The WonderSwan was a series of portable game consoles created by Bandai? with the ultimate aim of providing gamers with a low-cost alternative to Game Boy?. And it would have worked, too, if not for those pesky upgrades: Right about the time the original WonderSwan hit the market with its super-cheap and unbearably blurry greyscale screen, Nintendo? bumped Game Boy to Game Boy Color. Bandai followed suit two years later with the considerably more powerful WonderSwan Color, at which point Nintendo went a step beyond and released the fantastic 32-bit Game Boy Advance. Bandai tried to keep apace by offering a new upgrade called SwanCrystal, a moderately more powerful version of the Color with a higher-quality TFT screen, but it was ultimately futile. Especially once Nintendo released the GBA SP, which went another step beyond and offered an illuminated screen. Bandai finally gave up in disgust in 2003, but not before unleashing some of the most mediocre anime-based handheld software the world had ever seen upon Japan?.
WonderSwan's only major historical significance is that it was the final creation of disgraced Game Boy inventor Gumpei Yokoi?. Also, it featured the two absolute worst Mega Man? games ever, and that's saying something.