Milton Bradley Microvision
If any failed console deserves to be immortalized in Lego, it’s Milton Bradley’s Microvision, which was the first handheld gaming device to use swappable game cartridges. Released in 1979 for what would be close to $200 today, the Microvision featured an incredibly low-res 16×16-pixel LCD display and its only control was a dial on the bottom. Just 12 games were ever released for the Microvision, but its legacy impacted another generation of gamers as Nintendo’s Satoru Okada cites it as inspiration for the Game & Watch and eventually the Game Boy, which would also cleverly work around the hardware constraints of the era they were released in.
