HANDHELD HAVEN!
You could be passing time before seeing the doctor, or in the back of a car during a long journey. Whatever the situation, filling these waits suddenly got a lot better as handheld consoles grew in popularity. Of course, handheld videogames weren’t an invention of the Nineties, not by a long shot. Whether you want to cite the MB Microvision or the popularity of stand-alone devices like Tiger Electronics’ games or Nintendo’s Game & Watch series,
