Years ago I inherited my wife’s family’s Game Gear. After a recap, and replacing the backlight, I started tracking down games to play on it. It’s been great exploring a whole library of games that I skipped out on as a kid! (I was a Nintendo kid) Now I have a nice little library of carts to play on this beast of a 90’s handheld.
Sonic Spinball
Oh god, I’m so fucking sorry. Do you have like a donation page for your therapy bills or something.
It’s not a bad game, it’s just that it’s full of insta-death, has no pause or save features, and there is no Continue screen should you fail. If we stopped because we were being called to dinner, it meant having to play…the whole…game…again…all the way from the start. Proudly, we did eventually beat it, but mother of fuck
The Lion King crushed my dreams as a child. Game Gear, SNES, didn’t matter my little brain was done after the first level.
I made it past the first level once or twice as a kid, but that game was un-fun hard.
I was at a party a year or two ago and my friend booted it up on her Genesis. She smashed through every level with zero trouble (even the part with the monkeys tossing you, that always fucked me up!)
She got to the final stage, began giving Scar and…
The game froze. She’s like “motherfucker…” but it took but an hour for her to get there. She has like… memorized it. Restarted her Genesis and… nothing. Tried another game… nope.
Her fucking Genesis died. AT SCAR.
I blame Scar.
[Scar shoves Genesis off a cliff]
🎶Be prepared!🎶
LONG LIVE THE FINAL BOSS OF THIS GAME BECAUSE NOW YOU NEED A NEW CONSOLE
Are you challenging me?
Temper, temper… I wouldn’t dream of letting you finish this fight.
Because it gets stupid hard real fast. Even if you somehow make out the monkey puzzle on the 2nd level, the pinpoint jump, double jump situation at the end crushes whatever excitement you have. That level is harder than the final boss.
I kept hearing it was a “hidden gem”, but was honestly kind of disappointed with it. The music is great and the game is okay, but I think every other Disney licensed game I’ve tracked down so far for the Game Gear is better than the Lion King.
Gaaaah!
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Sonic 2 was STUPID difficult compared to the other Game Gear Sanic games.
Dynamite Headdy was stellar for its time, too.
If it wasn’t for the non-existent battery life the Game Gear could really have competed pretty strongly with the Game Boy, at least in the early '90s (nothing could stop the juggernaut that was Pokemon, though). The game library was decent, it had a backlight and color, and you basically had a portable Master System when it came to power. I was a Genesis kid who had a Game Boy, but still always wanted the Game Gear to play the franchises I had on the Genesis on the go.
Thank goodness for modern electronics!
With a LED backlight, the battery life of this almost triples! And rechargeable batteries are way better than what they were in the 90s.
I didn’t have any Sega System as a kid, so all the Sega franchises have been brand new to me the last few years - there’s some really great stuff in there!
That is a beautiful collection. High rec for the Gamegear Shining Force games. seems you have one of them already.
If you had to pick one, which would you highlight and why?
NBA Jam is the stuff! I played the heck out of it on SNES. He’s on fire! From downtown!
Yoooo primal rage tho love that one
Sonic Triple Trouble is absolute gold.
It’s great! So is Chaos.
Weirdly though, my favorite is still the first one.
Sonic 2 on the GG is absolute garbage.
why not alphabetically sorted
I prefer sorting by the average of their combined color codes. Starting with the ones closest to the mean then moving outwards.
My favorite game for Game Gear is Batman Returns and I never hear it talked about! It’s gorgeous, it has grappling hook based action gameplay. Every stage has two options to play through so you don’t get bored playing the same stages every time you power in on. And its very challenging but still beatable. I recommend it!
Mighty morphin power rangers was the first video game I ever beat, I was so proud of myself!
