Best Nintendo handheld

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theRepublic said:

RolStoppable said:

You got it right, curl.

This is a single answer poll, so the Game Boy suffers from it because later handheld consoles had more refined and polished games, just like the NES would suffer in the same kind of poll. If it was possible to tick multiple boxes in the poll, the Game Boy would fare a lot better.

The Game Boy could barely handle ports of NES games which is why they weren't done until the GBC revision; before then, developers opted to design games specifically for the GB's restrictions, but those games released at a time when home consoles were already 16-bit. The GBA and later handhelds could handle ports of SNES games which have maintained a reputation of being timeless classics, so at that point it's a lot less important that concurrent home consoles had much better technology to offer.

The other issue is that the GBA had backwards compatibility, so it could play every Game Boy and Game Boy Color game.  Why bother voting for the Game Boy in that case?  You get the complete library with the GBA.

Because GB could play GB games in 1990, GBA, not until 2001.