The Atari Lynx is a 16-bit handheld game console that was released by Atari Corporation in October 1989 in North America, and Europe and Japan in 1990. The Lynx holds the distinction of being the world’s first handheld electronic game with a color LCD. The system is also notable for its forward-looking features, advanced graphics, and ambidextrous layout. As part of the fourth generation of gaming, the Lynx competed with Nintendo’s Game Boy (released just 2 months earlier), the Sega Game Gear and NEC’s TurboExpress, both released the following year.

The Atari Lynx’s innovative features include 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). Comlynx was originally developed to run over infrared links (and was codenamed RedEye). This was changed to a cable-based networking system before the final release.

The Lynx was cited as the “first gaming console with hardware support for zooming and distortion of sprites”. Featuring a 4096 color palette and integrated math and graphics co-processors (including a blitter unit), its pseudo-3D color graphics display was said to be the key defining feature in the system’s competition against Nintendo’s monochromatic Game Boy. The fast pseudo-3D graphics features were made possible on a minimal hardware system by codesigner Dave Needle having “invented the technique for planar expansion/shrinking capability” and using stretched, textured, triangles instead of full polygons. These particular features were achieved over a year prior to the launch of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, whose stock hardware features the comparable Mode 7 but which can’t scale sprites.

This is the collection of original hardware and software. None of this collection is for sale. If you have an item which is not on the list, please contact me and maybe we can trade. Donations are welcome too 🙂

Hardware:

Item	Manufacturer	Boxed/loose
Lynx I	Atari	loose
Lynx II	Atari	boxed
Deluxe box Lynx II	Atari	box only
Lynx II Sun visor	Atari	loose
Comlynx cable	Atari	loose
Lynx car adapter	Atari	boxed
Lynx adapter European	Atari	boxed
Lynx adapter UK	Atari	boxed
Lynx battery pack	Atari	loose
Lynx carrying bag big	Atari	loose

Software:

Title	Publisher	Box size	Boxed/loose
Awesome golf	Atari		loose
Batman returns	Atari		loose
Baseball heroes	Atari	normal	boxed
Basketbrawl	Atari	normal	boxed
Battlewheels	Beyond	normal	boxed
Bill & Teds excellent adventure	Atari	normal	boxed
Blue lightning	Atari	normal	boxed
Block out	Atari	normal	boxed
California games	Atari	normal	boxed
Casino	Atari	normal	boxed
Checkered flag	Atari	normal	boxed
Chip’s challenge	Atari	normal	boxed
Crystal Mines II	Atari	normal	boxed
Dynolimpics	Atari	normal	boxed
Dirty Larry	Atari	normal	boxed
Dracula the undead	Atari	normal	boxed
Electrocop	Atari	normal	boxed
European soccer challenge	Telegames	normal	boxed
Gauntlet	Atari	normal	boxed
Gates of zendocon	Atari	large	boxed
Gates of zendocon	Atari	normal	boxed
Gordo 106	Atari	normal	boxed
Hard drivin	Atari	normal	boxed
Hockey	Atari	normal	boxed
Hydra	Atari	normal	boxed
Ishido	Atari	normal	boxed
Jimmy Connors tennis	Atari	normal	boxed
Joust	Shadowsoft	normal	boxed
Klax	Atari	normal	boxed
Kung food	Atari	normal	boxed
Lemmings	Atari	normal	boxed
Lexus	Songbird	cd-case	boxed
Malibu bikini volleybal	Atari	normal	boxed
Ms. pac man	Atari	normal	boxed
Ninja Gaiden	Atari	normal	boxed
Pacland	Atari	normal	boxed
Paperboy	Atari	normal	boxed
Pinball jam	Atari	normal	boxed
Pit fighter	Atari	normal	boxed
Power factor	Atari	normal	boxed
Qix	Telegames	normal	boxed
Rampage	Atari	normal	boxed
Rampart	Atari	normal	boxed
Roadblasters	Atari	normal	boxed
Robo-squash	Atari	normal	boxed
Robotron 2084	Atari	normal	boxed
Rygar	Atari	normal	boxed
Scrapyard dog	Atari	normal	boxed
Shadow of the beast	Atari	normal	boxed
Shanghai	Atari	normal	boxed
Slimeworld	Atari	normal	boxed
Steel talons	Atari	normal	boxed
Stun runner	Atari	normal	boxed
Super skweek	Atari	normal	boxed
Switchblade II	Atari	normal	boxed
Toki	Atari	normal	boxed
Tournament cyberball	Atari	normal	boxed
Turbo sub	Atari		loose
Ultimate chess challenge	Telegames	normal	boxed
Viking child	Atari	normal	boxed
Warbirds	Atari	normal	boxed
World Class Fussball / Soccer	Atari	normal	boxed
Xenophobe	Atari	normal	boxed
Xybots	Atari	normal	boxed
Zarlor mercenary	Atari	normal	boxed

Magazines:
Nationale Lynx Club Magazine 1, Entertainment Magazine 1