I thought I'd post this seems as how it's about the game gear and only just posted by one of my subs on YouTube Gguru1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jseQom-eud8&nomobile=1

I had one and I liked it, but it really went through batteries but I had the battery pack whiched helped.
It was ahead of its time in that it had a colour screen which I really liked.
I think I would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't the only one of my friends to have it and as a result I didn't know as much about the different games that were available on it.

Current ratings on eShop:

Sonic Triple Trouble: Five Stars(143)
Dragon Crystal: 4 and a half stars(36)
Shinobi: Five Stars(32)

I think the technology was there, it just didn't have the games to back it up... until I just went on google to see how many buttons were on the thing. I had no idea there was a Streets of Rage port. If the thing had atleast 4 buttons on it then I think it would have been crazy good, that and Street Fighter.

Horrible system. Piss poor battery life, not portable friendly and a bastardized Genesis.

Great concept, excellent presentation, but poor execution. Battery life was terrible and that meant it was hardly truly "portable". If you had an AC adapter or a car adapter, then it was "portable", but still needed to be tethered to something.

But otherwise, the Gameboy was king by far. Those batteries lasted forever. And Gameboy had a ton more games.

It's a shame there wasn't something in-between at the time.

My cousin had one when he came home on leave from the Army. I was still a Gameboy fan but when I played it, it felt like something from the future. I only played one of the Sonic the Hedgehog games, though. He sold it a couple of days later. Totally blew my mind. I was a diehard Nintendo lover and, if memory serves, THAT was the first time I played a Sega (then again, it may have been when my neighbor loaned me a Genesis). It wasn't bad. Looking back, it wasn't very good, either. I think they sold a TV tuner, too.

There were a lot of consoles that were ahead of their time, back then. People seem to think it's pretty amazing that the PSV plays games that are almost on par with the PS3. Back in the day, we had the Lynx that played games that were console worthy. We had the Turbo Express that played the same games as the just released Turbo Grafx-16, and later, the Nomad that could play Genesis games. They all had too many other short comings, though.

People really don't know about the GameGear at all it seems. As far as the hardware goes, it's nothing like a Genesis. In fact, its hardware is much more similar to that of the Master System. That being said, it boggles my mind when people can't be bothered to dig up the quality titles on a legacy system when they have Internet access. As far as exclusives go I'd have to recommend:

Aleste / Power Strike
Aleste II / Power Strike II
Crystal Warriors
Defenders of Oasis
Ninja Gaiden
Ristar
Shining Force II: The Sword of Hajya
Shinobi
Shinobi II: The Silent Fury
Sonic Triple Trouble
Tails Adventure

Personally, I'd avoid ports of Genesis games as they tend to lose much in translation. That being said, most of the Master System ports are really good, especially Sonic the Hedgehog, Master of Darkness and Wonder Boy III - The Dragon's Trap.