Pixter

Pixter came preloaded with built-in activities and also supported cartridge-based games and creative software. Early models featured a monochrome black-and-white LCD display, which helped make the product commercially successful during its initial release. Later versions, such as the Pixter Color, upgraded the hardware with color screens, improved graphics, and expanded multimedia capabilities. The Pixter line included licensed content from major entertainment companies such as Disney, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network, featuring franchises like SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer. The series remains notable as Fisher-Price’s only handheld gaming platform and one of the last console-style products released by Mattel. Inspired by the Apple Newton, the Pixter line has become something of an obscurity, with little information left on the internet about the history of it, sales records, original pricing, release dates, etc. It also included licensed content from Nickelodeon, Disney, Cartoon Network, BBC, etc. The Pixter remains, as of 2017, the second to last console Mattel has released, after the HyperScan, but the Pixter is Fisher Price's first and only handheld game system.

• Name — Pixter • Manufacturer — Rehco, LLC

The original Pixter had a 80x80 black and white LCD. Its touch-sensitive LCD was activated by a drawing stylus. It used 4 AA batteries and was based around a Sunplus SoC based on a 6502 core.

• Illustration — Mattel Pixter - case opened • Model — Years — SoC — Notes • Pixter — 2000-2002 — The original Pixter came in several colors, but otherwise they are the same unit. * Purple * Green * Blue • Pixter Plus — 2002 — Similar to the original Pixter, except with a "Plus" subcategory of 10 additional activities in the Pixter's main menu and 20 times more storage space than the original Pixter unit. It also has a flexible screen light. • Pixter 2.0 — 2003 — Played the same cartridges as the original, but included digital drawing and quick-paint tools, as well as an infrared wireless link. The infrared link could be used to send messages and pictures between other Pixter 2.0s. The protocol was proprietary and incompatible with any standard like IrDA. It used 4 AA batteries. • Pixter Color — 2003-2005 — Sharp LH75411 — Pixter Color is similar to the original Pixter, but with games using up to 256 colors and 160x160 screen resolution. The display is actually capable of 4096 colors, but only the Pixter Camera used this capability. Pixter Color used newer cartridges that could not be used with the original Pixter. With the use of an adapter, Pixter Color could play original Pixter titles. It used 4 AA batteries. The main menu of the system contains 2 unique music tracks, but outside of games or the home menu music is not implemented. It uses a 70MHz ARM7TDMI CPU, and 32 kilobytes of SRAM built-in. Pixter's motherboard also has 128 KB of additional SRAM working as Random Access Memory. On-board NOR flash is used to store one picture at a time across power cycles. • Pocket Pixter — 2004-2006 — 6502-based Sunplus SPL130A — The Pocket Pixters were key-chain sized dedicated consoles that included a drawing program centered around a theme and a built-in game. They used three Button Cell (LR44) batteries. None of these had a touch screen, setting them apart from all other members of the Pixter family of devices. Its edition were Pets, Fashion, Sports, Dino and Hearts • Pixter Multi-media system — 2005 — Sharp LH79524 — The Pixter Multi-Media System reportedly had 100 creative tools, games, and activities-built in, including a touch screen with stylus and had streaming video capabilities. There were also exclusive cartridges available for the system. It used 4 AA batteries.. The CPU is a sequel to the Pixter Color's LH75411

• Title — Released • The Best of Dora with Cartoon Creator Software • The Best of Monster Jam World Finals 4 with Video Creator Software • The Best of SpongeBob SquarePants with Cartoon Creator Software • The Best of Winter X Games with Video Creator Software • Walking with Dinosaurs with Scene Creator Software • Winx Club with Scene Creator Software • The Best of Friday Night Nicktoons with Cartoon Creator Software — June 12, 2006 • The Best of LazyTown with Video Creator Software — Unreleased • The Best of Yu-Gi-Oh! — Unreleased but later found and dumped