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Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. (lemmy.world)
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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm pretty sure the gamegear lost that war because it couldn't really be used as a handheld. Not with that battery life.

The game boy may have been a very limited system, but you could bring it with you and play Tetris for hours and hours... or for its second wind, show your pokémon to everyone at school.