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Sega Game Gear - Color Portable Video Game System Review (continued)
More User Submitted Sega Game Gear - Color Portable Video Game System Reviews
Date: 2006-12-21
Ahead of it's time, overpowered by nintendo
This was a great color gaming system that broght the fun of most of the games of sega's genisis to a pocket version. The color graphics blew away any of it's competition at the time (except for the 16bit atari lynx system, highly overlooked), and should have layed waiste to the gameboy, except for the marketing and pricing. It is tough to believe that the survivor from this time period was the gameboy. This is family friendly, still readily available and with many titles in most used gaming stores. Very well worth looking at and buying for younger kids that may not be ready for a PSP. This has a few more maturer games for the pre-teens as well, so they can continue to devlop their interests beyond bubble bobble and kirby (even though bubble bobble is excellet, a classic). Worth looking at.
Date: 2006-12-13
Game Gear....great concept...bad results.
The Sega Game Gear was a brilliant idea, ahead of it's time, but perhaps that is why it never took off. The colored screen was magnificent. As the previous comment said, Game Boy was hard to over take. Yes Game Boy was in black and white, but it had all of the other things going its way. For example, Game Gear is more expensive, the games are more expensive, it's bigger, and the WORST thing about a Game Gear is that it's not much of a portable gaming system because it ran on 6 AA's I believe...and it died in about 40 minutes of play. The screen being lit was nice for night rides but only lasting 40 mins or so was not acceptable. A good system if you plan on sitting next to an outlet and playing but if you want to travel with it, I'd pass on the Game Gear unless you like paying more than the price of the Game Gear on batteries every couple months.
Date: 2006-11-08
Great color portable game system, unfortunate victum of Nintendo's game boy
This is a system that was ahead of its time. Nitendo's success of the late 80's was something all game companies scrabled to get in on. Sega failed with the Mastersystem, but gained ground with the genisis. Nintendo came out with the Gameboy, black and white, but portable, and nintendo expanded their power. Sega fought back with this, The game gear, a color portable system. Far superior to the game boy, which acutally took about another 5 years to even get a color version out, Game gear delivered quality graphic. Unfortunately, it was a little more expensive, and the marketing was less than the jaugernaut of nitendo. Many of the game companies made deals for their best games with nintendo, but this system did ok, and does have a good number of games available for it. I liked this system, and many games are avaiable now used online and at game stores. A good system, even by todays standard. The only system that preceeded this one with color, The atari Lynx...A very overlooked system. Anyway, now resonably price for a fun system..
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