Sega Game-Gear, Sega’s first handheld game console
This game console is part of my growing collection of vintage gaming system, so don’t forget to visit the tag vintagegaming to not miss any items. I don’t sell anything but you can contact me for donating/selling me missing items. This page will be continually edited if I add new items to my collection.
Bought 2010.09.19
Price paid: 10€
K xxxxxxx with box, without notices, 5 games
The Sega Game Gear (ゲームギア Gēmu Gia?) was Sega’s first handheld game console. It was the third commercially available color handheld console, after the Atari Lynx and the Turbo Express.
Work began on the console in 1989 under the codename “Project Mercury”, following Sega’s policy at the time of codenaming their systems after planets. The system was released in Japan on October 6, 1990, North America, Europe and Brazil in1991,[1] and Australia in 1992. The launch price was $150 US and £145 UK. Sega dropped support for the Game Gear in early 1997.
- Retail availability
- Japan October 6, 1990
- USA April 26, 1991
- Europe April 26, 1991
- Australia 1992
- Introductory price: US$150
- Discontinued: 1997
- Units sold : 11 million
- Successor: Sega Nomad
K15016901 without boxes, with 3 games, paid 2€
Games
There is 363 games available for the Sega Game Gear handheld!
I own in ultra collector state:
- Adventures of Batman & Robin, The 1995
- Disney’s Aladdin 1994
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2 1992
- Incredible Hulk, The 1994
- Sonic Drift 2 1995
and also with carton box, plastic box only
Technical specifications
- Main processor: Zilog Z80 (8-bit)
- Processor speed: 3.58 MHz] (same as NTSC dot clock)
- Resolution: 160 x 144 pixels (same as Nintendo’s Game Boy)
- Colors available: 4,096
- Colors on screen: 32
- Maximum sprites: 64
- Sprite size: 8×8 or 8×16
- Screen size: 3.2 inches (81 mm)
- Audio: 3 square wave generators, 1 noise generator, the system has a mono speaker, but stereo sound can be had via headphone output
- RAM: 8 KB
- Video RAM: 16 KB
- Power:
- internal: 6 AA batteries
- external: 9V DC, 300mA, 3W
- Physical:
- Width: 209 mm
- Height: 111 mm
- Depth: 37 mm
- weight: ~400g
