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.
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Deconceptualist@leminal.space 5 weeks agoIt’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.
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 5 weeks ago
Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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.
tal@lemmy.today 5 weeks 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.