You LOVED playing yours, but HATED the awful battery life.
You LOVED reading segas official catalogue full of game gear games and genesis games, but HATED that there was always that one game gear game you always wanted but could never get (huge props if you remember the catalogue)
You LOVED playing your friends game gear, but HATED that you had to give it back to them because you wanted one yourself and didnt own one.
You LOVED playing all your game gear games, but HATED there was always that one game you couldn’t even pass level one on.
You LOVED playing a game on it, got excited when reaching a new level, just to either die or have the game gear die, forcing you to start over completely again, which you HATED.
My suffering: playing Sonic Triple Trouble. The chaos emerald levels with knack were fucking BRUTAL (they made Elden Ring look easy by comparison-at least at my young age). After hours and HOURS I finally got them all, just to get a game over on an easy part of the final level. Pain, nothing but pain.
My most cherished nostalgic memory: sitting on our couch, game gear plugged in, and playing it while soaking in the christmas tree lights, various household holiday lights and decorations, along with the accompanying presents. I cant quite place why that memory has stuck with me. If I had to guess, at the time, I was truly at my happiest. I got to play my game gear and anticipate my presents!
…I truly long for those days again.
And you could watch TV in it
With the Tv Tuner. That was bought separately. For not a little amount.
Yeah, i know. Our “rich friend” had both, of course
I never actually saw the tuner in the wild
To be honest, it was fairly underwhelming.
I have one in my closet… It runs but the screen has gone to shit, which I hear happens when they’re stored away. I was thinking of replacing the screen with an LED but I just don’t have the time
Have you thought about paying for it?
That or I’ll sell it to someone who will do it and enjoy it
I remember I had a yard sale once. I was selling spiderman action figures from the 1994 animated series.
I traded 6 figures for a game gear, with 1 game.
I had a genesis at home, and the AC adapter worked in it.
Still to this day I can’t believe I got that deal. I have no idea what ever happened to that thing. That was like 30 years ago.
My dad was a bit of a tinkerer, and he attached a power plug to the battery terminals of my gameboy and gamegear to avoid buying me batteries. So long as the wires never popped off the battery springs, I was right as rain.
My dad did the same thing. It was permanently wired to his car and we loved it. We drove cross country a few times and played the entire time.
Mine has dead capacitors so I can’t play it any more. 30 year on, I don’t think I could speed run Sonic 2 any more. I loved NBA Jam. I have memories of playing in the car in the driveway because I only had a car power adapter.
Caps are a lot easier and cheaper to fix than you might expect.
It can be revived!
I loved the Game Gear. It truly blew my mind when I learned as an adult that it was basically a Sega Master System made portable. Made me imagine what could have been if the Game Boy had been a portable NES.
Favorites: Sonic Spinball, Castle of Illusion, Taz Mania, Chuck Rock, Mortal Kombat.
…that it was basically a Sega Master System made portable.
Wait, what?
Yep. Most of the games on the Game Gear were Master System games.
TIL
The OG Steam Deck.
