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The Game Gearwas Sega’s first crack at Nintendo and its Game Boy. Like many of the systems on this list, the Game Gear was technologically superior to its rivals, but when competing with Nintendo this never seems to help. Despite not defeating the Game Boy the system enjoyed moderate success and a long life (1990-2000) in fact, it has the longest life of a non-Nintendo handheld.
Some of the contributing factors in this were its games were in color, it had a back light; games from the Sega Master System weren’t difficult for a developer to port to it and a fairly large library of 300 games, including the ever-popular Sonic the Hedgehog. Sadly, for Sega Sonic just couldn’t hide the Game Gear’s three big issues, its price, it’s size and it’s battery life. |