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eop:video_game_consoles-portable:6th_generation:summary

6th Generation

The 6th generation of portable game consoles, which is another Nintendo-dominated landscape, quite like the generation before it. Almost universally considered as having began in 2001 with the release of the Game Boy Advance, ending anywhere between 2004 with the release of the DS Lite and PSP, and 2008 with the discontinuation of the last dedicated Game Boy Advance. Even though the trend of Nintendo supremacy continued unabated, the 6th generation has quite the sweet variety of EOPs, with some significant contributions even coming from Nintendo's competitors. Despite not being so flush with EOPs like in the 6th generation of home consoles, this comes as no surprise as portable systems usually “lag behind” the home consoles by a generation. Thus, the “EOP explosion” of generation 6 will be found in generation 7 of the portables…

Assorted

Potential:

LeapFrog iQuest (Intel 8032?, probably Linux-based)
Leapfrog Leapster (Custom ARCTangent-A5, all successors have heavy Linux work)

No Potential:

Timetop GameKing (WDC 65C02)

Fisher Price/Mattel Pixter

Operating Systems (Sharp Blue Streak LH75411)

Embedded Linux
There are several projects in the works

It’s unknown if this was actually ported to the device, but technical work is documented on elinux.

https://elinux.org/Pixter

Game Park GP32

Nintendo Game Boy Advance

Nintendo Pokémon Mini

Nokia N-Gage

Tapwave Zodiac

eop/video_game_consoles-portable/6th_generation/summary.txt · Last modified: 2022/05/10 20:12 by io55admin