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Contents 1 Casio Super Picky Talk 2 Merge with Portable handheld console 3 Rename? 4 Gameking, unlincensed and "low budget" consoles 4.1 Game Gear error 5 Tapwave Zodiac 6 Pokemon Mini and upcoming XGP 7 Phones 8 Epoch Game Pocket -- failed in market? 9 Grammatical Errors 10 Grandstand systems

[edit] Casio Super Picky Talk

Please link to the Casio Super Picky Talk article and include information! I started the stub, but don't know enough about the console to give detailed info. I just found out about it today while looking for information on the Casio Loopy which I have started an article on, and would really like to learn more. Thanks! Alcy 22:04, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Portable handheld console

I believe that Portable handheld console should be merged with this entry. Not only is the title of that article redundant, but it also has a lot less information and focuses almost solely on recent (or future) and Nintendo handhelds. In the spirit of that entry, though, this one could use a lot more detail and history. I'll work on getting some of that together, and unless anyone has a problem with the merge, I'll do it later this week. - Plutor 17:11, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hear, hear! Thanks for suggesting this. I've done some wiki-merges myself, and while it's not exactly the most inspiring work I do, a good merge improves the knowledge base (structure) a great deal, of course. --Wernher 20:04, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Done. It ended up still being extremely Nintendo-centric, but then again, so is the market. Although I'm partial to Nintendo, I tried to keep it NPOV. Obviously, feel free to change it. - Plutor 13:19, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I oppose this merge! (too late). As similar as they may seem, handheld game consoles that are also cell phones need a seperate article. Err nm misread. I lost track of what got merged where. Anyway, we need an article specifically for phones designed for gaming. Mathiastck 18:50, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rename?

I think a better title for this would be Video game handheld. First, I don't particularily like the word "console" being in the title since "consoles" usually refer to video game consoles -- It's too confusing. Second, I feel it goes better with it's "brother-article", "video game console". Anybody have a opinion on this one way or another? K1Bond007 19:32, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

I think this would be a good idea. Jacoplane 09:46, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

On the one hand, renaming would be a good idea, but on the other hand, "Video game handheld" would not necessarily exclude non-interchangable handhelds like Game & Watch and old Tiger Electronics games. Is it the intent to include them? The word "console" is a good (but admittedly non-standard and non-ideal) way to refer to handhelds that only take game cartridges or discs. -- Plutor 16:26, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia they are "Handheld electronic games", not really a "handheld game console". If we exclude them, it would be best to mention the difference between them in their intros. The problem with "console" is that it's not used (almost at all) to refer to handhelds. When someone refers to a console they usually mean an actual video game console such as GameCube, Dreamcast etc. I'm not really sure how the word "console" somehow excludes Game & Watch anyway - it's definition doesn't IMO. ?? K1Bond007 20:54, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

I'm a few months late, but what about "handheld game system" as an alternative? It doesn't give the impression of a home system quite as much as "console". --Poiuyt Man ^talk 20:40, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

I second the move to Handheld game system. It's much better wording, as console tends to imply a set-top box. --24.114.252.183 14:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

It seems that there is really no mention of Tiger Electronics handhelds in either location, so, perhaps it could be discussed here, and that is likely the furthest thing from a console. 134.250.72.176 21:13, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gameking, unlincensed and "low budget" consoles

OK, so the Gameking and the likes are an entirely different thing from all other "mainstream" handheld consoles, but nevertheless they still qualify as a handheld console, especialy the Gameking: it has a dot-matrix screen and is programmable via cartrdidges, so it definitively isn't a "dedicated handheld" nor a Game & Watch type device.

Maybe we should make a new section about such "special" consoles, including but not limited to:

• Gameking-like low-budget asian consoles (if there are others like it, can we make a list?)
• Unlicensed portable consoles, such as the Portable NES or similar artifacts, in case they exist.

EpiVictor 09:54, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Personally, I'd say they'd merit a separate header, talking about the concurrent but mostly separate evolution of such handhelds. That's just me, though. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 15:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Game Gear error

The section about the Game Gear has an error. Supervision was the firsthandheld to have a TV tuner. The Quickshot version was released in 1989. Sahmeditor 23:40, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tapwave Zodiac

The Tapwave Zodiac should be added to the other handhelds section. It had licenced software developed for it and was sold at retail. It was a mainstream system, and more of a contender than the Gizmondo or GP32. JMacGill 07:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC)JMacGill

[edit] Pokemon Mini and upcoming XGP

Anyone feel like added these? --Thaddius 22:49, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Phones

We need an article specifically discussing the families of phones that are well suited for gaming. Mathiastck 18:51, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Epoch Game Pocket -- failed in market?

The article says, "In 1984, Japanese company Epoch released their Game Pocket Computer. Despite decent reviews, the system failed."

How did it fail? Poor market performance, bad system electronics (i.e. it literally failed often) -- what made it fail? --Guroadrunner 16:17, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grammatical Errors

This article contains a large number of grammatical errors, such as inconsistent tenses, run-on sentences, and a whole lot of fancy words that just don't work. In fact, there are quite a few sentences in this article that seem out of place and unnecessary. --Hobofuzz 04:41, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grandstand systems

The Game Player styled like a gameboy and the Light Games Colour Projection system both used carts with inbuilt game and watch style screens. It seems difficult finding anything about the machine let alone the company on the internet but I think they deserve mention in the article.Atirage 13:31, 1 February 2007 (UTC)