/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4817018
>A portable Megadrive in 1995
I think you answered your own inquiry. Also it ate batteries like popcorn, like the GG.

You pretty much nailed it. If lithium ion batteries were more widespread sooner it would've sold much better.

>>4817018
batteries, Sega dropping it within like a year because they stopped everything to focus on Saturn

I had one. It's a bit of a shame about the battery thing because truth told it's a fantastic little machine. Great D-pad, had TV out. Was nice.

>>4817018
Everyone mentions the battery life, but the screen was pretty shitty too. The tech in general just wasn't there yet for this sort of thing.

All of this posts are wrong. It sold poorly because the pricetag was exorbitant.

>>4817018
it needed like 6 batteries and the screen made side-scrolling games way too blurry.
like sonic games were unplayable

I had that. It was great, but goddamn it had a short battery life.

everything that's been mentioned in the thread + poor software selection. most games were garbage nearly unplayable sega genesis demakes with lots of missing content

>>4817334
>get a load of this guy

>>4817406
i'm not trolling the master system library is way better than the game gear. western game gear games are basically unplayable sega genesis ports

>>4817406
i wouldnt mind 8 bti genesis ports if they took the limitations of the hardware into consideration like the gameboy games instead of basically being 15 fps 1:1 demake missing entire levels and mechanics

>>4817018
>Hey Americans, why did this sell so badly?
3D games happened. 2D was unpopular for quite some time after that.

>>4817334
>>4817445
>>4817449
Are you trying to be funny or do you actually not realize what system we're talking about?

>>4817449
This thread is not about the sega game gear.

>>4817276
Motion blur is an underrated downside of a lot of portables. That shit is headache-inducing.

>>4817018
I didn't buy one because I had a Turbo Express which was vastly superior.

>>4817334
Hello there, kiddo.

>>4817018
i got one from toys r us when it was on clearance for like $30. i had to buy a pair of a/c adapters for the car and the house, because it ate batteries. after i got those i played the hell out of it because as long as i had an external power source it beat the crap out of my game boy. nothing was better for long car trips or vacations.

because at the time it was released cost more than your parents make in a year

>>4820108
your parents made less than 200 bucks a year? What are you, a homeless Nigerian?

I have one and I love it, but all the complaints here are valid. On top of this, remember that this is a portable mega drive released a year after the Saturn and Playstation, and a year before the N64. Why would anyone dedicate half of the cost for a shiny new system toward buying an expensive and rather niche variant of a 6 year old system? If you somehow still hadn't played mega drive then you could get a genny 3, which played the same games and had comparable av out, for all of 50 USD vs the 190 that a nomad cost.

>>4821346
Wasn't it like 75 bucks after a year. I would probably have bought it for that price had it come out in Europe, the size and batteries don't seem like such a big deal coming from a Game Gear.
>an expensive and rather niche variant of a 6 year old system
Oh fuck. I was assuming Sega had plans to actually support it with new software and treat it as a legit Game Gear 2 but everything went to shit because of poor sales, didn't think about it as a redesign. But that makes a lot of sense.

>>4817212
This. A combination of issues made it problematic. I used it very rarely. It just wasn't worth hauling around when I knew that the same games could be played at home on Sega on a larger screen with controls that were easy to manage and without the concern of battery life.

> expensive
> battery life sucked
> came out in 1996. The Genesis was on its way out.