Instant flashback to my childhood. At some point i finally got a used game gear somewhere and the games were just awfull.
Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ?
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The Sega Game Gear. That sucker could drain six AA batteries in about three hours. Do you know how hard it was to find a place to buy AA batteries on Christmas day?
While a rechargeable battery pack fixed that problem, most of the games were garbage compared to the GameBoy. The first party games were the best, but most everything else was ‘meh.’
I never did get that TV tuner add-on either.
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thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I think one saving grace for the Game Gear was that you could also play Master System games using an adapter, if I remember correctly?
jmet_b@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You might be thinking of the Sega Nomad, which was made explicitly to pay the full size cartridges. My dad had one for a while and it was the Game Gear turned to 11, flaws and all. Huge, hot, heavy, and devoured batteries. It was a cool concept on paper but nobody wanted to spend hundreds on it to play Sonic the Hedgehog on a tiny screen with a giant warm brick as a controller.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I was in primary school when the Game Gear was a thing, so my memory was foggy - but the adapter was definitely a thing:
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