Stages 1-2. Seemingly very few gaijin know about the Wonderswan. Here's a somewhat brief history on this Japanese handheld system by Bandai. The Wonderswan was designed by the late ex-Nintendo developer Gunpei Yokoi (same man who invented the Game Boy). It was released in 1999, two years after his tragic death, I should also add there is a game on this system called "Gunpey" that's named after him, which recently got a sequel on the PSP. Like the Game Boy, it started out on a monochrome black and white screen and has the strangest control setup seen on ANY system, because Wonderswan games have a share of horizontally and vertically oriented stages in which you have to turn the system around. Then it had several other colorized descendants, the Wonderswan Color (2000), WonderWitch (2001?), and the SwanCrystal (2002). Unfortunately, since Game Boy Advance was King of the Hill, the Wonderswan quickly became a distant memory.
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