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tal@lemmy.today 5 hours agoThat thing drank 6x AA batteries like there was no tomorrow.
There were NiCad rechargeables. I didn’t own a Game Gear, but a friend did, and I remember him using NiCads for that and RC vehicles.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 5 hours ago
It’s been a looong time. But I think it drank those too? Engineers in those days maybe didn’t know how to optimize a full color screen with good brightness like that device sported.
tal@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
It’s not that they lasted longer, but that it was considerably less expensive to recharge them than to buy and throw out a new set of batteries for each session.
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 1 hour ago
The Game Gear has an entire CFL bulb behind the screen. A popular mod is to swap it out for some LEDs, which consume an order of magnitude less power.
Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
It drank everything. I had a screw on battery pack that attached to the back of it and I still remember it didn’t last very long.