Just got such an urge to play some gamegear.

[Cornelius Spunkwater]

Maybe if I had a way to play GG games on my TV, a la Super Game Boy, I'd care more.

As it stands, busting out the actual Game Gear is just a chore.

[Zz Badnusty]

Most of the games haven't aged well, but the Sonic games are pretty much what you want to play on the system.

Tails' Adventure and Sonic Chaos in particular are great! I really liked Columns as a kid as well.

There are plenty of games which hold their own. Particularly if you can still appreciate Tails' Adventure and Sonic Chaos, you should be able to find plenty of games to play on the system.
This here should cover it

[Cornelius Spunkwater]

I might look into emulation to play GG games, since I would like to. Still, it'd be nice if Sega could have been arsed to make a "Super Game Gear" back when.

But nooo, they had to go messing around with CDs and life-support add-ons instead.

[Carnavas]

I picked up GG Shinobi for 50p at the weekend and it's a really great game. Just wish I could play it on my TV.

[Creek Indian]

I saw a game gear add on Craigslist for game gear in a soft case with 20 games for $75. I'm very tempted but price seems steep.

[midnightrider]

life-support add-on

http://www.sega-16.com/2013/02/interview-joe-miller/

[Zz Badnusty]

I picked up GG Shinobi for 50p at the weekend and it's a really great game. Just wish I could play it on my TV.

GG Shinobi is more enjoyable than Ninja 5-O, imo.
Indeed it might be more appreciated if it hadn't been limited to that awful screen..

[Cornelius Spunkwater]

http://www.sega-16.com/2013/02/interview-joe-miller/

1. SCD, like everything to follow, was a distraction. Virtually everything worth releasing on the console could have, and should have, been saved for the next generation.

2. 32X was a colossal failure and a waste of money and resources. It's nice to have now, but there was never a good reason for the 32X to exist. Anyone who argues otherwise is deluding themselves. Maybe six months after its release, I waltzed into Toys R' Us and got the console and its library for rock bottom prices. Can't imagine why.

3. Sega Channel was neat, but the damn thing worked properly maybe 50% of the time, which was why I cancelled my subscription.

4. NOMAD is neat, but Jesus Christ it leeches battery life like it's going to die within the next half hour. That, and it's not exactly portable. About its only practical use is taking it on a trip somewhere with an adapter, and even that's questionable. Then there's the whole matter of competing against Sega's own Game Gear, which was profoundly stupid. Once again: rock bottom prices shortly after its release.

And there you have it. Four reasons why Nintendo won the war. In essence: Nintendo was focused, Sega was distracted.

Maybe if they had focused on Genesis and Game Gear, we'd be singing a different tune today.

[midnightrider]

My point was the "life support" argument is just tiring. Whether anything they did was good or bad, none of it was done out of desperation.

[omp]

Damn, never knew the GG had a market large enough to make pirates.

Got a few pirate carts myself, most have a menu system, one I have has a dirty great big switch on it. I did have one that was *insert no. here* but it was the same 10 or so games repeated, even though the menu said (for example) "castle of illusion" you got "ghost house" or some shit. I got rid of that one pretty quickly.

[Playalives]

I see a lot of people posting how they wish they could play on a tv, isn't there an ad-on cart for the sms that takes gamegear games? I personally just use a modded original xbox, picture is great and everything runs great.

[Ecco]

For the past 3 days its all I've played now, just wanted to try some games out I found for cheap and can't put it down.
Anyone else a big game gear fan, or been on a big game gear kick lately?

Yes I love Game Gear! Especially Sonic 1, Sonic Chaos, Outrun Europa, Streets of Rage 2, Columns, Defender of Oasis, Star Wars, The Chessmaster.

[Zz Badnusty]

isn't there an ad-on cart for the sms that takes gamegear games?

No.
There are expensive mods which can be done to a Game Gear.
Besides that, emulation is the only other option.

[NeoVamp]

isn't there an ad-on cart for the sms that takes gamegear games?

No, but there is an expansion module that allows you to run sms games in the gamegear.

But why would anyone? ugh horrible screen.

[omp]

I see a lot of people posting how they wish they could play on a tv, isn't there an ad-on cart for the sms that takes gamegear games? I personally just use a modded original xbox, picture is great and everything runs great.

Yes there is, you can get a board from a chap in Australia (forum name viletim) that you solder into a gg. You only get 1/2 screen thiugh due to resolution of the gg.

I have a consolized gg using his board and it is fine. The board outputs composite, s-video and rgb.