Tell GR: Handheld Showdown, Round 1

Game Boy was the first time handheld gaming had really been perfected, with removable cartridges, and multiplayer with the Link Cable (used perhaps most famously with Pokemon). It may not have had color, and could potentially suck down four AA's in a day or two, but the games really carried it.

I admit, I don't have much experience with the Game Gear, or really any experience. What I have heard was that it was a good system, though the games selection waaaasn't quiiiite as good as the Game Boy's. I also heard that its color display made its battery life even worse than the Game Boy. However, I don't really have any experience to back this up, this is all what I heard of the system.

Because I know it better, I choose the Game Boy.

I hated my Game Boy, the screen was crap, very scratchable with no wide angle of view, you couldn't see anything at night nor in daylight, and it was bigger than my TV. So I vote for the Game Gear.

Game Boy Color onwards is a different story though.

Like a boss Dan, like a boss.

I love my gameboy for pokemon but ill never forget going to my dentist as a kid and while he was working on my mouth I would be playing sonic the hedgehog on a sega game gear.

Best dentist I ever had. Later years he even put a xbox in his waiting room.

My orthodontist back when I lived in Alaska used to have a Dig Dug cabinet in the waiting area, plus one other arcade game but I can't remember what it was. They were both free play, I guess to make it easier to keep the kids distracted while they wait to have their mouth looked at. Eventually he replaced the arcade cabinets with an N64 and a copy of Wave Race.

And I think he replaced THAT with a Gamecube if memory serves.

Oh, and this orthodontist's name? Dr. DeKay.
I'm not making that up.

Don't blame me, Dan. I'm the thumbs up hero.

game boy doesn't even break

This one is tough...I had both as a kid (and still them both to this day). Both systems had a library full of crapware, but I think Game Boy had more gems than the Game Gear had. The Game Gear's colored and backlit screen was amazing though. I think I would lean slightly towards Game Boy though because of Pokemon Red/Blue.

gameboy because pokemon

Gameboy. So many great memories with Battletoads, Tetris, Samurai Shodown, Mortal Kombat, and Final Fantasy Adventures.

My best Game Gear game was some shitty Pitfall game.

I never owned a Game Gear, but that doesn't mean I never played one. Like xDUMPWEEDx mentioned, Game Gear had color and backlit screen, which helped out tremendously. I owned a Gameboy, which was my first handheld console and console itself that was my own. It was hard for me getting the light correct. It was when Gameboy Color changed that little bit in 1998 I believe. Still, Gameboy and Gameboy Color didn't have a great as screen as Game Gear. I feel Gameboy was the most popular handheld system at the time, but Game Gear was just as good. This is a tough decision, but I played Gameboy more (obviously, because it was my own). I'm deciding on Gameboy. I played Poke-mon Blue so many times. I also loved trading Poke-mon through the cable link.

Gameboy, no contest in my opinion. My neighbor used to look after me and my brother when we were kids after school, their then grown up children had 2 gameboys a link cable and a decent collection of games. It was almost enough to not want to go home at times, vs tetris can get pretty intense against your brother.

Eventually in the late 90's I got my own game boy colour for one game, pokemon blue. Till silver came out that was the only game I had and I never felt the need for any other games. I dread to think how many hours I spent on those two games. I still own only those two games.

I sold my Gameboy to buy a Gamegear and still consider it a good move. Portable Mortal Kombat or another Mario clone, easy choice.

I loved both about the same probably, but with the way the Game Gear sucked my batteries I ended up getting an attachment to let me plug into the wall making me usually sit near an outlet to play. It didn't end up all that portable after that so my vote is for GameBoy.

I had both, but I played the Game Boy much more than the Game Gear. Even though it was inferior in almost every way, it just had a better games. Thus is the power of the superior library.

Game boy. Not really a contest.

Game Gear. You could play it at night and was color.
I never owned a Game Gear but did own a Gameboy. It was great for car rides, Mario, Tetris, and of course Pokemon. (I was in 3rd grade went it game out, now Im out of college).

Anyways. I just payed off $83K worth of student loans in 22 months. Im going OUT TONIGHT!!!

Ill toast to that.

Just like Game Boy had Pokemon, PSP had Monster Hunter. Either poor move by Sony's part or a smart one by Nintendo's for getting Monster Hunter 3D.

When I finally saved enough $5's back in the day I got my first Game Boy Pocket, came with Link to the Past and bought Pokemon Blue to play with little brothers Red. Game Gear library hadn't kept up at the time and neither did the Sega Saturns, which was my first console.Even a young kid could see that Sega wasn't doing itself right.

I also had more fun with Wario on Gameboy than I ever had with a Mario game.

Vita. Because **** you thats why.

Thumbs down for you! This isn't about that gen, yet.

Shudder*** I can't. Bear to think about when turning up the brightness required me to stick that wretched light into my gameboy.... It got the job done I guess

Gameboy was living proof that it didn't have to be pretty to be fun.

The Game Gear ate batteries. All of them.