Best of the Best on the Sega Game Gear
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Let's look at my picks for the best games on the Sega Game Gear.
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Episode Notes:
1. For most of this stuff I used Kega. My Game Gear has a modded screen but no TV output.
2. The Game Gear was re-issued by Majesco, as were many of its games in 2000.
3. In South Korea, the Game Gear was known as the Handy Gam Boy.
4. The Game Gear was not Sega's only handheld. In 1995 Sega released the Nomad, a portable Genesis.
5. I tried to streamline this one a bit and not spend time on factoids like who made it or when it was released. I wanted it to flow smoothly from game to game just on the merits of why it was chosen.
6. You may notice that Royal Stone is in my Top 10 but not in this episode. While I enjoyed Royal Stone quite a bit, I felt Defenders of Oasis and Shining Force Gaiden III would have a stronger appeal to the majority of you. 
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I feel like the Game Gear’s legacy is largely seen as “the handheld that failed against the Gameboy” and I think that’s both sad and unfair. If you judge the game gear for what it was rather than for what it wasn’t, you’ll find that it was a great little handheld!
It was ahead of its time
The way Sega marketed it, especially in North America, I'd say the legacy it received is warranted.
@@SomeOrangeCat Like I said, I (strongly) believe that things should be judged for what they are rather than what they are not. Was it the Gameboy killer that Sega advertised it to be? No, it absolutely did not turn out to be that. But what it DID turn out to be was a great handheld with a lot of fun games. It definitely wasn't perfect, but it was certainly ahead of its time IMO
Imagine a world where pokemon red launched on the GB and pokemon blue on the Game Gear and you could trade between both with a newer, joint company, game link cable. Both could have sold +60 million, maybe +100 if you get gold/silver generation there.
@@juansanchez209 It definitely had it's fans, but I'm not among them. It all comes down to the library for me.
The game gear saved the battery industry 🪫
My dad could afford to buy me a GG, but he couldn't afford the supply of Energizers.
@@GeraldGarciaShould've picked up the charge cable too, it was available at launch or shortly after. I only used batteries for car trips.
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It's 2023 and we are still playing those old games, and i love it!
You made my day, and i hope you're making videos for a long long time!
Never had a Gamegear proper but Sonic Triple Trouble and Sonic Chaos were both really fun games. Now I’ve got an Analouge Pocket with a Gamegear adapter and a handful of games on the way. It’ll be fun to try some of these out
I was never a Game Gear owner (I was a Lynx guy - don't @ me), but this video was terrific - I'm inspired to check a bunch of these games out. Another great video, sir!
Lynx is underrated!
Lynx was ahead of it's time
dude
Have you gotten around to checking any of them out yet?
Lynx guy here
My grip strength as a ten year old was top tier after having to hold that giant brick.
That version of Road Rash is incredible.
This video hit at the perfect time. My analogue pocket with the gamegear adapter is finally coming. and I have the Everdrive cart for it loaded it up and ready to play.
I got a Sega Game Gear during its launch year and loved it to death. I also had a Gameboy, but for me, the Game Gear won out because of the backlit color screen. I have a lot of fond gaming memories with the GG. Both Shinobi games were absolute masterpieces. I also loved the Lucky Dime Caper and Castle of Illusion. There were some duds on the system, but overall, I had a lot of these on my own Game Gear. Oh, and Aladdin is it's own game; it is not a port of either the Genesis or Nintendo versions, and I think it's all the better for it. The TV tuner was also amazing to me; I could watch TV in the car or while waiting after school.
I used to have Gameboy. One day a friend gave me his GG. The very first game I played was Lucky Dime Caper. I was thrilled ❤❤.
Modded my system recently and I have another one I'm fixing up hopefully everything goes well as I sense it's a little bit more than the capacitors but at least the thing is coming together!
Also I know you mentioned in the past video but Batman returns on game gear was rather fun. It was a game that I would play with friends at school and see how far we can get
I loved this Video and it brought back a lot of memories. Thanks, SLX! I had a Master2Gear converter and was playing my Master games on the GG on the go (albeit a short amount of time due to battery life)
Streets of Rage II has some of the best 8-bit music I've ever heard. Recently installed as many GG games on my New 3DS XL as I can and have been having a blast.
A great selection with good reasons, I can’t fault those choices - I’ll be seeking them out
I had a game gear when it was new and got a game boy several years later. No regrets there!
This kind of video is full of nostalgia... Gotta love the 8 bit soundtracks....
GameGear was something to behold, but boy did it chew through batteries, as a portable it didn't work, but in a home with no spare TV and plugged into the wall - perfect.
My friend did the translation for Sylvan Tales, awesome action RPG! I translated one of the GG's gundam game into English, which was a strategy game. Another strategy game I'd recommend is Royal Stone. Great graphics for the system.
I loved my Game Gear and loved the TV tuner when i was out with friends ( i did have the battery pack ) my favorite game on long journeys was either Columns or the GG Shinobi
The Game Gear adapter for my Analogue Pocket arrives today. Perfect timing.
Waa hoping that Defenders of Oasis was on the list - you didn’t disappoint! I’m not really into RPGs but Defenders of Oasis was my fave Game Gear game.
It was one of my favorites back then. Kinda sucked there was no backgrounds in battle and they made you backtrack to old locations a lot but it was still great. I liked the voice samples it had too which was rare at the time.
@@Chaz4543 I remember the first time I got the Barbado, made things a lot easier. What a great game, a bit of a hidden gem.
I bought a Game Gear from a kid at school and thought it was gonna be crazy awesome. Oh it was crazy alright. Crazy hungry for AA batteries! If I recall correctly, the thing took 6 AA's and ate 'em up in about 2-3 hours.
Had to own an AC adapter for sure.
The game boy color used 2 aa per 24 hours of game, at least on pokemon games where you could keep track of time. That alone made it a great platform.
GB Color had about 8-10 hours of battery life and the screen wasn't backlit.
My parents bought me the AC adapter and power bank (although they didn't call it that). My power bank no longer charges tho.
I loved this video and wanted to see more. I know there were runner ups and hinorable mentions, but in a perfect world: i wish youd make a follow up with ALL your highly reccomended games. Like, a followup of just more honorable mentions / hidden gems, SLX level.
I think that one thing that really helped the Game Boy over the Game Gear was that it did a better job expanding the gaming audience. Tetris brought in a lot of folks to gaming in a way that Columns didn’t.
Can’t say i saw many Game Gears here in New Zealand back then (i think they were expensive too). But my friends older brother owned one briefly. I remember only getting to play it a few times because the batteries were usually dead.
I think he sold it and got a lynx which i got to play more of.
The poor Lynx is more underrated than the Gamegear. The Lynx had much more advanced hardware than the Gameboy or Gamegear but had terrible support from developers. 😔
Yeah i just remember playing Toki on it alot and being amazed we had an arcade port on a handheld.@@jsr734
Road Rash 95 on PC was my favorite racing game ever, I wish there was a source port or something for that one. It still runs but it's not perfect. It could use some love
C'mon, G-LOC on GG was basically a miracle. How the hell they managed to make a 3D game on the game gear as good as this one, I have no idea. Also, Mortal Kombat was fantastic, I had it for GG long before I even got my Genesis, and I'm more nostolgic for that version, as good as the Genesis versions were. Also, Major League Baseball was a pack-in title at some point with the GG, and it was so much fun. The music and everything is still so memorable, it was such a gem.
I would of put buster fight as an special mention for fighting game slim character roster, it had a really good fighting system for two buttons that wasn't straightforward like street fighter also looked good.
I bet there will be no mention of the "Surf Ninjas" movie tie in game that I got free with my Game Gear Christmas present lol.
I enjoy the picks you did an amazing job I like your picks and can't argue. Those were the best picks thanks for the videos your big fan Eric have great day Sega Lord X piece
The GameGear had some killer tech inside. I think it had a bigger color pallete then the MegaDrive
Now that you mention it, you are right. The Megadrive has a global pallete of 512 colors vs the Gamegear 4096. Sadly the Gamegear could only display up to 32 simulataneous colors on screen from those 4096 and the Megadrive up to 64 or 68 colors from those 512.
Samurai showdown on the game gear. What a time to be alive that was
The alleste games look like Megadrive games 🙏🏽Well I gotta say they all look good 💯
Shining Force: The Sword of Hajya was a pretty good game although i dont have a game gear anymore i still have that game somewhere
I can totally see NHL Hockey being good on the Game Gear. NHL 94 is my favorite sports game on Genesis.
Mega Man is the game I played most on my GG. No idea why it's underrated among MM fans... I guess it doesn't quite stack up against the original series on NES, but I didn't play those until years later so couldn't compare.
You gotta play the streets of rage 2 randomizer
Sonic Drift 2 deserves a mention, it was excellent and technically very varied and impressive.
Castle of Illusion is the MS rom in a GG cartridge, does it really count as a true GG game ? Not the best pick in my opinion, but definitely a fantastic game. Legend of Illusion for example was a true GG game.
In terms of fighting games, you really need to check both Ninku and both Power Rangers games. They are absolutely excellent, and in my opinion, make even better use of the hardware than Fatal Fury and SamSho (and both have pretty poor sprite work).
In terms of RPGs, Moldorian is a must play.
Sports games : I recommend checking the excellent GG port of Pete Sampras by Codemasters, as well as Fred Couple's Golf.
Good picks overall, but I think that you still have a few games to try out ! ;)
Castle of Illusion was the reason I owned a GG. Doesn't matter if it was a SMS ROM. That game on the go was THE killer app for the GG for quite some time. And I've played all the games you've mentioned here. Good stuff, but I'm secure with my choices.
@@SegaLordX Great choices for sure. Hopefully some people will give a try to these less known games ;)
i played master of darkness on my gg today...what a great castlevania ripoff..i also played the sms version on my channel...i agree with most of the choices here...i m curious about gg aleste 3 running on a real gg eheh
It's conflicting good, it's funny, it's funny, it's financing, it's contriving good. (I meant to write it's fingerlickin' good, but auto correct changed it every time) 😢
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Recommended by 5 out of 5 battery manufacturers. 😉
The Game gear was a beast of a game system and far better than the gameboy. Many gear games look like 16 bits games
My favorite facing game was only released in Poland: Gay Time Racing. Gay means happy.
Oof. Game gear. To me they tried to do to much with most of their games. And it ended up mostly a chopfest and games that just didn't play well.
I'm sure there's some good ones, but when someone didn't have a lot of money, and they bought just a couple mainline titles back in the day n saw how they played, that was the end of that. N that's the reason myself n people I knew stopped playing it back in the day.
The original screen was god awful. You have to admit that. I would’ve say that the game gear was awful, I played them at different friends houses, but I’ve always come away with not really enjoying it solely based on the severe ghosting. I know the technology wasn’t there at the time, and they likely would wear out on top of that. I only really remember Sonic 1, chuck rock, mortal Kombat 1, and mostly x-men 1. X men 1 was so different than my genesis version, so I gravitated to that one the most. Even so, side scrollers were so hard to see, the platforms would get so blurry it was hard know your jumps
Only problem with the game gear was ridiculous battery usage.
How come 11 million Game Gear’s is considered a success but 9 million Saturn’s isn’t?
Investment. Game Gear was mostly based on pre-existing tech and the games cost peanuts to make. Saturn was expensive, sold at a loss, and its software cost a fortune to develop in comparison.
The saturn is considered very successful in japan, sold more than the 64. But is not considered successful I the rest of the world at all. So thats probably why.
Game gear coming out earlier also means the market was smaller so it needs to sell less to be considered a success. Compare the nes 58 million aprox being a 90% market share success and xbone 40+ being dead last.
@@SegaLordX thank you for clarifying that
Ya necesitan esos juegos tengan su remaster
Loved the game gear.
My first portable system. My dad helped get me the Game Gear on my Birthday of 1994.
Same for me for Christmas 94
Same for me! I got it for my 8th birthday and rode home from New Jersey to VA, and the 6 AA batteries held strong the whole 6 hour trip 😂
Christmas '92 for me. Came with a voucher to come back after Christmas to pick up Sonic 2, since they couldn't sell the game until then. Disappeared two moves ago. I miss it.
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01:54 Honorable Mentions
04:06 Best Puzzle Game
05:29 Best Racing Game
06:49 Best Shoot-em Up
08:30 Best Platformer
09:53 Best Fighting Game
11:16 Best Strategy or RPG
13:02 Best Adventure Game
14:46 Best Beat'Em Up
16:13 Best Sports Game
17:54 Best Run'n Gun
19:37 Best Action Game
21:05 Best Exclusive Game
22:44 Best Sound
24:27 Best Graphics
25:47 Best Overall Game
Always happy to see videos for the wonderful, battery-guzzling Game Gear.
I Had the AC PowerCord.
@@aretnap3653 It was a required accessory.
@@aretnap3653 So did everyone else. But it's a portable console on the road and the game boy crushed it when it came to battery life portable.
I remember getting my GG on my bday. My parents got me the Lil suitcase too. Had a handful of games. I loved the GG
Fatal Fury Special on GG is FANTASTIC. It's honestly pretty insane how well it turned out considering the limitations of the hardware. The graphics are great, the controls work really well, the gameplay is smooth, etc. Hell, it even has the day and night cycles for the stages that the Sega CD version lacks. Beautifully done job by Takara. Also yes, the GG version of Streets Of Rage 2 is AWESOME. It even has The Predator as the boss for stage 3 (seriously, I'm not even joking) that isn't in the SMS version. In fact, the SMS version of SOR2 is pretty trash overall.
Oh, and yeah.
SMS Streets of Rage games were weird. First was better than the second by a lot, but even in that one the grab range is ridiculously huge.
The Game Gear was great when I was a kid because I could use it in my room without taking up the living room TV (since I didn't have my own). Never actually took it anywhere because of the battery consumption, lol.
You had an ac adaptor?
Basically how I use my switch lite today! 30 years later and the habits never change.
@@laughingseal2282 Yup, always plugged in. To this day, I don't think I've ever used a Game Gear on AAs.
@@themadmadcow Same with mine, i only used it when i was at home resting in my bedroom. Never took it outside mostly because i could get robbed anytime. So basically only used it with the ac adaptor.
Same here always plugged in & playing in my room. GG was and is special to me I still have it, but it needs to be recapped etc. And my soldering skills aren't good enough...
Bro these retro videos always put a smile on my face. 😀
Your knowledge about everything Sega is so impressive. Can't believe you nailed the puzzle genre with Popils, not that many people know about that amazing game.
Nice to see the Game Gear getting some love. I had one and I agree Streets of Rage 2 burned thru allot of batteries. I'm gonna try out those English patched RPGs now👍
I ran through entire packs of batteries trying to play through Shinobi 2. One of the few games that actually made backtracking enjoyable.
And I never played the game gear shining force and didn't realize it connected 1 and 2. That would explain things since I remember playing shining force 2 and not understanding why there was no story connection to the first one.
I enjoy playing game gear games both on my RetroPie and my gaming tower PC with retrobat.
If you are into strategy RPG like Shining Force which also got two Game Gear entries, check out a game called Royal Stone which also was only translated by fans. Visually the game can almost pass off for a Sega 16 bit game.
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Hard second on Royal Stone, the game is genuinely gorgeous and the fact it runs on it at all is crazy.
So many similar games (not to mention the hardware itself). A Game Gear vs. Master System (and which game to choose, when the versions are similar) would be really cool!
I second this.
I can say that Streets of Rage 2 is good on GameGear and horrendous on Master System. On the opposite end, Sonic 2 is much better on Master System because of the extended screen real estate, especially in the first boss I think it is. It's like an antlion with bombs dropping in on you, and you can barely see anything on GameGear, it's obnoxiously difficult.
I remember buying one in 1992.
My favorite thing about it was the TV adapter.
I was the only person in Army training with a tv.
😂😂😂
One thing that bears mentioning... the Game Gear has excellent controls and feels very comfortable to hold. Anyone who's ever crippled their hands on a Wonderswan or GBA SP will appreciate the feel of a Game Gear.
Very true.
I loved my Game Gear, but that thing was always plugged into a wall; six batteries was not worth 90 minutes of unplugged play.
Your videos can really bring me a bit of joy even in the most depressing times of my life, thank you!
You are very welcome.
Same here, the right kind of person can always cheer us up :)
Too bad the battery life sucks 😬
You can get around that these days.
@@SegaLordX ya, but not then...
Missed out on all these Game Gear games. My system fell off the dresser and wouldn't turn on.
Great list! My only objection would be Shining Force: Final Conflict. I think that Sword of Hayja is just a tiny bit better.
I LOVED my Game Gear as a kid, and this was not even knowing the Master System existed! It was indeed an amazing system just as long as you had the official batter pack!
Yep I was smart enough to realize how important it was even as a young kid. I dunno why that was so hard for some ppl to get...
What was the official batter pack?
@@drunkensailor112 What do you mean what was it? It was the battery pack. What else would it be? It looks like a big cylindrical thing that you charge & plug into the power port.
Or the AC adapter to plug it into the wall - that’s what I always used as a kid
@@thePoetDominic Indeed, that is also what I always used while at home or at someone's house. While in the car I either used the Cig Lighter adapter or the Battery Pack.
I'm collecting for the Sega Game Gear now. This video helps a lot. Thank you for making this.
very cool! not an easy console to collect for, but totally worth it. best of luck my friend
I never did get a chance to own the Game Gear, but I did get to play Shining Force via emulation. For the time, I was impressed with it's really nice music, and addictive gameplay!
The Power Rangers games hold up better than they have any right to.
I fully agree.
Weirdly i preferred first GG shinobi... great game!
I had a game gear and turbo grafx express way back in the 90s on board the USS Shennandoah ad44. They were in constant use and nothing ever ever broke except the turbo grafx power cord needed to be taped. But on board a ship they were used 24/ 7 . Quality
I'm glad you brought up Popils. I always loved games early on that allowed you create your own stages. I would spend hours building something and testing it out.
Late to the party but you were talking about the hardware and I wanted to chime in with a little tidbit. Yes, the specs were more along the lines of the MasterSystem. They both had the Zilog Z80 as their main CPU clocking in at 3.5Mhz.
The interesting thing is the color palette. The Master had a paltry 64 colors in its palette. Granted, that was a bit more than the 50ish the NES had. But the GameGear had 4000 colors it could pull from. Only 32 on screen, again same as the MasterSystem but far more shades to choose from.
To give you an idea of how insane that 4000 number is, the Genesis only had a palette of 512. So, yeah, it could definitely throw some beautiful colors on screen. Which was the big selling point over the GameBoy's black and green colors.
Halley Wars: although I appreciate Compile's games on other hardware, I'd give "the best of the best" in that category (on the Game Gear) to Halley Wars. The GG Aleste series -in my opinion- is impressive graphically because of what those games managed to pull off despite hardware limitations, but the gameplay is not great (and compares poorly to similar games the same creative team made on other 8 bit platforms, including the NES).
I think outrun is the only title that is both for the Sega Master system and Game gear but were both developed by two different teams.
I think every other game that is released on The Game gear there's also found on the Master system are the same game or by the same team
What was up with Castle of Illusion on GG?? It runs at Master System resolution, then downscaled to the GG’s much lower resolution. You can’t tell in an emulator but it’s really strange to see on a real screen
Man I remember walking by the GameGear at KB Toys, Toys R Us and every other store and just begging my parents to buy it! It was “to expensive” and this is still one of the only gaming devices I have never personally owned! I know the batteries died quick but I was such a Sega fanboy I didn’t care lol
I had the power cable so that wasn't really even a problem for me.
I think you hit on all the bangers on the system. The biggest miss by Sega is not releasing a Game Gear adapter for the Genesis. They could've sold three times as many units. Luckily, we have things like the Mega SG and Pocket, now!
That would have been similar to the Super Gameboy, that allowed to play Gameboy games on a Super Nes. But i don´t think such adapter could have sold more Gamegears or Gamegear games, because most Gamegear games were ports from existing Master System Games so the motivation to play the smaller field of view Gamegear version on a TV vs playing the full field of view version Master System version was not goig to be that impactful. In Nintendo´s case most of the Gameboy games were original Gameboy versions that could not be played anywhere else, so there was some motivation in playing and watching those games on a big screen and with some color added too.
My favorite Game Gear game was Defenders of Oasis.
But that's coming from someone who only played maybe 10 GG games total. My brother owned one, not me.
Its funny, I look at this wonder why more ppl didnt buy it over game boy. But then I remember. I had a MS. No one else I knew did. Video rental stores didnt carry Master system games either to rent. So I didnt want to get caught again. Too bad. Sega, was the better tech.
Master or Darkness!
Someone needs to make a sequel and make it 16 bit.
Which one
The only real problem with modern Game Gear gaming these days is that you absolutely HAVE to replace those old leaky capacitors on the motherboard at bare minimum.
Yup same issue the Turbo Duo has.
Donald Duck Lucky Dime Caper for me. What a great game
After you sung praise to the GG Shinobi I bought the title on the 3DS virtual console.
You were not kidding that game is absolutely incredible.
I still had no interest in starting a gamegear collection since the original hardware is a pain to deal with.
But when I saw the GG adapter for the Analog Pocket I cashed it. Since then I grabbed so many games including a repro of Sylvantale. That game is just dropdead gorgous. And just last week I found a copy of GG shinobi 2 so you know I'm in portable heaven right now.
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For fighting/beat 'em up, the Power Rangers games are also up there.
I'm missing Royal Stone and Triple Trouble here but it's a good list overall. For sound design, while these picks have catchy tunes, Alien 3, The Smurfs and Devilish do more with the sound chip
The Sega Game Gear is one, of the handhelds i´ve never owned.
Console wise i own nearly every console, except the ps4.
Handheld wise it´s a different story.
Nonetheless this episode, showed me a few games that might consider me, to get a Sega Game Gear in the future.
amazing 8 bit system! at times it felt like it had better use of colors than even the Genesis! I do wish it kept the FM sounds from the SMS though
That would have been a great improvement for Gamegear sound. Even better if Sega managed to mix the FM sound with the PSG sound to make more complex music and SFX and in stereo.
Yeah amount of colors and good color use are sometimes mutually exclusive. I remember 16 color games like The Catacomb Abyss having much more detailed graphics than some 256 color games released after.
In North America, I think Sega's marketing hurt the system as much as it's battery problem. In the US, their advertising was basically "Only brain-dead uggos play the Game Boy!" Calling your potential userbase stupid isn't a great way to make a first impression.
I’m trying to collect games for my Analogue pocket watching this while on eBat. Every time I see a game that looks good it’s anywhere from $50.- $300. 😂
During the end of peak 8-bit and first year of 16-bit, my portable was an Atari Lynx. Sure, the library was dwarfed by GB and GG, but the Lynx had some titles - Blue Lightning, Roadblasters - with outstanding 3D scrolling/scaling effects that you wouldn't even see in most 16-bit console titles.
And somehow I had a circle of friends who also convinced parents to get them a Lynx. We had some truly fun local multiplayer get togethers, like 6-player Slime World and 4-player Gauntlet (played in vertical screen orientation! Raiden too).
The Lynx simply felt very unique at the time. In retrospect, the truth is that it only had about 9 or 10 honest-to-goodness bangers. A bit like the situation on Atari Jaguar, which I also owned a few years later. Another system with some slick hardware tricks that bested the competition, but poor library support and eventually failure.
I always had every possible current generation of Sega home console hardware, and on the side these more exotic handhelds and niche consoles like Lynx, Jaguar and 3DO.
It kept things feeling fresh and experimental.
Glad to see GG Streets of Rage 2 get the love, if you'll forgive a little plug I made a video recently about the differences and why I think they made the right cuts. GG games seem to have undergone a strange turning of the seasons, early on they were squished SMS games, but as the Genesis/MD took over it feels like games were developed first for the GG then just put out an SMS port as the hardware is so similar, especially here in Europe where the SMS enjoyed a long tail. Sure the GG never sold as much as the Game Boy, but by that metric the PS1 was a "failure" too, who can challenge a system with Pokemon? One thing that won't come across in the footage here is that the screen had the typical slow response time of the era, so you have to keep scrolling slow, but this also means flicker is much less egregious.
Pokemon didn´t appear until 1995 i think, so the Gamegear had basically 5 years to surpass the Gameboy and it couldn´t, even without Pokemon in the market yet.
Those lcd screens had terrible response times so most games were developed with somewhat "choppy" scrolling and slow movement to lessen the ghostling effect on those screens. Sadly very few people show these portable systems in the original hardware with its original screens, so this game design choices will be more impactful.
This video is a great advertisement of what the Game Gear has to offer, with a good selection of games on display. Nice to see Battletoads get some airtime - the colours are a beauty over the NES version.
For runner-up fighter I would go for one of the Power Rangers games, Virtua Fighter Animation or even Buster Fight despite its odd controls - all of those titles show what 8-bit fighting games can offer with the sacrifice of small sprites.
I love this video. The GG was my first console ever. I loved it as a child and I love it today! But finding those games CIB today is tough. I don’t need 20 copies of Sonic 2! 11 is enough!
I only discovered in the mid 2000's that Dragon's Trap had been released on the Game Gear.
GODSDAMMIT!! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Literally that one Master System game I coveted as a NES owner who just happened to have a Game Gear. Early 90's UK games magazines, you failed me. ಥ_ಥ
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Haha, I appreciate that!
I had a GameGear emulator on my Compaq 2015C WindowsCE handheld, so it was even a similar sized device, making it a lot like having a GameGear with a word processor, spreadsheet, and web browser.
Probably a lesser quality (passive) screen, and I actually never played it that much, but a nifty thing in theory, at least. And I DO recall specifically playing one of the Donald Duck games, and a Daffy Duck game as well, and being VERY impressed by the graphics on both.
Great choices there! 😁
Now I want to see the Best of the Best of the non Sega consoles :)
It was better than Gameboy. The only problem was the amount of batteries it took and how fast it drained the batteries. It cost a fortune to keep playing it. And back then, we were lucky to even get 2 batteries from our parents. That B#%@$ took like 8 F%@$^ batteries! One time I got like 12 batteries and I was told by my parents that I need to make last for entire year because I'm not getting any more! 😂😂😢