#consolization

Jeff’s Consolized Sega Game Gear

In 1990, Sega made a handheld system to compete with Nintendo’s Game Boy called the Game Gear. The thing is though, the Game Gear is kind of awful. Sure it has a color screen, but the screen itself is blurry and cannot handle motion well. It ate batteries, and was too big to be portable in a practical sense. The Game Boy has a huge legacy, as each successor became better and were backwards compatible. The Game Gear had none of this; if you want to play Game Gear games you need to find a working Game Gear.

The Game Gear is unpopular in retrogaming communities, and I believe it’s because of how inaccessible it is. That’s why I wanted to complete this project. Consolizing a Game Gear fixes every problem that I mentioned earlier...and it’s a neat trophy piece.