Facts about Milton Bradley Microvision
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Microvision's 1981 golf game featured a unique pause feature that allowed players to freeze gameplay mid-swing, a technical innovation rarely seen in handheld sports titles of that era.
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Over 3 million Milton Bradley Microvision units were sold worldwide during its commercial run, making it the second best-selling handheld console of the 1980s after Nintendo's Game Boy.
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Microvision's 1982 game Burger Jump featured a notable 4KB of cartridge RAM, which was exceptionally large for handheld gaming at that time.
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Mattel's Auto Race, released in 1976, predated Microvision by three years as an electronic handheld game, though Microvision became the first cartridge-based handheld system.
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In 1983, Milton Bradley recalled Microvision consoles due to a screen deterioration problem where the LCD display would permanently darken after extended play.
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By 1981, Milton Bradley had released 12 games for the Microvision, including Sports Basketball and Football, establishing the console's early sports gaming library.
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Milton Bradley Microvision cartridges contained their own processors and RAM, making them essentially independent game computers rather than just game data storage.
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The Milton Bradley Microvision, released in 1979, was the first cartridge-based handheld game console with interchangeable game cartridges.