Your Top 5 Game Gear Games

There's a number of GameGear games I wanted to like, but the scroll-blurring prevented me from really getting into many of the action games on the system. Though, to be fair, this problem was not exclusive to the GameGear, as the original GameBoy suffered from the same flaw to a lesser extent. And unfortunately, it was the very nature of Sonic games that made them very difficult to play on a GameGear screen. I did have quite a bit of fun with Shining Force: The Sword of Hajya, though.

I didn't own a GameGear for long before it broke, though, so I never really fully explored the library. I did always want to try the GG Ristar.

Phantasy Star Gaiden has been translated. Also, naflign has ported some of the short stories from the sega cd phantasy star game to PC and translated them into english.

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Originally posted by sggg
I don't think it is fair to call Game Gear a bad system. It's just not aged well unfortunately. When it first came out it was amazing though. The colour screen was revolutionary and the games were great.

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The color portable was revolutionary... when the Lynx was released in 1989 with more power to boot.

the GG's version of aladdin was suprisingly awesome, from what i remember..

also, i was addicted to road rash for a while for some reason..


there were quite a few good reasons to own a gamegear, even if they were only ports of NES or downgraded genesis games..

I got a GG on release (not the early Big City release, mind you).
GG Shinobi, and Castle of Illusion were my favorites.
Portable gaming has never really done anything for me. So the old under-used GameGear got shipped off to FuncoLand HQ, along with the majority of my Genesis library, so I could partially pay for my $300 SegaCD.

...I never did get to try the MasterGear, even though one of my friends had one. ..I just wasn't interested at that point.

I owned a Game Gear for about a year from 1994-1995. I bought it from a friend along with Aladdin and Mortal Kombat and some accessories. I also bought Shinobi and Ristar. All of them were very good games.

I never got too heavily into it, probably because I also had a Lynx and about 30 games for that system, and that's where I focused most of my handheld gaming attention at that time. I did enjoy it while I had it, but I ultimately traded in the system and games towards the Jaguar CD shortly after it came out.

The blurring, it hurts my eyes!!!

I liked playing dynamite heady on my GG though.

Atleast when the screen wasn't scrolling.

In no order (all are domestic):

Shining Force: The Sword of Hajya
Ninja Gaiden (great game, reminds me more of Shinobi than NG though)
Sonic Chaos
Revenge of Drancon (basicly adventure island)
Columns (I've never played a puzzle game as much)

I'd choose the Atari Lynx game library over the Game Gears any day.