As part of their partnership with Sega, Nintendo will release a whole bunch of Game Gear games on the 3DS Virtual Console. Full list below.
Sega, You Can't Show Hairy Balls in an Advertisement
Good God, Mortal Kombat on Game Gear Had Some Terrible Audio
The Game Gear eShop Invasion Begins
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The first handheld gaming device to go head-to-head with the Game Boy (the Atari Lynx barely counts) reaches out its electronic hand in friendship to its one-time enemy, as three Game Gear games become playable on the Nintendo 3DS. How humbling this must be.
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Sega Lost the Handheld Race Long Before it Lost the Console Race
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The Sega Game Gear.
The PS Vita Compared to a PSP, a DS Lite, a Micro, a Game Gear....
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And more. If this doesn't give you an idea of how big the PS Vita is, perhaps comparing it to Ultraman would help?
Akira Was a Great Comic, An Amazing Movie, But its Games, Hrm...
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It's one of the defining works of modern popular culture, and features plenty of stylised, graphic action. So why is it nobody has ever made a good game out of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira?
How Unusual Was The 3DS Price Cut?
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Many people in the gaming community were taken aback by Nintendo's announcement last night that the 3DS would be dropping price from $250 to $170 only five months after its initial launch in America and after fewer than 900,000 units have sold in the U.S.
These Are the First Game Gear Games for the Nintendo 3DS eShop
Game Gear and the Turbografx are coming to the Nintendo 3DS eShop. According to Nintendo, here are the first Game Gear titles, all with a "Summer" release window: Columns, Dragon Crystal, Shinobi, Sonic Drift, Sonic The Hedgehog: Triple Trouble.
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Has this ever happened to you? It's 3AM. Your girlfriend isn't returning your phone calls, your friends are all at some lame party you didn't want to go to in the first place, and all you want is to sit back, crack a cold drink and play a little head-to-head Call of Duty with your best friend in Canada. As everyone…
The Console With The Best Game Scores Is...
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According to Japanese game magazine Famitsu, that is. The publication has crunched the review scores and has listed the platforms in order with the best library of games.
Atari 2600 Plus SEGA Game Gear
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