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Wonderswan Crystal: There was one more version, the Swan Crystal, released in 2002.

Other than the color screen, its worth noting that the WonderSwan Color also had and a face-mounted power button (compared to a side-mounted switch on the original Wonderswan). The aforementioned Final Fantasy remakes gave the Wonderswan Color are temporary boost in the handheld market.

Wonderswan Color: Sporting a slightly beefier v30 processor and color, the Wonderswan Color had one major ace over the Gameboy: Squaresoft.

Even with more power, and a system design that catered to all types of fans, Wonderswan sold somewhat poorly until the second version.

Wonderswan: Released in 1999, and boasting an 8-shade monochrome screen and a 16bit v30 processor it was leaps and bounds above its Gameboy counterpart in almost everything it could do (except it was still monochrome and the Gameboy Color had been released the year before).

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WonderWitch: A game development kit including a reprogrammable WonderSwan game cartridge, MS Windows-based C Programing compiler, and a serial cable to connect a WonderSwan to a PC.

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Sold in two versions, WonderBorg can be programmed and controlled from a WonderSwan with Robot Works game cartridge, or a Microsoft Windows PC with a serial port infrared adapter and application software. WonderBorg: A robot kit, similar to Nintendo’s R.O.B.

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MobileWonderGate: This web browsing and email add-on featuring NTT DoCoMo cellular phone interface was way ahead of it’s time and set the stage for the PSP and DS browsers.Though even with a big name publisher and several stellar titles, Nintendo released the Gameboy Advance shortly after and simply sunk the ship that was the Wonderswan. Bandai’s Deal With Squaresoft: Versions of Final Fantasy 1 & 2 redone in a more modern graphical style really sent wind into Bandai’s sails.(See “Control Schemes” below for more info) Innovative Design: Designed by fabled Gunpei Yokoi and featuring both horizontal and vertical game controls, the Wonderswan truly was ahead of its time.The Wonderswan never actually made to a retail scene outside of Japan.A strong Japanese backing, and several redesigns, allowed the Wonderswan to hang on for several more years and have many amazing ports, but ultimately it was laid to rest in early 2003.After a year of success, the little handheld met the same fate as all that preceded it when Nintendo released the Gameboy Advance.The Virtual Boy failure caused him to resign from Nintendo in ignominy, but Gunpei Yokoi remained a man with an impressive video game pedigree). (Gunpei Yokoi was the mastermind behind the early Game & Watch games, the original Gameboy, Kid Icarus, Metroid, and the infamous Virtual Boy. It was developed by the late Gunpei Yokoi’s company Koto and Bandai.The original WonderSwan was released in Japan by Bandai in 1999.

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