Portable Gaming: Yes Please!

Portable Gaming has been a hobby of mine since I was a kid in the 80's.  Through a trade, I acquired a battery operated Galaga hand-held.  It was a miniature replica of an arcade machine with two joysticks and it would let two players play - one at a time or head to head.  We had a few other handheld games but until we got the Gameboy in '91, they were mostly the little disposable games.

Over the next few years, again, through trades with friends I acquired two more gameboys, many games, and was proud to see by college, I had amassed several dozen games.  My brother still has one of these and many of the games.

There were a few other systems that were impressive, but failed to take off or gain popularity like the Gameboy.  I had, at one time, almost picked up a Sega Game Gear.  But with subsequent systems, I did buy the Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advanced.  Am even proud to say I picked up the Famicon Anniversary Edition GBA SP - and still own both the GBA and SP.

I picked up a PSP 2000 Series in 2008.  And it was an impressive system.  Gaming was top notch as was its MP3 and video playback capabilities.  The only problem I really had with the PSP was (1) the glossy, surface (2) the crummy wifi, and (3) the storage updates were very slow to being updated - there is really no reason for Sony to not implement firmware updates to give users the maximum storage options for the Memory Stick media - at the time I was limited to 8GB while the maximum size of the media format was 32GB.

I also really did not care for the fact that the UMD never really took off as a media format.  Not that it was ultimately needed, but as one of the selling points of the system, Sony failed to push the format.  I really wanted to get on board with this format.  Although, now its become somewhat of a moot point.

Most bluerays now come with the digital copy option which will allow you to watch on a portable device.  Amazon, my preferred movie site also gives you this option.  You simply have to have adequate storage for the files.