Wonderswan Color

The Wonderswan Color is a hand-held console desgined by Bandai. It released on December 30, 2000 in Japan and is a moderate sucess. In Japan, Nintendo only has 90% of the hand-held market (as compared to their virtual 100% here), and the Wonderswan color take 8 of the remaining 10%. It sells for a low 6800 yen or approx. $65.

The orginal Wonderswan was released in Japan only in 1999. It wasn't color like the latest version and was slightly smaller. The newer model has a much greater battery efficiency; it will last up to 20 hours on one AA battery.

Specs:

LCD Reflection (non-backlit) TFT Color liquid crystal Screen size 2.1 inch diagonal Resolution 224x144 pixels Display ability 241 out of 4096 colors CPU 3.072 MHz 16-bit Memory 512K VRAM/WRAM (shared) Sound Speaker (mono) /Headphone? (stereo) Link Play Two players. Power One AA battery Battery Life AA batteries: 20 hours Size 12.80 cm x 7.43 cm x 24.3 cm Weight About 3.35 oz