Look what I got.

I was helping a friend at a garage sale their family was having. I saw this and asked how much. I was told "It's all yours."

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TL;DR: Helped a friend with a garage sale, got a Free Sega Game Gear.

Allow me to make it clear I had absolutely no clue what Sega was back when I was  that young.

I'm 17. I didn't exist at the time the Game gear came out.

I never had any video games growing up, and I'm almost 20. I was stuck playing with sticks and stones.

Kayback wrote: Those will break your bones, but words will never harm you.

So they say.


I didn't have a game gear but my cousin did and I used to play it all the time when i went over his house. Haha, I remember I thought it was cool that the screen was in color and backlit unlike the gameboy (not the tiny newer ones, I'm talking about ol' fatty) but the refresh rate sucked so it would ghost hardcore when playing a game like sonic where you would move quickly sometimes. I remember I used to get frustrated because the ghosting would screw me up so then I'd play castlevania or tetris instead. Hehe, good times.

And not to hijack the thread but I'm feeling nostalgic; anybody remember Intellivision?

MeanMan wrote: I never knew they made those... I thought the huge ugly Gameboys were the first ones.

They were, these came later.

I  have my sons original gameboy in the plastic gift case it came in, the manuals but somewhere along the way the battery cover disappeared.  I visited him this past weekend (he moved to edmonton )and we played the original NES, I still OWN him at Blades of Steel  -  fighting. 

HEHE cool score i prefered the nintendo stuff but remeber wanting to have colour like those things LOL.

I still have a original gameboy (the black and white brick ones) around here some were lol.

Also i have a working NES, Super NES, N64, Cube and Wii.  Oh and OLD commedore 64 Computer with TONS of games LOL. 

Was luck to have all the games as a kid (grandfather spoiled me and my brother) but even though we had em i never could stand to play any for very long.  

Oh and i had a Inteliveishion too as a kid but it broke.




Edited by BearClaw - 18 May 2009 at 4:37pm

Nice! I still have 2 working GameGears and about 30 games.

If I remember correctly, the "graphics" were WAY ahead of the gameboy/other systems at the time.  Heck, Sega had the SEGA-CD way before the dreamcast or PS1 and the graphics were pretty good for the time.