Birthday determines the only game system you can play for the rest of your life

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Mnementh said:
I know nothing about Gamegear. What I read is, that many MasterSystem games were ported and I need lots of batteries. Well. One day later and I had a Genesis, that had a decent library. And another day later is the jackpot.

Ka-pi96 said:
Sega Game Gear? WTF even is that? Looks rubbish!

In simple terms, it's a portable Sega Master System. It has the same internal hardware and thus could actually play Master System games with an adaptor.

And yes, it did consume a lot more batteries than the Gameboy, and that's why it mostly failed. However, they were not nearly as bad as many would make you believe. They just used the cheapest batteries which didn't get high enough Ampere for the system and thus had zero battery life with those suckers, but if you took some better batteries it did last for up to 6-8 hours, with most alkaline batteries of the time giving you 5-6 hours of battery life. Problem is, the Gameboy lasted 10-16 hours with less batteries, and it could use the low quality made in China Carbon-Zink batteries that the Game Gear refused just fine, so this looked pretty bad by comparison. Also, now there exist battery mods for the Game Gear which give the system a rechargeable Li-Ion battery strong enough to make it last almost half a day nonstop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpfvy_iZxCc

It lasted 7h32 with coppertop batteries like the ones you could buy when the Game Gear was fresh out.

Also, the games on it are actually quite good for the most part, and with the Master System adaptor, you'd actually have a great game library. So not the worst pick by far I'd say

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 26 October 2020