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Jace:
Pokemon was on Gameboy. Gameboy is superior.

Emaline:
Gameboy was in ...olive green, and black. Game Gear had graphics on par with ...fuck, I'm gonna say the ds here.

Alex C:
Game Boy had better games. When you say "Just had Nintendo's backing," one must realize that means Nintendo's stable of game designers as well as a number of exclusive 3rd party developers. Game gears were battery sucking bricks that came with World Series Baseball and/or Columns instead of Tetris. I had some affection in my heart for my old game gear, but that affection turned to ashes in my mouth as few genuinely good games came out for it plus the fact that my parents weren't about to buy me both systems AND pay for a dozen batteries every week. The Game Boy also had an AC adapter, so it swept the practicality awards.

Did I mention it had Metroid 2? It had Metroid 2. Meanwhile one of the best game gear games I can think of is the wildly overrated Earthworm Jim. Admittedly, I played the shit out of Battletoads though.

satsugaikaze:

--- Quote from: Alex C on 26 Jan 2010, 18:47 ---were battery sucking bricks
--- End quote ---

This probably applies to pretty much everything that ran on batteries back then

I actually resent opinions that Pokemon was what made Gameboy great, because the fact remained that Gameboy had a ton of games that made it worthwhile to play. While the core titles pushed it forward greatly, the fact that the greater majority of the games were either good or fun to laugh at makes it in my opinion better than the DS in this aspect, which to me nowadays banks on nothing more than its core Nintendo titles.

I'm obviously making an exaggeration, as there are plenty of non-Nintendo titles that are genuinely good (Bomberman stands out a bit in my mind, among a few others) but presently I'm not really seeing anything else worth buying aside from Mario, LoZ and Metroid.
(Also I want a Crash Team Racing sort of game on the DS. When that comes out I won't give a shit about Mario Kart at all)


The AC adapter on the GB is what saved my parents spending a week's salary per year buying 15-packs of alkaline batteries. I think at some point I'm going to trade in my old Gameboy for a discount on buying a new Gameboy at Gametraders.
I will buy that shit regardless of how expensive or how cheap it will be (I hope and think that it will most likely be cheaper). I will love it and cherish it as if it is 1989 and it still costs 80USD.

Alex C:
The game gear sucked 6 batteries dry at a time. The game boy took 4 batteries, but had 2 to 3 times the battery life. When you consider that the competition of the time often boiled down to the game gear and tiger handhelds, that's actually pretty damn good.

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