All Game Boy Vs Game Gear Games Compared Side By Side

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  • Опубликовано: 3 дек 2024

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  • @GregorioBastosNeto
    @GregorioBastosNeto 7 месяцев назад +14

    It's impressive how better gg's graphics were. But is is also impressive what they achieved with gb!

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah those GG graphics were amazing for the time but the GB did have the better audio and had a massive and incredible game library. Both were fantastic handhelds to own.

  • @shotgunl
    @shotgunl 7 месяцев назад +5

    Hey Bill, you dropped this one right on my head as hit up the YT homepage! Another huge look at two interesting libraries. It'll be a good reference piece to look at to decide if it's worth checking out a game on one of the handhelds when perusing their libraries. I have a lot more nostalgia for the Game Boy, since I associate it with my young uncle who passed a few years ago, since he got one near launch and then helped me buy on in '91 to play with him. But, of course, I was always jealous of the couple of friends and my cousin that had the Game Gear. I mean, to a kid, the color was just so impressive. Of course, the battery-drain was an issue, but to be honest, the only time I ever played the GG at the time outside of a few minutes at recess (or in the dark in the church bathroom 🤫) was with the AC adapter. Same when I finally bought one of the Majesco ones in 2000: tethered to a wall...well, whenever it works. I feel the GB usually wins for sound/music, but the GG wins more often for graphics, except when there's a lot of sprite flicker, choppy scrolling, or slowdown. Ah, like the SNES vs Genesis, I think overall it's a tie, and both systems were great with a ton of great games though most of the best are not here in the comparison because the best were the exclusives.

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +1

      Haha good timing. Excellent assessment as always my friend! You hit the nail on the head with the GB being the master of audio and GG with the visuals for probably 80% of these. Just like with the SNES vs Genesis you couldn't go wrong with either and were bound to have a great time with the amazing games on either. I never had a handheld growing up unless you count the few Tiger games so I was always jealous of pretty much everyone lol! I never actually knew anyone with a Lynx but I wanted a GB and a GG even more because of the color and since I was such a Sega fanboy.

  • @TalesBarros
    @TalesBarros 2 месяца назад +1

    Great compilation. Thanks a lot!

  • @kudratortikov1204
    @kudratortikov1204 7 месяцев назад +2

    Both of them portable 8-bit devices of 90's.... Great video, thank you!

  • @よしのん尊い侍
    @よしのん尊い侍 3 месяца назад +2

    Both hardware systems use the Z80 CPU (strictly speaking, the Game Boy's CPU is a custom version of the Z80), and both games have the same resolution.
    They are like brothers and sisters of different parents, but the Game Gear has a color LCD and more VRAM, while the Game Boy has a Window feature for status display and a better sound chip.
    It should not be difficult to develop both versions of a game from the same code base, but the differences are interesting because some of the games have different screen configurations due to hardware differences, and some are completely different games.

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  3 месяца назад +1

      It's always extra fascinating when they end up being completely different games. I love to see how 2 different companies interpret the same IP.

  • @8bitsnkboy472
    @8bitsnkboy472 7 месяцев назад +5

    Comparing these games side by side, the greater capabilities of the Game Gear are pretty obvious. This is hardly surprising when you consider that it's CPU is a slightly enhanced version of the processor that powered the SEGA Master System (It's perfectly capable of playing those games too, with an adapter). Whereas, the gameboy certainly isn't an NES with a monocrome screen. I have only recently acquired a Game Gear of my own and I must say that it greatly exceeds my expectations, particularly those based upon opinions I had seen expressed online. Also, much as I like the gameboy incarnation of Samurai Showdown, the Game Gear version looks AMAZING!!
    That said, I have huge nostalgia for the gameboy. - I was living out of a suitcase (in a bedsit) back in 1990 and the gameboy was the path back into video games in early adulthood (after a childhood playing Atari and intellivision). So, I still find myself picking up the odd gameboy game even now.
    Anyway, thanks for another amazing comparison video. I love this channel.

    • @KISSbestfan
      @KISSbestfan 7 месяцев назад +1

      Gameboy still won this battle. Not because it was better. It wasnt.
      First factor was the Fact, that Game Gear was 50% more expensive (99 vs 149), and second one - probably most important - Gameboy had much bigger library, there were more games on the market.

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks so much for the kind words and for checking this out:) While I never owned either back when they were relevant (my parents thought Tiger Electronics were as good) I was always fascinated by both. You'd think that the Game Gear was horrible based on the online consensus and I'll never understand that. While it certainly had its flaws and the game library couldn't touch the GB it was still phenomenal and looks great even with its stock screen. A friend of mine got his modded with a LCD screen recently and those colors really pop. Much like the SNES vs Genesis debate, the real winners were the consumers because you got an incredible experience for either.

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +1

      @@KISSbestfan It's kind of like the NES vs SMS. While the SMS looks way better for almost every port that ended up on the 2 the NES had the much superior game library to choose from.

  • @axguzman-gq9fz
    @axguzman-gq9fz 7 месяцев назад +2

    Video muy completo bro bendiciones

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks so much my friend!

    • @axguzman-gq9fz
      @axguzman-gq9fz 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@RetroComparisons sigue haciendo más videos así

  • @adrielvinicius5040
    @adrielvinicius5040 7 месяцев назад +5

    Some Game Gear games look different from Master System games

    • @KISSbestfan
      @KISSbestfan 7 месяцев назад +4

      Game Gear was capable to display more colors than Master System.
      But besides that, games scaled down, and additional start button, it was pretty much the same system.

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +3

      Most were very similar but there were some that had their own unique look.

  • @Versatil-1980
    @Versatil-1980 7 месяцев назад +2

    NOTA: ¿Sabias, que por casi cada película, videojuego en Super Nintendo o NINTENDO NES, he incluso Arcade, es que luego sacaban una versión para la Game Boy? Esta consola (GB) Ha sido la más porteada de todas, y una de las mas versátiles. (Con permiso de la PSX y la PS2 claro está:)

  • @adrielvinicius5040
    @adrielvinicius5040 7 месяцев назад +4

    One question, are some of these games more playable or fairer than the versions for larger consoles?

    • @juststatedtheobvious9633
      @juststatedtheobvious9633 7 месяцев назад +3

      Yes. Game Gear Fatal Fury Special avoids the quarter munching AI that held back the original. Race Drivin' GB has better tire grip than any other version, and runs smoother than SNES.

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +3

      I'd say for like 98% of them you're better off going with the console version. @juststatedtheobvious9633 gave some good examples and one more I'd add is Last Action Hero which is different and IMO much more fun than the 16 bit versions. While it's less relevant today than it would have been when these were active consoles, some of these games I think would have been a better experience on the GG/GB over the SNES/Genesis because I feel some of these are better on-the-go games. I can't imagine wanting to play Casino Funpak on the TV but on a car ride it would be a fun way to pass the time.

  • @catvideojogos
    @catvideojogos 7 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing !!

  • @juststatedtheobvious9633
    @juststatedtheobvious9633 7 месяцев назад +2

    Two Z80s, at the exact same clock speed.
    There has never been a console war this evenly matched...as long as you ignore the Game Gear's design being a cruel practical joke that was "leaked" to the same company Nintendo originally wanted to make Gameboy screens...
    Before Nintendo immediately betrayed them, of course. When you know the big N's long history of pulling these stunts, the Playstation was just doing what Congo Bongo couldn't.
    That said, it's amazing how well the Gameboy library competes even when modern emulation removes battery life and screen quality from the equation.
    I think Alien 3 is the best illustration of why. Both are very flawed games, but the GG is a quick and dirty port of a European action game with fast moving cheap shot artists, and serious screen crunch issues.
    Meanwhile, the Gameboy version is a tense overhead survival horror with graphics so primitive that the main character sprite somehow looks too low poly for an Amiga 500 demo.
    Neither game is making the most of the hardware, but only the Gameboy version even takes the hardware into consideration.
    And the same thing happens to a lesser degree with Samurai Shodown.
    And Zool.
    Fortunately for Sega's fully roided out underdog, Mortal Kombat, Road Rash, and Robocop vs Terminator prove that you can simply tank the frame rate a little and look fully 16-bit! A tactic that Sega fans celebrate to this day, even though the Nomad offered superior versions of each game and was completely ignored. (Though GG Road Rash has nothing to be ashamed of.)
    Winner: Game Gear exclusive games that only pretend to be multi-platform! Help the Game Gear remain a tiny bit relevant in 2024, Jurassic Park and Power Rangers!

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад

      So well said my friend! You're a wealth of knowledge so there's not really much for me to add. Nintendo betrays more companies than Ric Flair would do when he'd turn heel.

  • @albertodiez4215
    @albertodiez4215 7 месяцев назад +2

    Hay todo tipo de casos. Pero hay que recordar que ademas de tener colores la GG tecnicamente es superior a la GB. Pero como comercialmente tubo un exito muy reducido apenas se llegaron a aprobechar sus capacidades

  • @MKF30
    @MKF30 7 месяцев назад +1

    Most of these look solid for both except for perhaps a few on each but the puzzle games lacking color always hurts for sure but overall nice comparison and a lot of these seem like fun on both.

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for watching and making it through this very long season my friend:) Some of the puzzle games on the GB were super tough like Klax and Puyo Puyo and that's with using a computer. I can't even imagine trying to figure out the slightly different shapes on a tiny, non-backlit, green & black screen.

    • @MKF30
      @MKF30 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@RetroComparisons Sure you bet 😄 i agree

  • @megaboymegaboy1987
    @megaboymegaboy1987 6 дней назад +2

    Ill just stick with gamegear besides the exclusives think gamegear beat NES as well!

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  6 дней назад

      The GG is basically a handheld SMS so I can see that beating the NES head to head with graphics.

  • @THELEGENDARYK2
    @THELEGENDARYK2 7 месяцев назад +1

    Who knew Cliffhanger on GB had such a banger ost

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад

      Haha I certainly wouldn't have guessed that.

  • @ShuckyDucky09
    @ShuckyDucky09 Месяц назад +1

    I had game boy and GG and would still play my game boy a lot because GG burned through batteries like crazy 😂😂😂

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  Месяц назад

      Lol! I'm convinced Sega secretly had a deal with Duracell and Energizer.

  • @xTerrySunderlandx
    @xTerrySunderlandx 7 месяцев назад +3

    some games are better on gamegear some are better on the gameboy (not counting gbc which is ALWAYS a better game).
    what the gameboy had is that those are usually exclusive versions (contrary to the gamegear which if you had a master system almost all the times is the very same game)

    • @baronhausenpheffer
      @baronhausenpheffer 7 месяцев назад +2

      True, true. Occasionally the Game Boy shared some "this is almost the same game" ports with the NES, but the fact that the Game Gear was a portable Master System for all practical purposes made those one-to-one conversions a lot more common on the Sega side.

    • @adrielvinicius5040
      @adrielvinicius5040 7 месяцев назад +3

      Ironically, GG has several games that the Master system does not have or that are different between the two versions

    • @xTerrySunderlandx
      @xTerrySunderlandx 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@adrielvinicius5040 hence why i said "almost" all the times :p

    • @KISSbestfan
      @KISSbestfan 7 месяцев назад +3

      I believe that all GG games were by now ported to Master System format. With various results, some being ugly and unplayable, and some fully playable and great looking.

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +2

      Very good point. You did get way more Game Boy exclusives even when it came to these games whereas the Game Gear did have a lot of 1:1 SMS ports. Still though, having a glorified portable SMS in the early 90s was pretty awesome.

  • @stijnvonck1431
    @stijnvonck1431 7 месяцев назад +1

    Never knew the difference was this big. In my mind it was just about the same 😅

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад

      Haha yeah it's a pretty big jump in visuals between the two though I'd say the GB soundchip beats the crap out of the GG soundchip.

  • @oldfan4049
    @oldfan4049 7 месяцев назад +2

    So....................
    Game Boy WINS:
    Aah! Harimanada
    Beavis And Butt-Head
    Centipede
    Game Gear WINS:
    The Addams Family
    Aladdin
    Boxxxle
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    Bubble Bobble
    Caesars Palce
    Casino Funpak
    Chase H.Q.
    Choplifter 3
    Cliffhanger
    Cool Spot
    Cutthroat Island
    Desert Strike
    Dropzone
    Earthworm Jim
    F-15 Eagle Strike
    FIFA International Soccer
    Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball
    Gear Works
    George Foreman's KO Boxing
    Hook
    The Incredible Crash Dummies
    Iron Man & X-O Manowar In Heavy Metal
    James Pond 2
    Jeopardy & Jeopardy Sports Edition
    Judge Dredd
    The Jungle Book
    Jungle Strike
    Jurassic Park: The Lost World
    Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba
    Klax
    Krusty's Fun House
    Last Action Hero
    Lemmings
    The Lion King
    Madden 95
    Magical Taruruto
    Mappy (wait...no sound in both versions? o0 that's kinda rough)
    Marble Madness
    Mickey's Ultimate Challenge
    Micro Machines
    Micro Machines 2
    MIDI Maze
    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers:The Movie
    Monster Truck Wars
    Mortal Kombat
    Mortal Kombat 2
    Mortal Kombat 3 (GB had sick music though)
    Ms. Pac-Man
    NBA Jam
    NBA Jam TE
    NFL Quarterback Club (wait, why are those so different? o0)
    NFL Quarterback Club 96
    NHL Hockey 95
    Pac-Attack
    Pac-Man
    Paperboy
    Paperboy 2
    Pinball Dreams
    Prince Of Persia
    Robocop Versus The Terminator
    Sensible Soccer
    Shikinjou
    Side Pocket
    The Smurfs
    The Smurfs Travel The World
    Solitaire Funpak
    Sports Illustrated: Championship Football & Baseball (solely 'cause of that cool zoom out effect)
    Star Trek Generations: Beyond The Nexus
    Star Wars
    Stargate (wait...is it based on the movie of the same name? for fuck sake...)
    Super Battletank
    Super Kick Off
    Super Off Road
    Super Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi
    Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
    Terminator 2: The Arcade Game
    Tesserae
    Tintin In Tibet
    True Lies
    Urban Strike
    Wheel of Fortune
    Winter Olympics
    World Cup USA '94
    WWF RAW
    Zool
    Zoop
    A TIE:
    Alien 3 (complex gameplay VS colorful but dull game)
    Batman Forever (colors weren't the saving point, hehe...)
    Battleship (strangely enough, both had neat, but totally different presentation)
    Captain America And The Avengers (kinda better sound VS colorful graphics)
    The Chessmaster (that voice clip after EVERY TURN cost GG the victory)
    Chuck Rock (sound and better presentation VS colorful graphics and bigger sprites)
    FIFA Soccer 96 (better presentation and gameplay speed VS colorful graphics)
    Foreman For Real (stylized sprites VS digitized likenesses+colors, a question of taste, I guess)
    Home Alone
    Hono No Tokyuji: Dodge Danpei (both are gorgeous)
    Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (no colors but music intact VS bigger sprites and colorful graphics)
    Jurassic Park (neat port of the cult classic VS colorful original idea)
    Madden 96 (better presentation VS colorful graphics)
    Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible (they are the same and yet so different)
    Missile Command (I think, you remember what I've said about it the last time...^^)
    PGA Tour 96 (better presentation VS colorful graphics)
    Primal Rage
    Puyo Puyo (colorful graphics VS better music)
    Riddick Bowe Boxing (no colors VS less details)
    Road Rash (funny style choices VS colorful but dull port)
    Samurai Shodown (if you like chibi0style, you'll understand, eheh)
    Shaq Fu (ahah, so messy XDD)
    Spider-Man & The X-Men In Arcade's Revenge (better sound VS colorful graphics)
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day ('cause they are different...even though the GG's port of the NES game looked better than the GB's original)

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +1

      This is an incredible assessment of these games!! Well done my friend:) I really enjoyed seeing the factors that went into the ties and got a really good chuckle out of your Batman Forever comment. I am beyond grateful for you to take the time to watch this and put so much thought into the analysis of each of these games!

    • @oldfan4049
      @oldfan4049 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@RetroComparisons np, dude.
      You do your thing, I'll do mine))
      Also, jus so you know - I'm a sick person who wants to play every good game out there, so your videos actually are very helpful in the quest of mine. XDD

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +1

      @@oldfan4049 Haha that's a good sickness to have:) I'm glad you've found some through this channel. I know I've certainly played my share of great games that I wouldn't have even known about before doing this channel.

    • @oldfan4049
      @oldfan4049 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@RetroComparisons still waiting for the java games to surface in your videos though... XDDDD

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +1

      @@oldfan4049 Haha that may be a long wait, I've got so many projects I'm currently working on and other big ones to tackle that I think may do some big numbers. The java games though do fascinate me much like a lot of computer games from the 80s since I've only seen videos but never actually tried for myself.

  • @cliffchampion5501
    @cliffchampion5501 7 месяцев назад +1

    Can you do all Super Nintendo/Super Famicom compared to the Arcade?

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +1

      While that's not a video I'll be doing in the next year or so it is one of the top 10 videos that I want to do at some point.

  • @mtshark7
    @mtshark7 7 месяцев назад +2

    Game Gear all the way 🥰

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад +1

      Once we were more than half done with the season and you only picked like 2 GB games as the winner I knew there was no coming back lol!

  • @BloodiTearz
    @BloodiTearz 7 месяцев назад +1

    Game gear was a great handheld, shame it was ruined by its battery life.

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад

      Yeah the battery life was one of its biggest flaws. Being able to carry around a glorified portable Master System in 1990 though even with its flaws was pretty cool.

  • @ugarit5
    @ugarit5 7 месяцев назад +1

    Zoop was the last game in this series?

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад

      Lol it's a pretty lame way to end it right?

  • @kristenhawkins5453
    @kristenhawkins5453 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great ✨✨ 🍒😃

  • @trilobitemmmxxx8019
    @trilobitemmmxxx8019 7 месяцев назад +1

    La GG era muy superior a la GB, sus juegos eran muy buenos tambien, sin embargo terminó fracasando comercialmente.

    • @RetroComparisons
      @RetroComparisons  7 месяцев назад

      It was one heck of a handheld for its time. It's too bad some of its flaws kept it from being a major success.

  • @marcelovitor674
    @marcelovitor674 23 дня назад +1

    O game gear era bem melhor hein