Sega Game Gear - Gaming Historian
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 เม.ย. 2012
- Gaming Historian tells you everything you need to know about the Sega Game Gear.In 1991, SEGA released the Game Gear to keep up with Nintendo in the video game market. Although it eventually succumbed to the Game Boy, SEGA's handheld is still loved today.
► New viewer? Subscribe! goo.gl/WCIhMQ
► Facebook & Twitter:
/ gaminghistorian
/ gaminghistorian
► Questions / Comments?
www.thegaminghistorian.com - เกม
When I was a little kid Santa Clause brought me a game gear with a battery pack & a tv adapter. Man it was one of my favorite christmases ever. I really loved that game gear. My parents rocked Christmas that year. Now that I’m older I have a whole new appreciation for what my parents did. They didn’t have a lot of money, but they still made the sacrifices to get me cool stuff for Christmas. This video brought back some memories for me.
Seriously bro, now that I'm 33 and have my own son, I realize how hard it is to get a child the latest and greatest. Shout out to our parents for getting us game gears!
no1 Jack I remember getting Super Nintendo plus Mario , Mario kart and street fighter 2.best Christmas ever. I’m in my 30’s now and while I do enjoy gaming, the love has deff faded.
Christian_theKools Vlogs are you sure? Because I see him on tv every Christmas. He’s usually in the Christmas Coca Cola ad.🤗
Christian_theKools Vlogs spoiler alert!
Christian_theKools Vlogs What kind of monster are you? Santa really is a real thing, & Saint Nicholas was a real person too.
Battery manufacturers totally loved the Game Gear.
ronch550 data released in 1992 shows a major up tick in double A batteries.. no cap 🧢
I got a battery commercial before this video
haha yea. i had one when i was young and i had to buy rechargeable batteries. i loved the color display though.
@@mk17173n back then we mostly only had NiCd batteries though, which weren't that good. Newer NiMH batteries that came later were far better, IMHO.
Lol
The first time I saw a game gear, I must have been only a few years old, and while on a flight, some older kids (must have been teenagers themselves) in the next aisle saw me staring at their game gear in awe... and they let me play Sonic on it for quite some time. I’ll never forget that experience and the kind gesture from random strangers!
I had a Game Gear back in 1995 when I was in the Navy. That thing saved my life when it came to needing something to do while out at sea. Just had to stock up on batteries before heading out. Spent many hours playing Shining Force and Shinobi.
Salute the troops
2019 here.. We are at the point that retro gamers in youtube have become part of the nostalgia.. Having the angry video game nerd, gamesack, metaljesus and of course the gaming historian are just a blessing. My 90s was awesome and having these guys in my midlife was also great.... I hope when I become a senior citizen we will still have the systems and reviewers around... More power Norman!!
2023 here
I'm from morocco and i buy a Sega Game Gear one year ago for nothing (5$) no sound and no image just the lightscreen, but i just change all the capacitors that I take from old remote controlers, and it works very good, there are so many tutorials about that in the internet, just go on and make all thos dead game gears back to life
+Hamza Britel Well done. Yep, revive them all! :D
That's awesome
Hamza Britel hope you’re still playing your gamegear!! A great little system!!
This is cool :D
@@joaogoncalves1149I'm gay too
i had a game gear when i was 7 to 8 years old. I remember going on a coach trip to Brighton, it was a 240+ mile trip, with a bag full of batteries i played my game gear the whole way there, i had shinobi and sonic. Once we got off the coach we had a small walk to the hotel, passing Brighton palace. The game gear had my full attention and i walked straight into a pillar belonging to the palace, i almost knocked myself out and cracked the screen for my game gear.
Damn that's almost as bad as when I put all my Pokemon holographic cards through the washing machine. My life was ruined and I haven't recovered since
@@SoftDrinksOfChoice oh boy... were they in your pockets or did you accidentally dump a binder of cards into the washing machine?
@@Coolarj10 there was a big Pokemon controversy @ my school because people would be trading Pokemon cards and disrupting classes so they ended up banning them. In order to get around that we would put our cards in individual cases opposed to the big noticeable binders and haggle w/ each other on the low. I went to Catholic schools and wore a uniform that I would immediately change out of when I got home. Well obviously I forgot to take the cards out of my pants pocket one day and my mom threw them in the wash. The rest was history. I had 5 Charizards (3 English, 2 Japanese) and a shit load of other holographic cards. That collection would be in the 5 figures by now. oh well
Was the game gear okay????
I remember thinking that the game gear was the coolest thing ever made.
mahchymk93 until it dies and you don’t have 6 batteries in you
@@dsause3194 lmao "in you" like up your ass or smt
Ooof
Cyka Idinahui you can even say smh lol
@@dsause3194 are you poor of something? Can't your parent afford batteries? Or rechargeables?
I remember wanting this so bad, I had dreams about wanting it. Seriously, my dreams were about it just being out of reach of actually owning it, or actually holding it, just to have a slideshow of Sonic the Hedgehog play on the screen. All I wanted was a portable version of Sonic the Hedgehog just like on the Sega Genesis.
The crappy electrolyic capacitors mentioned in this video are, fortunately, pretty easy to replace when they fail. In addition, removing the florescent tube backlight and its ballast, and replacing it with white LEDs about doubles the GG's battery life. There are a bunch of TH-cam videos that walk you through both replacing the caps and the backlight.
can you link me to a video that shows this?
By far the best mod is a Nintendo DSXL display as backlight as it brightens the screen evenly. But you need to solder in a current transformer due to higher voltage and actually making the brightness regulator work requires some knowledge of electronics and potentiometers. Most LED mods involve a LED diode in place of where the tube is and due to the higher brightness it will introduce a line of higher intensity light at the center of the screen, unevenly lighting the screen edges.
The transistors also need to be swapped soon after they pop, except for the ones that are needed for sound if you wait too long the acid will eat through your contacts. Still easy to repair since the traces are not that miniscule as today's electronics
God bless the Internet
I am doing my capacitors when I get them of the 15th, every single one has gone
Every gamboy fantard like i was back then,secretly wanted a Game Gear. I guarantee it. Basically nothing has changed today for Nintendo exclusive gamers lol
When I was a kid this blew my mind! I still have mine!
You are everywhere!
@@ssgp7297 That's what I'm saying!
I still have no idea what my mom did with my game gear.
It was light years ahead of the game boy. I even eventually got the tv tuner for it which was MIND blowing at the time.
I had my own mini tv to watch my cartoons on lol
If you have any siblings they probably stole it
Sold it for crack...
@@a......5214 😂
A few of my friends had the Game Boy but none of us had even heard about the Game Gear. Then my cousin who lived in another city got one and I got to play it. It totally blew my mind. My friends didn't believe it was real when I told them about it :D
Lol same here
Sega Game Gear was an absolute joy in the 90's. So much so, when I first started working properly in 2008, I purchased one on ebay after I got my first paycheck. Still play it to this day.
I honestly feel like Segas biggest mistake, across the board, was their attempt at offering so many peripherals, in every system. Rather than focusing on making a quality, high-performance console with innovative qualities that came in the box, they seemed to always try and sell extra components that were just, well, crap.
They also forgot about the most important thing a console needs, good, fun games. They seemed to think it was all about having the best graphics etc…
Are you trying to tell me the Activator was crap?
Game Gear had fun good games
@@b3yourself91...every Sega console has a plethora of good, fun games
Yeah kind of the more I think about it. Between the Power Converter, the TV Antenna, the Sega CD, the Sega 32x, the Sega Nomad, the Sega Mega Jet, the Sega 6 Button, the Sega 3D Control Pad, the Sega Channel, the Sega Online thing for the Saturn, the cancelled Sega VR, & the ridiculous amounts of accessories for the Dreamcast, they couldn't help themselves to accessories. Developing all of it probably took a large chunk out of their funds.
My mother won one of those in France when she was a junior in College (back during the 1993-94 school year). She still has it and it still works to this day.
For some reason I came back here when Steam Deck was reveal .
a reasonable 149 dollars, plus 500 in batteries
Rafael Q. Only 500? Nah, I ate atleast through 2000 in my youth, before buying an adaptor..
Took it to school every day.
My folks took one look at the charge life of mine and got me a third party battery pack that you could insert into the place where each of the batteries went. It actually really helped, and I could plug it into the wall to charge it when I wasn't using it
Two words: rechargeable batteries
... were a thing that didn't exist as such when this thing was new.
Nickel-Cadmium batteries were... interesting. But they would be wiped by the charge-discharge cycles of the Game Gear.
This show is hands down one of my favorite pieces of content from anything period.
th-cam.com/users/shortsA96dTUOqEvs?si=8RbF87ab2x3p5gbQ
I remember getting one of these for my birthday. I had accidentally stumbled upon the games for it tucked away in a cabinet. Needless to say that I couldn't wait until my birthday, and I had to act surprised when I opened my presents up, lol.
You ever notice how naming schemes with video game systems and cars are similar? So back in the day, there were creative names that sounded cool. like Jaguar, Genesis, or El Dorado. Now, a lot of people use names that are just numbers, or if you're lucky, some letters thrown in. Like 360, 4, or model 3.
I can still remember the smell of both my old Game Gear and it's game cartridges...
_Ahh, memories..._
+Snypor I still have 2. One with capacitor problems though.
+Snypor I can remember the smells of mine, smelled like fish from a leaky capacitor inside. >.
@@retrogamelord3763 lol what did you dip the cartridges in
@@donkeycheese8098 No it's the smell the game gear makes when components are going bad inside lol
Mine still smells like shell fish at the local market 🎣
The car adaptor on road trips was the best. Our old van even had a rear passenger cigarette lighter so I got could sit in the back and play games the whole time. Too bad the games I had sucked lol
Man, I love how SEGA started as Nintendo's biggest competition in the 90's and now their Game Gear is an emulator on the 3DS.
Rip sega
So sad :(. The game gear was like a 1000 times better than the gameboy back then lol.
@Kosorou Gaming Archives it was better than the switch’s batters
@Kosorou Gaming Archives yeah
I had a Lynx model II, it was freakin' incredible. Very underrated. Shame it didn't get the recognition it deserved. My buddy had a game gear. Many an afternoon were spent swapping systems and trying out new games.
About 15 years ago my best friend and I got his brother's hand me down Game Gear after he got a PS2. I remember us saving up for and buying a 128 pack of AA batteries and eating through them in a month. But it took us months of saving to buy those batteries. Should have just bought the ac adapter.
128 pack of AA batteries?! ....Damn I mean even 15 years ago ya'll could've just bought an ac adapter or rechargeable pack...
lmao
U coulda use the ac adaptor in ur cordless foneg 😥
markowalski or rechargeables
I remember playing my Game Gear even, when I had the GBC and GBA. That hand held was WAY AHEAD of it's time.
I had one of these. Loved it. They blew the Game Boy out of the water. After I bought mine I sold my Game Boy immediately.
They really did.. it's insane how the game gear is a better handheld than the original Gameboy advance.. the game gear was released ten years before the gba..
I know exactly why this video was reccomended and I'd like to cry please
X x MEMEx MACHINE x X micro?
I loved my gamegear! I got one when they first released. My parents got fed up w/ buying batteries so they got that bulky battery pack. It looks like a big long oblong dildo. It lasted a while, and it saved on battery life. My gamegear still works perfectly. I just turned it on, it has the power rangers game in lol!
'It looks like a big long oblong dildo'' GOD DAMNNN hHHAHAHHA you made me fucking choke on my ginger ale :D
S Heuveldorp i.imgur(.)com/CtoYzfG.jpg
delete the ( and ) around the .
GravityZero jeez u should put a warning: nsfw on that lol
S Heuveldorp orgasm face is nothing more than a trend for attention whores. I see it all too often
I think the American version has better capacitors, here in Europe all the Game Gear now days have problems with the sound or/and the image, unless you have changed the capacitors
Who’s here after the announcement for the game gear micro?
+sludge_fudge I am. While not a bad idea on paper, the product was universally panned in the trailer, and even I think there's so much room for improvement. I even started a petition on Change.org to get Sega to improve it. If you'd like to sign it, here's the link.
www.change.org/p/sega-get-sega-to-improve-the-game-gear-micro
Me toi
Me
I herd it’s being released early in southern Harlem for all the inner city Kids to try first :) ❤️
Funny thing, I recently bought a game gear, then heard about the game gear micro. Goddammit.
You could also use the sega genesis AC adapter to power it.
@Baron Will Cool good to know.
cyn_mis_nih nope they were completely different AC adaptors
@@youtubeadmin1588 Hmm, its been over a decade since I've last used it. Plus I had a Sega 3 back then too.
@Brian Chernoble
Genisis model 2 ac adapters, and Master system ac adapters are the exact model that were sold for the Game Gear.
Also, Super Famicom ac adapters are a match, But not Super Nintendo.
Model 3 Genisis had the same ac adapter as the Genisis model 2 and Master System, so it matched the Game Gear.
Game Gear: "Do You Want To Drain 6 AA Batteries In Under An Hour" - The Toy.
I really don't understand why this was an issue to so many people. Pretty much everywhere I went had an electricity socket for me to plug a power supply to. And maybe it was because I was a child/young teenager, but people just didn't dare to say no, so I never needed to play on batteries. I would have it stolen from me if I was seen playing it on the bus or bus stop to/from school anyway.
with an LCD mod and modern Ni-MH AA batteries, you can easily boost game time to 6 hours and more. I've modded mine and STILL have to discharge my new rechargeables through more than 6 hours of non-continuous gameplay.
@@waltercomunello121 does it work just fine with the rechargeables? It's apparently built for 4.5v from two sets parallel sets of three 1.5v in series.
But rechargeables are 1.2v, right? So it's only getting 3.6v?
Back in the day my father felt compelled to solder together a battery pack for a friend of mine bc battery drain was so bad.
When i was a kid, i didnt think that GG gamez had endings. The batteries gave out in hours, if that, and the adapter would overheat. I just thought the games were supposed to be incomplete, because i never got to finish them.
I seem to have stumbled across yet another fantastic, underrated channel here on TH-cam. Keep up the outstanding work, sir! You've earned yourself another sub.
Dude, your videos are awesome!!
It's hard to overstate how relaxing your vids are whenever I'm stressing. Cool content. Chill delivery. Both interesting and calming.
I cannot get enough of your content, very solid coverage of the topics that give me those nostalgic feel goods
The Game Gear was in color, and backlit. That alone made it over Game Boy for me, but the wider design to be like a console controller was good too. Although it was a battery drainer, possibly worse than the SNES Super Scope. Regardless, I liked the Game Gear a lot.
C. Dawg Knight someone had to like it.
I agree with you for sure
+C. Dawg Knight I owned one, too. The LCD display was blurry and a bit washed out. Games were "ok" but nothing particularly special. 7/10. Meh. I didn't expect to say it but the Game Boy, with some of the better titles, delivered a better value and much more enjoyable playing experience overall.
I have never owned a handheld console myself. As a kid, though, I had friends that had Game Boys and Game Gears, so I played both of them. Discounting all other factors (cost, battery life, etc., etc.) and only taking into account the experience of playing the game while I was holding it in my hands, I thought the Game Gear was far superior. I considered buying a Game Gear at one point (never actually did it). I never even considered buying a Game Boy.
Oh hey, looks like a Steam Deck.
This channel gives me goosebumps! Thank you so much for these! My childhood!
I remember waking up Christmas morning and opening up my game gear with the game sonic 2!! I was made up and played on that for about 2 hours before opening any other presents
Because your batteries ran out of juice.
2.2hrs was the average so that makes sense
I remember my cousin having a Game Gear. When he stayed with us one summer, I was playing it all the time. All I remember playing was Batman Returns. I felt it was much better than the Game Boy. I remember playing it before going to bed, in this little "fort" that I made. So the backlight was useful in the dark. And I had it plugged in, so the batteries were not a problem.
Actually I used to hook up my headphones, pop in the TV tuner and watch TV long after I was supposed to be asleep!! Ideal for a 12 year old.
I own a Game Gear console in fine shape with the original box. Box is in great shape and has Columns and all parts/papers. Picture and sound are perfect on the system. It even still has the battery covers! I used to fly through batteries when I had a different one in the mid 90's.
Do you use it?
Sometimes. Only have about 5 games currently.
tortuga388 Ok
Brings me right on back to 2nd grade man....this was far and beyond the COOLEST effing thing ever.....ooooweee did I love this thing!!
This was a very well done, and brought back wonderful memories of having a Game Gear in my pre-teens - the very first gaming system that belonged to me, rather than being shared by the family. I picked it over the Game Boy primarily because I was quite fond of the Master System in our living room, and also because buttons on each side plus a colour backlit screen was much more appealing.
As mentioned in the video battery life was an issue, so I mostly played against a wall next to an outlet with the charger connected, or conserving power with the brightness down and sound off. Also, even after paying back my parents for purchasing it, I wasn't prepared for the high price of games on babysitting income & allowance. ($50 for something I didn't know if I'd enjoy or even be able to play??? My hamster needed more Habitrail tubes, dangit!) So I got pretty good at playing Sonic or Columns and occasionally met a fellow GG owner willing to lend from their collection.
It was a fun way to pass the time, a valuable lesson in economics, and a treasured possession. Thanks for jogging the memories!
~ A.P.
As a child, the gameboys non-color, non-light screen was a deal breaker for me. How anyone could enjoy playing a game in black and white was beyond me. My brother got the gamegear and it was fun to play. We had a duck tails game that was awesome with great music. We got the tv turner and I remember secretly watching a steven segal movie in bed way past my bedtime, which was a cool thing for a kid. Battery life? We played it plugged into the wall, so this wasn't a big issue.
+Ronan Dee Some people prefer playing a game for more than 2 hours at a time.
Michael Salter Oh, I forget that the point of a portable gaming system was to tether it to the wall.
+TheTundraTerror The reason I enjoy handhelds isn't mainly because it's portable, but because it's comfortable. With a console, you're controller is hooked up and you have to stand in one place. It's difficult to play well while laying back and lounging around. Since the TV is generally on the other side of the room (not held right up in front of your face), you have to sit up and look at it from the right angle, otherwise it just doesn't feel right and can throw you off. With a handheld, the screen is right up close to you. You can lay however and be more comfortable, and you're not going to feel penalized for it. Handhelds are generally more convenient and comfortable when you want to lounge. It's the reason why sometimes I prefer to browse the internet with my smartphone instead of with my laptop.
+Ronan Dee When I got an Atari Lynx 2 I was blown away at how much more advanced it was. It was my favourite Handheld and I sold my Gameboy to get one, never looked back.
+Ronan Dee yeah I just plugged it in and there was no problem I loved that device as a kid
Game Gear's history sounds like PsVita's.
They both got crushed by Pokémon
Ragnar Ahlman Nintendo*
But however sony is still dominating the home console,while nintendo is portable
Nomads land
@@cbbblue8348 Not anymore
Amiga Amigo lol
Love the background soundtracks, great video... as usual.
First time I come of this channel! I really like what I see so far so I'm going to check out other videos
_"Game Gear titles have recently become available for download on the Nintendo 3DS."_
Dear SEGA,
STILL waiting for GG Shinobi II on 3DS VC!!
It would be great to see more Game Gear Virtual Console games on the 3DS.
According to M2, the Game Gear games on 3DS sold poorly and Sega quietly discontinued the series. Which is a shame, since the emulation is great. I just downloaded The G.G. Shinobi and it's a pretty rad game. And I'd loved to play the Game Gear Mega Man.
luisguillermojg That's a shame about that as I enjoyed the Game Gear Virtual Console games on the 3DS.The Mega Man game on Game Gear would've been great to have seen on the 3DS VC with it being very expensive to purchase.
It feels kind of strange playing Game Gear games on the 3ds. You can even blurr the screen as if you play on an actual Game Gear. I really loved the Sonic games back in the day and i feel bad that Sega screwed up so much. I hope Sonic Mania will make its comeback as the true Sonic 4. Every Sonic game after Sonic and Knuckles sucked big time. I hope that in the future there will be another Sega handheld because Sony just dropped it after the Vita. The PSP had great games but the Vita let everyone down on it. Damn shame Nintendo beats the handheld market everytime. Now we have the shitty @tgames sega handhelds but they are not worth it to buy. It's better to play them old games on the 3DS even though it feels silly. Nintendo beats it everytime. I wish Sega made better Sonic games after they sold out to every company in the gaming industry.
Shinobi is awesome
The Game Gear was amazing back in the day, all the other kids were jealous of mine with their crappy game boys...and having my father working for Duracell at the time meant unlimited access to batteries made it even sweeter :D
yeah i'm pretty sure you regretted getting a game gear when pokemon came out
Ashtyn Murdock lol
Ultragameboy lol nah fam no one regrets not playing pokemon
@Evangelos Killer mike fuck off with your opinions and stop being a massive jerk
@@BossBoy208 pokemon is overrated
I still have a working one! Great memories!
I never had the pleasure of owning a game boy or game gear growing up but I did have access to both, many friends owned gameboys and my uncle owned a gamegear, he was the only person I knew that owned one, I considered it much better and it seemed like it was some rare system since I had only seen the one and it was a color back lit screen compared to the game boy. I grew up in a rural area in the extremely rural province of pei Canada. We seemed to be behind the rest of the planet by a few years until the Internet became a staple. Anyways... This channel brings back so many memories and nostalgia. Thanks
Story of Sega: Innovation, failure, innovation stolen by competition. rinse, wash, repeat
Hey don’t forget the geniesis
It's like comparing Microsoft to Apple and their mobile devices :)
Jay Hayche what do you mean
@Evangelos Killer mike It's not because they lost the competition that they always have been a failure. For nearly a decade, they have been the main competitor against Nintendo, something no other company was able to do. The only fact here is that you don't know shit about the history of video games.
@@solarbubble703 Also Sony playing dirty was what ultimately led to Sega's Dreamcast demise.
Dreamcast was great console with lots or great games and when it was release it was much more powerful than PS1. But Sony with its much better ties/influence with the media spreading lies such as the PS2 was just around the corner (it wasn't) to stale for time and spreading lies/rumours about the PS2 being something like 10 times the power of the final product that eventually got released. Lots of people held-off buying Dreamcast and Sega lost lots of potential sales as a result of that.
It kind of annoys me that so many people think that the Game Gear was a failure just because it didn't sell as many units as the Gameboy. Sega discontinued the Game Gear when they believed 8 bit handhelds were obsolete, and right after that the Gameboy got a second wind from the release of Pokemon, which made the aging Gameboy more popular than it had ever been before, at a time where its only real competition had already been discontinued. At its peak the Game Gear was actually outselling the Gameboy in the United States, even if that victory was somewhat short lived and fell far short of where the Gameboy would go with Pokemon.
If a system doesn't meet any of the sales goals expected by the company that produced it AND if they were selling them at a loss (the GG, like most console, probably cost more to make then what the we're selling for) AND the total sales barely even made a dent in the market then calling said console a dud/failure is appropriate.
Joe Digger How do you know what Sega's sales goals were with the Game Gear? How do you know they failed to meet them? In North America, the sales far exceeded Sega of Japan's expectations, at least according to the book Console Wars.
What happened is that when the dust settled, Nintendo fans started moving the goal post and retroactively declared that the Game Gear had failed, which is a misconception that has stuck even though it's not true. The Game Gear had an average lifespan for a piece of gaming hardware while the Gameboy had an exceptionally long one. Contrary to popular belief there are silver medals in these supposed video game races.
It failed.
I agree completely with your statement that Pokemon made the Gameboy. It's common sense if you look back at it. Ask anyone what game they think of when they picture the Gameboy. Pokemon saved the Gameboy. That ugly yellow screen would have died a slow death if it didn't have a Pokemon life support system.
the GG was discontinued bc it couldnt keep up with Nintendo thats it! the designers made many mistakes
We loved our Game Gear. This is one of our favourate channels! Great stuff!
I have a game store nearby that had plenty of broken sega game gears they were talking about replacing the capacitors on them and just a few weeks ago they finally fixed them and got to pick one up and I'm very excited to play a sega game gear that'll last for years to come.
4:13 now I know why my friend's GameGear has almost non-existent video, thanks!
I wanted a gmae boy but my mom saw all the commercials talking about how game gear had color and convinced me to get one.Sad times it was more expensive and I could never have enough batteries for it so I had to buy the charger pack.
Working my way through all your older videos. Obviously a bit late, but great work 😆
my dad had one back in the day and i remember playing a lot on this... i loved it.
Back then, when i was still in high school, i used to play this game gear in my rich friend house (he even had the more elusive Sega Nomad, basically Sega Genesis on the go, as you can play Genesis game cartridge on it).
My impression, this game gear wasn't a bad game console at all. A lot of good games in it, especially Madden.
I'm just getting started on the Game Gear. I actually got into Pocket games until the GameBoy Color with the big Pokémon hype, but my favorites are the Zelda and Castlevania; I didn't get much games for portables since I prefer Consoles and PC, but after getting a 3DS and browsing around the Virtual Consoles, I found myself getting only original GameBoy and Game Gear titles.
Good thing my 3DS battery lasts a lot more XD
I still have mine from the mid 90’s that still works!
I got mine in 1997. Still have it and it still works. The battery pack don't work no more and the speaker is shot but you can still plug headphones in and works fine. Made the bus trip to school way more bearable. I had that super wide thing but it got all scratched up. Can't say i really play it though. Its still kinda neat to say i have it. There is another accessory that completely covers the whole thing and makes it practically waterproof. Complete with a big rubber seal and also had a magnifier. I had a lot of fun with it at the time and it was worth it.
I bought one in the early 2000's brand new. I purchased 2 games along with it (Dragon A Bruce Lee Story and NHL Hockey). I still have it in its original box on my gaming shelf.
I play it hear and there, however, I need to get some more games for it. I might get an emulator to check out some more games before buying them for the system. I would love to have a portable lithium battery that can be used with my Game Gear so I could get longer battery life.
Ive been allways a SEGA fan and a Game Gear lover. Actually, thx to a forum mates im about to resurrect my GG by changin all capacitors and btw adding a LED mod that changes old light to high density LED used actually in flashlights, much more light and less battery consumption ;). The beast its comin back!!!!!!!!!!.
Me and my sister had one of these and they were honestly a lot of fun. I remember them eating through batteries like crazy.
I had a Game Gear and almost every accessory but the TV tuner. Absolutely loved it and took it on countless road trips. Nowadays, I still use my PSP, but as a portable emulation machine. The feel of it is just great, though I DO with is was a little larger, like the Game Gear was. Big hands and all.....
Gamegear was actually amazing. The back light alone was just incredible. I can't play any game boys before the SP anymore because I am so spoiled by back lights. The problem with the Gamegear is it cost a fortune in batteries to keep running and it would quite often die in the middle of a game. This happened occasionally on gameboy, but not nearly as often. Every time you got far in a game you were at the mercy of the battery life, it sucked. Otherwise it was awesome. Great games, great graphics, great sound, and just overall great play-ability. Loved it. If only it was chargeable, that could have been another innovation to put it over the top.
Jack Bandit there was a ac adapter included on the pack.
Jack Bandit
I had them both as a kid, and looking back and watching the stuff we watch now we all understand the faults of the game gear, but I loved it. I played it way more than my game boy. You could play it at night on long road trips, at night after bed time, and it had a ton of fun games. I even had the TV tuner!! I love the game gear. It doesn't work right anymore though. The sound doesn't work usually and sometimes it won't turn on. :(
YESS! I remember playing mine in the car at night when we were traveling!
I have rewatched this episode more times than I can remember.
Why?
I remember getting this for Christmas, was so stoked
I remember finding the Sega Game Gear at a garage sale for 5 bucks and it came with 5 games. I loved it!
Sweet deal! One time, I found an Atari 2600 with 6 games from a yard sale for $4, and at a thrift store, I found Ocarina of Time Master Quest, Smash Bros. Melee, and Super Mario Sunshine for $3 each.
One day I found a SEGA 32x with 7 games like Mortal Kombat 2 and Knuckles Chaotix for 40 bucks. I idiot sold it meanwhile - for more money, of course, but stupid enough. But I am also happy about "Resident Evil" for SEGA Saturn für 2 bucks and "Final Fight CD" for 7 bucks.
I found a dildo at a yard sale for a nickel and put it up my bum.
Yea I found one at a garage sale for $10 back in 2004 it came with sonic 2 tails adventure and a couple other ones I can't remember and the travel case as well I should have kept mine :( then I sold it when I found out you could play gg games on the 3ds which was cool but I preferred the original console seeing it was odd to have sega games on a Nintendo handheld if I do come across one for a good price I will take it I'm old school video games and nothing wil change that hard to find them for cheap only thing I hated was that it took 6 batteries and lasted the system only 4-5 hours tops thats why I bought a battery pack but it was overrated and most would prefer the gameboy over gamegear but it was fun to have one
5 dollars 💵 sweetest deal
It was a good thing to watch TV-shows late at night, when mother said "go sleep" or to watch the porn-channel in the hotel without paying for it.
ikr lol
Shout out to these old videos I forgot all about... It's like watching new content all over again
I had one of these! :D Used the AC adapter all the time and had the car one for trips. Thanks for the memories!
My parents have a VHS tape of recorded episodes of The Simpsons we all recorded during my toddlerdom in the early 90s.
I watched it a lot, I think I've been the last one to watch it the last 64736278945 times. The tape is slowly degrading.
I only bring this up because that Game Gear commercial in the beginning is on that tape, and sometimes I think about seeing how to port the tape to a DVD for the sake of them sweet sweet 90s commercials.
Just get an RCA-to-digital capture card.
It's easy to do....just get a video capture d3vice, hook up vcr to it and use the included software to capture (most video capture devices come with the software)
Do it because radiation interference will continue to degrade those tapes just from your environment. Discs are long term storage.
In December of 1993 I got the Sega Game Gear and loved every minute of it. I'm not sure if the lack of 3rd party support was actually true or not because from what I seen the system had a pretty stellar library. There was no shortage of great titles to play in my opinion. If the game released for Sega Genesis, you were almost guaranteed to see a port of it come to the Game Gear.
God all those 8 bit sounds are gettin me in the feels.. nothin like it
I like a lot your videos, I always ask my self where do you get all the info, is amazing, keep doing it, congrats
Sega has announced that they are releasing a micro version of the Game Gear coming in October 6th in Japan, no word of a USA or European release at this time.
Good! Hopefully it will stay in Japan.
Game Gear was reason, why I now have PSP 1000, 3000 and PS Vita. Landscape form factor is awesome idea and even Nintendo did GBA in landscape, just because it is more comfortable to hold and control. I now have Majesco Game Gear, in my country wasn't Game Gear oficially released, so when capacitors on my original Sega one went off, nobody knew, how to repair them, so I bought Majesco one from UK. Screen is better, battery life 4-5 hours on modern batteries. But Master Gear Convertor doesn't work, so my beloved Phantasy Star for Master System must be emulated...
When I was in primary school somebody would ALWAYS bring one of these in on the last day of the school year, and we would all want to watch and have a go. There were also a few Game Boys around, but this seemed like the cooler toy to have at the time!
Oh man the memories of playing sonic on this at my grandparents as a kid!!!!
5:32 Holy shit that's Ethan Suplee from My Name is Earl!!!
Yeeeessss I noticed him too!!! Hahahahah
the fat bully from boy meets world
it's Thumper from The Butterfly effect you peasants
It's the fat Neo-Nazi from American History X.
GH you the man, homie
I recently found my old game gear in storage. It still works! It was my childhood joy - my dad was a sega fan so I don't think we had a Nintendo console until the n64
This is crazy to see the quality difference in your videos! This is still pretty good by today's standards, but your current videos blow this out of the water!
i always wanted something to watch tv in my hands as a kid when i traveled alot, now we have smartphones.
that's why I had the ac adapter so it did'nt keep eating up my batteries
Me to
Michael Lake I owned 3 game gears
I had the powerback! Loving this series it brings back previously lost memories. I had a gamegear game called sonic labrynth that was weird and hard.
I never had one but my friend let me borrow his a bunch and I remember loving it.
Can you imagine if Sega had held on for another year or two?
What if in 1998, with the world crazy with Pokemon fever, they decided to go for broke to get a piece of the action? Make a few sensible changes to the hardware to address some of the problems, and then come out with their own monster battler, either by themselves or maybe by working with Tecmo to make a portable version of Monster Rancher.
Pokemon is what saved Nintendo. If Sega gave the genre a try, the gaming world might be very different today. Sega might still be in the hardware business, for one.
TBustah People already have Pokemon. Why would they switch to a Sega clone?
I wonder what life would have been like if Pokemon came out on Game Gear
+Thomas Reagan Pokemon was (C) Nintendo. And they're very restricted.
then gold and silver would have never been as good. casue that was all iwata.
@@thebravegallade731 R.I.P.
@@goiabexp
While I usually say that first party takes way too much credit in second party games, Pokemon is a big exception. GF only got off the ground due to loans and manpower by Nintendo.
2nd mortgages on batteries
My uncles both worked late nights in Transit as Token Booths. They bought Game Gears and the TV tuners along with the NiCad Battery packs.
I remember watching tv in my room with the game gear when i wasnt supposed to watch tv, loved it!
I was born in 90 I had a game boy since I was 4. I remember seeing a kid at daycare with a gamegear. He was playing sonic in color and I was completely jealous. I asked my parents for them to buy me one but you know the classic parent response “you already have a game.” Cracka Buy me that shit.
Nobody cares
@@1sonic687 why r u mad?.chill tf out
@@1sonic687 stfu
@@1sonic687 no one asked for you get tf away
@@1sonic687 shut up
The history of the game gear, reminds me a lot of that of the Ps vita and its competition with the 3ds. A much more powerful and premium handheld console, who despite being superior in almost every single aspect, couldn't compete against a console (gameboy), that although being inferior, was cheaper and had just an unrivaled games library
the PSVita also couldn't appeal all that much to the north american market, sure, it had a lot of handheld versions of home console games, i loved playing little big planet and uncharted on it, but most of the vita's library is composed of animesque games
Loved my Game Gear.
The Gameboy was popular during Desert Storm and guys in my unit had several.
I picked up a Game Gear a few years later with the TV tuner. Got an rca to headphone cable and played it thru my boom box.
I learned that Duracell was the best AA batteries available in the PX. 😄. A wall adapter was a definite need.
The Game Gear, and later, a series of Game Boys, was an essential ingredient of my “entertain yourself quietly for hours” trick that my mom loved. I don’t know how many times I beat Power Rangers on Game Gear, but I killed a lot of batteries on that thing. And I had the Mega Wide Screen! So ridiculous but loved it at the time.