Editing History of video games (section)

===First handheld LED/VFD/LCD games===
[[File:Entex Baseball 3, Model 6007, Made In Taiwan, Copyright 1980 (Electronic Handheld Game).jpg|thumb|right|upright|Entex's ''Baseball 3'', an electronic LCD game]]
Handheld electronic games, using all computerized components but typically using [[light-emitting diode|LED]] or [[Vacuum fluorescent display|VFD]] lights for display, first emerged in the early 1970s. [[Liquid-crystal display|LCD]] displays became inexpensive for consumer products by the mid-1970s and replaced LED and VFD in such games, due to their lower power usage and smaller size. Most of these games were limited to a single game due to the simplicity of the display. Companies like [[Mattel Electronics]], [[Coleco]], [[Entex Industries]], [[Bandai]], and [[Tomy]] made numerous electronics games over the 1970s and early 1980s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=DeMaria|first1=Rusel|last2=Wilson|first2=Johnny L.|title=High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games|date=2003|publisher=McGraw-Hill/Osborne|location=New York|isbn=0-07-223172-6|pages=30–31|edition=2}}</ref>

Coupled with inexpensive microprocessors, handheld electronic games paved the way for the earliest handheld video game systems by the late 1970s. In 1979, [[Milton Bradley Company]] released the first handheld system using interchangeable cartridges, [[Microvision]], which used a built-in [[Liquid-crystal display|LCD]] matrix screen. While the handheld received modest success in its first year of production, the lack of games, screen size and video game crash of 1983 brought about the system's quick demise.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/a-brief-history-of-handheld-video-games/ |title=A Brief History of Handheld Video Games |first=Donald |last=Melanson |publisher=Weblogs |date=March 3, 2006 |access-date=September 20, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618191810/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/a-brief-history-of-handheld-video-games/ |archive-date=June 18, 2009 }}</ref>

In 1980, Nintendo released the first of its [[Game & Watch]] line, [[handheld electronic game]]s using LCD screens.<ref name="vice yokoi">{{cite web | url =  https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-gunpei-yokoi-reinvented-nintendo/ | title = How Gunpei Yokoi Reinvented Nintendo | first = Matt | last = Alt | date = November 12, 2020 | access-date = February 22, 2021 | work = [[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] }}</ref> Game & Watch spurred dozens of other game and toy companies to make their own portable games, many of which were copies of Game & Watch games or adaptations of popular arcade games. [[Tiger Electronics]] borrowed this concept of videogaming with cheap, affordable handhelds and still produces games on this model to the present day.