Score a 3.5mm jack without the financial pain.
The Bandai WonderSwan was the final contribution of legendary designer Gunpei Yokoi, who had previously worked at Nintendo on its Game & Watch and Game Boy ranges. Released exclusively in Japan in 1999, it offered a low-cost and highly portable alternative to Nintendo’s products, but the fact that it didn’t come with a built-in 3.5mm headphone jack was an early annoyance.
Part of this will have been down to Bandai’s desire to create as small a unit as possible, but it also allowed the company to gain additional revenue from an accessory which allowed 3.5mm headphones to be plugged in (Nintendo performed a similar trick with the Game Boy Advance SP a few years later).
Read the full article on timeextension.com
Score a 3.5mm jack without the financial pain.
The Bandai WonderSwan was the final contribution of legendary designer Gunpei Yokoi, who had previously worked at Nintendo on its Game & Watch and Game Boy ranges. Released exclusively in Japan in 1999, it offered a low-cost and highly portable alternative to Nintendo’s products, but the fact that it didn’t come with a built-in 3.5mm headphone jack was an early annoyance.
Part of this will have been down to Bandai’s desire to create as small a unit as possible, but it also allowed the company to gain additional revenue from an accessory which allowed 3.5mm headphones to be plugged in (Nintendo performed a similar trick with the Game Boy Advance SP a few years later).
Read the full article on timeextension.com
