van_predator Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 In the last page of the last catalogue that Atari has ever released for the lynx in '94 [http://www.atariage.com/catalog_page.html?CatalogID=72¤tPage=3] we can see a lynx console running Sega's Sonic... what the heck is that!!!!! The screen resolution and brightness looks like lynx! Did they have any plans, code or/and licences for that game? Also, I can recall '93, when I was around 13 (and a happy owner of Lynx:)), that on the english "C&VG" magazine were articles about a Game Gear emulation module for Lynx! Even then it seemed strange to me because of the big differences in design.. was this all a prank from the writters of the magazine? To the current Lynx developers: If there are any games to be made for Lynx please work a little bit more on the storyline, actions to be done and so on... We all know the graphical capabilities of Lynx, and I'm sure that nobody will be mouth-watered by a Lynx game in the year 03. U must find other elements to develop & integrate instead of just graphics & sound... For example I would love to see a decent rpg with scenario depth, instead of a 3rd class Mario style platform. The Lynx gaming community will not survive by playing recycled ideas. And why is anyone dying to see ports of current games on the Lynx? A company will ask for money to release a licensed title to another company for platform conversion. Why shouldn't the second company keep the money, and invest in further integration of an original idea? No offence intended. Excuse me for my bad English, I come from Greece. [/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucienEn Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Yes what the heck is that (page 4)? I would think a game gear emulation is possible on the lynx since it's not fast enough. Maybe with some additional hardware... I agree and that's why I didn't want to create another clone of Wolf3D etc. I'd like to add some storyline and puzzles to get through the 3d maps. Of course it's more work and therefore it will take little bit longer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 wow that screen shot actually looks like sonic running on a lynx screen... how weird... wonder if that came about from the right atari got to use sega stuff over that law suit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_lynx1989 Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 as i remember it,don thomas or sam or someone said that was a printers error on that page.too bad!!it looked pretty good too.i have two or three copies of that catalog and i'm thinking the last copy or two do not have that there.could be a future lynx collectible!an early copy of a catalog with a typo!we'll see.sonic for lynx might've been nice to play.other sega stuff also.lynx up all.comlynx up too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van_predator Posted February 13, 2003 Author Share Posted February 13, 2003 Godzilla>wow that screen shot actually looks like sonic running on a lynx screen... how weird... wonder if that came about from the right atari got to use sega stuff over that law suit... What law suit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cryptik76 Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 That is certainly bizarre. It's definitely the original Game Gear Sonic. The Game Gear has a more narrow screen so even if it were possible to run a Game Gear emulator on the Lynx the graphics would have to be stretched or the game would have big black bars on each side (like when you play a Game Boy game on a GBA). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariman Posted February 14, 2003 Share Posted February 14, 2003 van_predator, the lawsuit was about Sega using the same controller pinout as some of the Atari systems. If you've ever tried a Sega controller in an Atari 2600, it works... I'm not sure if this was the ONLY thing in the lawsuit, but it basically ended with a deal that Sega was supposed to produce some products/ games/ something like that for the... Jaguar? I'm almost sure that's what it was (but without my trusty video game books here, I can't be positive) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted February 14, 2003 Share Posted February 14, 2003 basically atari got the rights to use whatever they wanted from sega in their games (and sega got certain rights to use certain game stuff from atari too,) so atari could have made ecco the dolphin (etc) tho iirc sega held on to sonic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariman Posted February 15, 2003 Share Posted February 15, 2003 which brings me to one question I guess I always had about the whole Sega / Atari lawsuit. Why didn't Atari ever utilize the power they had and have Sega make some games for them? Seems like they could have used as much help as they could have gotten... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayreon Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 Cos Atari was run by some stuborn people. I think they only cared about the cash and not about sega's software wich might have given the Lynx and Jag a few more popular titles. Now i'm no sega fan (only virtua racing impressed me when it did hit the arcades) , so it wouldn't have worked for me but seeing how much people liked ecco and such they should have used whatever they could use from sega. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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