I never saw a game gear last 5 hours. The one guy I knew who owned one seemed to have it run out of battery everyday on the school bus which was only like a 45 minute ride.
He should’ve bought the official Game Gear AA battery bandolier
That was one of the reasons I wanted to have one.
One kid on my bus had it, we were all SUPER jealous and kicked his seat
The whole union of kobolds kicked his seat!? That must have been miserable for him!
Poor guy only got UPN like who were the real bullies 🤣
I did too, but my Dad ended up buying me one of those tiny handheld TVs with a 1" screen instead. It was more a novelty that anything, it sucked down batteries faster than an actual Game Gear.
I had that thing! It was really cool to watch a football match while camping!
And I gave it to my father when he was in the hospital… Eurocup was at the time.
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It wasn’t that good. The system already drained AA batteries like virgin sacrifices but imagine fm radio dials to sync for tv channels… That being said… chefs kiss…
I had the AC adapter when I got mine as a kid, which helped a ton with that. It was definitely hungry.
I wonder whether it digitised the video signal and sent digital RGB data over the connector, or whether there were analogue video channels provided for such a device.
Also, in any case, whether any hobbyist hackers have built adapters to use their Game Gear as a monitor for anything else through the same mechanism. (A HDMI in adapter would be cool, if slightly ridiculous.)
it’s fascinating, the game gear itself actually has a “TV Mode” that’s activated by holding down a certain signal on the cartridge bus which bypasses the z80 and VDP and chucks a digital RGB signal and some kind of custom timing information straight to the screen
they really did have it all on uhf
That would have been so baller back in the day.
I gotta get my gamegear fixed. It’s too bad we switched over to digital OTA signal because I would love to mess around with this tuner.
This is the handsomest piece of analog gear I have ever seen. Absolute peak max sexiness, holy shite
I wish I didn’t lose my gamegear
Still have mine and a few precious games! Mine has the giant battery attachment!
You really need it that battery life is horrid
I had a cdx with an x32 attachment. It was not recommended but it worked
Xbox ONE, PS TWO, PS THREE as well
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I understand why they think they needed to do it, but killing analog OTA television was seriously the stupidest decision I’d ever seen prior to 2009.
After that it kinda started to happen a lot. Which, uh, must be coincidence.
