Majesco Game Gear "Updated"

[KnightWarrior]

This TV Tuner and the Master Gear won't work

[meka]

The Majesco Game Gear does not have the bad cap problem of the Original Game Gear, around the late 80s and part of the 90s there was a bad cap epidemic within the elctronic industry.

[esteban]

I had no idea that the Game Gear was re-released by Majesco in 2000. Insanity.

I'd love to have one.

[xelement5x]

The best way I've found to spot a Majesco GG instead of an older model is that the start button is more of a purple than the blue that was used in original releases.

I've got a ton of older versions, but the Majesco revisions are hard to come by.

[guyjin]

I remember seeing gamegears being sold in TRU after 2000 - but assumed that they were leftovers from back in the day.

I'm sure they were very successfull, since the Gameboy had just caught up to it technology wise

[HercTNT]

i recieved my game gear today. it needs some work. after i do said work, i will post picks. i already ordered the caps. hopefully i dont screw it up and send it to steve to make it right.

[KnightWarrior]

I still love the Game Gear, Not made by Majesco

[Duo_R]

Picked up a standard Game Gear, got it in  a lot with other items i was interested. What is unique / worth picking up for this system? Is the stock screen pretty bad i assume? Haven't seen one of these in ages.

[Frank_fjs]

Stock screen is pretty bad, even with a recap. I don't play many GG games on mine, I tend to play Master System carts via the converter.

[HercTNT]

finally got my caps and led's for the mod. gonna work on it this week. when i finish it i will post pictures.

[VenomMacbeth]

Picked up a standard Game Gear, got it in  a lot with other items i was interested. What is unique / worth picking up for this system?

Fantasy Zone Gear
The GG Shinobi
Ninja Gaiden (not quite up to par with the other NG games, but still cool)

If you're into Sonic games, Sonic Chaos is really fun (as are Sonic 1 and 2, but not as much so.)  GG Aleste & GG Aleste II are also top shooters, but are quite pricey. 

Stock screen is pretty bad, even with a recap. I don't play many GG games on mine, I tend to play Master System carts via the converter.

How well does yours work?  Every time I would use it, my screen would flicker pretty badly, making the game almost unplayable.

[Frank_fjs]

How well does yours work?  Every time I would use it, my screen would flicker pretty badly, making the game almost unplayable.

Mine works fine, have never experienced any issues.

[motdelbourt]

I had a Majesco Game Gear. I thought it was a great buy, and the technology was by no means far behind the times in 2000, at least not in graphics, gameplay, or visuals. You had the Game Boy Color, which was on par with the Game Gear but not backlit, and a few other similar systems with the same problem. Even the first model GBA did not have that lit screen.

I picked up a bunch of Sonic and SNK fighting games for my Game Gear and loved it. Majesco rereleased "some" good games such as the Sonic games, and there were a few others like the Lion King. But second hand older releases were readily available.

Majesco also rereleased a few Genesis, and maybe some Super NES games IIRC. I have a sealed SFII CE that I purchased for $1 around 2002 or so. I "think" they made it. Now that was obsolete at the time.

[storino03]

Tail's Adventure is a neat action/rpg type of game. Uses passwords to continue where you left off. Defenders of Oasis is a standard traditional rpg that uses battery saves (my cart still saves great).

I want to do the capacitor fix on mine. Last time I tried, the solder pads on the motherboard got ripped off, which I don't think is able to be fixed, so I bought another one off of ebay for a little under $30 shipped. That one has really loud sound, but the screen has bleeding colors vertically, and the sprites have ghosting problems.

[HercTNT]

same exact problem with mine, great sound, bleeding colors and bad view angle. unfortunatley my recap effort failed. my brand new soldering iron broke in the middle of soldering a cap. i stepped in way over my head anyways last time i used standard can type caps, this time i had surface mount and i blew it. gonna have to ask steve to bail me out on this one.