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bikingjahuty:
Funny enough the Game Gear is probably the only post-NES platform that I've never had any desire to collect for. I had a friend in elementary school who had one and I was really jealous of him at the time, but I have not wanted one since then. I hear there are some excellent games on it, but sadly this was never enough to encourage me to collect for it.

ignition365:
I was a stupid Sega fanboy in my youth, honestly you can blame that on the Sonic AM cartoon. Super Mario World did change that though.

I wanted a Sega Genesis and a Game Gear. Never got the Genesis, got the SNES instead, so disappointed and upset, but then I played Super Mario World. Fell in love with that. Got a Gameboy, wasn't super thrilled, but Tetris was the bomb. Finally got a Game gear, and that thing blew my mind... and all of my batteries. It was hands down my favorite thing to play on as a child. Never had to fight with siblings to get a chance to play, just needed tons of batteries. That was the first downside. They eventually, the system just stopped working, and I've been so burned by that that I just hardly care about the system anymore... and it's such a damned shame, because it was innovative and it does have good games.

kashell:
I wanted a Game Gear like crazy. The fact that it was in color was all that I needed to convince myself that it was superior to the Game Boy. Then, you had that commercial in which a homely looking guy on a bench whacks himself with a dead-squirrel to make him see color on the Game Boy screen. The narrator then says, "There's an easier way to get color! Get a Game Gear!" and it was showing this handsome, hip guy rocking out on his Game Gear.

I never got one. I go through spells in which I think to myself that I should get one, but I never follow through.

mrnikon:

--- Quote from: ignition365 on October 06, 2016, 11:13:44 am ---I was a stupid Sega fanboy in my youth, honestly you can blame that on the Sonic AM cartoon. Super Mario World did change that though.

I wanted a Sega Genesis and a Game Gear. Never got the Genesis, got the SNES instead, so disappointed and upset, but then I played Super Mario World. Fell in love with that. Got a Gameboy, wasn't super thrilled, but Tetris was the bomb. Finally got a Game gear, and that thing blew my mind... and all of my batteries. It was hands down my favorite thing to play on as a child. Never had to fight with siblings to get a chance to play, just needed tons of batteries. That was the first downside. They eventually, the system just stopped working, and I've been so burned by that that I just hardly care about the system anymore... and it's such a damned shame, because it was innovative and it does have good games.

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Yeah it went beyond what the Original Gameboy could do. It is pretty much a scaled down SMS. I guess if the battery life wasn't total crap on it it may have out sold the Gameboy. Also if the Gameboy did not have Tetris. But besides all that its a good system that needs some loving! Also it has the illusion of not taking up any more space such as a Intelvision of Atari 7800. I almost bout one or both of those this past weekend. I am looking at the game library and some of the prices on them, and there are not too many games for it and the loose prices are not too bad(according to price charting). So it doesn't look like it is too hard to collect for.

ignition365:

--- Quote from: mrnikon on October 06, 2016, 02:15:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: ignition365 on October 06, 2016, 11:13:44 am ---I was a stupid Sega fanboy in my youth, honestly you can blame that on the Sonic AM cartoon. Super Mario World did change that though.

I wanted a Sega Genesis and a Game Gear. Never got the Genesis, got the SNES instead, so disappointed and upset, but then I played Super Mario World. Fell in love with that. Got a Gameboy, wasn't super thrilled, but Tetris was the bomb. Finally got a Game gear, and that thing blew my mind... and all of my batteries. It was hands down my favorite thing to play on as a child. Never had to fight with siblings to get a chance to play, just needed tons of batteries. That was the first downside. They eventually, the system just stopped working, and I've been so burned by that that I just hardly care about the system anymore... and it's such a damned shame, because it was innovative and it does have good games.

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Yeah it went beyond what the Original Gameboy could do. It is pretty much a scaled down SMS. I guess if the battery life wasn't total crap on it it may have out sold the Gameboy. Also if the Gameboy did not have Tetris. But besides all that its a good system that needs some loving! Also it has the illusion of not taking up any more space such as a Intelvision of Atari 7800. I almost bout one or both of those this past weekend. I am looking at the game library and some of the prices on them, and there are not too many games for it and the loose prices are not too bad(according to price charting). So it doesn't look like it is too hard to collect for.

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I think I have an extra of both of those if you have any interest in trading. ;)

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