Milton Bradley Microvision (1979-1981) Personal Computers 5-inch floppy disk drive

5-inch floppy disk drive

Ditching the boring

released in April 1992 for a staggering $6

marketed to college students and middle-class families as a second set

was a piece of engineering wizardry that effectively invented the handheld console category a full decade before the Game Boy

Milton Bradley Microvision (1979-1981) Personal Computers 5-inch floppy disk driveMicrovision First Commercially Released Handheld Video Game System to Use Interchangeable ROM Cartridges The Milton Bradley Microvision, launched in 1979, was a piece of engineering wizardry that effectively invented the handheld console category a full decade before the Game Boy. Designed by Jay Smith, it was the first portable system to feature interchangeable cartridges, though with a bizarre architectural twist: the console itself was a "dumb"