The Handheld Gaming Console with Links to Organized Crime
Dark clouds followed the all-in-one Gizmondo
Handheld gaming’s popularity had become crystal clear by the early 2000s. Nintendo had dominated this section of the market since the launch of the original Game Boy in 1989, with total hardware sales amounting to 118.69 million units, and the Game Boy Advance would continue to carry the torch. Big companies eyed a piece of this pie. In this malaise of activity, a start-up would appear, promising a completely new experience.
Instigated by an urge to protect
In 2000, the Swedish entrepreneur Carl Freer established an electronics distributor, Eagle Eye Scandinavian, which would be acquired two years later by a Florida-based flooring business called Floor Décor. Emerging from this would be a new company — Tiger Telematics Inc. The 2002 Soham murders shocked Carl Freer so much he developed a child tracker that could utilize GPS technology, which would allow parents to locate their children at any point in time.
Tiger Telematics’ planned device would have to be something that children wouldn’t mind carrying with…
