Game Gear

Sega Game Gear · 1990–1997

Sega's handheld answer to the Game Boy — a backlit colour screen built on Master System architecture, launched in 1990 with a genuine technical edge and undone by punishing battery life and Nintendo's grip on the market. The library is substantial (over 350 titles worldwide) and collected for its Sonic-led first-party catalogue, its strong arcade ports, and a tail of late and low-print releases that anchor the high end. The Game Gear's close kinship with the Master System gives it a distinct collecting identity within Sega's history, and the breadth of the library rewards focused collecting around the platform's best-regarded and scarcest titles.