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Excited! I owned a Game Gear about 5 years or so until the backlight on the LCD died and I couldn't play it anymore.
I'm gonna have to grab one of those, even if its primarily to get the 3D Game Gear on my main menu. Played a ton of the GG Sonic 2 back in the day, so I'll have to get one of the others.
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I'll definitely have to pick up some of the classics from that system. It was so cool having a full color handheld when everyone else was playing with greenish yellow and black..
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Prize is one of the following: Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword, Pushmo, Mighty Switch Force, or VVVVVV.
Worst case, if you own them all or get a duplicate of what you already have, it's a code so you can share it with someone who doesn't. But it has to be used in 10 days.
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I thought that had been retconned out, franchise-wide.
Whoever wrote that originally didn't know that.
And it was never retconned out. It was never Mobious at all in the games. Only the cartoon/comics.
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I could have sworn it was something that was invented by Sega of America until Japan basically said "WTFRUDOING"
http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Mobius
Looks like you're right. Must have tried to block it from my memory but I think I do remember some mention of Mobious in one of the manuals.
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Anyone else picking any of these up?
Since it's one of the best Sonic Game Gear games, IMO, I'll be getting it once I get home.
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I saw this video posted on Joystiq about the Game Gear emulator that they programmed for the thing. It's a small video that does a lot to show what the features of the thing is, I thought it was pretty interesting.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/14/game-gear-emulation-outclasses-the-other-3ds-virtual-console-gam/
Mainly because it's only $3, so why the hell not. But it's also a roguelike and therefore infinitely replayable, it's much closer to Genesis's Fatal Labyrinth than other GG games are to their console counterparts, and I get to check out the Game Gear interface which is supposed to have quite a few nice emulation options.
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Old school and crappy!
By the way this player is kind of terrible at it.
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Yes, it is a very basic roguelike. You only need to get to dungeon level 30, there's only like ten items in every category and hell, you can even buy up to three continues depending on how much gold you have but it's still really awesome.
I'm on floor 24 right now with my death blade, mystic armor (low AC but RUSTPROOF, good lord rust proof) and my Food/Ogre rings yet I still don't feel entirely safe. There are way too many level draining strength draining evil monsters to make me feel entirely safe.
I just needed to say that before I say: I love Rolling Western! I cannot believe it! Maybe because it's part action game where you get to take part in the protecting of the town instead of just dancing around like a moron trying to change the color of my tower's flag...but I don't know. It's charming, fun, there are lots of little secrets hiding around, and the controls just work wonderfully.
So far, Dillon is one of my favorite characters Nintendo has created in a long time.
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Time to take a trip on the nostalgia train.
That's enough for tonight.
Edit: I may be losing my mind but I think the "Power" LED on the virtual Game Gear system dimmed when the battery in my 3DS got low...which I think is the same behavior the actual Game Gear showed...neat.
That's terrible.
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I have no idea why they would suggest pixel junk monsters to you knowing you hated tower defense. They must have been playing a joke on you or something, because that is one of the hardest tower defense games. I love tower defense games and I don't even like pixel junk monsters.
If anything I'd suggest plants vs. zombies. It's hard to hate that game, that is before they ported it to everything with a screen and still continue to charge 15-20 dollars for it.
edit: speaking of game gear games, does anyone remember a tetris like game that used fruits or something? It might have used other items too, but I specifically remember fruits. I remember someone bringing that to school in my elementary days and I loved it. It made me jealous of the game gear and I loved my gameboy.
I don't know why I liked this game so much. I'd buy this for the 3DS if it ever came out. It'd be cool to have it on the go for something that isn't as big as a brick and die in an hour.
edit: Oh, that says sega master system. Is it the same game though? It looks like it.
The Sonic the Hedgehog Game Gear games are much slower paced than their Genesis counterparts, due both in part to the Game Gear's less powerful hardware and the limited distance you can see ahead of you. But instead of speed you get a lot of great platforming and some level exploration in the manner of finding the Chaos Emerald in specific stages (Think Sonic CD's "Find the Robot Generator" mechanic.)
Great games for the Game Gear and great games for the time, but if you're not a Sonic fan I don't think you'd like them very much.
Like Tetris, Columns was on every Sega platform imaginable at the time. I had the Game Gear version as well.
I distinctly remember enjoying the Streets of Rage Game Gear titles.
Sega announced that Columns GG was coming to 3DS last March.
http://andriasang.com/comu6s/sega_vc_3ds_lineup/
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I don't want to play Sonic GG, I want to play Sonic 1,2,3,K from the Genesis. I don't want Sonic Drift at all - it was terrible. I liked Shinobi GG, but would pay more for Revenge of Shinobi, Shadow Dancer, and Shinobi 3. There are no downloadable fighting games right now - Neo Geo would take care of that. Metroid GB is admittedly fine - but where are the GBA and SNES games? I will pay a ton to have Castlevania 1,2,3,Super IV, and Bloodlines all on a handheld.
There's a reason the PSP was hacked by so many classic gamers, the demand is there and I'm afraid that buying Game Gear and GB games makes Nintendo think I'm content with their current VC offerings.
I guess I can understand this viewpoint, but if you just skip an entire handheld generation like that there's a bunch of games that people love (me included) that'll never see the light of day in digital form, and that just makes me sad.
Can't we have both?
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Again, I played a ton of these games when they came out - I had a Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket and Game Gear and even with those rose colored glasses on I find the games not worth paying for today.
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Then don't buy them, but don't try to find logic as to why others should be deprived of classic titles. Just because you think a certain game hasn't aged well doesn't mean that everybody else should automatically hate it.
It's why I never understood about bitching about the Wii's Virtual Console...sure there's alot of NES stinkers up available for purchase, but one man's trash is another man's treasure.
I think they're handling it well enough. When you consider that easily half, if not more, of the Game Gear and Game Boy's library won't ever see the light of day on any digital service due to licensing, it's in Nintendo's best interest to keep a slow but steady drip of software on their service.
They want to avoid what happened with the Wii Virtual Console...best to release it a bit at a time rather than have pissy fanboys complain about "Where's the virtual console titles rawr."
Don't toss out your broken/unusable/worn out Nintendo (especially Gamecube/N64) controllers! Donate them to me!
Might have my favorite final floor of any roguelike, though the last seven or eight floors are really difficult mainly because half the enemies are level/strength drainers or weapon/armor rusters.
There is a suit of armor that is rust proof but it has middling AC and there is a book that rust proofs armor but only for one floor and it doesn't work on weapons at all.
Seconded.
I lost so many great classic GB games when I was a wee lad. The ones that hurt most were definitely Donkey Kong '94, Pokemon Blue, and Mole Mania. The eShop fixed my DK'94 problem, and I don't think I could go back to Blue after all the other games in the series I've played, so Nintendo needs to ramify the Mole Mania situation, pronto!
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