If House of the Dragon is the series depicting the Dance of the Dragons, then Season 2 is when the tempo is turned up from a waltz to a tarantella. In the series’ first season, viewers saw Rhaenyra and Alicent grow up and evolve from childhood confidants to stepmother and stepdaughter and now, finally, bitter rivals on opposite sides of a fight for succession.

For Ryan Condal, Season 2 actually marks the third part of the series. “Part of the fun of Season 1 was that we were starting with this key event, which is the death of Baelon, Viserys' presumed heir, and his wife Aemma, and then the dismissal of Daemon and removing him as heir to the throne, installing Rhaenyra, and breaking centuries of tradition by doing so,” he tells Inverse at a roundtable attended by several outlets. “And then that's bookend one. Bookend two was the death of Viserys and the Green side usurping the throne, and Rhaenyra finding herself as the challenger to the throne that she thought she was going to inherit from her father.”

With 20 years of history covered in House of the Dragon Season 1, Season 2 is bigger, but also smaller. The war over succession has now reached a fever pitch, stretching beyond just scheming in shadows and coded banquet wear. After Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) killed one of Rhaenyra’s sons in the finale of Season 1, there’s now skin in the game, and it promises extreme battles and a brutal civil war.

The Game Boy was a hit from the start when it was released in 1989. But it wasn’t until the Game Boy Advance arrived in 2001 that Nintendo revealed what was truly possible with a handheld game console.

Like much of Nintendo’s hardware, the original Game Boy was a calculated risk. Opting for less powerful internals and a green-tinted grayscale screen made it easy for Nintendo’s competitors to release follow-ups that stood out with more impressive games and color screens. We don’t remember the Neo Geo Pocket now, but in many ways it had Nintendo beat.

It would take not just the color screen of the Game Boy Color, but a true “next-gen” Game Boy to keep Nintendo on its handheld throne. The Game Boy Advance (GBA) managed to do both. The GBA not only arrived in a body that was easier to hold, but also packed in a lot more power. It was enough to reproduce SNES-quality graphics on the go for the very first time, laying the groundwork for Nintendo’s handheld dominance in the years that followed.