I lusted after these when I was a kid, and eventually blew all my saved up Christmas/Birthday money on one.
The battery thing really sucked, but still had a lot of fun with it. Must of played that first level of Sonic 2 a thousand times.
My white whale was the TV tuner, I thought the idea was so cool as a kid.
I had a friend who brought their Game Gear with the TV tuner to the playground in elementary school, and it was a moment of absolute future shock. It didn’t matter that we could barely tell what was happening on the screen, because I couldn’t believe that it was even possible!
Platonic mostly
I owned Sonic 2 and Columns and… not much else.
As far as a retro systems and emulation is concerned, I mostly ignore it on favor of the Genesis, which has mostly the same games just better versions of them.
I’m sure there’s some game gear only banger I’m unaware of.
I had a friend who had one in college my freshman year. He brought it to show off and until that point I had no idea they even existed. Mind you, this was about 2013, so it was already “retro” at the time, but me, my roommate, and a few others present thought it was awesome and were going to try to find our own on EBay…right up until it died half an hour later and he had to replace ALL SIX of its AA batteries.
Shinobi 2 for Game Gear was a childhood favourite even if I didn’t have any batteries and just had to hang out near an outlet to play it. I booted it up on my Analogue Pocket recently, and it’s still super fun! I enjoyed a bunch of games on the system, but that’s the one that feels like an all-time classic to me.
