Sega Game Gear Variations!

[Cauterize]

interesting...
http://www.silicium.org/images/catalog/consoles/sega/cokegear.jpg

http://www.vidgame.net/SEGA/Sega/Game_Gear/gg_blue.jpg

http://www.tsurupeta.com/sakura/sega/rayearth_gamegear.jpg

http://www.mangaroms.com/Roms/pics/GAMEGEAR.JPG

Anyone have any of these? id love to get one! :-P

[ArnoldRimmer83]

I always thought that Coca Cola Game Gear looked pretty neat.

[Push Upstairs]

I've spotted a few BLUE game gears on my game store journeys but the others are Japan only releases.

I wonder what that GG "Magic Knight Rayearth" is like.

[chrisbid]

wasnt there also a yellow home alone edition?

[-hellvin-]

hehe, my sister's got a blue one...missing the batery covers though =\.

[tholly]

I have the blue one....sadly, I didn't get the box with it, but at least I have the system.

[Cauterize]

hmmm id love to get some of these, game gear is one of my fav things in my collection... its hard to get hold of game gear stuff i reckon in the uk as it didnt sell that well... *sigh*

[AB Positive]

Both GG Rayearth games (Rayearth and Rayearth 2: the making of) are neat little turn based RPG games. I have both (although no game gear) and they're quite nice

-AG

[doomedpeasant]

I have a blue one too. loose im sad to say but it has both battery covers
:)

[ghostangelofcky]

I've heard of the blue one, but none of the red ones. I want a magic knight rayearth game gear. Off to ebay.

[HellStar]

I only have a black Game Gear. So whats the history behind the Blue Game Gear? Was it some sort of promotion or what?

[Push Upstairs]

The blue one was packaged as a "Sports Edition" Game Gear....it came with some baseball game.


AdamG, are either of those Rayearth GG games available in english?

[Jive3D]

There was also a game gear that was made of precious metals and encrusted with Diamonds. I'M NOT KIDDING. I wish I had a scan from the Gamepro that I had that mentioned it back in the early '90s. I don't know what the run was, but I am positive that a gamegear 'only for the extreme elite' did exist.

Rediculous, but true. Ahhh, Sega. (R.I.P.)

on a side note, SEGA and SNK are both dead, but I just thought of a nice analogy - ya know in Mario Kart 64 Battle mode, you can die, but then become a bomb to go around and still fuck with the rest of the players? Think of Sega and SNK in that light. They are still around... well in a strange way. I love tangents, dont you? Not to be confused with Tengen, oh I digress once again... ^_^

[mosesshirai]

I have a virtua fighter Game gear. The one with Akira on the face. It came with some virtua fighting game. This obviously was a JPN only release. I think ther was a Pai unit also. Any one got info on this thing?

[suppafly]

There was also a game gear that was made of precious metals and encrusted with Diamonds. I'M NOT KIDDING. I wish I had a scan from the Gamepro that I had that mentioned it back in the early '90s. I don't know what the run was, but I am positive that a gamegear 'only for the extreme elite' did exist.

Rediculous, but true. Ahhh, Sega. (R.I.P.)

I remember a picture of that game gear on a EGM. But it wasnt originally made by sega, but by a company that makes stuff for rich people. That gold and diamonds game gear was worth 10,000 US

[tholly]

There was also a game gear that was made of precious metals and encrusted with Diamonds. I'M NOT KIDDING. I wish I had a scan from the Gamepro that I had that mentioned it back in the early '90s. I don't know what the run was, but I am positive that a gamegear 'only for the extreme elite' did exist.

Rediculous, but true. Ahhh, Sega. (R.I.P.)

I remember a picture of that game gear on a EGM. But it wasnt originally made by sega, but by a company that makes stuff for rich people. That gold and diamonds game gear was worth 10,000 US


i think i remember it too...id love to see a picture to jog my memory though

[The Manimal]

Okay, I just looked at vidgame.net on Game Gear descriptions, and it says taht there is:


gray flat glass screen
gray plastic rounded screen


that the former uses the TV tuner only. also that it is designated by a serial number that starts with a NUMBER.


however, both of mine, flat AND rounded, start with numbers for the serial number...????

[Push Upstairs]

From my experience, any game gear that has the three "circles" on the outer edge of the screen the colors red, green, & blue those ones work with a TV tuner. Any GG where they are all white are the later releases (Hi, Majesco) won't work with the TV tuner.

[chrisbid]

another way to tell is to turn on the unit without a cart, turn the contrast all the way up. if the screen has a green tint, then it is an older unit that can use the TV tuner. if the screen is black, it is newer

[chrisbid]

another way to tell is to turn on the unit without a cart, turn the contrast all the way up. if the screen has a green tint, then it is an older unit that can use the TV tuner. if the screen is black, it is newer

[robotriot]

There was also a white GG with a white TV tuner and white carrying bag, 10.000 were made.

[anagrama]

hmmm id love to get some of these, game gear is one of my fav things in my collection... its hard to get hold of game gear stuff i reckon in the uk as it didnt sell that well... *sigh*

Yeah, sadly none of the coloured ones made it to Europe. There are a couple of rareish GG boxed sets, though - the Ltd Edition GG + TV Tuner package can occasionally fetch good money, and there's a Jungle Book pack-in version that I saw recently for the first time:

http://i1.ebayimg.com/03/i/01/7f/bd/78_1.JPG


I dunno about it selling badly though - the GG had a pretty decent run over here, and there were games released up until '96ish. There's around 200 European releases altogether, I think.

[Cauterize]

I dunno about it selling badly though - the GG had a pretty decent run over here, and there were games released up until '96ish. There's around 200 European releases altogether, I think.

Hmm well near me nobody had one... maybe it was the age of me and my friends... what year did they come out as i was born in '86 so i was a little young to get one i guess, or shall i say my parents thought i was a little young for one... Grrr!

[Crush Crawfish]

I remember my dentist's office used to have a blue game gear. He'd give it to you while you had that freaky duck-bill thing filled with flouride in your mouth. The only games he ever had for it were sonic 2 and lion king though.

[anagrama]

Hmm well near me nobody had one... maybe it was the age of me and my friends... what year did they come out as i was born in '86 so i was a little young to get one i guess, or shall i say my parents thought i was a little young for one... Grrr!

I think it launched in time for Christmas '91. I know that amongst my friends from the time there were more Gamegears around than Gameboys. I think Sega's success in Europe with the Master System probably gave them an edge over Nintendo in the early days - obviously the GB proved dominant, and was always sucessful, but it never seemed 'huge' over here in the early 90's. Maybe we're just strange Oop North :)

[AlanD]

The blue Game Gear was released in the US as both the Sports edition and the Lion King edition. I have a boxed blue Lion King edition.
AlanD