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It seems we can not go anywhere without spare these days tapping into a kind of electronic gadgets at every opportunity. Whether it's a cell phone, PDA or a netbook, society's obsession with the portability seemingly knows no limits.

Indeed, the gaming and communications industries converge even to a certain degree, with a series of handheld consoles like the PlayStation Portable (PSP) offers Wi-Fi Internet connectivity and other multimedia functions in addition to hisprimary purpose of providing hours of fun.

The gaming industry is volatile in the past two decades, progress made so that it is worth perhaps a little nostalgic trip back in time to see how far we are actually in 30 years.

Ignoring the very early primitive handheld LED games of the likes of Mattel and Milton Bradley in the late 1970s, Nintendo produced the first glance from what had come out of his pocket gaming industry with its "Game & Watch" seriesIn the early 1980s from. Although it came installed with a clock and alarm, the main attraction of the games with the likes of Donkey Kong and Super Mario World was the first introduced.

From the release of 'Ball' – the first game in the "Game & Watch" series – it was almost a decade before the first wave of new portable game consoles have been released … and it was worth it to wait.

The Nintendo Game Boy hit the shelves1989 and it is impossible for the impact on the gaming industry had overestimated. The original Game Boy is one of the most successful video games ever produced – handheld or otherwise – and one of the main reasons for playability Besides playing was, that it had slit video tapes that could be in the unit, something that may not have been done before with great success.

Most of the 1990s was dominated by the success of the Boy Nintendo game, but there were a fewAnother remarkable success story. The Atari Lynx was a major challenger to the Game Boy's crown and, after its publication in 1989, it was pretty obvious that its color screen and graphics were far superior and actually on a par with normal console systems of the time. The main pitfall was its price and its relatively bulky size and it never quite made the class at the end.

The Sega Game Gear was released in 1990 and was probably the largest rivals Game Boy, with a reasonablePrice, color display and playability great game, but unfortunately they could not compete with Nintendo's marketing assistants.

In fact, Nintendo easily dismissed the competition of many handheld gaming devices over the years, NEC and Neo-Geo to Bandai and Nokia. Today, the Nintendo DSi has the lion's share of the portable gaming marketing in addition to the PlayStation Portable, the right is an excellent device in its own.