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 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.
I got one for xmas one year, probably it’s last year when Sega was clearing inventory, because I didn’t ask for it. All I ever had was the pack-in Sonic title. I wish I kept it so that I could modernize it, but who would have seen that coming? I remember playing it and then seeing the battery light flash and I was like, “I wonder what that means, that can’t mean a low battery since I’ve not been playing it all that long!” Yep, it was a low battery :(
It probably wouldn’t have been a big deal IF Sega bundled a damn AC adapter with it instead of charging separately for it. It was hard to convince my parents to get me video game stuff as a kid.
He should’ve bought the official Game Gear AA battery bandolier
That was great to watch TV for exactly 8 minutes.
Conveniently carry around 20 or so AA batteries and you could probably get through an episode of Benson and the intro to TNG.
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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I got a GameGear from a garage sale that had a bunch of accessories including this… It was definitely rad for car trips, but it would chew through 6 AAs in about 2.5-3 hours, and my parents shut that down pretty fast.
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.
Yep!
An every time I was in Toy r Us, Babbage’s, Children’s Palace or looking througu the JC Penny’s Christmas catalog, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world and oh so desperately wanted it…despite not owning a Game Gear…😅
they really did have it all on uhf
You get to drink from the fire hose!
Open wide!
One of my favourite movies of all time. I love the spoof type movies this was up there. Probably not as good as say Mel Brooks but hard to beat his movies and always enjoyed Wierd Al.
i still love emo phillips face mocking weird al when he says “table saw”
and rip trinidad silva; fuck drunk drivers
Haha I think of that look more often than is probably needed, like an elementary school kid mocking someone. Which for the movie was great and at the time fit well for that time. Nowadays who’d ever to think of doing similar on tv? Except maybe someone without shame.
I don’t know Emo Philips at all but him just willing to do that bit and the good Christian joke flood bit that I’ve read and made me think he was cool. Like what God cares if we do one tiny bit differently? Mean maybe murder but that’s not up for debate…well a few examples stick out unless he’s a real hardass about it. Hah I’d love to defend that line if there were a pearly gates.
That would have been so baller back in the day.
TIL
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.
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
Yes! I remember wanting one and envying the kid on the bus with his!
There was one for the Gameboy Advance too! Loved that thing.
I saw this once or twice. Taxi driver had it mounted on his panel to watch something on break. Somewhat solved the power draw problem with a car adapter…
