Game Gear!

[TwoHeadedBoy]

So I was walking through town today, and passing by Gamestation I noticed a Game Gear in the window, with 5 games, for £20.

"What the hey" I thought, and bought it. The sound worked fine, the screen was a little bit scratched, one of the games didn't work (Mickey's Castle of Illusion), but the rest (Power Rangers, Taz-Mania, Shinobi II and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story). It didn't come with an adaptor though, so I've stuck some rechargables in there. Six of them. They'll need recharging in about an hour :s

So I looked on eBay, to see if there were any adaptors going. There was one, for £10.00 (inc. postage). There was also another Game Gear, for £8.50 with a carry case, ten games (including a few Sonics) AND an adaptor! So herein lies my problem: It'd be better to take back the one I just bought, and get the one off eBay instead, but as an obsessive collector I find it hard to sell things. Yet, as a third-year student who should be doing something more productive and saving his money, I should just abandon the whole thing.

I'm in a state, convince me of the best options!

 

[Ravnos]

Is that "buy it now!" for 8.50, or the bidding is at 8.50 right now? Because you could wind up paying more for the one on eBay at that rate, or you could wind up with nothing at all.

Or you could just buy them both just to get the extra games. 8.50 for ten games doesn't sound like a bad deal.

 

[Jarska333]

Gotta catch them all.

 

[TwoHeadedBoy]

It's at £8.50 at the moment, bidding ends in two days, so I've put in a bid of fifteen. Suppose I could just keep them both, and there's always the chance that I wouldn't win AFTER taking my one back to the shop, then there'd be no Game Gears...

 

[grahf]

I was thinking about getting anothe Gamegear, but cant seem to remember how the screen was on them. Its been so long ago.. TFT?

 

[TwoHeadedBoy]

I was thinking about getting anothe Gamegear, but cant seem to remember how the screen was on them. Its been so long ago.. TFT?

Nah, LCD. It's very bright, but can get a bit blurry. I can highly recommend Might Morphin Power Rangers for it though, it's almost as good as Streets of Rage...

 

[iignotus]

I have a game gear with US adapter and power pack. PM if interested.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

*sigh* way to pawn off the good stuff there

 

[iignotus]

*sigh* way to pawn off the good stuff there

Eh ?

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

game gears kick ass. I think you should have kept it (or keep it if you havent sold it yet). That's classic stuff there.

 

[DaveC]

It's at £8.50 at the moment, bidding ends in two days, so I've put in a bid of fifteen. Suppose I could just keep them both, and there's always the chance that I wouldn't win AFTER taking my one back to the shop, then there'd be no Game Gears...

No big deal if you don't win it. If you don't just wait for a good SMS emu to come out. The GP2X has better battery life than the GG with its 6 AAs anyway.

 

[TelcoLou]

The Game Gear saved my sanity during a 10-day stay in the hospital ... that and the morphene :unsure:

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

hmm. game gear while on morphine must have been an interesting experience. lol

 

[iignotus]

hmm. game gear while on morphine must have been an interesting experience. lol

Even more blurring!

 

[shinneri]

I remember getting my Game Gear the Christmas it came out. I played it for like an hour... and the batteries died. Yeah I was pretty upset (had no extra batteries + no stores open on Christmas = ).

I liked it better later, but I was always a little disappointed in it. Maybe that was why I stayed away from Sega after that (till the Dreamcast, but I even bought that at the end of its life).

 

[Twimfy]

If the screen is scratched, T-cut it, it's what I did to mine and it looks awesome.

Come to think of it I T-cut everything...even CD's and DVD's.

God bless Turtle wax!

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

ebay sells replacement screens for the game gear for around 5 bucks assuming you can find them...but they arent too hard.

 

[TwoHeadedBoy]

I have a game gear with US adapter and power pack. PM if interested.

Wish I'd've come here earlier, the eBay thingy's just closed. I won though! Finished at £28.50 with an adaptor, a carry case plus ten games (including the Mickey Mouse one I have that doesn't work). Plus £8.50 postage. Which means that, in addition to the one I originally bought, I've spent about £60 on Game Gear stuff in one week :blink:

The joys of a minimum-wage job, a student loan and a £1600 overdraft limit