The Game Gear is a portable color video game console, released in 1990 and produced by Sega in order to compete with the Nintendo Game Boy that appeared one year earlier.
In terms of hardware, the Game Gear is so close to its big sister the Master System (of which it is the adaptation into a portable console with some differences), that its game library is largely composed of conversions of games made for the latter with the only notable difference being the resolution, which is lower in order to be adapted to the screen of the portable console.
The Master Gear Converter allows you to use Master System cartridges directly on the Game Gear without the need to emulate the hardware of the home console.
The Game Gear was never as successful as expected, among other things because of a few major flaws:
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