SEGA Game Gear
The colour screen! Just look at the (very small) colour screen! Bought for me one christmas instead of the SEGA Master System (Because, as my mother pointed out, 'those games consoles bugger up the screens on tele's'). I was genuinely excited. I ripped open the batteries that had been wrapped up as an extra present, jammed them in and began my gaming career on my new portable games system! 15, maybe 20 mins later.... low battery... bugger.

This went on for some time until I was able to buy a lead. But this meant I could only play it within about 1 meter from a wall with a plug socket. So many a night you'd find me sat at the top of our stairs, in the dark, playing Mortal Kombat.

Finish Him! Indeed...

Still, the colour screen was miles better than the GameBoys...
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 9:29, 15 replies)

two words
extension lead
( Another_tragic_case wished he hadn't eaten all the cake, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 9:36, closed)

but i'd just used up me pocket money on the lead. Plus the green extension lead was in the shed and me Dad needed that for mowing the lawn, it was a risk I wasn't willing to take.
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 9:38, closed)

TBH
I'm not even sure at what age i knew such things existed
( Another_tragic_case wished he hadn't eaten all the cake, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 9:47, closed)

Sure the whole point is for it to be portable anyway?
If you're only going to play it while plugged into the wall you may as well be playing a console!
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:58, closed)

did ya not read what me Mums opinion on that was? it buggers up the screen!
apparently...
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 11:03, closed)

G-Loc
Shinobi and Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusion F.T.W.
(ThatNiceMan thought he was being funny, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 9:51, closed)

I do remember having many, many hours of fun on James Pond... and Sonic Chaos... oh the Chaos...
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 9:54, closed)

Sonic Chaos was my first experience of Sonic
and I still think it's one of the better games in the whole (what must be 100+ games now) series
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:11, closed)

Battery life apart, it was a lovely piece of kit
my mate had one with a TV tuner - it was like having a very small portable television that was amazing, provided you didn't want to watch anything longer than about 15 minutes
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 9:56, closed)

what I wouldn't've given for the T.V adapter...

Also remember Micro Machines being an awesome game, even if the game did stick out the top of the game gear...
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:19, closed)

www.b3ta.com/board/10442526
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 11:12, closed)

i had a tv tuner
witchcraft is what it was
(anonymouse sitting in front of a screen since 1989, Sun 2 Oct 2011, 22:27, closed)

ATARI LYNX
Did it all bigger, better and with less battery life.
(OTT, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 11:51, closed)

I still have mine
And a GP2X.

Which proves i am incapable of learning.
( Dervel OTBC, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 13:56, closed)

There were several portable consoles going around when I was at school.
From what I could see the Lynx was the best of the bunch.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 13:59, closed)