A Handheld History: A comprehensive celebration of handheld consoles and their iconic games from indie journal publisher Lost In Cult Hardcover – 12 Oct. 2023

The media could not be loaded. This is a wonderful book, cataloging the journey through hand held history. It is put together brilliantly detailing the various devices and the versions available. There are some great essays about some devices and individual’s experience using them. This is all bound together in a beautiful hardback cover with fab illustrations and good quality photos.However, I have 2 criticisms. 1, I wish it was put together by device chronologically. I can see that the author decided to organise it by device and then by time however I believe this to be Ill-conceived as the reader misses out on what devices were competing with each other at the same time. And how the technology develops across the whole industry.2, I believe the author is too young. There is a definite bias towards Nintendo in this book due to the fact that they had established market dominance by the time the authors journey begins with the Game Boy Colour in 1998. Which means the actual game-changer that was the original GameBoy and the Game and Watch devices that lead to it feels glossed over and there is no mention of the Sega Game Gear until page 185.As a lover of all hand-held consoles, I feel that many of the other devices in this book are not celebrated as much as Nintendo products.

The book is very cool, very happy with it. So detailed, great illustrations. Recommend for all the collectors out there.I am annoyed with Amazon though because I've been watching this book for the past few weeks and the price is flip flopping all over the place. It was full price, then it was €25, then it was €35, then it was €27 when I bought it, it dropped to €21 before it was even delivered and no doubt it'll be back up to full price in a few days. Absolutely ridiculous, you never know whether to buy now or wait and either save or get screwed 🙄

You can tell this is written by genuine experts who love what they do. It's a big book, crafted with in-depth research, personal stories, high quality images and superb art. It's also lovely to see names I am familiar with for example Retro Dodo's Brandon, Bob Wulff, Kevin Kenson and even Ashens a awesome YouTuber. I bought it for myself, and i've now bought copies for my friends, it's one of my favourite books. I want a second version!

I’ve slowly but surely reading all the various pieces in this book. Great anecdotes and pictures.

I love this book. For anyone who loves handheld gaming. The quality is there. It’s a beautiful gift for the person in your life who loves video games

This is a fantastic read for any lovers of handheld video game consoles, with a great run through their history and evolution.

Great book, bought for my nephew as a gift, but would also make a great collectable.

The title is "A handheld history", but this book is nothing of the sort. This is just a collection of badly written opinion pieces of mostly Nintendo handhelds. There is almost no factual content at all. Less than 2 pages for the atari lynx written by someone who admits they have never owned one. Almost nothing on the pc engine GT, both of which are really interesting in the history of handhelds. And yet there's loads and loads on the Nintendo switch which is a current gen system, and not "history" at all!. The most impressive thing about this book is how they managed to create nearly 300 pages, and yet there's pretty much zero substance. The writing style is incredibly annoying as well. You know how when you look up a recipe online, and the American ones insist on pages and pages of "backstory", and you just want to know what the recipe is? That's this book. What a waste of money, I'm gutted because I chose this over a bitmap book. I should have just stuck to what I know .This piece of rubbish is going in the fire- at least I can get a bit of warmth out of it. Avoid this junk.