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Bandai WonderSwan	Consoles	name image logo company company_name tabs forum_thread photos screenshots emulators links oc_id source WonderSwan /media/museum/photos/bandai_wonderswan-blue_1s.jpg /media/museum/logos/wonderswan_logo.gif /companies/bandai Bandai photos software emulators links 1143 title subtitle text image SKELETON BLUE WONDERSWAN /media/museum/photos/bandai_wonderswan-blue_1.jpg title subtitle text image 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 title subtitle text image SCREENSHOT /media/museum/software/bandai_wonderswan_lode-runner_ss.gif title subtitle text image SCREENSHOT /media/museum/software/bandai_wonderswan_puzzle-bobble_ss.png title url platform text Cygne http://cygne.emuunlim.com/ Windows The first WonderSwan emulator title url platform text OSwan http://calice.emu-france.com/oswan/index.html Windows Excellent WonderSwan emulator title url platform text WonderScott http://www.zophar.net/ws.html Windows Another WonderSwan emulator by the Boycott Advance team title url platform text WScamp http://www.zophar.net/ws.html Windows Very good WonderSwan emulator title url platform text eSwan http://pspupdates.qj.net/category/Wonderswan/cid/769 Other platform WonderSwan emulator for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) ! title url text Cygne Emulator - Tech info page http://cygne.emuunlim.com/files/wstech21.txt Detailed technical information title url text Official website (Bandai-Asia) http://www.bandai-asia.com/wonderswan/ Description, features and games title url text Planet Pockets http://www.planet-pockets.de/?show=articlelist&id=68 German site dedicated to pocket systems. Includes WonderSwan reviews title url text Swan Song Color http://www.j-fan.com/swansong/ Website dedicated to the WonderSwan title url text The Wonderswan Blog http://www.wonderswan.co.uk/ A blog dedicated to Bandai's Wonderswan console. title url text Wonder Witch http://wonderwitch.qute.co.jp/ Japanese website dedicated to Wonder Witch, a personal Software Development Kit for the WonderSwan title url text 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 1175 url date 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.

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Author : Yuki Itada