006, seeking $ 10. 75 million in damages claiming that the city failed to provide enough parking spaces, which, the team alleged, was a violation of its lease.

After discovery of gold on Lynx Creek in the spring of 1863, the Dewey area was settled around the summer 1863 by pioneer prospector, rancher and Indian-fighter King Woolsey ( 1832 – 1879 ), who founded the Agua Fria Ranch, then better known as " Woolsey Valley ," to supply the miners.

In the 1930s, there was a gold dredging operation, the Doodle Bug Diggings, farther east in Lynx Creek Canyon.

In late 1983, Prince Andrew transferred to RNAS Portland, was trained to fly the Lynx helicopter, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 February 1984, whereupon the Queen appointed him as her personal aide-de-Camp.

The Lynx became the second IL franchise to play in Ottawa, after the former Ottawa Giants and Ottawa Athletics of the 1950s.

" Both the first and the second rounds were forced to decided third games, as they beat the Minnesota Lynx and Sacramento Monarchs.

The Sun then snagged the first overall pick in the 2010 collegiate draft in a trade with the Minnesota Lynx ; a trade that would have the Sun's most recognizable face in starting point guard Lindsay Whalen, along with the second overall pick, shipped to Minneapolis.

The Lynx also made some moves in the off-season by selecting Rebekkah Brunson in the Sacramento Monarchs dispersal draft, and trading their first overall pick of the 2010 WNBA Draft and Renee Montgomery to the Connecticut Sun for former Minnesota Gopher Lindsay Whalen and the second overall pick.

* January 30 – Fleet Air Arm Lynx helicopters ( employing Sea Skuas ), Royal Air Force Jaguars, and U. S. Navy A-6Es ( using Rockeye cluster bombs ) attack an Iraqi naval convoy made up of a minesweeper, three fast-attack craft, and three landing craft carrying troops and ammuniton, breaking up the second and final seaborne component of Iraqi forces in the Battle of Khafji.

The Falcons were the second team that season to fold, following the Augusta Lynx.

In their second season in the amateur ranks they managed just four wins in a difficult season – a 2 – 0 win over the Indiana Invaders in May, a pair of 3 – 1 wins over Fort Wayne Fever in June, and a 3 – 2 win over Toronto Lynx in July in which substitute Judson McKinney scored a last minute winner.

The Lynx holds the distinction of being the world's first handheld electronic game with a color LCD.

The Atari Lynx has several innovative features including it being the first color handheld, with a backlit display, a switchable right-handed / left-handed ( upside down ) configuration, and the ability to network with up to 17 other units via its " ComLynx " system ( though most games would network eight or fewer players ).

Also a color handheld, in comparison to the Lynx it had a higher cost, slightly smaller bulk, and similar battery life.

On the other hand, in the handheld market, Yokoi's refusal to adopt a color display for the Game Boy in favor of long battery life is cited as the main reason it prevailed against Sega's Game Gear and the Atari Lynx.

A full port to the Atari Lynx handheld was developed by NuFX in 1993, but never officially released.

It was eventually followed by the Atari Lynx handheld system and the Atari Jaguar.

In the handheld wars, Nintendo's Game Boy came out well on top and far outlived the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx, becoming one of the most successful consoles of all time.

Epyx still developed games, but gave up their publishing rights and all the rights to the handheld game console they were developing to Atari ( the company they owed most of the money to ), eventually becoming the Atari Lynx.

Versions of the game were released for various computer systems, as well as the handheld Atari Lynx.

* Lynx ( video game console ), a handheld gaming console by Atari

* Atari Corp. releases the Lynx handheld console.

While early mockups indicated this handheld was considered part of the Gameking line, Timetop eventually removed the gameking branding from this edition prior to its release, replacing it with " Timetop LTPS Handy Game " ( ironically, " handy-game " was the working title EPYX coined in 1987 for what would become the Atari Lynx ).

Maynard left the board in 1987 and Still went on to manage the launch of the Atari ST, Lynx handheld and Jaguar consoles in Europe, before stints with Electronic Arts and Nvidia.