Sega Game Gear

This was my old Sega Game Gear, I only sold this a year or two ago. It was the only original console I kept from my childhood.

This was Sega's answer to Nintendo's Gameboy and Atari's Lynx. The colour screen was going to make it the killer app with only two minor flaws. Firstly critics lickened the design of the console to a woman's handbag and secondly it required 6 AA batteries which didn't last very long.

Hardware-wise it was basically a handheld mastersystem, in fact you could get an adapter that plugged into the GG's game slot and accepted MasterSystem carts. Most of the dedicated GG games were just ports of Mastersystem games anyway. Mine was a US import (distinguished by the flat screen vs the rounded Europeand screen). However my GG went wrong and when I got it repaired it came back with a European front whilst retaining the US rear.

The cool thing for me about the GG was the TV tuner though. I used that all through uni in the first year and even had people crowded round it to watch TV at times. It was better than no TV at all, but only just.

The game you can see is GG Shinobi (a Japanese import) which in my opinion was probably one of the best games for the system. It was way better than Robocop Vs. Terminator anyway ;)