Would this have been a more or less successful design in 1989?

>>3604738
n/a
The choice for the start and select buttons is impossible.

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That's the most retarded looking thing I think I've ever seen.

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Less. I think the Gameboy wanted to seem similar to pocket calculators for a reason.

It looks like a game gear

>>3604756
Which definitely means it would have been less popular with such a design.

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>>3604761
It was a triple threat of high price, giant size and terrible battery life that killed these two

The original game boy was 90 bucks, four AA batteries could run it for days and it could kinda sorta theoretically fit in your pocket

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>>3604738
That would be awful to hold.

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>>3604773
That's not even an original Lynx, it's the smaller revision

I honestly prefer the DMG's vertical layout to the horizontal layout that seemed to end up sticking. I guess vertical just allows more efficient use of space, especially with widescreen, but personally I don't really care if it's a little bulky.

You have to have some area under the controls for the heel of your hand, Dummy. Game Boys are a lot heavier than NES controllers

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>>3604738
It already exists, it's called the Game Fighter.

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>>3604738
it wouldn't have mattered. Cause, battery life.

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>>3604742

hell yeah it is

>>3604773
>fitting in your pockets
maybe if you're wearing hammer pants.
An inner coat pocket might be more plausible.

>>3604883
The existence of this thing is weird to me even though I like it a lot.

Having the buttons that close to the bottom of the handheld would make it obscenely uncomfortable to use.

The buttons on a Gameboy are closer to the center of the handheld so that the bottom half basically acts as a handle to grip the console with.

>>3604903
Game Gear always looked kind of dumb, but they didn't have much of a choice since the thing had to hold 6 fucking AAs.

>>3604903
See post right above yours.

>>3604742

Don't have a mirror in your house? Eh, just as well. You'd break it anyways.

>>3604895
That's why if you played the brick enough, you bought the rechargeable power pack/adapter. The thing eventually paid for itself compared to the cost of batteries.

>>3608421
sick third grade burn yo