I thought this thing was the next GameBoy when it came out. Oh how wrong I was. I played everything from Duke Nukem to Wheel of fortune on this thing. I completely wore it out.
It was pretty creative though. It had two cartridge ports and an empty promise of internet connectivity. All together it managed to satisfy a year or so of my childhood.
I remember being ticked off when they came out with a "back-lit" version of this. But their version of "back-lit" was using the same "indi-glo" that was used to back lite cheap digital watches.
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Seriously. I got a 1:1 scale cardstock printout of this thing in some magazine, and used to hold it as if I was playing it, just waiting for it to launch. When it launched I dropped the $120 or so on it and Indy 500 (a lot of money in middle school) and wore it out too. I actually got the Game.com Pocket Pro (backlit version) with Resident Evil 2 and played it for a while. Touch screen, modem, PIM software, and some seriously nice hardware. The software developers had no clue what they were doing though... too used to programming for segmented LCD games.
I ran a website dedicated to the console too, GC Player I think. There was a fairly active community around it. At least it gave me an excuse to learn to code web pages.
I ran a website dedicated to the console too, GC Player I think. There was a fairly active community around it. At least it gave me an excuse to learn to code web pages.
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