I bought mine in '92-'93, liked the Sonic games, Ayrton Senna race game, baseball and others but my God it would go through the batteries! Ended up getting a power adaptor for it.

The Sega saturn!! I Fing loved mine so much. I had so many games. If only I still had those to show my kids, not that they'd care lol

Mine is in a box somewhere in the basement. I go down to feed it batteries every now and then like old times.

My friend the part where you dug out the game gear to find it broken makes you a REAL game gear guy !! We've all been there lol I just got my 3rd one, I love these things. Pure distilled nostalgia, I feel 30 years younger when I'm playing it lol. Keep up the good work, this was an excellent presentation top to bottom. Your a good presenter.

It would be nice is Sega made like a, Sega Game Gear Mini XL, something smaller than the original chunky beast, but bigger than the mini, which I believe to be a console made for ants.

I actually still have my Game Gear. It's in near mint condition too.

My Master System adapter was a little different than pictured, it held the cartridge at a 90 degree angle so it formed a sun-shade for the screen (sort of)

It's always a shame to see consoles that just don't age well, so many broken Game Gears out there!

Thanks for watching! Have you ever used a Game Gear? What's your favorite game?

It's a capacitor issue, well documented on KZfaq

I had an interesting history with handhelds, I started with a Game Gear, then moved to a Neo Geo Pocket, (which was kind of a downgrade) then a GBA PS then a PSP

Good job on the game gear!

My brother had a Game Gear, so I did play Sonic and a few other games on it. I thought it was okay, but I have always been a Nintendo fan. I didn't have my own hand-held unit till the Game Boy Advance came out.

game gear also has input for source, I played only with no batteries. I support a story of Tectoy in Brazil for our American brothers to know. what the Tectoy company did in the country was a great revolution at the time

1:41 GENESIS DOES!…..what NINTENDON’T! My cousin had a game gear and we used to play it all the time on road trips. The first time I saw an NEC handheld was in the movie “Enemy of The State” with Will Smith.

Thank you for mentioning the modding of game gears. Because yes the gameboy was better but the game gear is a really nice console that many have a great attachment to. There are some fantastic games on it and if you get one modded with a rechargable battery and better screen I honestly feel most would love it because other than the size not being the most portable friendly the issues many people had with using it was the horrible battery and the screen not aging the best.

I was 100% O.K. with the short battery life. It had color, backlit screen... and that was something I was willing to sacrifice battery life over. This was playable, whereas I felt the Gameboy was practically not very playable due to the screen. Besides, with an AC adapter for the wall and 12V DC adapter for the car, I hardly ever needed to operate on batteries.

The game gear is a very clean looking console, if it is in nice condition!

4:37 Poster child of corporate mismanagement.

Darn have the sega nomad, loved that system cause you could play the regular cartilages, wonder if it still works, been sitting out side in the shed, going to have to see if it work or not.

I was a Game Gear kid.

If that’s a va1 board I’d got the what the fuck route, that would be clean as fuck.

Umm.. there are 2 different screens covers on the game gear, the early more expensive units had a glass screen which did not scratch and was replaced with a soft plastic screen when the cost reduction happened.

10:20 samething happened to my lime green ds lite i found it in a box when i was moving i was so happy then i turned it on and the screen was just white and glitchy i was so sad until i remember i had a 3ds and found it

Sega game gear is a great system

I have had a GameGear since high-school, I bought one second-hand. It’s decent. The games are decent. I have a Sega Nomad also....It does not have problems like the GameGear....The Sega Nomad can play all cartridge based Genesis games, including Virtua Racing. 3D Polygon Graphics on a handheld from 1995....I use it with rechargeable Panasonic Ni-Mh AA batteries from the Dollar Store that I recharge with a Duracell charger....My second GameGear still works....Not well, but it works....I have the GameGear Micro, I really wish it had Space Harrier built-in.

My friend and I bought those $30 Majesco Game Gears at Toy R Us when they came out. I wish I knew they would end up being rare, I'm not even sure if I still have it somewhere. I got an original Game Gear at some point and the build quality was definitely a lot better better, but the screen was indeed pretty bad compared to the re-release.

Great video. Need to work on camera presence. But great info overall! Love your series.

I got a used one and quickly bought a rechargable battery pack, as its battery munching issue was well known by them. Sadly, i dropped it while walking and it never worked again. :(

It's really too bad these were not better made. It's actually hard to find a Color Computer, or TI99 4/a that is not working. But these Sega systems were kinda junky. I got a Lynx after looking at both of these in the store (I think Service Merchandise), and just not trusting the fit and finish of the Game Gear. I loved my Lynx and never felt like I missed out, but now, thirty years later, I kinda feel like I did miss something.

I HATE replacing the capacitor's in these.

U can only compare portables in their screen groups id say

The Game Gear was a battery eater and had capacitor issues.

O own an halfbroken and a restored gamegear.

If the game gear is mostly master system ports, whats the point of emulating it instead of the master system? Are the ports better than the originals?

I still have my Game Gear but it appears to be dead. 😣

It's not broken it's capacitors need changing they were bad and leaking

That's SEYYGA. Not SEGGA.

The original nintendo gameboy dominated the sega game gear the nintendo game used 4 aa batteries also lasted 36 hours the sega game gear used 6 aa batteries only lasted 4 hours

It seems like Sega always bit off more than they could chew.

No, that is not what GG looked like, it had much worse graphics. It was a CRT...

To those who recently own a Game Gear and want to find some good games for the handheld, this top 20 is for you: 1. Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2 2. Sonic Chaos and Triple Troubles 3. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the Movie 4. Disney's Aladdin 5. Mega Man 6. Virtua Fighter Animation 7. Gunstar Heroes 8. Ristar 9. Shinobi 2 10. Outrun 11. Super Columns 12. Shining Force: The Sword of Hajya 13. Defenders of Oasis 14. Fatal Fury Special 15. Mortal Kombat I & II (both are better than the Game Boy versions) 16. Streets of Rage 1 & 2 17. Tempo Jr. 18. Super Smash TV 19. NBA Jam & Tournament Edition 20. Fantasy Zone

well at least AT games did not make it

Im a sega kid, but I gotta say. Was never a fan of the game gear. Screen was color, but blurry. Battery life was just bad. Game line up? Non existent

Why are you looking off to the side?