The spark in your pocket
The grey brick that conquered the world
The double screen and the power trip
The modern hybrid revolution
nintendo Assemble the Pocket Spark Player to learn how portable gaming first fit in pockets.
nintendo Donkey Kong D-Pad
To fit the giant ape inside your pocket, They built a plastic cross so you could rock it.
nintendo Programmer Mark Lesser packed red LED blip cars, a three-lane track, and a 99-second timer into a tiny 512-byte microchip.
How much memory did programmer Mark Lesser have to build the entire Mattel Auto Race game?
What type of display technology did the 1976 Mattel Auto Race handheld game use to show cars?
nintendo Each game cartridge carried its own microprocessor to power the portable console's tiny screen.
Where was the central processing unit (CPU) located on the 1979 Milton Bradley Microvision system?
Which engineer designed the 1979 Milton Bradley Microvision and later created the Vectrex home console?
LED game history: The first Mattel Auto Race handheld game was cloned in the Soviet Union under the name Elektronika IER-01.
What design philosophy did Gunpei Yokoi coin while developing the Game & Watch series?
What did engineer Gunpei Yokoi observe that inspired the creation of the Nintendo Game & Watch?
A small electronic device used for performing mathematical calculations. Gunpei Yokoi's observation of a train commuter playing with a calculator inspired Nintendo's Game and Watch.
Why was the cross-shaped D-pad designed to be flat instead of using a traditional joystick?
Which 1982 Nintendo Game & Watch title first introduced the cross-shaped directional pad (D-pad)?