>>11911274 (OP)
Wow I can either play shitty games on a bloated peice of shit that can only survive an hour on battery life or I can play fun games on a small compact system that runs hours nonstop.

>>11911281
Yeah, the Gameboy ate batteries like crazy

>>11911274 (OP)
Game Gear is so fucking based, Nintendo homosexuals seethe whenever they see one

Having had both, the game boy was the far superior device.

Brutal moging!

>>11911290
Holy shit!

>>11911281
ac adaptor fuckface

Fact: 99% of the people talking shit about the game gear never played one, not even emulated.

>>11911330
the whole point of those things is portability tho innit

>>11911330
there was no reason to do that unless you were a single-tv/console household and also didn't have a PC on which to play better games when those were occupied. Game Gear only has downgrades of console games and it isn't even truly portable.

>>11911274 (OP)
For 3 hours at least.

>>11911330
>AC Adapter
>For a portable system
Lol
Lmao!

>>11911274 (OP)
>Jurassic Park
Kino.

>>11911274 (OP)
Game Gear is cool, but the novelty of a portable Master System was immediately made moot by the release of a portable PC Engine the same year.

>owned both
>doubt my GG has even 10 hours of use ever
>GB probably got 10 hours of use on a typical day

>>11911274 (OP)
Game Gear was the proto steam deck.

>>11911383
Just imagine how expensive that would be with the current cost of batteries lol.

>>11911332
There is no games worth emulating

>>11911862
Nice LARP, but no one with both played Gameboy more than the Game Gear kek

>>11912032
nta but everyone I knew with a game gear regretted it

>>11911332
I owned one with so many games that I don't even remember them all. What I do remember, however, was going to my mum's friend's house and being bored out of my mind because she was an old unmarried lady and therefore never had kids to play with (or their toys or video games) and I wasn't allowed to play any of my portables (Turbo Express, GG or Lynx) while there but allowed to play it on the drive over.
Well, one day, the sweet, kind old lady said that she noticed me pulling into her drive playing vidya and asked why I didn't go play it rather than be bored. So I told her that mum said I wasn't allowed to and she replied "why the hell not? Go get it, and play it; it's okay" contradicting my mother who was visible annoyed but acquiesced. So I went out to the car, grabbed the GG, plugged it into her wall and played Ms Pacman and Wonderboy a bunch while they sat about playing cards, drinking coffee and speaking in Swiss German.
Oh, also some Shinobi game where the pink guy had bombs and was the best dude to play as.

>>11911372
There was a portable battery pack that used d or c cells that was meant for Lynx but worked fine with the Game Gear. That's what I used when we were on long drives. My dad bought rechargeable batteries for it, too.
I'm >>11912038, btw

>>11912032
They did because Gameboy had better games

>>11911372
Portability doesn't imply you have to take it outside. Maybe you just want to play your Genesis games in an upstairs loft where there's no tv but there is an outlet. Maybe the console is in the living room but you like to play for a few minutes in bed before you go to sleep and there's an outlet next to your bed. "Portable" can just mean "Small and not plugged into a television in a fixed location but still in the house."

>>11912762
This. I've got a portable ice machine. I'm not picking my kid up from school making ice in my car as I wait for him to come to the door. It just means that I can use it in the kitchen for extra ice while the fridge ice machine runs or bring it outside and plug it into the shed outlet when we have a cookout to make ice out there.

>>11912762
Yeah, and often times you don't have a TV in your bedroom. Maybe one or two TVs for the whole household.

>>11912046
Unmodded? The Lynx used a narrower barrel plug than the GG did. (which used the same size plug as the Genesis/MD2 and Nomad.)
I do know Sega produced battery packs for the GG, but they were self contained rechargeable units.

The game gear never had a screen that bright and colorful. You can replace it with a modern screen, though.

>>11911274 (OP)
>battery munchers

>>11914547
Ice makers are based. Fridge ice tastes like shit because it has more poop particles in it and nobody remembers to change those $60 water filters tucked in the back more than once every 7 years.

>>11911376
>I was playing le superior PC games in 1991!
Sure you were, buddy.

>>11914707
Yup. It had a †-shaped tip and one of the three prongs fit the Game Gear and Lynx.
>>11915620
Not that guy and I don't know about "superior" but I had a PC in 1991 and no shortage of games for it. I had this circus themed Tetris with bombs that I really enjoyed as well as Price of Persia, some Chuck Yeager flight sim (with joystick!) and a stack of Big Blue Discs because we've had computers at home since the 80s. Also various other games. I tended to prefer console gaming overall but I still miss that Tetris game and this Egyptian-themed maze-chase game similar to Pac-Man except the player character can set the snakes on fire with his oil lamp provided you've got the fuel to do so.

>>11911290
As a kid, there was one night my house had a power outtage during a storm. My family used my game gear as a make shift lamp because that fucker was bright.

>>11915729
Ah. Must've been a 3rd party battery pack. There's no reason Atari would make an accessory that would be compatible with the competition (unless they're just that desperate for additional sales.)
I had this one for my Lynx. And yes, that's a shoulder-strap on the thing. It even has a belt-clip which should be a comical sight.

A friend did one of his jank mods, soldering alligator clips to the power connection and running the Lynx off a camcorder battery.

>>11911828
GG/SMS have more and better games than the PCE, especially when the latter does not have th CD add-on.

>>11911281
Fuck you!!!!!

>>11911274 (OP)
Game Boy had a better library and ultimately won for being cheaper and having better battery life... but man, it's sad to see how often the Game Gear's mocked in here. It was a 1990 handheld, made not long after Nintendo reinvented the market, and it went out of its way to add color, a backlight and 8-Bit graphics that often look damn near 16-Bit, this was genuinely impressive and its library, while worse than the Game Boy, had a ton of superb titles that are still fun to go back to, it deserves way more love too.

>>11916359
>A friend did one of his jank mods, soldering alligator clips to the power connection and running the Lynx off a camcorder battery.
That's a neat idea.

>>11912038
Shinobi 1 and 2 on GG are really great, some of the best time I've had on GG so far

>>11916998
>and it went out of its way to add color, a backlight and 8-Bit graphics that often look damn near 16-Bit
All things the Atari Lynx did a year prior. The Game Gear was never impressive.

>>11916359
If that one opens up by sliding the clip-on face down to replace the huge batteries, then that's the very one I had. Maybe I'm misremembering using it on the GG. I definitely had a battery pack like that and definitely had something that I plugged into the GG that had that †-shaped bit at the end. This shit was a good 30+ years ago, so conflating two different power sources is entirely possible but I'm almost certain I was plugging that very battery case into the Game Gear.
>>11917087
I definitely had one of them but don't remember which. Pink guy was best guy, though. I mentioned that in this or another thread already.

>>11917314
NTA but I made a thread for the Atari Lynx on Lynx day and it got like 5 replies
If being technologically ahead of the others was enough for success, Sega would have had a virtual monopoly

>>11917512
I know, my point was that handhelds with backlit, color screens were already fairly common. Hell the TurboExpress was also released around the same time. Shame the Lynx is so overlooked these days, I like Shadow of the Beast.

>>11912762
Why do you segafags always have to create the biggest fucking cope? I don't see Nintendo fags doing this shit when it comes to the gameboy.

but in all seriousness though why the yellow background? does it reflect light better or something? it's not just the gb, tons of devices used lcds that same kind of backplate, even some newly manufactured ones

>>11911281
The Game Gear was heavy as shit and had like 3 good games.

>>11918601
I think it's from the alignment layer, which in early LCDs often used polyimide (same shit the yellow Kapton tape is made of)

>>11918601
Google "sunlight readable displays". tl;dr attempts to maximize reflective properties while minimizing glare

>>11918640
>Google "sunlight

I wish the Game Gear had a bigger homebrew scene.

I bought a GG Everdrive and I struggle to figure out what to put on it after pulling the crap games from the library.

Does anyone have that old mspaint comic where a kid is playing GB in different environments and then there's a Game Gear kid playing at home connected to a socket?

>>11911332
literally no games so no one talks about it at all except for dunking on it. its the only system i ever bought that i regretted. even the sadturd was worth it

>>11911274 (OP)
sega more like seGAME OVER MAN GAME OVER

>>11911281
>3/4 replies are assblasted sega autists
holy fucking kek

>>11918612
>it's from the alignment
Chaotic neutral?

>>11911274 (OP)
You know what Nintendoes that Segan't? Stay in the console business.

>>11917314
Lynx was great too, but SEGA at the time was more recognizeable and overall it had a better library with more beloved IPs, it was more of a match up to the Game Boy, though I still think what the Lynx pulled off was awesome.

>>11911274 (OP)
>>11911281
Let's be honest, the gameboy fucking sucked soggy dog dicks. They didn't have it really figured out until the Gameboy Color. OG Gameboy was a brick that you threw at child molesters chasing your kids. Nobody I knew used those for gaming unless they were punished.

>>11917596
The game boy had an AC adapter too, you know.

>>11918542
The virgin game boy:
>blurry puke green monochrome screen
>library is 90% shitty rehashes of NES games
>basic bitch white rectangle
>no tv tuner or turbo feature

The Chad Turbo express:
>full color screen like a big boy
>plays literally the same games as the TG16
>sexy Giger-esque design and color scheme
>yes tv tuner and built in turbo feature

Turbo express mogs tbqh