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6.8
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8.0
LrdKale LrdKale

While writing the review years and years after using the device this site is new and can't really write it any earlier. As I said above at the time is the only full color portable gaming device and having owned one I was very impressed at the time. Knowing what I knew then I would have...

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9.0
rikkitikki rikkitikki

My parents still have this there computer room. Whenever my sister and I go home to visit at the same time, we still fight over playing it. The games where not the greatest, but with the Sega Master system adapter, it never got old. I bought one of these when they first came out in 1991, and it...

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5.0
cjmonty cjmonty

I traded a friend a Roy Rogers hamburger for one of these. Batteries always died and it was HEAVY. Not sure color was worth the hassle back then. The Game Boy was good enough, and small.

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5.0
manveru manveru

I was a part of the crowd that thought the Game Gear was the best hand held because it had a back-lit, color screen. And to be fair, I loved my Game Gear. I loved the games I had, I love playing it... in retrospect, however, if I had a Game Boy at the time, my perspective would have been...

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