November 1979 · Computer or hardware
Microvision (1979)
The first handheld console with interchangeable cartridges.
Each cartridge held its own processor. It grossed $15 million in its first year, but screen rot, static damage and a small library of 12 games ended it in 1981; it influenced the Game Boy.
See 1979 in the interactive timeline
Facts
- Date
- November 1979
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Handheld console
- Maker or publisher
- Milton Bradley
- CPU
- Intel 8021 / TI TMS1100 (cartridge)
- RAM
- 64 bytes
- Graphics
- 16x16 LCD
- Generation
- 2nd
- First sold in
- North America
- Media
- ROM cartridge
- Notable games
- Block Buster; Bowling; Connect Four; Pinball; Star Trek: Phaser Strike; Sea Duel
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- Game & Watch (rival, 1980)
- Game Boy (Japan) (successor, 1989)
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