/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8664075]

What are some worthwhile Game Gear games to play? Feels like most of it is just downgraded ports of Mega Drive games and slightly-better ports of SMS games.

[Anonymous No.8664080]

GG shinobi

[Anonymous No.8664095]

most of its best games are jp only
weird how Sega consoles that were popular here were not that popular in japan and viceversa

[Anonymous No.8664102]

I had a game gear and man, I hated every fucking game I had for it. Gave it to my brother and stuck to GB. Before I could tell the difference between normies and others I noticed all the kids at the playground wanted to see the game gear because it had colors, and I always said "yeah but it doesn't have any good games" while I play FFA or Revenge of the Gator. OFC they all ignored me or though I was jealous.

Took me 20 years and time away from public school to realize normies are a whole massive intrest group and I'm unlike them.

[Anonymous No.8664153]

>>8664102
The battery life didn't help either. Nowadays you can just get rechargeables, but back then you were at the mercy of Big Alkaline

[Anonymous No.8664163]

>>8664102
Are you really trying to imply that game gear was the normalfag choice when the Gameboy is to this day a generic term for handhelds and had a little game called POKEMON on it

[Anonymous No.8664171]

>>8664163
gamegear was the cool kid's handheld. the coolness was based entirely on marketing and "muh graphics"

[Anonymous No.8664192]

>>8664075
Sonic Triple Trouble was fire

[Anonymous No.8664194]

>>8664075
GG Shinobi 1 + 2, Sylvan Tale, Popils, Royal Stone, Power Rangers: The Movie unironically.

[Anonymous No.8664195]

>>8664163
My game gear comparison to game boy was YEARS before pokemon. Take a look at the games I listed, dork.
>>8664171
kinda this

[Anonymous No.8664228]

Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse

[Anonymous No.8664614]

>>8664102
You still seem very bothered about this topic. And another thing; you aren't special, or the main character. Get over it.

[Anonymous No.8664617]

SMT Last Bible
SMT Last Bible Special

[Anonymous No.8664634]

>>8664614
Silence, fool! He is the hero fortold by the elders in the ancient prophecy. It is only by his sacrifice that our village may be saved!

[Anonymous No.8664635]

>>8664171
When a kid came back to my small Montessori school after Christmas break with a Game Gear, one of those clip on third party screen magnifiers, and a copy of Mortal Kombat (in color!), it was like a revelation. Instantly he was the coolest kid in school.

[Anonymous No.8664641]

>>8664635
could you actually play against each other with a second game gear though or was it single-player? did it have a link cable?

[Anonymous No.8664750]

I only had Sonic games and one baseball game for it (I think it was a pack-in), there was never anything else on it I wanted

[Anonymous No.8664783]

>>8664075
Game gear was a worse portable Master system and a much worse handheld than gameboy due to its shit battery life.

[Anonymous No.8664816]

>>8664102
Game gear was and still is kino. Gameboy had some fun games too, but it’s really drab and shit with no color - no reason the game gear couldn’t have had better games except devs sucked and Nintendo I think strongarmed a lot of companies into supporting them only

[Anonymous No.8664852]

>>8664783
It was factually better than the Master System thanks to its expanded color pallette.

[Anonymous No.8664856]

>>8664641
ueah it had a link cable, damn if I've ever seen one in person before though

[Anonymous No.8664863]

>>8664852
>screen crunch
No it wasn't.

[Anonymous No.8664967]

>>8664852
game gear graphics look 16-bit and it really shows how dumb sega was for giving the master system the same size palette as the NES when it had so much more potential. I bet it would've sold twice as much with an even 256 colors.

[Anonymous No.8664979]

>>8664075
Ristar on the Game Gear is good and if I remember correctly has some original levels.

[Anonymous No.8665336]

Both Mortal Kombat (MK 1 and 2) games, Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, Wonder Boy III, and Columns.

[Anonymous No.8665382]

>>8664614
But anon aren't we all the main character of our own stories? Are you saying that you are a side character in your own life?
Take control MF'er; WAGMI.

[Anonymous No.8665421]

>>8664075
Jurassic Park

[Anonymous No.8665818]

>>8664228
Came to post this.

[Anonymous No.8665821]

Links Awakening but good.

[Anonymous No.8665828]

Final Fantasy but good.

[Anonymous No.8665830]

Fire Emblem but good.

[Anonymous No.8665839]

>>8664852
>>8664967
In fact the Game Gear's palette depth was larger than even the Genesis', which is pretty nuts if you think about it

[Anonymous No.8665841]

>>8665821
You probably mean Adventure of Link, and no it isn't; both are pretty lame and the Zelda game at least isn't boring. GAW was objectively better than the original LoZ though, shame they didn't port it to the handheld

[Anonymous No.8665872]

>>8664228
>>8665818
It's definitely the weakest Illusion game and way too easy, but it was a nice exclusive until those brazilian weirdos released a MS port

[Anonymous No.8665885]

>>8664075
I recommend GG Aleste 2. I think it is a fair game which makes it quite fun. It does play like the Genesis and Master System games, but it is designed well for the small screen space of the portable.

[Anonymous No.8665887]

>>8664863
Technically the problem was the cropping, not the crunching

[Anonymous No.8665897]

>>8664075
>slightly-better ports of SMS games.
Name games that are actually better on GG over SMS besides those weird bootleg-feeling, years-later Tectoy ports

[Anonymous No.8665901]

>>8665887
It was actually a CIA experiment to find the kids with precognition powers

[Anonymous No.8665908]

>>8665897
Kind of a trick question because you can always argue that the cropped pixel real estate makes every GG port automatically worse. It was definitely a problem when the developers didn't tweak gameplay and level design to compensate for it >>8665887, but it really isn't an universal deal-breaker.

A lot of GG ports are worth playing at the very least as a curiosity: WB3 for example includes a lot of little tweaks, new art like portraits for the shopkeeper/healer etc, and removes the Charm Stone mechanics, which could count as a plus for some.

[Anonymous No.8665962]

>>8665908
>WB3 for example includes a lot of little tweaks,
Yeah, it's really weird because Dragon's Curse is arguably closer to the original Master System version than the Game Gear port, which released after WBV:MWIII. In a lot of ways, I feel like the TurboGrafx-16 version is a lot closer to the game the devs really wanted to make. Jap manual even contains a few isolated references to Monster Land so it was still thought of as a sequel despite Hudson's trademark removal.
>new art like portraits for the shopkeeper/healer etc,
I heard these designs were just ripped from the WBV:MWIII NPCs. Also there was no good reason to get rid of the pig, maybe the church palette swap because it's a bit out of place but not entirely.
>and removes the Charm Stone mechanics,
Eh they just needed to rebalance/rethink it in a few places, not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[Anonymous No.8666002]

>>8665908
>Kind of a trick question because you can always argue that the cropped pixel real estate makes every GG port automatically worse.

[Anonymous No.8666103]

>>8664075
the latter Japanese rpg's have pretty nice graphics that look a bit like 16 bit graphics because of the large colour pallete.

>>8664075
Cocacola kid is just in general pretty good in all areas.

>>8665897
But can you play your master system on the bus. Columns, but some games are holy shit way worse like super off road or Tom and Jerry.

[Anonymous No.8666169]

>>8664075
GG Aleste