Atari lynx games and system collecting?

The Atari Lynx is a very fun system to collect for and is best enjoyed as most Atari systems are; in short burst. There are some very fun arcade games like Road Blasters, Ms. Pac-Man and Blue Lightning. It's not very expensive unless you're going for the rarities. As for which model: The Model II is regarded as the best version since it has stereo headphone jack, better battery life and a little bit better resolution. I own both models and I use them both. I think Model I has a better D-pad and it looks cooler in my opinion.

Even though it hasn't got the Nintendo's huge library of games, it's still an awesome console that deserves to be played (it had a backlit screen and it was in color in 1989, suck it Nintendo!).

I saw at Target a portable Atari system that looks just like the Lynx with at least 60 games loaded into it, out which ones I saw at least 20 excellent titles. It looks like a very affordable alternative to get these Atari classics on the go, but I do agree that nothing beats the original hardware experience.

Sadly in Sweden it's a very rare and expensive system and the games aren't exactly cheap either. The only two systems on sale I can find are both 7999kr (~800 US$/EU€/UK£) each.

The few games that are available range from 299kr to 349kr for most of them, only one is cheaper, Kung Food, at 148kr, and the most expensive is Chip's Challenge at 399kr.

Then they all have additional shipping and billing costs to add to those prices, ofcourse.

I'd love to own one and some of the awesome games I love on it, like Hard Drivin', Steel Talons, Electro Cop and Shinobi, to name a few, but yeah, most of those aren't available (only Steel Talons for 299kr) even if I was rich enough to piss away a whopping 8k on the system itself first.

I did a sweep of the common auction sites available here in Sweden and the prices overall of what is available for Lynx right now weren't better overall, almost all games were more expensive with the average prices being around 400-500kr per game, and they still didn't have any more games that I'm interested in, just Steel Talons again, which did have one copy available at a slightly lower price, 159kr, complete in box with free shipping, so that wasn't too bad.

The only system available was a model 2 Lynx going for 1289kr + 59kr shipping, which is a lot less than the two complete in box with manual etc. offers the professional resellers had, but it's the system with a protective case only, no box, manuals etc., so it's not an entirely fair comparison and it's still not what I'd call cheap for an old system with so few games available.
Just cheaper and better than the silly 8k prices by comparison, but then again a PS4 Pro with a PSVR, both brand new, are also a lot cheaper than 8k combined, so yeah, those prices are silly high compared to just about anything gaming related.

The risk of it not working properly, or simply being a downright scam especially for inexperienced online auctioneers like myself, is arguably a lot higher on those kind of sites compared to reseller online shops as well. Which is why I as a rule stay clear of them altogether.
I gladly pay a little more to a professional reseller with a lot less (though still not entirely eliminated, ofcourse) risk involved.

In the current case I don't see any Lynx system or games for it worth investing in. The auction prices are too high for the added risk involved for me to value it worth it, and the reseller prices are literally insane. The conclusion being that Lynx remains too rare and expensive for Swedish gamers like myself.

If I was rich enough perhaps I could take the risk of auction sites but I don't have that kind of money to play risk with.

@dscult3 Yeah, we only had Game Boy here as our portable option back in the day, the other companies didn't care much for Sweden at all at that point.
Some of them had official releases here but they were only in very limited numbers and in very select few places around the country.
Around here where I grew up we didn't even know there were other companies that made consoles/portables than Nintendo until Mega Drive came along in ~1992-93.
We also got everything quite a lot later than other places, so stuff we thought were new and cutting edge was for the most part around half a decade old already.

For portables it really wasn't until N-Gage came along that we had another option than Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Color, save for a few cheaper LCD games and such, like my old 99-games-in-1 which sadly no longer works.

I think the Swedish game magazine Super Play had an extensive list of consoles and portables we missed out on here in Sweden, in an issue back in 1999 or 2000, I still have it somewhere.
Pretty sure it had both Lynx and Game Gear on the list, among many others, mostly consoles but also other portables like Wonderswan and Neo Geo Pocket.
As a country of gamers we missed out on a lot until the mid 90s when we just kinda caught up with Saturn and PlayStation, only the N64 took some extra time to get here (~1998).
So even if the odd lucky kid had a Game Gear or something, most of us had to settle with Game Boy as the only option.

Nintendo literally won by default until Mega Drive came along. Until Final Fantasy VII blew our minds with an actual TV commercial there hadn't even been any game ads on TV at all, no "Genesis does" European Mega Drive equivalent ad campaign and definitely no console wars to speak of.

Sweden generally had a much better situation with DOS and Windows computers in the 90s, also some Macs, but only old people had Macs. I grew up with a 386, a 486 and a Pentium alongside my Entertainment System and Game Boy (and 1997 onward also my beloved PlayStation, ofcourse).