Of course, Nintendo has fought and destroyed a horde of technologically superior portable console rivals from Lynx to WonderSwan.

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Tamagotchi pets are well past their prime and the new WonderSwan, its great hope and a Gameboy look-a-like, has not yet proved a hit.

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Unfortunately for Bandai, Squaresoft (makers of Final Fantasy) eventually made up with Nintendo and started releasing games for the GBA, which proved to be bad news for the still-unique WonderSwan.

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