I meant to say: "I ADD the link to this your 2-Bit Gaming - 026 - Sega Game Gear (Alternatives to Gameboy) and NOT "I had the link to this your 2-Bit Gaming - 026 - Sega Game Gear (Alternatives to Gameboy)." Your Game Gear video above is great so keep up the good work.
I love Sega so much that I made a video about Game Gear and Sega Genesis in which the Sega Genesis video have two parts. I have the Sega blue Game Gear. I did had fond memories of Game Gear in which I hated that Sonic The Hedgehog 2 for Game Gear that you show between 5:52 to 6:19 because it was so hard for me to beat it. One more thing Kevin in the "Show more" or (more info) below my Sega blue Game Gear I had the link to this your 2-Bit Gaming - 026 - Sega Game Gear (Alternatives to Gameboy).
i need a serious answer here. Im playing my new game gear i got from ebay, and i put in sonic 2 but lines coming from the life counter and the floor this also happens with first sonic but not as noticeable.. is this normal of or is my screen losing life. if you need an example of what im saying please tell me ill make a vid. PLEASE HELP!!!
@bion456 You probably have some bad capacitors. Some might not be as bad as others, but it's better to replace them all. I can't say for sure that is your problem, but replacing the capacitors is a good place to start.
Ha! just bought a game gear today and I was looking for cool game gear games, unfortunatley in that matter your review didn't help me because I bought it with ALL the sonic games you just reviewed.
@TasteTheirFeet If you like strategy RPGs like FF Tactics get Shining Force. Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden are good. Ax Battler is like Zelda II. Columns is a classic puzzler. If you can find it Mega Man is a great port. Dynamite Headdy and Ristar are really great and cheap at Amazon so don't miss out on those gems. There was a port of Gunstar Heroes, but I don't have it so I can't say if it's hard to find or not.
the gameboy becomes completely obsolete since the release of the gbc,gba,sp.
no one wants to ever wastles 4 battery's for such a bad screen ,if you just can use 2 batterý's on a gbc, will having a longer lifespan and abetter screen and in color.
SEGA has filed a new hardware trademark called "KIDSPAD" and may be planning on entering the game tablet market. Also they are working on a new console codenamed "NEPTUNE/Neptunia which will be based off a newer high powered ray tracing 512-bit arcade board which will be non PC based called SEGADRIVE. PM for details.
@Tornado1994 The Neptune was the Genesis/32X combo system that Sega never got past the prototype stage before focusing on the Sega Saturn. "Neptunia" is just a character name from a silly RPG based on the videogame industry. If Sega is working on a new arcade board they are probably planing on releasing new arcade games on it since Sega Sammy is still in the arcade industry in Japan. As for a gaming tablet for kids, that would be really cool.
@kainkusanagi SEGA always bases its console off of arcade boards. They've actually been very busy with hardware patents for about two years and have issued patents for controllers,hard drives,wi-fi adaptors,flash drives e.t.c. NEPTUNE is being used as the console's codename so that no one will supspect anything. SEGA goes through great lengths to keep console rumors from getting out, your not even allowed to speculate on thier forum!
@Tornado1994 I'll believe it when I see it. Big corporations trademark and patent all kinds of stuff all the time just in case they ever want to use it or so if someone else wants to they have to pay to use it. Believe what you want, but in my opinion Sega knows there's more money in publishing games than selling hardware and there isn't room for a fourth console, heck there's barely room for three. A children's gaming tablet is more likely, but again I'll believe when I see it.
I've seen many videos and websites that show how people have built their own SEGA Neptune by connecting the SEGA 32X Hardware to a Model 2 SEGA Genesis Motherboard.
@Riddler95 The ones I've seen are just fitting 32X hardware into a Genesis 2 case. It's cool, but the Neptune was going to look a lot different. I haven't done the modification myself, but I'm sure it's just a matter of soldering a lot of wires and cleaverly craming stuff into a tiny case. I don't really see the point since at the end of the day you just have a 32X in a smaller case. I like the giant combo system of a Genesis with a Sega CD and a 32X, it's epic.
@Tornado1994 All indications point to it. Also, SEGA has confirmed that Sonic Generations will never be released for Wii U and that they currently have no projects for the system except the Aliens "prototype". All of Wii U's other 3rd party titles are being preped for launch next June.
no, the Cannoo is the successor to the WIZ, both devices are manufactured by GPH.
they announced that the cannoo will have full compability with all homebrews coded for the WIZ (backwards compability), but ive heard rumors that none of them works, i just wanted to get my facts right before i buy one, u know?
@0M9H4X sadly they left that up to the community developers, GPH did not want to fail like its previous company GP and I think they were more focused on creating a business model (fungp website) because they sure are not making enough money from selling caanoo's, Microsoft is in the same boat here with xbox (make money off xbox live)
But in a Firmware update who knows what can happen :)
@kainkusanagi Thanks for letting me know. Could you please provide me with a NTSC tv tuner? Because I couldn't find any at this point... plus I've heard in some review that it was only in PAL. So... let me know if you find any american version. Thanks! Very nice vids BTW, big fan!
@bertinouellet You can get a US TV Tuner at amazon and ebay or a used game shop if they have them. They are common, but after the US switched to Digital TV Broadcasting there are very few places that still broadcast analogue stations.
@kainkusanagi Since the Game Gear works with any games worldwide, all the game gears are the same. So it could very well be that the tv tuner was PAL, but, actually it wouldn't be a problem since its desing for the game gear, that are universal... :O
@bertinouellet The games work on all Game Gears, but TV is different because the channels are not the same frequencies. You can plug a PAL tuner into a USA Game Gear and it should work in the UK, but not in the USA where the channels are different. The same goes for a USA tuner in a UK Game Gear, it only works if you are using it in the area the channels are.
@g1TEGentertainment Of what if they went with a monochrome screen like the original Gameboy? It would have been more powerful, cost less, and still had all those Sega exclusives. Color and backlight were cool but the market was viable yet.
Well men in Canada can show emotions other than angry or happy under law under the condition they qualify it with a five-o-clock shadow or large adam's apple in order to instantaneously reclaim their perceived masculinity loss lol--whoops! being a little too gleeful there with the laughing out loud, better not shave today :D
The I had both the Game Gear and the Nomad, I think the Nomad was so much better in all aspects, you had better graphics, processing, and the whole Genesis game library. Too bad they release it too late to catch on, I think they truly could've demolished Gameboy's marketshare with this product if they had marketed it right.
@crimsonsamuraiftw I love the Nomad, but to me it's not a portable system. Sure you can pack it easier than a Genesis and a TV, but it eats batteries worse than the Game Gear and it doesn't have it's own game library. It works best if you plug it into a wall, hook it up to a TV, and get a buddy to plug in a second controller. It's really just a Genesis with a built in screen and controller.
All the GG Sonic games were great, including Sonic Blast!! I have, or have had, most of them except for Sonic 2, which I really should look online for (some day!!) To be honest, I hadn't even heard of Tails Adventure till now ... must download it sometime
the gimmicky ones (spinball, drift, labyrinth etc) were pretty rubbish tho
@pancakejarsrfun Yeah I have one too, but I consider it a portable Genesis not a stand alone handheld. The Game Gear plays Game Gear games but the Nomad plays Genesis games. See, I consider it just a version of the Genesis. I'll be doing an episode on it, but I don't really count it as a true handheld.
YoYo Games is porting GameMaker to OSX. When their finish, if I can port it, I will. I have a Mac Mini to port it with so hopefully everything will work out.
Do you mean the GBC version? Well... Donkey Kong Land 1-3 for GB and Country for GBC contained the great gameplay of the DK series. But Sonic Blast was SLOOOOOOW! That's what they took out of the classics. If it was in 2D it would have been fast and speedy, that's what made Triple Trouble and the others so awesome and great! Do you agree?
All those games are actually 2D. They just use computer rendered sprites that kind of look 3D. The speed doesn't have anything to do with the graphics. Blast is slow because its developer sucked and no it wasn't Sonic Team.
The next Game boy alternatives vid should probably be the NGPC, I just bought one and it's great, also it's the third most successful GB competitor, after the PSP and GG of course.
The GG which I got a couple months ago is great too.
The next Gameboy Alternative might be the Lynx, but it will be awhile before I get to it. I'll tell you right now the Lynx has almost no value to anyone but die hard Atari fans and people like me who grew up wanting one. Nostalgia helps, but very few games are worth playing.
There really aren't any worth buying the system for, but there are a few that if you somehow ended up with them you might enjoy playing for a few minutes. You know, if they were free you wouldn't feel ripped off. It's like that.
Great video, I was able to play some games in the GG, a shame that most were crappy ones xD, but got some good ones too, I specially remember the Streets of Rage 2 port. Also I would have been nice a little comment about the Nomad, even though it wasnt a system by itself but a portable Genesis.
I fondly remember the Game Gear, especially being able to play Master System games. Here in Australia, the Master System was more popular than it was in the US, and it was cool back in the day. I would have loved to own a game gear, one kid at school had one.
Mainly as Nintendo were idiots, they far outpriced themselves, Games were being sold for £70 ($130) so only rich kids ever had them, and then they refused to stock them in places like Woolworths. In fact the only place I do recall them ever being for sale were in a Drug Store called Boots and Toys R Us.
yeah nintendo were jokers back in the day in the uk. all their games on NES, SNES and 64 were insanely expensive compared to their sega/sony counter parts. dont know if your from the uk but iv just seen an episode of bad influence on here that reviewed iss deluxe on the snes priced at 60 quid!?! thats like 100 quid in today's money. and bar the couple of virtua games on the mega drive, I know for a fact games were no more than 40
If you're talking about the "Archives" part of the video, that CD rack is filled with nothing but Dreamcast games. The visible ones facing the camera are Sonic Adventure 2, AeroWings 2: AirStrike, and Spiderman, from the top down.
Oh, I forgot about that one. It's Fur Fighters. It's really not even the game, just an animated label that came with the game. I pealed it off cause it won't fit in my CD rake with it on.
Although i never played games on the Game Gear (the Game Boy was just too popular, when I found out about the existence of this system Sega was gone as a console manufacturer), the video did remind me of all the time I spent playing games on the GB Color (especially the part about adjusting the light conditions). Too bad the games are sometimes hard to find or in very poor condition. Thank god for emulators. They allow me to relive my Game Boy days and play games that I missed out on.
Rechargeable batteries barely last at all in the Game Gear. There was a rechargeable pack for it back in the day, but the point is that it needed to be more energy efficient. Yeah, the Gameboy was just barely small enough to fit in an adults pocket, but not a child's. The Game Gear fits snugly in an Adults pocket, but it's just a little too big to walk around with in there.
I still remember how I fell in love with it when I saw a display unit on a store. That thing had some pretty awesome games like Shinobi, some impressive ports like Ristar and a few but nice exclusives like Sylvan Tale...if it at least had better 3rd party support back then. Just think about it...what if Capcom and Konami actually had made games for the GameGear!? Thanks heavens for the SMS/GameGear emulator for the DS. ^_^
oh just a warning dont leave yr baterys in the game gear for to long i went to go play mine the other day and there was a whole bunch of battery acid its weird couse the batterys were new when i put them in
For some reason they made a blue Game Gear that came with the Lion King. What the color blue has to do with Lion King I have no idea. I took it and a copy of Mortal Kombat 2 on vacation with me... it gave me motion sickness on the plane ride. One game that should have played well on GG but didn't was Mega Man.
man, my best friend had a game gear once and i played it from time to time when i am at his place or when i wanted to take a break from playing my game boy color. the games it offered are reaky fun, but it is the kind of console where you have to put it in a bag or something along with some batteries and it's AC adpeter.
this video is nice, and i would like to say thanks for making halo GG and GB compatible with vista. it works fine now.
Nice video again. I also hope you win the Comp 5 going on if you are planning to enter it. Wish me luck as i am doing the same and planning on making mine look like the gameboy pocket. hehe
Good luck to you too. I may enter, but only if I have time to work on it. I probably won't be entering my Halo game because it requires two buttons. If I cut the ability to throw grenades I could enter it, but I also have an idea for another 8bit handheld game.
less than a doller im from scotland so i dont think i would be able to buy retro in stores but i am collecting out of curiosity where do you buy all your stuff
Pawn shops and thrift stores and second hand stores have old games. What ones depends on the location and what happens to be there the day you walk in. Ebay and Amazon are great sources, but you have to pay shipping so a $1 game ends up $4 just to get it to you.
Sonic isn't about speed. That's a misconception. Sure most levels have a few places that let you go really fast and zip around loops. But they're really platform games that require exploration.
Although if you know where stuff is you can jump over everything and do a speed run., which is fun too.
once again great video, although I did find a solution for the battery issue which was to just buy a rechargeable pack (which for some reason mine clips on a belt)
I have but one memory of the game gear. There once was a person whom rode on the same bus as me and some of my friends. Unlike us he didn't have a gameboy, he had a game gear. We had never seen it before and it was amazing to us. Unfortunatley he never let me play due to the short battery life.
I used to take my GameBoy to school a lot and I remember one kid telling me that GameGirl has color. I said there's no such ting as a GameGirl and he insisted there was.
Looking back I think he must have meant Game Gear.
What about the Sega Nomad? That was a successor to the game gear somewhat. It was 16 bit and you could take your genesis games on the go. That was segas last handheld . Though it is cool it was a bad seller :(
That's true, but I consider the Nomad more just a version of the Genesis since it only plays Genesis games. It sucked batteries even worse than the Game Gear so you always ended up pluging it in. It even let you plug in a second controller and it have AV out to TV as well.
It's really just a home console with a screen and buttons built in. Using batteries on it was like throwing them away.
My game gear has light-moderate bleeding. How long until my caps die?
TheCIScommander 1 week ago
@TheCIScommander I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "bleeding". Do you mean the caps are leaking?
kainkusanagi 1 week ago
@kainkusanagi ghost lines on the screen. If a colour is really intense the object will lightly go through the screen.
TheCIScommander 1 week ago
@TheCIScommander You probably have some bad capacitors that need replacing.
kainkusanagi 1 week ago
@kainkusanagi I'll replace them when the bleeding becomes really bad/flickering in the screen.
TheCIScommander 1 week ago
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I meant to say: "I ADD the link to this your 2-Bit Gaming - 026 - Sega Game Gear (Alternatives to Gameboy) and NOT "I had the link to this your 2-Bit Gaming - 026 - Sega Game Gear (Alternatives to Gameboy)." Your Game Gear video above is great so keep up the good work.
FascinatingVision 2 months ago
I love Sega so much that I made a video about Game Gear and Sega Genesis in which the Sega Genesis video have two parts. I have the Sega blue Game Gear. I did had fond memories of Game Gear in which I hated that Sonic The Hedgehog 2 for Game Gear that you show between 5:52 to 6:19 because it was so hard for me to beat it. One more thing Kevin in the "Show more" or (more info) below my Sega blue Game Gear I had the link to this your 2-Bit Gaming - 026 - Sega Game Gear (Alternatives to Gameboy).
FascinatingVision 2 months ago
i need a serious answer here. Im playing my new game gear i got from ebay, and i put in sonic 2 but lines coming from the life counter and the floor this also happens with first sonic but not as noticeable.. is this normal of or is my screen losing life. if you need an example of what im saying please tell me ill make a vid. PLEASE HELP!!!
bion456 3 months ago
@bion456 You probably have some bad capacitors. Some might not be as bad as others, but it's better to replace them all. I can't say for sure that is your problem, but replacing the capacitors is a good place to start.
kainkusanagi 3 months ago
Ha! just bought a game gear today and I was looking for cool game gear games, unfortunatley in that matter your review didn't help me because I bought it with ALL the sonic games you just reviewed.
TasteTheirFeet 3 months ago
@TasteTheirFeet If you like strategy RPGs like FF Tactics get Shining Force. Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden are good. Ax Battler is like Zelda II. Columns is a classic puzzler. If you can find it Mega Man is a great port. Dynamite Headdy and Ristar are really great and cheap at Amazon so don't miss out on those gems. There was a port of Gunstar Heroes, but I don't have it so I can't say if it's hard to find or not.
kainkusanagi 3 months ago
i just got a nomad very cool hey do you shall make videos off games?
SuperFieroGT 5 months ago
Ahhh memories. :)
exil3dlivecom 5 months ago
nice green hill zone remix
ocarinag33k 5 months ago
i miss my game gear and i toke mine wall over the would and i came in handed in a 16-17h flit.
0clake 6 months ago
the gameboy becomes completely obsolete since the release of the gbc,gba,sp.
no one wants to ever wastles 4 battery's for such a bad screen ,if you just can use 2 batterý's on a gbc, will having a longer lifespan and abetter screen and in color.
the gamegear is just hot and not obsolete .
Hengeloyo 7 months ago
I just found out about this channel and I have to say it's pretty good.
Keep it up.
FPietros 7 months ago
I liked Blast and Labryinth.
GizmoFan1 11 months ago
SEGA has filed a new hardware trademark called "KIDSPAD" and may be planning on entering the game tablet market. Also they are working on a new console codenamed "NEPTUNE/Neptunia which will be based off a newer high powered ray tracing 512-bit arcade board which will be non PC based called SEGADRIVE. PM for details.
Tornado1994 11 months ago
@Tornado1994 The Neptune was the Genesis/32X combo system that Sega never got past the prototype stage before focusing on the Sega Saturn. "Neptunia" is just a character name from a silly RPG based on the videogame industry. If Sega is working on a new arcade board they are probably planing on releasing new arcade games on it since Sega Sammy is still in the arcade industry in Japan. As for a gaming tablet for kids, that would be really cool.
kainkusanagi 11 months ago
@kainkusanagi SEGA has actually been very busy issuing new patent for about 2 years. Most of them pretain to controllers,flash drive et.c.
Tornado1994 11 months ago
@kainkusanagi SEGA always bases its console off of arcade boards. They've actually been very busy with hardware patents for about two years and have issued patents for controllers,hard drives,wi-fi adaptors,flash drives e.t.c. NEPTUNE is being used as the console's codename so that no one will supspect anything. SEGA goes through great lengths to keep console rumors from getting out, your not even allowed to speculate on thier forum!
Tornado1994 11 months ago
@Tornado1994 I'll believe it when I see it. Big corporations trademark and patent all kinds of stuff all the time just in case they ever want to use it or so if someone else wants to they have to pay to use it. Believe what you want, but in my opinion Sega knows there's more money in publishing games than selling hardware and there isn't room for a fourth console, heck there's barely room for three. A children's gaming tablet is more likely, but again I'll believe when I see it.
kainkusanagi 11 months ago
I've seen many videos and websites that show how people have built their own SEGA Neptune by connecting the SEGA 32X Hardware to a Model 2 SEGA Genesis Motherboard.
It seems pretty neat, do you know how to do it?
Riddler95 8 months ago
@Riddler95 The ones I've seen are just fitting 32X hardware into a Genesis 2 case. It's cool, but the Neptune was going to look a lot different. I haven't done the modification myself, but I'm sure it's just a matter of soldering a lot of wires and cleaverly craming stuff into a tiny case. I don't really see the point since at the end of the day you just have a 32X in a smaller case. I like the giant combo system of a Genesis with a Sega CD and a 32X, it's epic.
kainkusanagi 8 months ago
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Riddler95 8 months ago
@Tornado1994 All indications point to it. Also, SEGA has confirmed that Sonic Generations will never be released for Wii U and that they currently have no projects for the system except the Aliens "prototype". All of Wii U's other 3rd party titles are being preped for launch next June.
Tornado1994 8 months ago
wow who would've thought that searching for game gear videos I would come upon an excellent review
very well made, those where nearly 10 minutes well spent, subscribed =D
NOOBEPICASSO 1 year ago
@NOOBEPICASSO Glad you liked it!
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
Can you review the Sega Nomad
maotico 1 year ago
MAN I LOVED THE GAME GEAR..I SWEAR IT WUD HAVE DESTROYED GAME BOY IF IT WASNT FOR THE DAM BATTERIES !!
STUMPYBOY1 1 year ago
I feel awful that I lost my father's Turbo Express. If I knew what it really was I would've probably took better care of it.
Kefka44 1 year ago
ALMOST.
hitmanbrock 1 year ago
Digital TV Converter Hack
/watch?v=lVKm45r0uUY
This would work perfect for your Game Gear.
17R3W 1 year ago
I like the terminator game
Ryanr75rc 1 year ago
@kainkusanagi why are u not making any more videos
Ryanr75rc 1 year ago
It is impossible to play game gear games on the master system because the game gear has a larger color palette than the master system
Supersourcrout 1 year ago
ah yes, memories, I remember when I first played a gamegear I was amazed.
I just got my latest handhold The "GPH Caanoo", it is awesome. Would be cool if you ported your games to it :)
GloomFate 1 year ago
@GloomFate GPH Caanoo is such an odd name for a handheld. But cool.
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
@GloomFate:
does the canoo play al the WIZ games and apps?
im thinkin about getting one.
0M9H4X 1 year ago
@0M9H4X Not straight out of the box but I believe there might be a emulator that can run them which I have not tried yet, check out openhandhelds org
GloomFate 1 year ago
@GloomFate:
no, the Cannoo is the successor to the WIZ, both devices are manufactured by GPH.
they announced that the cannoo will have full compability with all homebrews coded for the WIZ (backwards compability), but ive heard rumors that none of them works, i just wanted to get my facts right before i buy one, u know?
0M9H4X 1 year ago
@0M9H4X sadly they left that up to the community developers, GPH did not want to fail like its previous company GP and I think they were more focused on creating a business model (fungp website) because they sure are not making enough money from selling caanoo's, Microsoft is in the same boat here with xbox (make money off xbox live)
But in a Firmware update who knows what can happen :)
GloomFate 1 year ago
BTW, the tv tuner only exists in PAL format...
bertinouellet 1 year ago
@bertinouellet It was sold in the USA.
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
@kainkusanagi Thanks for letting me know. Could you please provide me with a NTSC tv tuner? Because I couldn't find any at this point... plus I've heard in some review that it was only in PAL. So... let me know if you find any american version. Thanks! Very nice vids BTW, big fan!
bertinouellet 1 year ago
@bertinouellet You can get a US TV Tuner at amazon and ebay or a used game shop if they have them. They are common, but after the US switched to Digital TV Broadcasting there are very few places that still broadcast analogue stations.
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
@kainkusanagi Thanks for the info!
bertinouellet 1 year ago
@kainkusanagi Since the Game Gear works with any games worldwide, all the game gears are the same. So it could very well be that the tv tuner was PAL, but, actually it wouldn't be a problem since its desing for the game gear, that are universal... :O
bertinouellet 1 year ago
@bertinouellet The games work on all Game Gears, but TV is different because the channels are not the same frequencies. You can plug a PAL tuner into a USA Game Gear and it should work in the UK, but not in the USA where the channels are different. The same goes for a USA tuner in a UK Game Gear, it only works if you are using it in the area the channels are.
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
I wonder what would of happened if Sega waited
g1TEGentertainment 1 year ago
@g1TEGentertainment Of what if they went with a monochrome screen like the original Gameboy? It would have been more powerful, cost less, and still had all those Sega exclusives. Color and backlight were cool but the market was viable yet.
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
"just thinking about it almost makes me cry...ALMOST!"
haha yeah it's like 'oh no! whatever you do don't cry! that would be so awful!' imagine if you actually thought that? lol
unfortunatebeam 1 year ago
@unfortunatebeam Men in the USA aren't allowed to show any emotions other than happy and angry. It's the law! ;)
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
@kainkusanagi hmm, interesting.
Well men in Canada can show emotions other than angry or happy under law under the condition they qualify it with a five-o-clock shadow or large adam's apple in order to instantaneously reclaim their perceived masculinity loss lol--whoops! being a little too gleeful there with the laughing out loud, better not shave today :D
unfortunatebeam 1 year ago
@unfortunatebeam Lol, good one!
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
The I had both the Game Gear and the Nomad, I think the Nomad was so much better in all aspects, you had better graphics, processing, and the whole Genesis game library. Too bad they release it too late to catch on, I think they truly could've demolished Gameboy's marketshare with this product if they had marketed it right.
crimsonsamuraiftw 1 year ago
@crimsonsamuraiftw I love the Nomad, but to me it's not a portable system. Sure you can pack it easier than a Genesis and a TV, but it eats batteries worse than the Game Gear and it doesn't have it's own game library. It works best if you plug it into a wall, hook it up to a TV, and get a buddy to plug in a second controller. It's really just a Genesis with a built in screen and controller.
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
All the GG Sonic games were great, including Sonic Blast!! I have, or have had, most of them except for Sonic 2, which I really should look online for (some day!!) To be honest, I hadn't even heard of Tails Adventure till now ... must download it sometime
the gimmicky ones (spinball, drift, labyrinth etc) were pretty rubbish tho
CheapBeer09 1 year ago
SHAQBERGERZ!!!1!!!!11
ScReWaTtAcKeD 1 year ago
I have the TV tuner and in my area there are still a few channels broadcast in analogue that it can pick up.
Additionally, the TV tuner has A/V inputs so you can play anything on it.
Britishdude1 1 year ago
@Britishdude1 Cool. I wonder how long those analogue channels will continue to broadcast?
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
Noticed you have not made a video in a while. Everything okay man?
PearlJammer07 1 year ago
@PearlJammer07 I have a video coming, but I can't say how soon.
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
Beating Cakarn the Forever Man on the Game Gear is one of my fondest gaming memories.
Alurkerdood 1 year ago
I just got a Game Gear for $15 with the Tv Tuner and some games
justiphi555 1 year ago
Sega didn't stop after the game gear. They also made the sega nomad. It was like a portable Genesis. I had one.
pancakejarsrfun 1 year ago
@pancakejarsrfun Yeah I have one too, but I consider it a portable Genesis not a stand alone handheld. The Game Gear plays Game Gear games but the Nomad plays Genesis games. See, I consider it just a version of the Genesis. I'll be doing an episode on it, but I don't really count it as a true handheld.
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
The Master system rocks. That version of Sonic was my first game ever, this was because it was built into the SMS Mrk II
lister101 1 year ago
dude, great video ! I had a gamegear with sonic 1 and 2. I beat sonic chaos in a day and returned it. Never beat the other ones
vontigenes 1 year ago
my favorite game on game gear is vampire its an awsome cheap ripoff of castlevania. its a lot better than castlevania
OmagaMinion 1 year ago
This is awesome!
Just got sonic 2, columns, and sonic chaos for GG and it's really fun. Owning 7 titles is not nearly enough for the GG.
TheAwesomeChicken 1 year ago
MORE VIDS DUDE!
edwardjoe89 1 year ago
another great review!
SuperMLSA 1 year ago
sonic blast was bad? why?
knightwolfwinnerV3 1 year ago
@knightwolfwinnerV3 Play the rom in an emulator and see how much fun you have, if you can stand to even look at it's terrible graphics.
kainkusanagi 1 year ago
Shining Force Sword of Hajya and Sonic Triple Trouble blew away everything the Game Boy had,
Deokishisu 1 year ago
i still drag my gameboy around, and im trying to get the original one since i hate how the gameboy color has no contrast dial
Sillyzombie666 1 year ago
Whens your next vid
JOESONYNERD 2 years ago
Thanks for creating the Halo game!
Can I make maybe even a review of it with credit given?
SpaceNinja88 2 years ago
Sure. Let me send you the latest version with a few bug fixes.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
Thank you!
SpaceNinja88 2 years ago
kane is your next vid you should get yer baws oot
lewisbmth 1 year ago
@kainkusanagi when is your next episode coming out i am eagerly awating it so soon hopefully
lewisbmth 1 year ago
could you please, please, please make the games for Mac OSx too? I don't have a PC to play the halo game on. It would be so awesome. Thanx. :)
blagork 2 years ago
YoYo Games is porting GameMaker to OSX. When their finish, if I can port it, I will. I have a Mac Mini to port it with so hopefully everything will work out.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
Thank you! :D
blagork 2 years ago
1.51 Your face is soooooo Priceless
Sheepy007 2 years ago
Why did they even make Blast in 3D? It's an 8-bit console!
raikiriboss 2 years ago
For the same reason the did it in Donkey Kong Country. It was trendy in the 90's.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
Do you mean the GBC version? Well... Donkey Kong Land 1-3 for GB and Country for GBC contained the great gameplay of the DK series. But Sonic Blast was SLOOOOOOW! That's what they took out of the classics. If it was in 2D it would have been fast and speedy, that's what made Triple Trouble and the others so awesome and great! Do you agree?
raikiriboss 2 years ago
All those games are actually 2D. They just use computer rendered sprites that kind of look 3D. The speed doesn't have anything to do with the graphics. Blast is slow because its developer sucked and no it wasn't Sonic Team.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
I just played Sonic Blast on the Sonic Mega Collection Plus for PS2, and my GOD, it's HORRENDOUS
M4R14NO94 2 years ago
Oh my. I'm sorry you had to see that.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
You were right. Blast and Labyrinth both SUCK
M4R14NO94 2 years ago
The Game Gear is a great system and so much fun to play, but the often break and the 3 I could get my hands on where broken too.
In most cases the sound or the backlite are screwed.
Ultimateunnamed 2 years ago
It's easy to fix, but neither of those issues had anything to do with the handheld war at the time. It took a decade for them to break down.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
I have a queston
Does every model of Gamegear not have regoin lockout
JOESONYNERD 2 years ago
As far as I know all Game Gear games work in all Game Gears.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
The next Game boy alternatives vid should probably be the NGPC, I just bought one and it's great, also it's the third most successful GB competitor, after the PSP and GG of course.
The GG which I got a couple months ago is great too.
Andthatswhymacssuck 2 years ago
Could your next review be the Lynx
JOESONYNERD 2 years ago
The next Gameboy Alternative might be the Lynx, but it will be awhile before I get to it. I'll tell you right now the Lynx has almost no value to anyone but die hard Atari fans and people like me who grew up wanting one. Nostalgia helps, but very few games are worth playing.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
what are the games worth playing
JOESONYNERD 2 years ago
There really aren't any worth buying the system for, but there are a few that if you somehow ended up with them you might enjoy playing for a few minutes. You know, if they were free you wouldn't feel ripped off. It's like that.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
Eh, more or less.
Andthatswhymacssuck 2 years ago
u ever gunna get to psp
jermz345 2 years ago
im now turning into a collector thnx to u avgn and retrogamer3
jakesethsnake1 2 years ago
meez like the game gear i bought one online
jakesethsnake1 2 years ago
great really enjoyed that video keep up the great work
loughman4life 2 years ago
the game gear is the shiz lol
johnwdel 2 years ago
great episode! i love th gg - but damn those caps. :( i have four GGs and all of them have borked caps. need to get around to fixing them.
MustNotRead 2 years ago
i remember playing this system like crazy, wish i still had one. and as for your halo games what would an 8-bit or 16-bit half-life look like.
joeshadowman 2 years ago
jajajajajjajjJJJAJAJJAJA...I LOVED THE REENACTMEN PART HAJAJAJAJ...REALLY FUNNY MAN....KEEP IT UP.
juan54321 2 years ago
Great video, I was able to play some games in the GG, a shame that most were crappy ones xD, but got some good ones too, I specially remember the Streets of Rage 2 port. Also I would have been nice a little comment about the Nomad, even though it wasnt a system by itself but a portable Genesis.
Jofe000 2 years ago
I'll be doing a video about the Nomad separately.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
Great vid as always. Favorite GameGear game "Psychic Force" and worst game is Batman Forever.
GODv8thwonder 2 years ago
Man, I grew up with Sonic 2 on the Master System.
Although, I wonder, if the Game Gear screen is smaller than the Master System's, how could you play SMS games on it?
20eric07 2 years ago
It works surprisingly well, but sometimes text is a little too small to read.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
Well, yeah, but what I mean is, the resolution is smaller, does it crop or resize the SMS games?
20eric07 2 years ago
ALMOST!
VideoGameJake 2 years ago
alsome i can't spell
WWIILLL 2 years ago
I fondly remember the Game Gear, especially being able to play Master System games. Here in Australia, the Master System was more popular than it was in the US, and it was cool back in the day. I would have loved to own a game gear, one kid at school had one.
wocko1 2 years ago
I've heard the Master System was more popular than the NES in Australia, but not as popular as it was in Brazil.
It's funny how different markets around the world receive things.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
It was infinetly more popular in the UK too.
Mainly as Nintendo were idiots, they far outpriced themselves, Games were being sold for £70 ($130) so only rich kids ever had them, and then they refused to stock them in places like Woolworths. In fact the only place I do recall them ever being for sale were in a Drug Store called Boots and Toys R Us.
ScrewAttackEurope 2 years ago
yeah nintendo were jokers back in the day in the uk. all their games on NES, SNES and 64 were insanely expensive compared to their sega/sony counter parts. dont know if your from the uk but iv just seen an episode of bad influence on here that reviewed iss deluxe on the snes priced at 60 quid!?! thats like 100 quid in today's money. and bar the couple of virtua games on the mega drive, I know for a fact games were no more than 40
belter321123 2 years ago
I am yeah, Konami N64 games were always priced at £59.99 I bought ISS and Mystical Ninja at that price.
Street Fighter II on the SNES was £65
ScrewAttackEurope 2 years ago
Magic Knight Raider wasn't the last Saturn game.The House Of The Dead was the last Saturn game ever.
catclaw357 2 years ago
Just need to know something: the Dreamcast game you have in the background, which one is it?
M4R14NO94 2 years ago
If you're talking about the "Archives" part of the video, that CD rack is filled with nothing but Dreamcast games. The visible ones facing the camera are Sonic Adventure 2, AeroWings 2: AirStrike, and Spiderman, from the top down.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
No, not during the Archives part, I'm talking near that poster of the Cotton game for the Saturn
M4R14NO94 2 years ago
Oh, I forgot about that one. It's Fur Fighters. It's really not even the game, just an animated label that came with the game. I pealed it off cause it won't fit in my CD rake with it on.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
Yeah, I thought it was Fur Fighters, but I wasn't sure. BTW, is it any good? Because I'm thinking of getting the PS2 port (Viggo's Revenge)
M4R14NO94 2 years ago
Yeah it's a decent 3rd person shooter with a sense of humor.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
I want a shaq burger
maxvago1234 2 years ago 2
Although i never played games on the Game Gear (the Game Boy was just too popular, when I found out about the existence of this system Sega was gone as a console manufacturer), the video did remind me of all the time I spent playing games on the GB Color (especially the part about adjusting the light conditions). Too bad the games are sometimes hard to find or in very poor condition. Thank god for emulators. They allow me to relive my Game Boy days and play games that I missed out on.
Zatiria 2 years ago
Nice to see a new video that isn't a tutorial :P
Great Vid!
superedd93 2 years ago
yea its about time!
Seamonky72 2 years ago
Now in these days, there are rechargable batteries including for mp3 players and for gaming devices.
And Game Boys we're made for you to put in your pocket.
There was also a Nintendo DS demo video of Halo 2.
4 stars.
ElricSowrd 2 years ago
Rechargeable batteries barely last at all in the Game Gear. There was a rechargeable pack for it back in the day, but the point is that it needed to be more energy efficient. Yeah, the Gameboy was just barely small enough to fit in an adults pocket, but not a child's. The Game Gear fits snugly in an Adults pocket, but it's just a little too big to walk around with in there.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
Lol, and forget about fitting a Lynx in your pocket, if you managed to cram that thing in one, people would think you're Ron Jeremy :D
ScrewAttackEurope 2 years ago
I still remember how I fell in love with it when I saw a display unit on a store. That thing had some pretty awesome games like Shinobi, some impressive ports like Ristar and a few but nice exclusives like Sylvan Tale...if it at least had better 3rd party support back then. Just think about it...what if Capcom and Konami actually had made games for the GameGear!? Thanks heavens for the SMS/GameGear emulator for the DS. ^_^
itamax 2 years ago
Great episode
linkuofcourage 2 years ago
Great episode, we need more like this. This is why I subscribe, great content us old schoolers love seeing. Ahhh nostalgia...
kmfdmkid2000 2 years ago
oh just a warning dont leave yr baterys in the game gear for to long i went to go play mine the other day and there was a whole bunch of battery acid its weird couse the batterys were new when i put them in
TheDon212 2 years ago
That can happen with anything, it's not exclusive with handheld gaming systems.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
For some reason they made a blue Game Gear that came with the Lion King. What the color blue has to do with Lion King I have no idea. I took it and a copy of Mortal Kombat 2 on vacation with me... it gave me motion sickness on the plane ride. One game that should have played well on GG but didn't was Mega Man.
AlucardsQuest 2 years ago
They probably just had bunch of blue ones left over from the sports edition.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
lol ya i think it kinda sucks oh well i got 5 anyway i just found a sega cdx for $80 bucks well worth it
TheDon212 2 years ago
I remember that, ridiculous expensive and it didn't work with 32X from what I remember.
AlucardsQuest 2 years ago
It works, you just have to pull it off to put in CDs since it wasn't designed for it.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
another sweet episode!
ThePacificCrossing 2 years ago
You rock, Kain! I love your videos, please keep 'em comin'!
SonGokuGT 2 years ago
man, my best friend had a game gear once and i played it from time to time when i am at his place or when i wanted to take a break from playing my game boy color. the games it offered are reaky fun, but it is the kind of console where you have to put it in a bag or something along with some batteries and it's AC adpeter.
this video is nice, and i would like to say thanks for making halo GG and GB compatible with vista. it works fine now.
nemesis274 2 years ago
I had to fix only a few little things. Glad to hear you can play it.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
Nice video again. I also hope you win the Comp 5 going on if you are planning to enter it. Wish me luck as i am doing the same and planning on making mine look like the gameboy pocket. hehe
wyldfox2007 2 years ago
Good luck to you too. I may enter, but only if I have time to work on it. I probably won't be entering my Halo game because it requires two buttons. If I cut the ability to throw grenades I could enter it, but I also have an idea for another 8bit handheld game.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
less than a doller im from scotland so i dont think i would be able to buy retro in stores but i am collecting out of curiosity where do you buy all your stuff
lewisbmth 2 years ago
Pawn shops and thrift stores and second hand stores have old games. What ones depends on the location and what happens to be there the day you walk in. Ebay and Amazon are great sources, but you have to pay shipping so a $1 game ends up $4 just to get it to you.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
Holy crap!
I have those two Japanese Game Gear Games mere feet from me right now! In near perfect condition too!
XD
wilecoyote87 2 years ago
Hope you can read Japanese :)
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
I wish!
I think I mainly bought them for collecting purposes. But for getting two near-mint games on ebay for a mere five bucks, I can't complain. ^^
wilecoyote87 2 years ago
i never liked sonic
i just can't get into a game based on speed when you have to stop every 3 secs to make sure you don't hit spikes or an enemy
i do respect the series before it's jump to 3D and own a few myself
uglypinkmoose 2 years ago
Sonic isn't about speed. That's a misconception. Sure most levels have a few places that let you go really fast and zip around loops. But they're really platform games that require exploration.
Although if you know where stuff is you can jump over everything and do a speed run., which is fun too.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
@kainkusanagi
all the sonic fans i know are into the speed
but either way i don't care fot the platforming either
i'm more for mario, kirby, and megaman
kirby is to easy though which sucks
uglypinkmoose 2 years ago
Sonic fans tend to go on about speed becuase that's the one thing it does different from other platformers.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
once again great video, although I did find a solution for the battery issue which was to just buy a rechargeable pack (which for some reason mine clips on a belt)
dandudespaceman 2 years ago
Excellent vid; I've been on pins and needles for the new episode!
Nexum120 2 years ago
I have but one memory of the game gear. There once was a person whom rode on the same bus as me and some of my friends. Unlike us he didn't have a gameboy, he had a game gear. We had never seen it before and it was amazing to us. Unfortunatley he never let me play due to the short battery life.
monstro567 2 years ago
I used to take my GameBoy to school a lot and I remember one kid telling me that GameGirl has color. I said there's no such ting as a GameGirl and he insisted there was.
Looking back I think he must have meant Game Gear.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
What about the Sega Nomad? That was a successor to the game gear somewhat. It was 16 bit and you could take your genesis games on the go. That was segas last handheld . Though it is cool it was a bad seller :(
KudoShinichi1412 2 years ago
That's true, but I consider the Nomad more just a version of the Genesis since it only plays Genesis games. It sucked batteries even worse than the Game Gear so you always ended up pluging it in. It even let you plug in a second controller and it have AV out to TV as well.
It's really just a home console with a screen and buttons built in. Using batteries on it was like throwing them away.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago
Fixed it, thanks for he heads up.
kainkusanagi 2 years ago