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SKELETON BLUE WONDERSWAN			/media/museum/photos/bandai_wonderswan-blue_1.jpg

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SKELETON BLACK WONDERSWAN		Skeleton Black WonderSwan playing Space Invaders Thanks to [Little Video Game Area](http://www.studio42.info/index.shtml) for this picture	/media/museum/photos/bandai_wonderswan-black_1.jpg

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SCREENSHOT			/media/museum/software/bandai_wonderswan_lode-runner_ss.gif

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Cygne	http://cygne.emuunlim.com/	Windows	The first WonderSwan emulator

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OSwan	http://calice.emu-france.com/oswan/index.html	Windows	Excellent WonderSwan emulator

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WonderScott	http://www.zophar.net/ws.html	Windows	Another WonderSwan emulator by the Boycott Advance team

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WScamp	http://www.zophar.net/ws.html	Windows	Very good WonderSwan emulator

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eSwan	http://pspupdates.qj.net/category/Wonderswan/cid/769	Other platform	WonderSwan emulator for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) !

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Cygne Emulator - Tech info page	http://cygne.emuunlim.com/files/wstech21.txt	Detailed technical information

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Official website (Bandai-Asia)	http://www.bandai-asia.com/wonderswan/	Description, features and games

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Planet Pockets	http://www.planet-pockets.de/?show=articlelist&id=68	German site dedicated to pocket systems. Includes WonderSwan reviews

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Swan Song Color	http://www.j-fan.com/swansong/	Website dedicated to the WonderSwan

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The Wonderswan Blog	http://www.wonderswan.co.uk/	A blog dedicated to Bandai's Wonderswan console.

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Wonder Witch	http://wonderwitch.qute.co.jp/	Japanese website dedicated to Wonder Witch, a personal Software Development Kit for the WonderSwan

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Wonder Witch Link Site	http://jekyll.hp.infoseek.co.jp/english/	Japanese site (with english version) with links, news and a lot of interesting info

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https://web.archive.org/web/20230516092219/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1175	2023-05-16

The WonderSwan was developed by Yokoi Gunpei (known as the father of the Nintendo Game Boy). A low price point and extremely low battery consumption is considered to be the original vision of Yokoi. Sadly, Yokoi died in a car accident before seeing a completed WonderSwan.

Most of the games for the WonderSwan were based on Japanese Anime series. The system had no success outside of the Japanese domestic market, mainly beacause it was not ditributed and marketed efficiently. One of the system's interesting features is the control layout allows for games to be played in either vertical or horizontal position.

Other than the original WonderSwan's lack of color support it was a brilliantly engineered system. Shame it didn't have success outside of Japan.

Author : Yuki Itada

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