/vr/ - Retro Games

but you did dab on them for those few minutes, and nothing can change that

Nobody on my school even had any handheld console, and I, the absolute mad lad, went with my Game Gear and pulled it out during break. I couldn't even play it, all the kids flocked around me, wanting to see it. I had to be careful because some of them wanted to take it out of my hands, too. I never went with it again except for one swimming class where I went but couldn't swim because I was sick or something, so I stood out of the pool playing Sonic Chaos. Got to the final boss but the battery died, lol (lmao even)

>>9860186
oddly i dont ever recall encountering a handheld at school either. you would think kids would pull them out on the bus or whatnot. maybe i just dont remember. i had an og gameboy and game gear but i typically only played the game gear at home with the ac adapter.

When I was 8 - 9 years old, the original GameBoy was pretty popular with kids in my school. A lot of kids had them, and some would trade GB game carts with each other. They were relatively cheap systems with low battery requirements. Games were like $29.99 on average. I did get a Game Gear as a Christmas present, and I loved that thing. It was a portable Master System with more colours. System came bundled with Columns and Sonic 1,. Would take it on trips with me, and the worst offender of this machine were was the horrible battery life. This was at a time when rechargeable batteries sucked. It was expensive to burn through a 6-pack of Eveready batteries. Even taking to it school, I would let other kids use it. But they were always disappointing by the battery life. I had to get a AC adapter just to use it. I hear the later models did have better battery life. But I had one from 1992 (I think?),. I wasn't the only kid I knew with a GameGear. This thing ate through six doubkle AA's like nothing. Also, my favorite handheld system, was my iPhone touch. No lie. But that is not retro.

>>9860126
>*changes batteries*
gonna need a few more packs of these

>>9860126
a game gear with flat batteries is still better than a gameboy.

>>9860362
really was like this for me too. without ac adapter it was painful. the lack of games was also troubling. i still remember my mind being blown when i used the tv tuner accessory. when i first started seeing digital video on portable devices years later, i remember sega did it first decades ago and didn't leave a great impression on me like the sega tv tuner did.

>>9860126
Used mine as a flashlight once when i lost power at our house.

>>9860126
Didn't have one but my brother did and he just eventually let me have it. Never even used batteries or took it anywhere on the god, just used an AC adapter. I'd just play Jurassic Park on the couch or bed. That's all the place Game Gear had in my childhood but damn JP on MS/GG is underappreciated kino. Short solid platformer with good music. Fuck the Visitor Center though, and FUCK the row of doors.

>>9860126
I should fix all my Game Gears and sell them. I'm not a huge fan of the system. I might keep a blue one though. It's pretty cool to look at. And Its Genie is pretty neat. Some of the games are pretty cool to look at. Like the Xmen games. I don't know. I like looking at the system and its games more than the idea of playing it.

>>9860196
I remember the schools in my district were pretty strict with their ban on game systems. Could not have them on your person before school, after school, recess, holiday parties, and even on the bus. Looking back it was probably to avoid drama over kids taking each others possessions but at the time I thought it was unreasonable.

>>9860659
>I like looking at the system and its games more than the idea of playing it.
Collecting in a nut shell.

>>9860392
>>>9860362 (You)
>really was like this for me too. without ac adapter it was painful. the lack of games was also troubling.

I thought the GameGear had a pretty solid line up of games, for what it was. For a short period of time, you would find quite a few simultaneous releases with the GameBoy when it came to third parties. But, I think most of Nintendo's higher profile first party releases were generally better than most of Sega's first party offerings. A lot more original software on the Nintendo side, while Sega delivered a lot more SMS to GG cross ports and demakes of 16bit Genesis and MD games with less original GG games. Sega did discontinue the GG in 1996 or 1997? But Majesco picked up the manufacturing rights and released their own version for a few years. Nintendo kept that GameBoy alive through the early 2000's with the Lite and GBC. Pokemon drove sales.

>>9860659
>I like looking at the system and its games more than the idea of playing it.

>Dabs on the GG and GB poorfags

>>9860126
>confiscates your contraband and scolds you in front of the whole class.
>later
>kicks feet up on chair, wears necktie like rambo bandana, and makes all the other teachers in the break room jealous as he plays sonic

>>9861238
NEC and Sega were both retarded to not just market this and the Nomad as handhelds once the TG16 flopped and Genesis was old gen. Like just say they are competitors to the Lynx/gameboy/ngp and not portable home consoles. Both blew away the visuals of other handhelds of their eras, NEC could have just cut their loses with the TurboDuo, go all in on bringing more pc engine software over and claiming them as "original software" for the Express. Likewise if Sega of america wanted to keep the genesis alive when saturn was out, do it through the nomad.

I brought my Turbo Express to school to show off once and literally nobody cared, lol.
Despite the games being demonstrably good and funny to play, without Sonic or Mario, there simply wasn't any interest.
I brought my GG in once, too, and one friend said the Sonic game i had was like a Payless rip off.

>>9860593
I completely forgot about that! I used to turn it on with no game in there for that same purpose, mostly to sneak around the house at night without turning the lights on. My bedroom was upstairs on the opposite end of the house from the TV room so it was quite a treck in the dark to get there to watch TV while everyone else was asleep.
I'd sneak out of bed, grab the GG or Turbo Express and slowly make my there to do so. Down the hall. Down the stairs. Through the whatever you call that small hallway beneath the staircase between the foyer and the living room then hang a left and continue through the breakfast and dining rooms and past the kitchen, onward to the TV room, sometimes stopping in the kitchen if i knew there was something nice i could eat without utensils or dishes.
Grew to love old black and white TV shows and films watching Nick at Nite and movies on Disney.

>>9861265
>NEC and Sega were both retarded to not just market this and the Nomad as handhelds once the TG16 flopped and Genesis was old gen. Like just say they are competitors to the Lynx/gameboy/ngp and not portable home consoles. Both blew away the visuals of other handhelds of their eras, NEC could have just cut their loses with the TurboDuo, go all in on bringing more pc engine software over and claiming them as "original software" for the Express. Likewise if Sega of america wanted to keep the genesis alive when saturn was out, do it through the nomad.

The Turbo Express was pretty impressive though for a handheld from 1990. The Arai Lynx came out close to the release of the original GB release. I'm not sure when they stopped selling the Express?

>>9860126
You were allowed to bring that to school? In my case, A) my dad would never let me take a Game Boy or Game Gear to school and B) the school would never allow them to be brought either. Kind of a good idea though, probably too much risk of that kind of thing getting stolen.

>>9860126
The one kid I knew that had one came to school with a few games, the AC adapter and the TV tuner. He would set himself up and we would go over to see what midday movies were on at lunch.

There was simply no point wasting money on batteries with this thing.

I still remember the excitement when we tuned in to catch a movie with sex scenes. That's life as an 8 year old, I unironically miss it.

I had the Atari Lynx at this time and as good as it was I felt the games and the TV made the game gear more desirable.

>>9862164
>I had the Atari Lynx at this time and as good as it was I felt the games and the TV made the game gear more desirable.

I was most impressed by the Lynx, out of all the handhelds. The Turbo Express was a portable TG-16/PCE, which was impressive enough. I remember seeing commercials for Lynx games on TV and in screenshots in gaming mags, and being impressed by its scaling sprites.

https://youtu.be/FKc_QznAIJY?t=754
https://youtu.be/rvHSEghdS3w?t=90

>>9861230
>Majesco picked up the manufacturing rights and released their own version for a few years

Majesco Game Gears apparently have better battery life than the earlier Sega models? I have never owned a Majesco GameGear.

>>9860659
Cool collection

>>9863824
Thats the model i had and while i never played much on the original models, i can say i never had major issues with going through batteries. They also dont get the same hardware issues as the originals.

>>9864004
>Thats the model i had and while i never played much on the original models, i can say i never had major issues with going through batteries.

That's what I thought. As someone who had an early model GameGear's, they were terrible on battery life. I liked the first few Sonic games for the GameGear. Liked the Streets of Rage 2 downport. I think the handheld had a good version of BattleToads. Ristar is actually a good port. I also like Dynamite Heady port. I remember liking Ecco II: Tides of Time. Shinobi GG games are good. I like the Power rangers GG games. the system has a lot of licensed games, 8-bit versions of 16bit games, games that were either ported from the Master System, or GG games that were ported to the SMS. there's not a whole lot of original GameGear games.

>decided to check the GG library.
>Check a puzzle game called Puyo Puyo Tsu.
>Forgets about the GG and becomes obsessed with Puyo Puyo.
I still think the Game Gear is a really nice looking system and I want to buy one someday, is there a list of most play games?

>>9864176
>>Check a puzzle game called Puyo Puyo Tsu.
>>Forgets about the GG and becomes obsessed with Puyo Puyo.

Puyo Puyo 1 for the GameGear was also localized to the west as Robotnik's Mean Bean (Pingas) Machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lfjsqt3ow8
https://youtu.be/dqm6SFHOIJ4?t=112

>>9862040
when pokemon hit literally every kid in my school had a gameboy or at least brought a cart in to play on someone else's. shit was wild. there was one kid who had an imported yellow cart and was a real smug cunt about it.

>>9860126
was there anything good besides sonic?

>>9864420
I quite enjoyed the Disney titles on it:
Castle of Illusion
Land of Illusion
Legend of Illusion
Lucky Dime Caper
Deep Duck Trouble
Lion King

Also, as you'd expect with SEGA, it had good sports too, my favorite being Kick n' Rush by SIMS. In general most ports of good Genesis titles were at least decent.

>>9864420
Yeah, pretty strong library.

>>9863824
How the battery life on the 3nd model, I think Japan only got.

>>9864420
>>9865125
I also recall enjoying the Streets of Rage ports, it plays a bit like Double Dragon but with a new soundtrack from Yuzo Koshiro.

>>9860126
>>*shows off at school to dab on the GB poorfags until my battery dies a few seconds later*
ftfy

I remember a kid showing off his Game Gear with the TV Tuner in middle school. I had cable tv at my house so I blew it off saying "you only get the free channels" and it filled him with such seething he still hates me to this day. Fuck you Mark.

>>9865847
>>>9860126 (OP)
>>>*shows off at school to dab on the GB poorfags until my battery dies a few seconds later*
>ftfy

IDK, it seemed like two packs of 4AA's could last a lot longer than 12AA batteries and a GameGear. The GameBoy Color with only two AAA batteries, was a really big upgrade. I never had an original GameBoy. But I had the Super GameBoy for the SNES. I bought a GBC for less than $70 dollars, and I was impressed by it only requiring two AAA batteries that could last for 15-20 hours. My old GameGear was like 5-6 hours with new batteries. No wonder why I learned to complete Sonic 1 in one sitting.

>>9865645
>it plays a bit like Double Dragon

The Game Gear does have its' own Double Dragon game, and interestingly enough, it was not a port of the Sega master System Double Dragon. It was an original game made by Virgin that featured handguns and automatics
https://youtu.be/CwtF1v1aQiA?t=49

>huffs glue

>>9867770
>>huffs glue
atari lynx double dragon

The Lynx does have a pretty damn good port of Double Dragon, that has arcade resolution sprites and looks pretty good despite the screen cropping.

The 8bit port of Streets of Rage II is not bad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBqU6Q_ofjo&t=404s

Game Boy Double Dragon port is not too bad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O9SwMUhJT4&t=148s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNe50MGHmBM

The Lynx does have some pretty impressive hardware for the time. But man, it needed a stronger library of games,.

Meanwhile in Japan

>>9867760
>https://youtu.be/CwtF1v1aQiA?t=49 [Embed]

I remember seeing the GameGear boxes for Double Dragon in stores. I think I would have turned it down, because I wrote it off as another port of Double Dragon. But the GameGear version is completely original, and made for the GameGear. It looks like it is a tie in for the movie. but, it is a completely original take on the series. I thought it was pretty cool.

Ecco II is a nice demake of the genesis game, also on SMS. GameGear version uses the extended palette really well.
https://youtu.be/H8ENnGDKrHE?t=136

Ristar is really impressive for GameGear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdHf1xz0w4&t=254s

Road Rash looks great on the GameGear:
https://youtu.be/j0jMlnb-ftk?t=84

Dynamite Headdy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSpjnU7wmFo

Chakan :
https://youtu.be/X0sOzDNamF0?t=369

Whats the best way to play GG games? A 3DS?
Mine stopped working a few years ago. I did a full recap but all I got was a blinking red light and smoke coming out of the board.

>>9868229
Any cheap Chinese console can run it. I have a 351v. I play with integer scaling just fine.

>>9860196
I took mine on a class trip some other faggot had an atari lynx kek.

>>9868430

One of the more disappointing things about owning a GameGear was that I knew very few other people with them. And most of them didn't even own the same games. So I rarely ever got to use the GameGear link cable. Outside of Columns, and I got to play SOR1 with a link cable. But not much else. the GameGear had a lot of link cable games that supported two player.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VimTbnJZecI

>*exists, allegedly*

>>9868430

One of the more disappointing things about owning a GameGear was that I knew very few other people with them. And most of them didn't even own the same games. So I rarely ever got to use the GameGear link cable. Outside of Columns, and I got to play SOR1 with a link cable. But not much else. the GameGear had a lot of link cable games that supported two player.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VimTbnJZecI

>>9865350
>3nd

>>9868229
If you still want to fix your game gear there's new motherboards out now, just need the sega asic chip off your old one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgnbuYgp_oI

I found it interesting that back in the day, the Virgin / Sega Genesis/ MD version of Aladdin was ported to the OG GameBoy, Game Boy Colour, while the Game gear actually got an original game made in Japan by Sims Co. I'm pretty sure it was made for the GameGear first and then ported to the Master System.

>>9860392
>a game gear with flat batteries is still better than a gameboy.

Except the game library

>>9866075
how's Mark doing these days?

>>9860392
>when i first started seeing digital video on portable devices years later, i remember sega did it first decades ago and didn't leave a great impression on me like the sega tv tuner did.
Uhm, no they didn't. They did analogue first, not digital you retard.
And not only did they do analogue, but they weren't even the first to do that.

*spits at you*

>>9869245
I knew someone in 6th year with an ngage, then a few years later I worked in a 2nd hand store that did games, phones, movies etc and chilled there and saw a whole host of ngage's.

Only ever saw 3 ngage games and only 1 with a case lmao.

>>9869245
Gaming on Phones was an extremely toxic and horrible thing to happen to the industry. This thing's failure should have echoed enough to stop the trend, but then Apple came in with their port of Super MonkeyBall and ruined everything.

>>9860126
Worth it, though. I had one and recall having:
>Ax Battler
>Shinobi
>Ninja Gaiden
>Woody Pop
>Columns
had more, but that's what comes to mind and it was glorious.

>>9861238
I wanted one so badly, but in my area is was over $400.00. Back in the early 90s mind you, so that's more like $900+ dollars in today's money.

>>9860126
No you didn't. And everyone in your school has iphones, not GBs.