Nostalgia

Probably the game I played the most on the Game Gear was Shinobi II The Silent Fury.

I still have the continue code I always used to have everything unlocked. "3FFFE".

And you could watch TV in it

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.

I wasn't the one who hated the battery life--my mother, who had to pay for the batteries, hated the battery life.

I just loved it.

I still have mine and my daughter is probably old enough to enjoy it. Guess I need to repair the barrel jack connector and make a USB PD to barrel jack adapter so she can play all day. Thanks for the reminder!

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.

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

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.

I wanted one so much. I had a game boy, but at home i had a Genesis. I really wanted to play sonic on the go.

The adapter would fry if you played too long, so I bought a generic one, my friends had to do the same.

My cousin had one that didn't see much use, but we would play Prince Of Persia every now and then. He also had Chessmaster and some kind of bootleg cartridge that had Spy vs Spy and probably other games I don't remember. He also had the TV antenna.

I believe I would have given it way more use had it been mine.

I also remember seeing some kind device to record yourself while playing being advertised?

Third one was me. My friend had one and I loved playing Columns on it. I remember we did a camp out in a tent in the backyard and ran an extension cord for the power adapter since that thing ate batteries like there was no tomorrow

Mine is fried. But still in a closet at my mom's. Damn, I really wish I could play ristar again 🥲

The OG Steam Deck.

Ecco the dolphin, Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Sonic, etc.

Played so much road rash on my dad's gear during long drives in the Ohio countyside, I think we either had a adapter for the cig lighter or a special battery pack or both because it seemed to last long enough for me, but definitely shorter than. My OG Gameboy ran for. Was a great color handheld before that was common

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.

I only heard about the game gear when I read an article about Defenders of Oasis, one of the only original RPGs to come out on it.

I managed to emulate it on my phone and it's an adequate game, I'd like to see what a modern entry in the series would look like