If you have any other handhelds, play games on them.
In 1999, French artist Pierre Huyghe created an installation entitled "Atari Light", in which two people use handheld gaming devices to play Pong on an illuminated ceiling.
With energy, evolution and item cards thrown into the mix, the intricately strategic gameplay converts surprisingly well to the pick-up-and-play style of handheld gaming.
Accordingly, the video and audio of a game being played on the handheld gaming device 40 can be rendered on the large screen display and the home theater system, respectively, via the console gaming device 42.
When doing things such as playing on a handheld gaming device, try to slouch over in your seat a little so that you can hide the device better, or covering the screen up with a sweater.
Arguably you can hop on Alibaba and get a PSP-looking retro gaming handheld that plays all of these games and more, but if you're looking for something quick, dirty and fun (or if you want to disappoint the 14-year-old in your life who wants to play these games like she wants a hole in the head), give them a try.
From the blip-gasmic Mattel Electronics Pocket Football, above, to the little baseball game we all loved, these things remind us that sports and hand-held entertainment were conflated to such a degree for so long mostly because handheld game play was, in a way, rules-based and simple and, in another way, horrible.
Yet, bizarrely, Nintendo decided to quietly release this superb handheld role-playing game in late December – only to see it go ignored in the rush for the big Christmas titles.
Optimizing energy consumption in modern mobile handheld devices plays a very important role as lowering energy consumption impacts battery life and system reliability.
Walk into any British playground in 1982 and you'd have found a small cluster of children - probably boys - huddled over a handheld device, playing games together.
