8 Video Games Released After Their Consoles DIED

Nestled in between the battery-hungry Sega Game Gear and the almighty 2001: A Space Odyssey Obelisk that is the indestructible Game Boy sat the Atari Lynx, a goddam ugly mother for sure, but for all its visual sins was an absolute powerhouse of a handheld console.

Thanks to clever developing tricks, the Lynx was able to offer sprite scaling in a manner similar to the SNES's Mode 7, which at the time was utterly mind-blowing, especially as this was delivered with next to no slowdown. What let the Lynx down however was, as with many Atari products, Atari themselves, who marketed the game in the same way they'd want to promote that one of their CEOs loved to kick puppies in the face, AKA they said next to nothing about the entire affair.

As such the handheld was discontinued in 1995 allowing the Game Boy to continue unopposed.

Yet in 1997, several years after everyone had all but forgotten the Lynx, Bluesky Software decided to port the arcade classic Raiden for the handheld device. Why would a company undertake such a project?

I have literally no idea, and the fact that you could only buy the game direct through selected retailers likely means there's about ten copies of this out in the wild meaning that the cost of porting it definitely outweighed the demand.

Strange times indeed.