You LOVED playing yours, but HATED the awful battery life.

You LOVED reading segas official catalogue full of game gear games and genesis games, but HATED that there was always that one game gear game you always wanted but could never get (huge props if you remember the catalogue)

You LOVED playing your friends game gear, but HATED that you had to give it back to them because you wanted one yourself and didnt own one.

You LOVED playing all your game gear games, but HATED there was always that one game you couldn’t even pass level one on.

You LOVED playing a game on it, got excited when reaching a new level, just to either die or have the game gear die, forcing you to start over completely again, which you HATED.

My suffering: playing Sonic Triple Trouble. The chaos emerald levels with knack were fucking BRUTAL (they made Elden Ring look easy by comparison-at least at my young age). After hours and HOURS I finally got them all, just to get a game over on an easy part of the final level. Pain, nothing but pain.

My most cherished nostalgic memory: sitting on our couch, game gear plugged in, and playing it while soaking in the christmas tree lights, various household holiday lights and decorations, along with the accompanying presents. I cant quite place why that memory has stuck with me. If I had to guess, at the time, I was truly at my happiest. I got to play my game gear and anticipate my presents!

…I truly long for those days again.

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After having a Genesis and Game Gear, I wanted this thing so fucking bad.

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Wound up with 2 of these over the years and they were the absolute best, but carrying around a Brazilion batteries wasn’t ideal.

Way too good for it’s day.

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That’s awesome, but so is Saga.

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Probably the game I played the most on the Game Gear was Shinobi II The Silent Fury.

I still have the continue code I always used to have everything unlocked. “3FFFE”.

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Ooof… Shinobi series was tough

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Damn, I completely forgot playing Shinobi on Game Gear… I don’t remember which one it was. I thought it was 3, but apparently that wasn’t on G.G. It was probably 2.

I vaguely recall being stuck at the last level where it required switching back and forth through all of the powers you obtained throughout the game, and it was really fucking hard. Don’t think I ever beat it.

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And you could watch TV in it

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With the Tv Tuner. That was bought separately. For not a little amount.

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Yeah, i know. Our “rich friend” had both, of course

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I never actually saw the tuner in the wild

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There was also an adapter to play Master System games.

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My dad was a bit of a tinkerer, and he attached a power plug to the battery terminals of my gameboy and gamegear to avoid buying me batteries. So long as the wires never popped off the battery springs, I was right as rain.

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I still do that to some of my electronic devices—the ones that aren’t soldered-in LiPO4 batteries anyway.

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My dad did the same thing. It was permanently wired to his car and we loved it. We drove cross country a few times and played the entire time.

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They sold rechargeable battery packs for them. I’m almost positive mine had an ac adapter plug on the console itself too.

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I wasn’t the one who hated the battery life–my mother, who had to pay for the batteries, hated the battery life.

I just loved it.

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