We’ve reached a point where the best handheld gaming consoles can truly provide amazing experiences on the go but that wasn’t always the case.
Before we had the Steam Deck and the Nintendo Switch, handheld gaming was dominated by the original Game Boy and its successors. While Nintendo’s Game Boy was the console to beat at the time — especially since you could swap cartridges to play different games — many of us in the late 80s and 90s grew up playing handheld games from Tiger Electronics.
