This was the system that introduced me to gaming! I remember playing Sonic the Hegehog 1 on this the night my parents gave it to me, I was in the back seat at night and we were stuck in traffic over the bridge between Brooklyn and Queens, it was an unforgettable memory.
I remember as a teenager some friends asking why I had so many “Kiddie games” because of Castle/World of Illusion and Quackshot for the Genesis. Because they were awesome, that’s why!
Still hear this as adults to which I respond is imagining you’re Lionel Messi in the latest FIFA or pretending to be a soldier in the latest CoD grown up then?
Nothing was more amazing then getting a game gear for Christmas. I remember seeing the logo through the wrapping paper and not being able to sleep at night because I was so excited. I miss that feeling.
6:21 I had Slider as a kid. I bought it with my birthday money in 1st grade from Toys R Us. I have NO IDEA why I bought that one, I really have no idea, I never heard of it before, I guess I thought it "looked cool" or something, it was so long ago I basically just remember buying it, and I played it A LOT after I got it, it turned out to be one of my favorite games for the Game Gear! I think I played Sonic Chaos, Sonic 1, and Slider the most. I found out years later that Slider is actually part of a little mini game franchise called "Sqweek" or "Super Sqweek" that was released for some Atari systems and some earlier PCs, like Amiga, and the creator HATED that they renamed it to "Slider" for the Game Gear installment released in North America. 99 total levels in that fun pick-up-and-play game, with a password feature! It you get 4 of the different colored teddy bears, you get 5 extra lives and skip to the next level. Some pretty cool puzzle mechanics in some of the levels. At the end there's a screen where it shows that you rescued a girl Slider character (same sprite as Slider, but with a pink bow on her head)....of course! Early 1990s video games in all their glory.
I only remember one of my friends having a game gear in the 90s. He was so much greedier with it than people would be with their game boys due to the short battery life. One life on Shinobi was all you’d get off him if he liked you.
Yeah I only ever saw other kids playing one....never had one handed to me like a Game Boy, which I had to wait all the way until 1995 to get one of my own
Well ye 6 batteries and if they were the dollar store kind ffs it didn't last long at all x.x 😂 luckily the Genesis 2 plug worked when you was at home lol. Those were the days haha
Klax was amazing. Many memories of playing this, instead of doing a piece of work for my university course. The tagline "It is the 90s, and there is time for Klax" seems astoshingly appropriate at the time... :)
I distinctly remember, as a very young kid, saving up allowance money - getting no toys or treats of my own volition - and saving up after a few months to get my very own Game Gear, it was the blue model that came with The Lion King, and I still remember how great it felt to walk into that store and buy a game system with my own money. Of course, adopting the console so late means I missed a lot of these titles, Lucky Dime Caper in particular has been on my radar for a while, and I still kick myself to this day for passing up Revenge of Drancon when seeing it at a thrift store a few years ago; at the time, from the name and title, I had no idea it was Wonder Boy!
I never knew anyone who has a Game Gear growing up. We all had Game Boys because they were cheap. I finally picked one up in high school. Found it in a box of Dreamcast games at a yard sale for three dollars, and made a huge profit because the box also had Project Justice. I've still got the Game Gear, and my son loves playing it.
I had a gameboy and my older brother had a game gear. I was jealous for the first 6months until it was obvious that the longer battery life and superior games actually made gameboy the better system even though the game gear was clearly more badass.
@@skins4thewin yea, neither one of us had the entire library of games obviously but Tetris, super Mario land 1 and 2, metriod 2, Zelda, and final fantasy were all awesome games I had and he had sonic , columns, ninja gaiden and others and they didn’t have the same longevity for us. He ended up getting a gameboy
@@AustinSincrow Yeah the Gameboy was amazing no question. If only it were back-lit. Still can't believe we didn't get the Gameboy Light here, no clue why.
I wasn't allowed consoles growing up until my parents started testing the waters with a used game gear in 1996 - late in the system's life but it changed my life
I remember seeing the game gear as a kid. Unfortunately I never owned one. It wasn't until Christmas,when I got a mega drive. The master system had nothing on the big black powerhouse. Truly transport's me back to my childhood. I do enjoy today's games,but they haven't got the same soul. As a kid your imagination would fill in the blank's as u became transfixed. So much of my art is because of Sega.
I remember that, during this time, the toy stores had quite many game gear games to sell. They proposed maybe slightly less games compared to the game boy (I'm actually not sure to remember well, it could have been equal but I think it was a bit less) but it was an important device anyway. However, I think that there were 2 main problems to be able to really compete against the game boy : as everybody knows, the batteries' life and also the fact that no game (well, as far as I know) had the option to save your progression. Some games had a password system but it was of course far less convenient than a save system that you could find on the game boy. Anyway, thanks for your video. It brings me quite a few good memories.
I got the Game Gear in 1992 and loved it. Battery life was never much of an issue for me since I had both the recharagble battery pack, ac adapter and car adapter. The place i played it most was while laying in my bed. I loved it because of how much "cooler" it was than a gameboy. Years later I got the Nomad and my game gear adapters all worked with it so again no real battey issue. Infact i never used a single AA battery for the Nomad,
I loved my Sega Game Gear was so awesome to have at the time though battery life was not great, had a TV tuner for mine as well so could watch TV on it.
I had the TV tuner too .. The big telescoping metal antenna 🎮😊🏝📺 I could almost imagine Nintendo coming out of left field and releasing a similar product for the switch, although I would love a much more discreet antenna. I think I might even have to pick it up if they did. 🤔🏝😉 ... .. or they could just release a modern punch out with regular controller controls and I would totally be good with that also 🥊😁
My first handheld at the age of 4-5 years old was a game gear. It was 1998. Amazing piece of equipment but I remember very specifically my mom hating it because of how much she spent on batteries for the thing. It was amazing for road trips though. Driving from Illinois to Mississippi and back every summer. Green Day’s Nimrod in CD player, eating Moon Pies…. God.
I use to have the Gamegear back in the day (I lost it in the move) and I remember having a great time playing the Sonic games, Tails Adventure, and Lucky Dime Caper on them
I remember listening to an interview with Tom Kalinske and how it was frustrating that they could not fix the battery issue, it was imo the best handheld of the 90s, the backlight made it so easy to play games and I loved it for what it was. A common misconception is that the Master system and Game Gear versions of the game was the same, it's not true. Alien Syndrome and Predator 2 were different to their MS counterparts.
It really is too bad the backlight tech just wasn't there yet. Gotta wonder how it could've been. I sure didn't play on mine much because of how many batteries it ate; an expensive system at the time with expensive battery use. Nowadays, I know it's a system worth owning.
Man, I remember my parents buying the Toys R Us set for me back in '92. It came with The Majors Pro Baseball, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, the two battery packs, a screen magnifier, a large hard case and a voucher to order the T.V. Tuner attachment. I took this thing on every summer vacation we went on for years. Damn, those were good days.
I had one growing up, got the Game Gear Sports Pack as a young kid & I absolutely LOVED it! I played my Game Gear just as much as I did my Game Boy. Thank god I also got one of the Battery Dildo's to help save on batteries!
I remember back in 2nd grade when I had a friend in school and his mom and my mom took us shopping together. And my friend's mom bought my friend a new GameBoy Pocket. And my mom wouldn't buy me one. So I got jealous and I said, "I'm going to save up and get something even better - THE SEGA GAME GEAR!!!" And so that summer, I saved up a lot of money babysitting my little cousin who was probably 3 or 4. And I think I saved up close to a $100 by the end of that summer, that when a new school year was about to start, all that money that I saved up to buy the Game Gear just disappeared. And I remember how much I got pissed off because my mom spent it all on my new school supplies. I'm not mad at her about that now; that would be ridiculous. But in retrospect, I now understand that a Game Gear would have been a poor investment for my 7-year-old self. The Game Boy, even in all of its obsolete technology compared to the Game Gear, was always the right choice all along to me. The Game Boy had more games (and I'd argue that it had better games than the Game Gear) and more power-efficient with fewer batteries and longer battery life, making it the better choice for portable gaming throughout the 90's over Sega's Game Gear. And it was more affordable too. The Game Boy's " puke-green" and black monochrome display was just a small price to pay, in terms of technical specs. But this is not to say that the Game Gear sucks. I think the reason for my opinion is that I never was given the opportunity to spend as much time with the Game Gear as I was given with the Game Boy when growing up. If I was able to buy the Game Gear with that money I saved up that summer, perhaps my opinion for the Game Gear may be more favorable.
This handheld was very memorable for me. The first and only handheld I've ever had, my father saved up an entire month of his paycheck to buy it, and I would get 1 game on every birthday (or on occasion find one at a thrift store for $5-10) But man, 6 AA batteries to power it for only around 3 hours (less if the volume is too high) it goes through regular batteries too quickly and rechargeable were quite expensive back then. Also, the AC adapter didn't have a built-in voltage transformer like most adapters do today, so when I brought it with me to visit relatives in China I plugged into the 220V outlet, and it promptly fried the adaptor. Even after getting a replacement (still fairly rare and expensive by China's standard at the time) I still had no way of playing it, until my grandfather found this antique transformer they had lying around the house. The transformer was bulky, had to lug it around everywhere, but at least it allowed the handheld to run without issues The games I had were Sonic 2/Chaos/Triple trouble, Ninja Gaiden, Super Columns, Chakan, and the only RPG I got, Shining Force: The Sword of Hajya
SO many memories. I had Columns, Monaco GP, Fantasy Zone, Psycho World, G-Loc, Land of Illusion, Wonder Boy and the SMS Adapter. Used it to play a LOT of Wonder Boy III, still one of my favourite games today.
Most of us played space harrier on the Sega master first. I didn’t know there was an arcade version until after the 32X failed and I played that version and heard that it was an arcade perfect port. It’s easy to appreciate the Sega master version when you’re not comparing it to arcade machines you’ve never seen.
I bought the Game Gear even after owning an Atari Lynx. My findings was that the Game Gear to be more simplistic games compared to the Lynx scaling and rotation. My Lynx just had more power and the amount of things going on screen was far more than I ever seen on my Game Gear but I played and enjoyed it just the same and both ate batteries like they were candy. Both are great handhelds especially since getting both modded with McWill screens, makes all the games way more playable and fresh too
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On Indiana Jones : "I refuse to give it any more..." **throws himself into the river**
My grandma bought me and my cousins gamegears as a kid.I remember all the crazy accessories and games.I loved my gamegear and as an adult now i need to pick one up.
I kind of wish Sega would release a new modern handheld device. Just something simple and not expensive that can play the Sega library of games. I can't help but feel it could sell relatively well. Maybe I'm weird but I would buy it.
Excellent! You are one of the very few that provides content for the Game Gear. More of it please, would love to see category videos like you do for the Saturn
I been watching you for a while now. The videos that just show lots of different games are the best. I hope you can do all the systems with a top 50 also like this style of program.
I remember seeing all these systems in one of those Sear catalogs and for some reason, I always wanted the Turbografx handheld. Ended up getting a Lynx even though everyone had the GameBoy and Game Gear. I guess I just wanted something no one else had ha!
It looks like the Game Gear had a really strong line-up in that first year in the US. Really happy to see GG Shinobi among all those great games. I've been working on my Mega Drive port of the game a fair bit recently and hope that I can do the original justice!
@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP Yeah it's going to take a while :) Maybe if I was just doing that game alone instead of both it and SotN then it would get done much quicker, but I really enjoy switching between the two - it helps keep things fresh for me!
Absolutely LOVED the Sega Game Gear. It's cultural impact, chiptune music among it's games, and tech were highly underrated even back then. I would have loved to see what a Game Gear 2 would have looked like
Knowing Nintendo prototyped a 32 bit handheld in 1995, the Game Boy Color came out in 1998 and the high resolution WonderSwan came out in 1999, if I were Sega around this time, I would've looked into getting a 16 bit Game Gear Ultra ready for 1997! It would've been slightly higher resolution than the Master System, used the same screen technology that later found its way into the Game Boy Color and its competitors, had sprite scaling capabilities (so Space Harrier and Galaxy Force would be able to turn out better on it than they did on the Mega Drive), have full Game Gear and (with adaptor) Master System compatibility and just be a handheld actually capable of competing with the Game Boy! I would even have looked into beating Nintendo to the idea of a 2 screen/touchscreen handheld shortly into the 2000s!
@@darrenwinn22 I would’ve held off a Game Gear 2 for a few years, knowing Nintendo prototyped a 32 bit handheld in 1995, I could’ve held off a Game Gear successor until 1997, using the same screen technology that later went into the Game Boy Color, but at slightly higher resolution than the Master System, I would’ve made it 16 bit (the WonderSwan came in 1999), added sprite scaling capabilities (so Space Harrier and Galaxy Force would be a lot more doable on the system) and just make sure the handheld is done right!
In retrospect, I think a Game Game 2 would be too expensive for the market at the that time to desire, considering what they'd have to do to top the 1st Game Gear. It probably would have been close to between $200-$250 back in the mid-90s
The Game Gear overlay alone secures the win on this vid. My mom picked up a Game Gear back in the day. Never got too many games for it, but when emulation came around I realized I missed out on a few nifty experiences. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
My dad sold cars in the 90s and sometimes people would leave stuff in them. I was blown away when he brought me a whole game gear with 5 games ,car power cord and the battery expansion pack. Having a genesis already I mostly enjoyed it either at home with the wall adapter or in the car with the 12v plug. I quickly gave up on batteries because my dad said we could either find more game or buy batteries he couldn't stand that 6 AA would die so fast
Love the game gear! One of the biggest parts of my collection, including about half the games and 25+ 2 player games with gear to gear cable. So many great titles!
The Sega Game Gear really takes me back to my youth. On weekday nights I would plug my ac adapter into my wall outlet in my bedroom and play either Sonic Chaos or Sonic Triple Trouble from start to finish. Helped me fall asleep faster due to insomnia. Good times.
22:24 I was never a huge fan of the SMS/GG sound chip, but GG Shinobi definitely had one of the best soundtracks anyone managed to put together for it. Yuzo Koshiro does it again.
I wasn't born around the 80's or 90's, but since I grew up playing NES/Famicom games on a cheap knockoff Famiclone, I grew up enjoying retro gaming a whole lot. To be honest, the SMS/Game Gear had a lot of advantages over the NES. SMS games always feel faster for some reason, with vivid colors and better graphics. However the sound chip is absolutely awful. I try to like some tracks in some games, but I just can't. The best 8bit game console ever would be a Master System with an NES sound chip... And also Select and Start on the controller, like the NES!
In an electronics engineering class in high school we ran a PlayStation through the Game Gear TV Tuner. I still have mine. But there's a short in the AC input. I should try to fix it.
I picked up a gamegear on a road trip to Seattle from Vancouver when it came out. I got Shinobi, Castle of illusion, and the pack in columns. It was such a killer system…except for the battery life. Shortly after a few months i managed to get the master gear converter, and Phantasy star became portable! Epic for the day!
It was a killer system alright... A battery killer that is. Yeah it was a cool system. While I didn't have one my friend did. The problem was always going to the store to buy batteries with left over change.
@@Gatorade69 DiD yOu NoT hAvE rEcHaRgAbLe BaTtErIeS?! Legit though, if you still have a Gamegear, rechargable batteries are a must. I use a pair of Energizers in my Neo Geo Pockets, and that system is already surprisingly good on battery life as it is.
@@nicksrandomreviews Oh I had rechargeable batteries. Radioshack branded ones that seemed to not last near as long as regular batteries though I had a Sega Nomad and I assume it goes through batteries just as quick as the Game Gear, maybe faster. Even later in life when I had energizer branded ones for my Xbox360 controller they still seem like they had half the charge of regular batteries.
@@maxxdahl6062 Hard to use an AC adaptor when you don't have any power sockets available to you. My friend would literally be locked outside of his house "to play" while his mom was gone. He had both a game gear and Game boy and even a virtual boy later on after he got in on super discount.
I really enjoyed the GG. I had a huge Master System library and the adapter was amazing option to have. Literally one of the earliest ways to play console games on a handheld. Between the GG, PSP & Vita, I’m still surprised that Nintendo owned the handheld market with (often vastly) inferior hardware.
The Game Gear was the very first console I owned. It would have been perfect without the battery problem, cause my father refused at a point to buy some more of them! Sonic and Castle of Illusion were the first games I could finish. It was anyway a 90's device for me because I officially pronunced mine dead in 1999.
with a ~2 hour battery life, i never considered it portable. more like carriable... till the closest wall plug :P i still have my GG here, i think i only ever used it on batteries once
I used to LOVE Dragon Crystal! Spent so much time on that one back in the day! Also psychic world, slider, and Mickey! Now I gotta go play all these again! Great video.
I was the only Master System fan I knew due to growing up in the US. When the Game Gear was released, I just dismissed it thinking "that's more or less just a portable Master System which I have at home". Looking back, I should have paid more attention to the diverse catalog the Game Gear had over the master System.
I always was interested in new portables but GGear don't convinced me at the moment of release because to play for a regular time was needed to be plug and for that was better to sit in front of a TV. Yes GBoy screen was a Painful but, the "portability" was real. I'm 44 now and "teamNintendo" but its a joy to see how much love and care you put in your videos. That one is Amazing!
I still remember when I got the GG for my bday. My parentss surprised me...I got a GG case (the suit case one where you could store like 10 games), a gg, ac adapter and like 5 games. I don't know how they pulled it off, and I honestly don't remember if I even asked for a GG.
I got my game gear years after it was release, I had the following games: .chess master, dr robotnik's mean bean machine, dynamite heady, fatal fury, krusty's fun house, lion king, mickey mouse land of illusion, mighty morphin power rangers, Sonic 2, Sonic triple trouble surf ninjas, and wwf raw.
Awesome episode man! I love the game gear since it's my first portable console that I still own from my childhood. I'm currently going for a complete US collection, which there are apparently 233 games.
I am not much of a Baseball fan when it comes to video games, only a couple Baseball games have grabbed my attention enough for me to really play. Baseball Stars 2, Super 2020 Baseball, The Bigs, and Clutch Hitter.
I really wish there were more videos on the GameGear. I feel like it's really underrated and for the 350 games it had I barely know any of them. I've recently started building up a collection in anticipation of my Analogue pocket coming in though :)
The GG was my first handheld system. That was the best Christmas ever. I myself did the same thing, plugged it into the wall and played that beast for hours. Loved it.
There was a "Master Gear Converter"? I heard about the SEGA Aztec, which played Genesis games portably, but not of a converter for the Game Gear! Dang!
I remember when I was maybe 10 around '92, seeing two kids on a bus with a GameGear... It was the first time I saw it and I couldn't keep my eyes off of it... Until the two kids game me a very nasty look... They both were older and looked like they could kick my ass so I looked away never to see a GameGear in person again.... Until a few years later when I get tempted every time to purchase one.
Such a cool system, battery issues aside! I don't remember anyone having a Game Gear in the '90s, but I got one with a handful of sports games in 2007, and added a few more titles to the library afterwards. (Unfortunately, the screen and speakers are basically unusable at this point, but I'm fine with emulating.) Vampire: Master of Darkness is a really worthy Castlevania clone, and I might've even liked Castle of Illusion more than the Genesis version. Still need to attempt a serious playthrough of Shinobi.
What killed the Game Gear was it’s battery life; well the Game Gear was a full block head V8 engine equipped Chevy Camaro that sucks gas while the Game Boy was a Volkswagen Bug that is cheap on Gas that is why Game Gear was number 2 yet Atari have it’s Lynx so even Atari had a portable game console.
There was an A/c and wall adapter for it. There were a ton of accessories for it really. I think it was meant to be played where there was just no access to a console hooked up to a TV if you wanted to game. You didn't necessarily have to be "on the go"
Agreed. I mostly played it in my room plugged into a wall socket where there was no television. I had a great time with the Game Gear and didn't have to use batteries all that often.
I still to this day see comments where people claim that aside from being in color, Game Gear games looked "worse than Game Boy games. Which is just nuts. But nostalgia will make people say and do crazy things.
I thought the game gear looked awesome back when I learned of it. I had two SEGA VHS tapes that showcased many Genesis/CD and Game Gear titles and it made me wish I owned one to show off to my friends who had Game Boy's. But like so many other things at the time. It was nothing more than a dream.
Honestly battery life was never much of an issue for me as a kid. I was smart enough as a kid to know that it would be, so I got AC Adapters for both my Gameboy and Game Gear & even got Car chargers as well so I could play in the car. No problem. Sure, there's times you won't be near an outlet or cigarette lighter, but that's what the Battery Dildo's were for. Had those too.
Its got a color screen, thats all there is good to say about it. Like seriously, imagine having a Game Gear while your friends are playing Pokemon Red Version, Revenge of the Gator, Yoshis Cookie, or Final Fantasy Legend.
Woody Pop looks like it would have made a very suitable Sega Master System Card entry. Dragon Crystal always reminded me of Aztec Adventure for SMS based on the speed and size of the playable character. With Super Golf and Haley Wars they had the right idea of what works for an early portable title from a game-play and presentation standpoint. Super Monoco GP basically looks equivalent to Hang On for the SMS. ROD (Wonder Boy) looks really good however I don't think that it is the type of game that I would have double dipped on. GG Shinobi is probably the best all around portable game for the first couple of years between all of the portable options. (Not counting the Turbo Express) My experience with the Game Gear is limited as I gravitated to the Atari Lynx during that time and when I sold that off I didn't get another portable until the Game Boy Advance.
Having a system that played Game Gear, Master System and Television would have been awesome in 91 I totally understand. I do forget the US still got games for this even though the Master System died early, therefore you did get the ports which there were many of. One of which is that Indiana Jones game. I remember renting that for Master System as a 9 year old, me and my friend walked miles to the video store one saturday to rent that and it was a ruined weekend when we actually started playing it! :D The mickey mouse and donald duck games were awesome though like you said, I also got so good at Mickey i'd finish it each time, Donald was slightly harder. I never played much Game Gear myself, but my cousin got it for xmas 93 and I had a brief 2 minute play of that, then years later i got to play Shinobi on it for about 10 minutes, and that made me jealous the game wasn't on Master System! Amazing Metroidvania styled game! Would've been a better system than the Game Boy if the batteries hadn't been an issue. I imagine it would've sold much more if they didnt burn through as quick as they did, and the power adapter should've been a pack in.
My cousin once had a GG!! Columns and Shinobi were the only games she had. Too bad she didn’t have more games but it was still a lot of fun back in the day!!!!
I was a Game Boy person back in the day, so I didn't bother with the Game Gear. Oh boy, that was one of the BIGGEST regrets of my life! The Game Gear is SUCH A GREAT SYSTEM! Sure, I would've mostly powered it with a mains adaptor, car adaptor and/or rechargeable battery pack, knowing how expensive batteries were at the time, but it is still a GREAT system! I did get a Game Gear eventually in 1998 and I couldn't be happier with it! My system still has the original screen, I got it recapped in 2012, still works fine but adjusting the volume can enduce a hiss that goes away with another adjustment. I do plan to get that fixed later this year. Sadly, in 2001, a new student arrived in my class, his name was Leigh Oliver Marsh, and he was an avid Nintendo fanboy, hating on Sega in almost every way! He even claimed an issue to the official Nintendo magazine portrayed Mario flushing a Game Gear down the toilet! Deep down, I could tell he was making that up just to upset me. If I had known at the time how bad the Game.com was (all I knew was its version of Indy 500 is terrible) and if I had one, I would've DARED him to play it! Despite its short battery life and not having as big a game library as the Game Boy, the Game Gear is a system I can't recommend enough! It has a great form factor, great graphics, great sound, a bigger color pallet than even the Mega Drive, better Ren & Stimpy, Power Rangers and The Lost World: Jurassic Park games than the Game Boy and it is just too good a system to leave out of your collection! Alternatively, some Game Gear games are available to download to your Nintendo 3DS and the Atari Lynx version of Slider, Super Sqweek, is available for the Evercade as part of the Atari Lynx Collection 1 cartridge.
I played 8-Bit Sonic 1 on the Sega Master System. It was the first game I ever got for that console and to this day, remains my 3rd favourite Sonic game of all time.
The higher resolution makes all the difference. Game Gear version is very hard to follow when crammed into such a small display; the original backlight is just not great either.
@@ZonicMirage Interestingly, I always hear that comment, but, years later when I finally got a GG, and got both 8-Bit Sonic 1 & 2, I had no problems or frustration with the screen crunch. I later realised that because I played the hell out of the SMS versions, I knew where to go, and what dangers were waiting for me.
@@MrNelg19 Being from Burgerland, I only played the GG versions. Once I downloaded the SMS versions from the Wii Virtual Console, they became much easier.
The Game Gear with the TV adapter was an early road trip favorite in our family. We had the car power adapter so us kids in the back seat could view stuff on the trips to Disney World / Busch Gardens...
Dragon Crystal is a rogue-like, you're not supposed to be able to save in those. Not sure how well balanced this one was though and the GG might actually die before you beat it if playing on the go hehe. Anyway, loved the GG and the early US lineup is actually pretty solid. We also had the 4-in-1 cart, which had a solid tennis game on it.
Ahh SLX, amazing video - as a heavy Sega MD/Genesis person my bro and i still had our Gameboy for the odd Tetris session. The GG was OD expensive and ATE batteries.
Man oh man. The Game Gear could have achieved greatness if it wasn't for their baterry issues. I remember playing 3 of them on the list: Sonic, Mickey and Donald games. Also it's a nice touch that you displayed the video inside the Game Gear especially the ending. At one point, I even wondered (because of the ending) whether the Sega CD games could be played in the Game Gear which is impossible of course XD
I wish sega would've solved the battery issues during its lifespan especially when sega lost market shares in 1994. They could've released a battery efficient game gear during that time until the 8th gem handheld generation. A 32-bit hand held console (32x hardware tech with a SH3 or SH4 clocking at 23 MHz) during the end of the 90s while cancelling the 32x in 1994.
As kids, my buddy had a Sega Game Gear. I don't think he had many games for it but he did have Sonic 1 and 2. I played the heck out of those back then. I remember the console being super comfortable to hold and that screen while not perfect as it tended to blur at different viewing angles, did look pretty nice. Nothing but fond memories of this handheld.
Holy crap! G-Loc! I think I had that game. The Game Gear was mind-blowing when it came out but I can't remember which games I had too well. I know I had GG Shinobi, Columns and Donald Duck Caper. I also still own my cartridge of Ax Battler but other than that I'm fuzzy.
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This was the system that introduced me to gaming! I remember playing Sonic the Hegehog 1 on this the night my parents gave it to me, I was in the back seat at night and we were stuck in traffic over the bridge between Brooklyn and Queens, it was an unforgettable memory.
Sounds awesome bro!
Its true. I was the bridge.
I remember as a teenager some friends asking why I had so many “Kiddie games” because of Castle/World of Illusion and Quackshot for the Genesis. Because they were awesome, that’s why!
Still hear this as adults to which I respond is imagining you’re Lionel Messi in the latest FIFA or pretending to be a soldier in the latest CoD grown up then?
World of illusion is fun still holds up
Nothing was more amazing then getting a game gear for Christmas. I remember seeing the logo through the wrapping paper and not being able to sleep at night because I was so excited. I miss that feeling.
Simpler times😊
6:21 I had Slider as a kid. I bought it with my birthday money in 1st grade from Toys R Us. I have NO IDEA why I bought that one, I really have no idea, I never heard of it before, I guess I thought it "looked cool" or something, it was so long ago I basically just remember buying it, and I played it A LOT after I got it, it turned out to be one of my favorite games for the Game Gear! I think I played Sonic Chaos, Sonic 1, and Slider the most. I found out years later that Slider is actually part of a little mini game franchise called "Sqweek" or "Super Sqweek" that was released for some Atari systems and some earlier PCs, like Amiga, and the creator HATED that they renamed it to "Slider" for the Game Gear installment released in North America. 99 total levels in that fun pick-up-and-play game, with a password feature! It you get 4 of the different colored teddy bears, you get 5 extra lives and skip to the next level. Some pretty cool puzzle mechanics in some of the levels. At the end there's a screen where it shows that you rescued a girl Slider character (same sprite as Slider, but with a pink bow on her head)....of course! Early 1990s video games in all their glory.
Awesome!
I only remember one of my friends having a game gear in the 90s. He was so much greedier with it than people would be with their game boys due to the short battery life. One life on Shinobi was all you’d get off him if he liked you.
He was generous 🤣
Yeah I only ever saw other kids playing one....never had one handed to me like a Game Boy, which I had to wait all the way until 1995 to get one of my own
Well ye 6 batteries and if they were the dollar store kind ffs it didn't last long at all x.x 😂 luckily the Genesis 2 plug worked when you was at home lol. Those were the days haha
Imagine if battery life was better back then.
We had a game gear back in the day, always just used the ac adapter, it never had batteries in it
That donald duck sprite is one of the most impressive sprites I've ever seen on 8 bit hardware.
Klax was amazing. Many memories of playing this, instead of doing a piece of work for my university course. The tagline "It is the 90s, and there is time for Klax" seems astoshingly appropriate at the time... :)
27:39 that Batmobile section was pretty dang impressive on Game Gear
I distinctly remember, as a very young kid, saving up allowance money - getting no toys or treats of my own volition - and saving up after a few months to get my very own Game Gear, it was the blue model that came with The Lion King, and I still remember how great it felt to walk into that store and buy a game system with my own money.
Of course, adopting the console so late means I missed a lot of these titles, Lucky Dime Caper in particular has been on my radar for a while, and I still kick myself to this day for passing up Revenge of Drancon when seeing it at a thrift store a few years ago; at the time, from the name and title, I had no idea it was Wonder Boy!
I never knew anyone who has a Game Gear growing up. We all had Game Boys because they were cheap. I finally picked one up in high school. Found it in a box of Dreamcast games at a yard sale for three dollars, and made a huge profit because the box also had Project Justice. I've still got the Game Gear, and my son loves playing it.
Am honestly surprised it still works! The vast majority of Game Gears now need to be recapped as the caps have gone bad.
I had a gameboy and my older brother had a game gear. I was jealous for the first 6months until it was obvious that the longer battery life and superior games actually made gameboy the better system even though the game gear was clearly more badass.
@@AustinSincrow I dunno bout that tho... Game Gear had a ton of great games as well!
@@skins4thewin yea, neither one of us had the entire library of games obviously but Tetris, super Mario land 1 and 2, metriod 2, Zelda, and final fantasy were all awesome games I had and he had sonic , columns, ninja gaiden and others and they didn’t have the same longevity for us. He ended up getting a gameboy
@@AustinSincrow Yeah the Gameboy was amazing no question. If only it were back-lit. Still can't believe we didn't get the Gameboy Light here, no clue why.
" Sylvan Tale " on Game Gear is one of the best game ever made. Higly recommanded as the Lord usually says.
I wasn't allowed consoles growing up until my parents started testing the waters with a used game gear in 1996 - late in the system's life but it changed my life
I remember seeing the game gear as a kid.
Unfortunately I never owned one.
It wasn't until Christmas,when I got a mega drive.
The master system had nothing on the big black powerhouse.
Truly transport's me back to my childhood.
I do enjoy today's games,but they haven't got the same soul.
As a kid your imagination would fill in the blank's as u became transfixed.
So much of my art is because of Sega.
I remember that, during this time, the toy stores had quite many game gear games to sell. They proposed maybe slightly less games compared to the game boy (I'm actually not sure to remember well, it could have been equal but I think it was a bit less) but it was an important device anyway. However, I think that there were 2 main problems to be able to really compete against the game boy : as everybody knows, the batteries' life and also the fact that no game (well, as far as I know) had the option to save your progression. Some games had a password system but it was of course far less convenient than a save system that you could find on the game boy.
Anyway, thanks for your video. It brings me quite a few good memories.
I loved my game gear so much an excellent handheld and had the master gear converter ❤️
I got the Game Gear in 1992 and loved it. Battery life was never much of an issue for me since I had both the recharagble battery pack, ac adapter and car adapter. The place i played it most was while laying in my bed. I loved it because of how much "cooler" it was than a gameboy. Years later I got the Nomad and my game gear adapters all worked with it so again no real battey issue. Infact i never used a single AA battery for the Nomad,
I loved my Sega Game Gear was so awesome to have at the time though battery life was not great, had a TV tuner for mine as well so could watch TV on it.
I had the TV tuner too ..
The big telescoping metal antenna
🎮😊🏝📺
I could almost imagine Nintendo coming out of left field and releasing a similar product for the switch, although I would love a much more discreet antenna. I think I might even have to pick it up if they did. 🤔🏝😉 ... .. or they could just release a modern punch out with regular controller controls and I would totally be good with that also 🥊😁
My first handheld at the age of 4-5 years old was a game gear. It was 1998. Amazing piece of equipment but I remember very specifically my mom hating it because of how much she spent on batteries for the thing. It was amazing for road trips though. Driving from Illinois to Mississippi and back every summer. Green Day’s Nimrod in CD player, eating Moon Pies…. God.
The fact that the video was in GG resolution, looks neat on a phone, is nifty.
After a complete viewing I think this is one of the best you have ever made.
I loved my GG but yeah I definitely ended up playing it plugged in a lot, plugged into the car or wall. Batteries were expensive for a little kid!
Awesome video. The Game Gear does indeed deserve a LOT more love! I absolutely adored mine growing up!
I use to have the Gamegear back in the day (I lost it in the move) and I remember having a great time playing the Sonic games, Tails Adventure, and Lucky Dime Caper on them
I remember listening to an interview with Tom Kalinske and how it was frustrating that they could not fix the battery issue, it was imo the best handheld of the 90s, the backlight made it so easy to play games and I loved it for what it was. A common misconception is that the Master system and Game Gear versions of the game was the same, it's not true. Alien Syndrome and Predator 2 were different to their MS counterparts.
It really is too bad the backlight tech just wasn't there yet. Gotta wonder how it could've been. I sure didn't play on mine much because of how many batteries it ate; an expensive system at the time with expensive battery use. Nowadays, I know it's a system worth owning.
My parents never bought me a genesis but I was able to get a Gamegear and a few games for making honor role all year and I loved that thing so much.
Man, I remember my parents buying the Toys R Us set for me back in '92. It came with The Majors Pro Baseball, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, the two battery packs, a screen magnifier, a large hard case and a voucher to order the T.V. Tuner attachment. I took this thing on every summer vacation we went on for years. Damn, those were good days.
I had one growing up, got the Game Gear Sports Pack as a young kid & I absolutely LOVED it! I played my Game Gear just as much as I did my Game Boy. Thank god I also got one of the Battery Dildo's to help save on batteries!
I remember back in 2nd grade when I had a friend in school and his mom and my mom took us shopping together. And my friend's mom bought my friend a new GameBoy Pocket. And my mom wouldn't buy me one. So I got jealous and I said, "I'm going to save up and get something even better - THE SEGA GAME GEAR!!!"
And so that summer, I saved up a lot of money babysitting my little cousin who was probably 3 or 4. And I think I saved up close to a $100 by the end of that summer, that when a new school year was about to start, all that money that I saved up to buy the Game Gear just disappeared. And I remember how much I got pissed off because my mom spent it all on my new school supplies.
I'm not mad at her about that now; that would be ridiculous. But in retrospect, I now understand that a Game Gear would have been a poor investment for my 7-year-old self. The Game Boy, even in all of its obsolete technology compared to the Game Gear, was always the right choice all along to me. The Game Boy had more games (and I'd argue that it had better games than the Game Gear) and more power-efficient with fewer batteries and longer battery life, making it the better choice for portable gaming throughout the 90's over Sega's Game Gear. And it was more affordable too. The Game Boy's " puke-green" and black monochrome display was just a small price to pay, in terms of technical specs.
But this is not to say that the Game Gear sucks. I think the reason for my opinion is that I never was given the opportunity to spend as much time with the Game Gear as I was given with the Game Boy when growing up. If I was able to buy the Game Gear with that money I saved up that summer, perhaps my opinion for the Game Gear may be more favorable.
I remember playing the hell out of Shinobi. It was hard as hell! Seriously one of the hardest Shinobi games made and took me forever to beat.
This handheld was very memorable for me. The first and only handheld I've ever had, my father saved up an entire month of his paycheck to buy it, and I would get 1 game on every birthday (or on occasion find one at a thrift store for $5-10)
But man, 6 AA batteries to power it for only around 3 hours (less if the volume is too high) it goes through regular batteries too quickly and rechargeable were quite expensive back then. Also, the AC adapter didn't have a built-in voltage transformer like most adapters do today, so when I brought it with me to visit relatives in China I plugged into the 220V outlet, and it promptly fried the adaptor. Even after getting a replacement (still fairly rare and expensive by China's standard at the time) I still had no way of playing it, until my grandfather found this antique transformer they had lying around the house. The transformer was bulky, had to lug it around everywhere, but at least it allowed the handheld to run without issues
The games I had were Sonic 2/Chaos/Triple trouble, Ninja Gaiden, Super Columns, Chakan, and the only RPG I got, Shining Force: The Sword of Hajya
SO many memories. I had Columns, Monaco GP, Fantasy Zone, Psycho World, G-Loc, Land of Illusion, Wonder Boy and the SMS Adapter. Used it to play a LOT of Wonder Boy III, still one of my favourite games today.
Amazing game and soundtrack
Most of us played space harrier on the Sega master first. I didn’t know there was an arcade version until after the 32X failed and I played that version and heard that it was an arcade perfect port. It’s easy to appreciate the Sega master version when you’re not comparing it to arcade machines you’ve never seen.
I bought the Game Gear even after owning an Atari Lynx. My findings was that the Game Gear to be more simplistic games compared to the Lynx scaling and rotation. My Lynx just had more power and the amount of things going on screen was far more than I ever seen on my Game Gear but I played and enjoyed it just the same and both ate batteries like they were candy. Both are great handhelds especially since getting both modded with McWill screens, makes all the games way more playable and fresh too
On Indiana Jones : "I refuse to give it any more..."
**throws himself into the river**
My grandma bought me and my cousins gamegears as a kid.I remember all the crazy accessories and games.I loved my gamegear and as an adult now i need to pick one up.
I kind of wish Sega would release a new modern handheld device. Just something simple and not expensive that can play the Sega library of games. I can't help but feel it could sell relatively well. Maybe I'm weird but I would buy it.
Excellent! You are one of the very few that provides content for the Game Gear. More of it please, would love to see category videos like you do for the Saturn
For me GameGear is the best portable between GameBoy and Lynx.
Best ergonomics, best size and good graphics
Best handheld of its time.
They are pretty huge
I been watching you for a while now. The videos that just show lots of different games are the best. I hope you can do all the systems with a top 50 also like this style of program.
I remember seeing all these systems in one of those Sear catalogs and for some reason, I always wanted the Turbografx handheld. Ended up getting a Lynx even though everyone had the GameBoy and Game Gear. I guess I just wanted something no one else had ha!
It looks like the Game Gear had a really strong line-up in that first year in the US. Really happy to see GG Shinobi among all those great games. I've been working on my Mega Drive port of the game a fair bit recently and hope that I can do the original justice!
Can't wait for that too drop.... I know its going to be time; but it will be worth it
Pigsy Retro Game Dev 👍👍👍👍
That's awesome.
Damn I was just going to mention that! Thank you for the awesome work.
@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP Yeah it's going to take a while :) Maybe if I was just doing that game alone instead of both it and SotN then it would get done much quicker, but I really enjoy switching between the two - it helps keep things fresh for me!
Absolutely LOVED the Sega Game Gear. It's cultural impact, chiptune music among it's games, and tech were highly underrated even back then. I would have loved to see what a Game Gear 2 would have looked like
Knowing Nintendo prototyped a 32 bit handheld in 1995, the Game Boy Color came out in 1998 and the high resolution WonderSwan came out in 1999, if I were Sega around this time, I would've looked into getting a 16 bit Game Gear Ultra ready for 1997! It would've been slightly higher resolution than the Master System, used the same screen technology that later found its way into the Game Boy Color and its competitors, had sprite scaling capabilities (so Space Harrier and Galaxy Force would be able to turn out better on it than they did on the Mega Drive), have full Game Gear and (with adaptor) Master System compatibility and just be a handheld actually capable of competing with the Game Boy! I would even have looked into beating Nintendo to the idea of a 2 screen/touchscreen handheld shortly into the 2000s!
It probably would have looked a lot like a Sega Nomad...
@@darrenwinn22 I would’ve held off a Game Gear 2 for a few years, knowing Nintendo prototyped a 32 bit handheld in 1995, I could’ve held off a Game Gear successor until 1997, using the same screen technology that later went into the Game Boy Color, but at slightly higher resolution than the Master System, I would’ve made it 16 bit (the WonderSwan came in 1999), added sprite scaling capabilities (so Space Harrier and Galaxy Force would be a lot more doable on the system) and just make sure the handheld is done right!
In retrospect, I think a Game Game 2 would be too expensive for the market at the that time to desire, considering what they'd have to do to top the 1st Game Gear. It probably would have been close to between $200-$250 back in the mid-90s
The Game Gear overlay alone secures the win on this vid.
My mom picked up a Game Gear back in the day. Never got too many games for it, but when emulation came around I realized I missed out on a few nifty experiences. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
My dad sold cars in the 90s and sometimes people would leave stuff in them. I was blown away when he brought me a whole game gear with 5 games ,car power cord and the battery expansion pack. Having a genesis already I mostly enjoyed it either at home with the wall adapter or in the car with the 12v plug. I quickly gave up on batteries because my dad said we could either find more game or buy batteries he couldn't stand that 6 AA would die so fast
I really liked the Game Gear. I even had the Master Gear converter. Didn’t mind the battery life. Just wish the screen wasn’t terrible.
Love the game gear! One of the biggest parts of my collection, including about half the games and 25+ 2 player games with gear to gear cable. So many great titles!
Loved the Game Gear as a kid. Actually, spent more time with a Game Gear than I did with any other handheld before the GBC!
I remember my gamegear and then my Nomad just black hole-ing entire packs of batteries at the mall.
The Sega Game Gear really takes me back to my youth. On weekday nights I would plug my ac adapter into my wall outlet in my bedroom and play either Sonic Chaos or Sonic Triple Trouble from start to finish. Helped me fall asleep faster due to insomnia. Good times.
22:24 I was never a huge fan of the SMS/GG sound chip, but GG Shinobi definitely had one of the best soundtracks anyone managed to put together for it. Yuzo Koshiro does it again.
I wasn't born around the 80's or 90's, but since I grew up playing NES/Famicom games on a cheap knockoff Famiclone, I grew up enjoying retro gaming a whole lot. To be honest, the SMS/Game Gear had a lot of advantages over the NES. SMS games always feel faster for some reason, with vivid colors and better graphics. However the sound chip is absolutely awful. I try to like some tracks in some games, but I just can't. The best 8bit game console ever would be a Master System with an NES sound chip... And also Select and Start on the controller, like the NES!
In an electronics engineering class in high school we ran a PlayStation through the Game Gear TV Tuner. I still have mine. But there's a short in the AC input. I should try to fix it.
I picked up a gamegear on a road trip to Seattle from Vancouver when it came out. I got Shinobi, Castle of illusion, and the pack in columns. It was such a killer system…except for the battery life. Shortly after a few months i managed to get the master gear converter, and Phantasy star became portable! Epic for the day!
It was a killer system alright... A battery killer that is.
Yeah it was a cool system. While I didn't have one my friend did. The problem was always going to the store to buy batteries with left over change.
@@Gatorade69 Easy fix. Use an AC adapter. :P
@@Gatorade69 DiD yOu NoT hAvE rEcHaRgAbLe BaTtErIeS?!
Legit though, if you still have a Gamegear, rechargable batteries are a must. I use a pair of Energizers in my Neo Geo Pockets, and that system is already surprisingly good on battery life as it is.
@@nicksrandomreviews Oh I had rechargeable batteries. Radioshack branded ones that seemed to not last near as long as regular batteries though I had a Sega Nomad and I assume it goes through batteries just as quick as the Game Gear, maybe faster. Even later in life when I had energizer branded ones for my Xbox360 controller they still seem like they had half the charge of regular batteries.
@@maxxdahl6062 Hard to use an AC adaptor when you don't have any power sockets available to you. My friend would literally be locked outside of his house "to play" while his mom was gone. He had both a game gear and Game boy and even a virtual boy later on after he got in on super discount.
I really enjoyed the GG. I had a huge Master System library and the adapter was amazing option to have. Literally one of the earliest ways to play console games on a handheld.
Between the GG, PSP & Vita, I’m still surprised that Nintendo owned the handheld market with (often vastly) inferior hardware.
The Game Gear was the very first console I owned. It would have been perfect without the battery problem, cause my father refused at a point to buy some more of them! Sonic and Castle of Illusion were the first games I could finish. It was anyway a 90's device for me because I officially pronunced mine dead in 1999.
why you dint just bought the AC adapter?
Or rechargables
@@khhnator You know it's a transportable device, right? I could play mostly when we moved anywhere.
@@ihreMaskeSitztNichtRichtig Ja, warum nicht? Weiß ich nicht, ich war nur ein Kind.
with a ~2 hour battery life, i never considered it portable. more like carriable... till the closest wall plug :P
i still have my GG here, i think i only ever used it on batteries once
I used to LOVE Dragon Crystal! Spent so much time on that one back in the day! Also psychic world, slider, and Mickey! Now I gotta go play all these again! Great video.
I was the only Master System fan I knew due to growing up in the US. When the Game Gear was released, I just dismissed it thinking "that's more or less just a portable Master System which I have at home". Looking back, I should have paid more attention to the diverse catalog the Game Gear had over the master System.
I always was interested in new portables but GGear don't convinced me at the moment of release because to play for a regular time was needed to be plug and for that was better to sit in front of a TV. Yes GBoy screen was a Painful but, the "portability" was real.
I'm 44 now and "teamNintendo" but its a joy to see how much love and care you put in your videos. That one is Amazing!
I still remember when I got the GG for my bday. My parentss surprised me...I got a GG case (the suit case one where you could store like 10 games), a gg, ac adapter and like 5 games. I don't know how they pulled it off, and I honestly don't remember if I even asked for a GG.
Damn your parents must have been rich!... all I got was a regular Gameboy 😥 lol
"Running chores" huh? ok.
Macy Gray I try
ALEXA! Macy Gray I try
I got my game gear years after it was release, I had the following games: .chess master, dr robotnik's mean bean machine, dynamite heady, fatal fury, krusty's fun house, lion king, mickey mouse land of illusion, mighty morphin power rangers, Sonic 2, Sonic triple trouble surf ninjas, and wwf raw.
Awesome episode man! I love the game gear since it's my first portable console that I still own from my childhood. I'm currently going for a complete US collection, which there are apparently 233 games.
I am not much of a Baseball fan when it comes to video games, only a couple Baseball games have grabbed my attention enough for me to really play. Baseball Stars 2, Super 2020 Baseball, The Bigs, and Clutch Hitter.
Good old days....thanks for this
Never having owned a GG, this is my only real window into my childhood dreams, and what may have been. Thanks for making these videos.
I really wish there were more videos on the GameGear. I feel like it's really underrated and for the 350 games it had I barely know any of them. I've recently started building up a collection in anticipation of my Analogue pocket coming in though :)
The GG was my first handheld system. That was the best Christmas ever. I myself did the same thing, plugged it into the wall and played that beast for hours. Loved it.
I imagine being in school and getting detention because you told the teacher you had Woody Pop in your pocket.
Man, your videos are so great. They bring back so many memories but without the sugar coating BS. Good job! Greetings from Rome.
There was a "Master Gear Converter"? I heard about the SEGA Aztec, which played Genesis games portably, but not of a converter for the Game Gear! Dang!
I remember when I was maybe 10 around '92, seeing two kids on a bus with a GameGear... It was the first time I saw it and I couldn't keep my eyes off of it... Until the two kids game me a very nasty look... They both were older and looked like they could kick my ass so I looked away never to see a GameGear in person again.... Until a few years later when I get tempted every time to purchase one.
My first portable system, i love it! I still have it with my games from the 90s. Nice video!
Wow Pac-Man looks pretty amazing on Game Gear!
I have many fond memories of this system. It definitely got me through MANY family road trips as a kid.
My boy pumping out content like it's 1995!
Such a cool system, battery issues aside!
I don't remember anyone having a Game Gear in the '90s, but I got one with a handful of sports games in 2007, and added a few more titles to the library afterwards.
(Unfortunately, the screen and speakers are basically unusable at this point, but I'm fine with emulating.)
Vampire: Master of Darkness is a really worthy Castlevania clone, and I might've even liked Castle of Illusion more than the Genesis version.
Still need to attempt a serious playthrough of Shinobi.
What killed the Game Gear was it’s battery life; well the Game Gear was a full block head V8 engine equipped Chevy Camaro that sucks gas while the Game Boy was a Volkswagen Bug that is cheap on Gas that is why Game Gear was number 2 yet Atari have it’s Lynx so even Atari had a portable game console.
There was an A/c and wall adapter for it. There were a ton of accessories for it really. I think it was meant to be played where there was just no access to a console hooked up to a TV if you wanted to game. You didn't necessarily have to be "on the go"
Agreed. I mostly played it in my room plugged into a wall socket where there was no television. I had a great time with the Game Gear and didn't have to use batteries all that often.
I still to this day see comments where people claim that aside from being in color, Game Gear games looked "worse than Game Boy games.
Which is just nuts. But nostalgia will make people say and do crazy things.
I thought the game gear looked awesome back when I learned of it. I had two SEGA VHS tapes that showcased many Genesis/CD and Game Gear titles and it made me wish I owned one to show off to my friends who had Game Boy's. But like so many other things at the time. It was nothing more than a dream.
Honestly battery life was never much of an issue for me as a kid. I was smart enough as a kid to know that it would be, so I got AC Adapters for both my Gameboy and Game Gear & even got Car chargers as well so I could play in the car. No problem. Sure, there's times you won't be near an outlet or cigarette lighter, but that's what the Battery Dildo's were for. Had those too.
Its got a color screen, thats all there is good to say about it. Like seriously, imagine having a Game Gear while your friends are playing Pokemon Red Version, Revenge of the Gator, Yoshis Cookie, or Final Fantasy Legend.
I like power rangers, pr the movie, sonic chaos, tails adventure, and several others
Woody Pop looks like it would have made a very suitable Sega Master System Card entry. Dragon Crystal always reminded me of Aztec Adventure for SMS based on the speed and size of the playable character. With Super Golf and Haley Wars they had the right idea of what works for an early portable title from a game-play and presentation standpoint. Super Monoco GP basically looks equivalent to Hang On for the SMS. ROD (Wonder Boy) looks really good however I don't think that it is the type of game that I would have double dipped on. GG Shinobi is probably the best all around portable game for the first couple of years between all of the portable options. (Not counting the Turbo Express) My experience with the Game Gear is limited as I gravitated to the Atari Lynx during that time and when I sold that off I didn't get another portable until the Game Boy Advance.
god, i been looking for Halley wars for decades.
i tried search for every variation of "game gear vertical shmup" i could and never found it
Having a system that played Game Gear, Master System and Television would have been awesome in 91 I totally understand. I do forget the US still got games for this even though the Master System died early, therefore you did get the ports which there were many of. One of which is that Indiana Jones game. I remember renting that for Master System as a 9 year old, me and my friend walked miles to the video store one saturday to rent that and it was a ruined weekend when we actually started playing it! :D The mickey mouse and donald duck games were awesome though like you said, I also got so good at Mickey i'd finish it each time, Donald was slightly harder. I never played much Game Gear myself, but my cousin got it for xmas 93 and I had a brief 2 minute play of that, then years later i got to play Shinobi on it for about 10 minutes, and that made me jealous the game wasn't on Master System! Amazing Metroidvania styled game! Would've been a better system than the Game Boy if the batteries hadn't been an issue. I imagine it would've sold much more if they didnt burn through as quick as they did, and the power adapter should've been a pack in.
Remember to grab the Game Gear games you want off the 3DS e shop before it closes.
My cousin once had a GG!! Columns and Shinobi were the only games she had. Too bad she didn’t have more games but it was still a lot of fun back in the day!!!!
Love that frame! You're the GOAT
I was a Game Boy person back in the day, so I didn't bother with the Game Gear. Oh boy, that was one of the BIGGEST regrets of my life! The Game Gear is SUCH A GREAT SYSTEM! Sure, I would've mostly powered it with a mains adaptor, car adaptor and/or rechargeable battery pack, knowing how expensive batteries were at the time, but it is still a GREAT system! I did get a Game Gear eventually in 1998 and I couldn't be happier with it! My system still has the original screen, I got it recapped in 2012, still works fine but adjusting the volume can enduce a hiss that goes away with another adjustment. I do plan to get that fixed later this year. Sadly, in 2001, a new student arrived in my class, his name was Leigh Oliver Marsh, and he was an avid Nintendo fanboy, hating on Sega in almost every way! He even claimed an issue to the official Nintendo magazine portrayed Mario flushing a Game Gear down the toilet! Deep down, I could tell he was making that up just to upset me. If I had known at the time how bad the Game.com was (all I knew was its version of Indy 500 is terrible) and if I had one, I would've DARED him to play it! Despite its short battery life and not having as big a game library as the Game Boy, the Game Gear is a system I can't recommend enough! It has a great form factor, great graphics, great sound, a bigger color pallet than even the Mega Drive, better Ren & Stimpy, Power Rangers and The Lost World: Jurassic Park games than the Game Boy and it is just too good a system to leave out of your collection! Alternatively, some Game Gear games are available to download to your Nintendo 3DS and the Atari Lynx version of Slider, Super Sqweek, is available for the Evercade as part of the Atari Lynx Collection 1 cartridge.
I played 8-Bit Sonic 1 on the Sega Master System. It was the first game I ever got for that console and to this day, remains my 3rd favourite Sonic game of all time.
The higher resolution makes all the difference. Game Gear version is very hard to follow when crammed into such a small display; the original backlight is just not great either.
@@ZonicMirage Interestingly, I always hear that comment, but, years later when I finally got a GG, and got both 8-Bit Sonic 1 & 2, I had no problems or frustration with the screen crunch. I later realised that because I played the hell out of the SMS versions, I knew where to go, and what dangers were waiting for me.
@@MrNelg19 Being from Burgerland, I only played the GG versions. Once I downloaded the SMS versions from the Wii Virtual Console, they became much easier.
The Game Gear with the TV adapter was an early road trip favorite in our family. We had the car power adapter so us kids in the back seat could view stuff on the trips to Disney World / Busch Gardens...
Dragon Crystal is a rogue-like, you're not supposed to be able to save in those. Not sure how well balanced this one was though and the GG might actually die before you beat it if playing on the go hehe.
Anyway, loved the GG and the early US lineup is actually pretty solid. We also had the 4-in-1 cart, which had a solid tennis game on it.
Ahh SLX, amazing video - as a heavy Sega MD/Genesis person my bro and i still had our Gameboy for the odd Tetris session. The GG was OD expensive and ATE batteries.
Man oh man. The Game Gear could have achieved greatness if it wasn't for their baterry issues. I remember playing 3 of them on the list: Sonic, Mickey and Donald games.
Also it's a nice touch that you displayed the video inside the Game Gear especially the ending. At one point, I even wondered (because of the ending) whether the Sega CD games could be played in the Game Gear which is impossible of course XD
I wish sega would've solved the battery issues during its lifespan especially when sega lost market shares in 1994. They could've released a battery efficient game gear during that time until the 8th gem handheld generation. A 32-bit hand held console (32x hardware tech with a SH3 or SH4 clocking at 23 MHz) during the end of the 90s while cancelling the 32x in 1994.
@@maroon9273 Yep.
As kids, my buddy had a Sega Game Gear. I don't think he had many games for it but he did have Sonic 1 and 2. I played the heck out of those back then. I remember the console being super comfortable to hold and that screen while not perfect as it tended to blur at different viewing angles, did look pretty nice. Nothing but fond memories of this handheld.
The one thing I loved about my Game Gear was the tv tuner. Loved watch tv on it.
gamegear was my first video game console. Gosh, I love it so much during my childhood.
Nevermind that you need 6 AA batteries -- a Game Gear with the TV adapter let you *watch television away from home!!!*
I had both game gear and game boy as a kid and never shared my game gear with anybody. Still have and play it ever once in a while. Great memories.
Holy crap! G-Loc! I think I had that game.
The Game Gear was mind-blowing when it came out but I can't remember which games I had too well. I know I had GG Shinobi, Columns and Donald Duck Caper. I also still own my cartridge of Ax Battler but other than that I'm fuzzy.
Well I do enjoy learning about retro stuff I missed out on😅
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