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11-26-2012, 01:00 AM
Welcome to Stiq Figures, where the sales data is after the break (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/25/stiq-figures-november-12-18-game-gear-edition/#continued) and the posts don't matter. Every week, we take a look at, uh, something - meanwhile, the previous week's Japanese hardware sales figures are posted after the jump, and a discussion of said figures takes place in our comments. It may not be conventional, but it's a time-honored Joystiq tradition.
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This commercial for Sega's 1991 handheld system, the Game Gear, features actor Ethan Suplee (My Name is Earl) playing a Game Boy with a total lack of enthusiasm. The message in the commercial is pretty clear: Game Boy + dead squirrel = Game Gear.
There are six AA batteries somewhere in that equation for the Game Gear, not that battery life has been a great aspect of Nintendo's more recent portable efforts.Continue reading Stiq Figures, November 12 - 18: Game Gear edition (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/25/stiq-figures-november-12-18-game-gear-edition/)
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This commercial for Sega's 1991 handheld system, the Game Gear, features actor Ethan Suplee (My Name is Earl) playing a Game Boy with a total lack of enthusiasm. The message in the commercial is pretty clear: Game Boy + dead squirrel = Game Gear.
There are six AA batteries somewhere in that equation for the Game Gear, not that battery life has been a great aspect of Nintendo's more recent portable efforts.Continue reading Stiq Figures, November 12 - 18: Game Gear edition (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/25/stiq-figures-november-12-18-game-gear-edition/)
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