{"id":3396,"date":"2025-08-31T08:25:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/gba_mod_company_creates_the_game_gear_sega_should_have_released_in_2020"},"modified":"2025-08-31T08:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:25:42","slug":"feature-gba-mod-company-creates-the-game-gear-sega-should-have-released-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/feature-gba-mod-company-creates-the-game-gear-sega-should-have-released-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: GBA Mod Company Creates The Game Gear Sega Should Have Released In 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Game Gear Micro<\/a> was a neat little product and all, but it wasn’t exactly practical<\/em> \u2013 it’s absolutely tiny, so playing it for longer than five minutes is an exercise in pain, and the fact that Sega only included a handful of games on each unit means you have to buy five different consoles to get the whole collection. It was a nice way to at least recognise the console’s birthday, but little else.<\/p>\n

If you feel the same way, then you might be interested to learn that UK mod company RetroSix<\/a> (the same guys who gave us the amazing upgraded GBA<\/a>) has teamed up with US firm Handheld Legend<\/a> to create the Game Gear that the world truly<\/em> deserves in 2020.<\/p>\n

Dubbed the “prestige”<\/a> model, this cybernetically-enhanced beast boasts a new TFT LCD screen which is leagues ahead of the terrible blurry version that the console originally shipped with. It also comes with a “CleanAmp” audio board to deliver loud, clear sound, and swaps out the existing power regulator board with a brand new RetroSix “CleanPower” mod, which is far more efficient.<\/p>\n

Combine this with the fact that modern LCD screens are less power-hungry, and you’ve solved one of the biggest problems with the Game Gear, and one of the main reasons it lost to the Game Boy \u2013 its seemingly insatiable demand for AA batteries. Six batteries will last you much, much<\/em> longer with this machine, and for those times when you need to be connected to power, you can make use of the console’s USB-C port, which replaces the existing power connector (it’s not a good idea to use power supplies which are three decades old, by the way).<\/p>\n