805:, Jeremy Parish considers the WonderSwan the ultimate expression of Gunpei Yokoi's design philosophy and notes its modest impact on the market, but blames Bandai for its lack of success: "While WonderSwan ultimately will be remembered as a highly localized blip in the history of handheld games, as a platform it genuinely held its own... the system's obscurity resulted more from poor timing and Bandai's strangely meek strategy, not from any inherent flaws in the design of the machine itself". Parish also goes on to hypothesize on the lack of a WonderSwan release in North America, stating, "given how hard it was to find Neo Geo Pocket systems and games at U.S. retail, it's hard to imagine they were clamoring for yet another niche portable from Japan". Luke Plunkett from
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479:, however, he left the company in 1996 in order to create his own engineering firm, Koto Laboratory. It was then that Bandai approached Yokoi to create the WonderSwan to compete with the Game Boy. Yokoi was involved in development of the new handheld, but died in 1997 in a car accident before it was released.
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to form Sega Bandai Ltd. in 1997, the merger was called off suddenly. Bandai's board of directors decided to oppose the merger less than a week after approving it, and Sega in turn decided to accept Bandai's actions at an emergency board meeting later that day. Bandai president Makoto
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Advance. Once again, Bandai held a poll on its website to determine casing colors and released the system in blue violet, wine red, crystal blue, and crystal black. Despite its low price and an improved LCD screen, the SwanCrystal was unable to compete, so Bandai discontinued
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December 9 in Japan and was available in pearl blue, pearl pink, crystal black, crystal blue, and crystal orange. The
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Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. Due to its brightly colored screen and deep game library, the Game Boy Advance ensured Nintendo would have a near-monopoly on the handheld console
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port, as well as its poor control scheme for left-handed individuals and inability to play multiplayer link games with the headphone adapter connected. Wild offers some praise for the handheld, however, stating "what managed with the WonderSwan was impressive given the competition. The low price
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and the work RAM. The screen on the WonderSwan Color can display up to 241 colors out of a palette of 4096, and up to 28 sprites per line. It offers backward compatibility with all previous WonderSwan titles. Its LCD screen is also larger than that of the original WonderSwan, measuring 2.9 inches
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the WonderSwan line in 2003 due to low demand and backed out of producing video game hardware altogether. In all, the handheld sold 3.5 million units, of which 1.55 million were of the original WonderSwan and at least 1.1 million were of the WonderSwan Color.
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soda blue. These colors were chosen through an online poll at Bandai’s website, with the metallic and pearl white models being discontinued on July 22 to make room for the special two-tone editions. Despite
Nintendo's release of the
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praised the WonderSwan's challenge to
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launch was a moderate success, with the system selling 270,632 units in under a month after its release. Before the WonderSwan Color could be released, however, Nintendo announced the
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High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games
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even today makes it more than worthy of consideration".
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1123:"Swan Song: A WonderSwan Retrospective"
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913:DeMaria, Rusel; Wilson, Johnny (2003).
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1578:"Hardware Classics: Bandai WonderSwan"
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1385:. Koto Laboratories. Archived from
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1351:スワンクリスタルの新色は人気投票で決まる!!
1274:"Japan Hardware Sales"
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2009:Seventh (2005–2017)
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1971:Generations
1128:Retro Gamer
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814:Retro Gamer
645:PlayStation
617:motion blur
477:Virtual Boy
364:SwanCrystal
305:Predecessor
122:WonderSwan:
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2942:Categories
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2700:Atari Lynx
2303:WonderSwan
2293:Digi Casse
2069:Neo Geo CD
2049:Amiga CD32
2030:generation
1835:System 357
1830:System 246
1747:WonderSwan
1732:Tamagotchi
1702:Digi Casse
1622:(archive)
901:References
866:ワンダースワンカラー
853:WandāSuwan
709:Squaresoft
584:Atari Lynx
580:Intel 8086
576:NEC V30 MZ
561:AA battery
513:Atari Lynx
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395:Squaresoft
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319:Tamagotchi
293:AA battery
241:NEC V30 MZ
213:Units sold
108:Generation
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33:WonderSwan
2736:Mega Duck
2600:Neo Geo X
2567:Game Gear
2395:Game Park
2385:GPD Win 3
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2079:NEC PC-FX
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1825:System 10
1820:System 23
1815:System 12
1805:System 11
1795:System 22
1785:System 21
1737:Terebikko
1722:Power Pad
1467:August 8,
1441:August 8,
1419:August 8,
1258:March 21,
1231:April 28,
1198:April 28,
1161:. USGamer
1057:April 17,
1026:1742-3155
798:in 2004.
785:Reception
771:Gunpey EX
693:Banpresto
604:video RAM
567:The main
509:Game Gear
463:Engineer
407:Banpresto
371:processor
271:224 × 144
176:1999–2003
2844:Playdate
2839:Evercade
2834:Ayn Odin
2808:GCW Zero
2767:Gizmondo
2757:GameKing
2646:Game.com
2478:Game Boy
2465:Nintendo
2450:Leapster
2437:LeapFrog
2417:GP2X Wiz
2399:Holdings
2275:RG35XXSP
2258:Anbernic
2194:Services
2184:Emulator
2125:Game.com
2108:Handheld
1662:hardware
1592:Archived
1556:June 19,
1526:June 28,
1499:June 19,
1493:Archived
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885:スワンクリスタル
840:Japanese
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473:Nintendo
469:Game Boy
375:Nintendo
283:channels
173:Lifespan
2968:NEC V20
2894:Portals
2793:Arduboy
2788:Pandora
2542:New 3DS
2370:GPD Win
2199:History
2089:Playdia
1717:Playdia
1393:May 12,
1362:May 22,
1356:Famitsu
1334:May 23,
1304:May 23,
1279:GamePro
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1165:May 12,
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956:May 23,
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844:ワンダースワン
803:USgamer
748:Digimon
633:¥11,800
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421:History
315:Related
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344:Bandai
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193:¥6,800
92:Bandai
2932:1990s
2822:2020s
2781:2010s
2745:2000s
2709:1990s
2678:1980s
2662:1970s
2633:Tiger
2572:Nomad
2498:Micro
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391:anime
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288:Power
276:Sound
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2881:List
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2559:Sega
2520:Lite
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2412:GP2X
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2204:List
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