which portable is best

[sega fan]

which is better
sega nomad
sega game gear

[sega fan]

well personnally i'd pick the the nomad just for the luxury of playing my genesis anywhere..... yes, i know some games have screen blur. and yes, i know it eats batteries.

[David J.]

The Nomad and Game Gear are two completely different systems. So this is like comparing apples and oranges.

[Benjamin]

well personnally i'd pick the the nomad just for the luxury of playing my genesis anywhere..... yes, i know some games have screen blur. and yes, i know it eats batteries.

The Game Gear wasn't too kind on batteries, either. Personally, I can't see anyone favoring the Game Gear and Sega Master System libraries combined over the Genesis' catalog. On top of that, the Nomad pretty much is the better hardware-wise of the Game Gear is just about every aspect except battery life (but not by too much I recall) and the TV Adaptor accessory.

[David J.]

A lot of people prefer the Master System and Game Gear over the Genesis, look at SMSpower and SMStributes. :)

[Joe Redifer]

I love the Master System but absolutely hate the Game Gear. They somehow made it worse than the Master System. It seems to have fewer colors even though it supposedly has 4096. Yeah right. I'd take the Nomad over the Game Gear simply because it is a bit cooler and has more good games available. I don't like how the Game Gear plays SMS games, crushing them down to it pathetic resolution. I don't like either portable, though. Both have horrible screens. The DS is the ONLY portable that I have ever really tolerated, with the Neo Geo Pocket coming in at a very distant #2.

[j_factor]

Game Gear was cool back in the day, but sometimes I think developers didn't really know how to make a portable game back then. Often, their idea of adapting a game to GG was to zoom it way in, so that the sprite takes up 1/4 of the screen and you can't see ahead. They should've just taken the same picture and shrunk it down to size; Nomad (and earlier, Turbo Express) showed that that looks just fine, and is more functional. With a game like Sonic 2, I'd rather play the Master System version through the Master Gear converter, than the actual GG cart. Games that were actually built for GG, like the GG Shinobi, don't have this problem so much.

Anyway, to answer your question, Nomad easily. The Genesis library reins supreme. Also, if you're tired of the little screen, you can hook it up to your TV easily. There's a GG TV mod, but it's awfully complicated.

[Benjamin]

Game Gear was cool back in the day, but sometimes I think developers didn't really know how to make a portable game back then. Often, their idea of adapting a game to GG was to zoom it way in, so that the sprite takes up 1/4 of the screen and you can't see ahead.

This is what bugs me about the Sonic Game Gear games especially. Speed plus not enough reaction time due to a cramped view makes for a poor game. The GBA Rayman suffers from the same, making the character far too large to really play well. The Game Gear does have some gems though -- I think its version of Ristar competes well with its Genesis brother, especially with the new levels.

[Russman]

I've never played either. I won't vote for this reason, but I think I would default to the Genesis library.

[Genesis Knight]

The only GG game I've played is Sonic 2, and the game was so pathetically cheap that it was impossible to enjoy any aspect of it. I can't see myself ever buying a Game Gear.

The Nomad, however, is brilliant and I definitely am looking into acquiring one.

[Wesker]

I love both:

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But personally I like Sega Nomad a little further, because of the fact that Mega Drive is my all-time favourite console. And Sega Nomad is a great portable recreation of it, even with its big size.

[George Foreman]

The only GG game I've played is Sonic 2, and the game was so pathetically cheap that it was impossible to enjoy any aspect of it. I can't see myself ever buying a Game Gear.

The Nomad, however, is brilliant and I definitely am looking into acquiring one.

Sonic 2, pathetically cheap? I loooooove this game and it's not that hard once you figure out how to beat the first boss(Robotnic dropping those bouncing bullets) and once you figure out the pattern to the boss level on that grass place. Plus it was fun looking for all the choas emeralds inside the stages.

[B - Mark]

I voted in Nomad because the fact to play several Mega Drive / Genesis in anywhere.

The Game Gear plays only his own games and Master System games with adapter called Master Gear Converter.

But the Nomad and Game Gear have the same weakness: The high consume battery.

The RF Adapter is needed for the two Sega handheld systems.

[j_factor]

Sonic 2, pathetically cheap? I loooooove this game and it's not that hard once you figure out how to beat the first boss(Robotnic dropping those bouncing bullets) and once you figure out the pattern to the boss level on that grass place. Plus it was fun looking for all the choas emeralds inside the stages.

That first boss is so much easier on the Master System version.

[Novaka]

The master system version is just a boss who trys raming you with a drill at pathetic speed.......

But the GG DOES have some games that looks ok but by far Nomand wins it. Genesis handheld over an almost entire crap system? You don't need to be einstein to figure that one out

[j_factor]

The master system version is just a boss who trys raming you with a drill at pathetic speed.......

Um, nope, it's not. You have it confused with something else. I own the Master System version of Sonic 2, and the first boss is the same as in the GG version, except a lot easier because you have more room to move around, and the bouncing of the bombs is a lot less erratic.

[Genesis Knight]

Sonic 2, pathetically cheap? I loooooove this game and it's not that hard once you figure out how to beat the first boss(Robotnic dropping those bouncing bullets) and once you figure out the pattern to the boss level on that grass place. Plus it was fun looking for all the choas emeralds inside the stages.

I guess I never got the hang of it, because I always had to use the (difficult to enter) level select code to get past it. But it seems cheap to me to throw the gamer in against the *first* boss and not give him any rings.