Game Gear

[Anonymous No.4369963]

Thoughts on the Game Gear?

[Anonymous No.4369969]

I wish it had taken off, it was like the Master System getting a second shot at life. Sadly, there is no universe in which an 8-hour battery life at 6 batteries a pop is acceptable.

[Anonymous No.4369974]

>>4369969
Modern systems get less tbqh

[Anonymous No.4369985]

>>4369969
>8-hour battery life at 6 batteries

More like 1 hour. I never beat Sonic 2 for GG due to the batteries dying before I could even get to the final stage of the game.

[Anonymous No.4369987]

>>4369969
I'd say 6 batteries period is unacceptable. Although it would have been great to see an updated Game Gear that was smaller and only needed 2 batteries instead like the GBC. Of course the plug in adapter was always the best way to enjoy the Game Gear anyways since it took too many batteries.

[Anonymous No.4369994]

>>4369985
You should have got the adapter anon.

[Anonymous No.4369998]

>>4369985
>falling for the "Heavy Duty" meme

[Anonymous No.4370000]

Game Boy Pocket is the way to go. 10+ hours of battery life with just two AAAs. Of course, there's no backlight. It's not an issue if you're playing during the day, or you invest in one of those cheap clip-on booklights.

[Anonymous No.4370009]

>>4369974

Perhaps, but the fact it's rechargeable makes this apples-to-oranges. I know my DS Lite got better battery performance than that, though.

[Anonymous No.4370018]

>>4369987

Yeah, 6 batteries sucks for sure. But then to get so little in return...

[Anonymous No.4370023]

>>4370000
That clear green one looks amazing. I've never seen that before.

[Anonymous No.4370026]

>>4370000

Gameboy Pocket was how I always thought the Gameboy should have been. The original screen on the Gameboy was *so* damn heinous.

[Anonymous No.4370687]

>>4369963
really interesting looking games. wish there was a way to play the actual carts on a TV via MD or something. I don't want the actual handheld

[Anonymous No.4370790]

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers is still good.

[Anonymous No.4370802]

now...a little off topic but what about the tiger game.com? resident evil 2, mortal kombat trilogy, duke nukem, the lost world jurassic park!!

[Anonymous No.4371135]

>>4369963
In real live.
GB with normal 4 AA battery can only play 4 hour and It only 2 hour left if you maximum sound volume.
GG is same you can play 2 hour with 6 AA battery and only 1 hour with maximum sound volume.

[Anonymous No.4371138]

>>4370026
Gameboy was 80s tech. Decent screens that small for that price weren't a thing.

[Anonymous No.4371206]

Everyone likes to say how the gamegear failed because it drained batteries like crazy, as if many were adults at the time that the GG was available,

the thing is the only people who would know this are the ones who owned it and anyone who bought it wouldn't know any better. The fact that it ran 6 double a batteries was probably a better reason as that was something people could realize before buying.

But most likely I think the GG failed because it was too expensive while the GB was cheaper. This whole battery myth was spouted by some youtuber and bad gaming journalists over ten years ago and now everyone says its the reason.

[Anonymous No.4371224]

>>4371206
As far as I know, the Game Gear never failed. It was a mildly successful system.

[Anonymous No.4371265]

>>4371206
>This whole battery myth
Nah, it's pretty fucking factual.

[Batowl No.4371272]

>>4370000
Japan had a backlight edition.

[Anonymous No.4371283]

>>4371206
>3 to 5 hours
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Gear

[Anonymous No.4371320]

>>4371283

That's even worse than I thought. Jesusfuck....

[Anonymous No.4371325]

>>4371138

But Game&Watch....?

[Anonymous No.4371329]

>>4369963
Best handheld ever made, for it's time anyways.

[Anonymous No.4371330]

>>4371272

Japan always gets the coolest shit.

[Batowl No.4371340]

>>4371330

[Anonymous No.4371362]

>>4371340

See what I mean?

[Anonymous No.4371370]

>>4371272
>>4371330
>>4371340
>>4371362
The screen on those is utter wank.

Like sub-DMG levels of eyerape.

[Anonymous No.4371385]

>>4371370

It looks fine to me, dude....

[Anonymous No.4371496]

>>4371340
Build-in light only help you see white pixel but black pixel still hard to see.
LCD still has bad response time.
Battery-life too poor.
I think GG only make to play by AC-adapter.

[Anonymous No.4371575]

>>4370687
>wish there was a way to play the actual carts on a TV via MD or something

Wasn't there?

[Anonymous No.4371746]

>>4370023
i remember getting mine from toys r us as a kid. i think the color is called extreme green.

[Anonymous No.4371772]

>>4369969
It did take off. I knew multiple people that had one. At least 5 off the top of my head. Little asshole nieghbor kid never let me play Sonic 2. Compare that to an actual failure like the Vita, of which I know 1.

[Anonymous No.4371785]

>>4371772
Game gear sold about 10 mil (source is Wikipedia)

PS Vita sold about 12 mil circa 2015 (source is http://n4g.com/news/1767628/playstation-vita-sales-top-12-million-worldwide))

obviously both are potentially dubious sources, but I feel like the lack of perceived presence is due to other factors, like how you likely don't go out with friends as much (or at least don't play handhelds or have them laying about) and how PS Vita was more succesful in Japan (obviously.)

I know only myself personally to own one but I would say it's definitely not a flop, and neither is the Game Gear for that matter. Until last year the GG outsold the XB1 iirc (no source so feel free to ignore this point.)

[Anonymous No.4371957]

>>4369985
even worse if your parents bought you shitty mercury batteries,you got 20 mins max out of those fucks and then "what they are flat already son? im not buying you any more!"

so you had to be tied to a megadrive power lead and it was dodgy so if you moved it would cut out and you would have to restart sonic from the start when you was half way through bridge zone :(

[Anonymous No.4371963]

>>4370802
i had one back then and a new boxed one now

back then the game com was amazing to me but its aged badly,screen ghosts too much and the fps is shit

use an emulator the screen is too shit on the game com

[Colin No.4371965]

I actually never got my hands on one, but there's this place I go called Pastime Legends and they sell all of these old videogames. Truth be told, the owner of the store went to my high school and he had the same English teacher as I do.

[Anonymous No.4372004]

>>4371965
Cool blog, Colin

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[Anonymous No.4372304]

>>4371575
There is for Master System carts, but I don't think there was ever one for Gamegear, even a third party one. Only thing similar to what I'd want is I've seen youtube chumps modding a Gamegear to have an output into a TV. I don't think I care enough to go that far.
If you know something that proves me wrong then please do correct me. I'd be glad to be wrong.

I wanna play Tails Adventure[\spoiler] on a big old tube teevee dangit

[Anonymous No.4372359]

>>4370687
>>4371575
>>4372304
Nothing for carts but you can romhack the games into master system compatible format then play them on Genesis via an everdrive.

>tfw Magical Puzzle Popils on a 29" PVM

[Sugar !egyYvoBZV2 No.4372365]

Had one back in the day, my brother and I both got them, with various Sonic games, Lion King, Ren and Stimpy, good times. The Sonic game if you moved the cartridge mid game very carefully it would enter this weird mode where it would play various music tracks from the game and you could select them with the left or right arrow keys, I only managed to do it once.

Both of them have fucked screens, appears to be a common issue.

[Anonymous No.4372367]

>>4369963
I have not used mine since the 90s. It looked cool back then, but the games weren't that good.

[Anonymous No.4372659]

>>4372359
I realize that it really probably isn't at all, but I'm so used to just sticking "official" pieces of plastic together and expecting them to work, that that just sounds all kinda year 2000 space age crazy and complicated

maybe I'll look into it someday. thanks for bringing that up