/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9834626
because it didnt even have 10 great games

just lots of half decent stuff

>>9834626
If you pick easy mode and allow non-exclusives, the overlap with the SMS catalog makes it easier.

>>9834626
That's because great game is entirely subjective.

>>9834626
There, I'll give you ten great games: Puyo Puyo 2, Fatal Fury Special, Samurai Shodown, Sonic Chaos, Sonic Triple Trouble, Bubble Bobble, Puzzle Bobble, Dynamite Headdy, Gunstar Heroes, Shinobi II and Tempo Jr. There's even one extra title in the list, but I guess you can just see it as an honorable mention.

>>9834626
Here are my 10 favorites:
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic Chaos
Sonic Triple Trouble
Tails Adventure
Castle of Illusion
Land of Illusion
Legend of Illusion
Lucky Dime Caper
Deep Duck Trouble
A lot more good stuff I left out due to my bias towards mascot platformers... but still the Game Gear was an excellent handheld for its time.

>>9834626
shares a bunch of master system games so americans would have no idea about them

>>9834867
Yeah, OP thought he was a smartass by challenging us and he got just what he asked

Adding GG Aleste 2. Almost home console quality shmup on your GG.
GG Aleste 3 is even better but technically not retro.

>>9834873
Eight Master System games and two Game Gear exclusives, Tectoy ports excluded?

>>9834881
The fuck are you talking about? I'm not the one who made that list. I mentioned mostly Game Gear games, except for Chaos which got a Europe-only Master System release

>>9834878
GG Aleste 3 isn't even playable on real hardware, thanks to those assholes at M2 going gung-ho about repros.

>>9834867
And :
Shinobi 1 & 2
Roadrash
Shining Force
Ristar
Master of Darkness
Wonder Boy 3

>>9834867
>Lucky Dime Caper
This was the first game I got on the GameGear and I played the fuck out of it. When Deep Duck Trouble came out I was blown away by how much better the graphics were.

I'll also add Ecco the Dolphin to the list.
Btw, does no one like Sonic Spinball or Sonic Drift? I loved playing Sonic Drift.

>>9834626
What people?

>>9835146
Sonic Spinball was decent at best on Mega Drive (Inb4 autistic americans say "hurr durr it's called Genesis!1!!11), but it's way worse on Master System and Game Gear. The physics are all over the place

better music than the Genesis version

zero games, zero battery life. i dont even remember ever taking this "portable" anywhere. i only played it with the ac adapter.
>jurassic park
>sonic 2
>ecco
>ren and stimpy
those are the only games i remember, although i may have had 1 or 2 more. completely forgettable

>>9835469
One of them is utter shit, and Sonic 2 is a poor port from the Master System

>>9835469
I had the ac adapter, but my father made me something where I could just use those battery packs he used in his R/C cars with. They were still pretty big, but I could play for hours with that thing.

>>9834626
I want one
The only thing blocking me from buying a game gear is the ridiculous battery shit
Is there a battery pack/mod for this thing?

>>9835632
My grandfather was into tech big time. He bought the Fing laserdisc the day it launched. Anyways he would buy me and my brother stuff all the time. Portable TVs with antennas all kinds of crap. We naturally had a game gear each. My dad finally had enough and bought one of those rechargeable battery things where you put the batteries back in the charger and they charge up so we would stop wasting so much money on new batteries. Thank you for enjoying my blog.

>>9835695
I should probably just do this too (although just 3 hours still is ridiculous for a portable)

>>9834881
I'm the one that made that list, and well, if you prefer to exclude titles that also got a Master System release, then it does get more difficult, as the Game Gear many times felt like a portable Master System... but I don't think that's a bad thing, afterall in both the US and Japan, markets where SEGA wanted the Game Gear to sell the most against Nintendo's Game Boy, the Master System sold poorly compared to the NES... also, when the Game Boy came out, one of the main appeals was that it was almost a portable NES, you could take your NES with you anywhere and play Nintendo's IPs, so having a handheld that's almost a portable Master System, a good console I might add, with full color and backlight on the go, was just phenomenal, even though it had its shortcomings, mostly price and batteries,still a good system that was ahead of its time.

>>9834626
didn't this beast take six whole batteries, draining them in the span of one day's worth of play?

>>9834626
oh just like the N64!

The Power Rangers fighting game was fucking awesome. Playing as the MegaZord was badass.

>>9837158
>one day's worth of play
If a day's worth of play for you is three hours, then yes

>>9837468
This will usually get you crucified on here but this is a platform I genuinely believe is better emulated than on real hardware. I’m struggling to think of another one I feel the same way about.

Sylvan Tale
Crystal Warriors
Royal Stone
Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict
Lunar: Walking School
SMT: Last Bible
SMT: Last Bible Special
Defenders of Oasis
GG Aleste
Legend of Illusion

>>9834647
But at the same time, they tend to be better on Master System than GameGear.

>>9837473
A new screen replacement and modern rechargable AAs solves that problem. The lightbulb inside is what really drains the batteries on the game gear. Back in the day you had to tether it to the wall plug or buy a rechargable pack, it was impossible to seriously play it with just AAs

I can't help but feel that the Game Gear is a very underrated handheld. Almost every time that this gets discussed here, it's negative, always people talking about how it's got a weak library or how its batteries don't last long, and that's it... there's so much more to the Game Gear, the library features many Genesis ports, which was the main appeal of handhelds back in the day, to play what you'd play on your console, on the go, and the fact that most of its library was shared with the Master System is fine, most people in the US or Japan had an NES, so they were experiencing most of these titles for the 1st time. I'll agree thatit took too many batteries,more than the Game Boy, and didn't last as long... but this is a handheld from 1990, 1 year after the Game Boy, with color and light on its screen, which was just incredible, the Game Boy had an iconic library and its batteries lasted longer, but to me the screen made it almost unplayable, I didn't enjoy a single Game Boy until the GBA SP came out in 2002 or something, but the Game Gear, which would let you play for about 3 to 5 hours on fully charged batteries, was actually enjoyable to play on these hours because I didn't have to fight with the screen constantly, and I could play in the dark, also most handheld ports around this time didn't take longer than an hour to beat if you knew what to do, so having 3 to 5 hours worked, even though it was indeed way worse than the Game Boy in that regard. I'd say that the main flaw the Game Gear had was being ahead of it's time, it was excellent.

>>9834626
The greatest game gear games can’t touch average gameboy games. Then you have the likes of link’s awakening, dk94, Metroid 2, mega man series, Pokémon, sml 1/2, wario land, Kirby series, ff legends, etc… game gear never had a chance, you can put the whole gay rainbow on ur screen but if the games suck, they suck

>>9835632
You can literally emulate this on my tiny penis and the whole rom set fits nicely in my ass. I installed a game gear emulator on my Japanese toilet

>>9836534
Nah don't mind me, I was just being an asshole for no reason. I'd be interested though in common MS/GG titles in which the GG version could be argued to be superior without much grasping at straws?

From your list, maybe the first Sonic the Hedgehog. It definitely worked better than 2 and Chaos for the reduced screen real state, and some of the graphic changes looked nicer.

>>9834626
The two Power Rangers games actually controlled like decent arcade fighters, yet they couldn't get MK and SF to play any good so most people thought it wasn't possible.

>>9837962
I'd say that, from my list, we can exclude Tails Adventure and Sonic Triple Trouble due to being full Game Gear exclusives. Legend of Illusion is an exclusive too, unless you count the Brazilian port on Master System. I think Sonic the Hedgehog is more fun to play on Game Gear, it just feels more polished overall to me and most changes were for the better, the visibility also isn't an issue here due to the level design. Lucky Dime Caper is another one I could argue in favor of the Game Gear version, as it does have quite a few differences from the Master System version in level design and also that you have a health bar, instead of having a hit take your weapon away and then the next one take a life, here you always keep your weapon, it's better to me.

>>9838054
>Lucky Dime Caper
I didn't know the GG version was different, I'll check it out thanks anon

>>9837473
>This will usually get you crucified on here but this is a platform I genuinely believe is better emulated than on real hardware.
>>9837947
>You can literally emulate this on my tiny penis and the whole rom set fits nicely in my ass.
I absolutely adore emulating Game Gear on my smartphone, it's probably the system I love to emulate the most on it, because it has few buttons, and a simpler library overall, which makes it so the touch screen controls don't feel cumbersome, and the screen crunch isn't too bad because it makes the sprites look big on a 6.6" screen, also when rotating the smartphone horizontally, the screen stays perfectly in the middle while keeping just enough space on the left and right for the controls, and it feels quite similar to a Game Gear in a way, also Lemuroid is a top notch Android emulator.

>>9838060
No problem, anon! I was really surprised too when trying both of them out, overall I find the Game Gear version a little better, but I can also see why someone could prefer the Master System version, they're still pretty similar at the end of the day, definitely recommend both of them.

>>9834782
That should make it easier.

>>9834873
Biggest Faggot Award

>>9837930
t. chatgptt

>>9837947
I prefer having the real deal
Emulation is cool but for me doesnt really substitute it

>>9837575
Can SMS play WB3 while taking a shit? No.

>>9840915
was there an SMS version of WB3? There's an adapter to play SMS games on GG, so you get the bigger visual real estate on GG.

>>9835146
>Sonic Spinball

I've played it a lot in original Sonic Adventure DX.
Good gaem.

>>9834626
batman returns and world series baseball brought me a lot of fun hours while watching tv