Game Gear vs. Game Boy! 28 Games Compared!

Which one did you own? A Game Gear or a GameBoy? Well, I didn't own either of them when they were new (I was an Atari Lynx snob.) But it got me wondering... which comparable games was better on each system? I tried to not make the color graphics of the Game Gear the main factor when deciding on the winner, rather I tried to base my decision on the actual game play. So here are 28 games compared between the Game Gear and Game Boy (and I used GBC games when possible.)
Games Featured: Aladdin, Battleship, Bubble Bobble, Bust-A-Move, Caesar's Palace, Centipede, Chase H.Q., The Chessmaster, Dropzone, Earthworm Jim, KLAX, Lemmings, The Lion King, Marble Madness, Micro Machines, Missile Command, Mortal Kombat II, Ms. Pac-Man, NBA Jam - Tournament Edition, Pac-Attack, Pac-Man, Paperboy, Prince of Persia, Road Rash, Spider-Man - Return of the Sinister Six, Super Space Invaders, Tintin in Tibet, WWF Raw,
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[@snoozy04]

I find handheld ports have a great charm about them, that's what makes it fun.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Yeah, watered down versions can be interesting sometimes.

[@TurquoiseStar17]

I had both growing up and enjoyed them. Sega was years ahead of Nintendo for having a handheld with full color, which was respectable but unfortunately at the expense of horrible battery life. That's why I kept it on the power cord all the time.

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

It never ceases to amaze me how despite the technical limitations of early handhelds many programers really pushed them hard to try to be as close to home consoles as possible. And in many cases succeeded.

[@MaxOakland]

I’m doing that right now with the Gameboy game I’m making. Pushing the limits!

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

@@MaxOakland awesome

[@DJSpaceRetrotunes]

Wow! I actually hadn't seen the Gameboy version of Road Rash. The frame rate is amazing for the Gameboy.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Yeah I wanted to like it, it just feels off.

[@craigix]

I can't quite work out how it's doing that, I guess it's GBC only. I think it's possibly animating the tiles and using raster lines, with sprites on top, that's why the sprites look so bad, they can't double them up as they are using them all.

[@nathanwallace3337]

I had a Game Gear. You have to understand the Game Boy games were built for it while the GG versions were ports of Master System games for the most part.

[@redsoxfan26401]

The Game Gear IS a Master System, just with a lower resolution display.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Not all GG games were SMS conversions.

[@nathanwallace3337]

@@GregsGameRoomthat's why I added for the most part

[@shabmaster7128]

Eh, not quite true in the way that comes across (old games ported later). The games were primary designed for the Game gear market shortly after launch, but made on Master System hardware so they could easily ship a master system version for secondary revenue streams.

[@KrunchyTheClown78]

In the mid 90's I BEGGED my parents for an OG Game Boy! and then got one for christmas that year. Then a couple years later, I was at my neighbors house, and there kid was playing a game gear, and I saw that colorful backlit screen, and I wanted to chuck my game boy in the trash, and get a game gear LOL Got a GG a year later, and still have it!

[@GregsGameRoom]

They both have their charms.

[@michaelbronnimann7041]

Bubble Bobble was an Arcade Game and came out on pretty much every platform. The Game Gear Version is pretty good since there is no scrolling. You always know what‘s going on.

[@danielcontee7851]

without these comparisons, man, we wouldn't have great programmers, and our beloved systems couldn't have shown their potential.

[@Snotnarok]

The reason why some of these games were slower on the GG and OG Gameboy is the screens had a good amount of ghosting. So I think they wound up slowing a bunch of them down to compensate. You can really see that in the Castlevania games on GB. GBC didn't have that problem because the screen was different, I recall being impressed with how clean it always looked. But I think games were still slowed down a bit since, you were still having to lean toward any and all light you could find. Or . . . A worm light. Ech. Mortal Kombat on both platforms were impressive. . . from a technical standpoint, but they're awful. The GG apparently uses background tiles for the characters which is how they got them so big.

[@GregsGameRoom]

I have yet to see a background tile game that’s smooth. I wish they hadn’t done it that way.

[@Snotnarok]

@@GregsGameRoom I'm not sure they could do it any other way without massive flicker. But, they really should have just downscaled those sprites. Maybe they weren't willing to let go of the digitized sprites since that was a lot of the appeal. IDK ^Long way of saying "I agree with you"

[@d0dg3st4r]

Mortal Kombat 2 on both was great, the rest, not so much. MK4 on the GBC was a huge step back... I will always be impressed with how well they ported MK2 though.

[@dagttv]

I think its only fair to compare GG games with original black and white gameboy games. The gameboy color came out many years after the game gear. Its like comparing super nintendo games to xbox games

[@MrDeepee69]

That has to be the most ridiculous statement I ever heard.comparing xbox to snes???really ??? The processor are similar but GBC is twice has fast.the GBC had a larger color palette.but that doesn’t equate to a 2 generation leap in gaming.and many GG games of the same name of the GBC look better

[@DS9TREK]

Nintendo says the GBC and GB are the same generation. So the SNES-Xbox comparison is ridiculous

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Um the gbc was like a TI 89, very basic graphics. It wasn't until the GBA came out that nintendo had a snes portable.

[@fredo3161]

Totally wrong comparison

[@zZiL341yRj736]

So you're saying the Gameboy Color is an Xbox, it's just a Gameboy with colors, why are comparing an Xbox vs an SNES?

[@linkdk59]

The Tintin game was made by Infogrames Entertainment, they made a lot of platformers based on European comic characters and stories. Like Tintin, Asterix, Lucky Luke, Spirou, or the Smurfs (Schtroumpfs). And they were also well known for being somewhat beautiful games, with comic accurate visuals, especially on the 16bits consoles like the Super Nes. However, they were also difficult and almost unfair platformers! But because they looked so good, all the kids i knew - in Europe - wanted to play those games.

[@nathleflutiste]

They knew their stuff, as a French Kid, I could not help playing Tintin and the Schtroumpfs, eve if it was damn hard.

[@beigebox1990]

The Game Gear could have had a second life in a slimmer, more power-efficient version with better screen and maybe with Sonic games built-in. Would have made a good companion to the Saturn/Dreamcast and a decent competitor to the Game Boy Color. Also, the Game Gear lasts longer now with more modern AA batteries (both alkaline and rechargeables).

[@Lilbroda]

if you mod it with a modern lcd, the baterry live is like 4 times bigger

[@deathofkings5633]

Cool topic. The other 2 Spider-Man games for game gear might fit better as a vs to square off against the GB Color Spider-Man you showed.

[@Jolt7800]

Appreciate these in depth videos. Please treat yourself to a Jolt cola. Or a beverage of your choice.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Wow! Thank you! Will have to look for some Jolt now! :-)

[@jescis0]

​@@GregsGameRoomif not Jolt Cola… OG Surge! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Jolt7800]

Yes! Surge was a great drink as well!

[@SinistarPro_Mike]

Unfortunately, my experience with either of these handhelds is very limited, I remember only messing around with them while at a friends house or over at family somewhere. Don't get me wrong, I saw the appeal, and everything about them was awesome, I just wasn't the target demographic. These guys were still getting plenty of money from me through the consoles, I just wasn't about to sink anymore coin into another system, much less trying to compete with fresh batteries every few days or so. Nope! Great video though! At the risk of repeating myself, I do love these versus videos.

[@linkdk59]

I like the video a lot, but I will say : the Game Gear was mainly an opponent to the original black and white Game Boy, and in the end it was fighting against the Game Boy Pocket. But the Game Gear was discontinued in 1997, and the Game Boy Color was released only in 1998! So the Game Gear was dead by the time Game Boy Color games were even a thing. So, is it a fair comparison, I don't know. But it does make the video more interesting!

[@linkdk59]

There was a color version of Paperboy for the Game Boy color. But considering the fact that Paperboy originally came out on GameBoy in 1990, but Paperboy color was released in 1999, with little innovation, 3 years after Pokemon red, I still prefer the original 1990 Paperboy. I certainly never bought the color one.

[@N64Gamer77]

A few of these games were also on the Atari Lynx. Those ports were generally excellent and superior to the Game Boy and Game Gear.

[@GregsGameRoom]

I was comparing the Lynx version of Klax (in my head) the whole time. It’s way better than either of these.

[@N64Gamer77]

@@GregsGameRoom Paperboy and Ms. Pac-Man also better, I think

[@jong2359]

17:09 -- I am giving the edge to the Gameboy version for Marble Madness... the marble animation is just everything... for some reason it just makes my brain completely understand what is going on, whereas the Gamegear's "flat" non-animation allows me to zone out and misunderstand the momentum of the marble.

[@Magnificat42]

I was lucky enough to own each, but successively. Both are pretty great, fun times

[@MotownBatman]

I remember when I bought my GG, a few Weeks before the Nomad came out, I had not Heard or Seen about the Nomad, Followed SEGA hard, and Lived Close to 2 of the Biggest Detroit Area Toys'RUs: So Mad Anyway, Loved my GG, and Cherished it, the Blue ESPN version. I had No Idea Marble Madness was on there, I loved that game on other systems growing up! Road Rash, NBA Jam Awesome... Mortal Kombat - So Slow

[@urbanknish]

I bought a Nomad at the Toys R Us on Masonic near Macomb Mall in 1997 for only $50 because it was a closeout. I still have it in the box!

[@MotownBatman]

@@urbanknish We went to Moccomb, my mom liked Lakeside, we lived closer to Bel-Air on 8 mile

[@MotownBatman]

@@urbanknish Now its Foreman Mills !! 🤣🔫 Still Looks like Toys R Us, Still LOOKS LIEK IT TOO! Flink Sucks typically, Only went to Sounthfield when it first opened

[@GregsGameRoom]

Having a Nomad back then would have been awesome.

[@MotownBatman]

@@GregsGameRoom Saved up for 2 years.. maybe 3. Got the ESPN Blue with Sonic 2, the Nice Screw On Battery Pack & More Thought I was Gonna Impress Everyone, (I grew up getting bullied) NOPE! Nobody cared, everyone still loved the OG GameBoy. 2/3 Weeks LAter the Nomad came out. I had a Killer Garage Sale Genesis Collection. It was too late to return the GG LOL

[@Monhamd1000]

Gameboy is a classic but Game Gear wins by the library of the game, because hey, the 4 Madou Monogatari games are a must have with the fan English translation!

[@esmerylan]

About that Game Gear version of Ms. Pac-Man: it bears a close resemblance to Namco's NES port, green maze and all, only the whole point of slightly shrinking down the maze there (and altering the shapes of the barriers slightly in the process) was to fit everything on the screen at once with no scrolling. This was in contrast to Tengen's NES version, which had more arcade-accurate graphics but had to scroll the mazes up and down to keep them true to the originals. But on the Game Gear, even the reduced-size maze is too big to fit and it has to scroll anyway... so what was the point of using it?

[@GregsGameRoom]

Changing the maze color would have helped a lot.

[@Viciouspiked]

i owned both the gg and gb by 1993 i played both frequently but i play my game gear way more then my game boy. even though i had more games for the game boy then the game gear it had better games over all in my opinion. now when i got my gg i only had 4 games street of rage, sonic the hedgehog, axe battler, shinobi.

[@MoviemaniaNick]

I used to have Game Boy and a Game Gear as a kid. Pac Attack is Tetris that's it. lol

[@GregsGameRoom]

I’d rather play regular Tetris

[@jescis0]

​@@GregsGameRoomthen you mean the Gameboy Tetris? Because it was TECHNICALLY the first one, the NES game was a bit later… 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@cimbakahn]

There are a few games in the past that I really enjoyed playing, but I can't seem to find any of them today. One is the game called Bubble Puzzle. I don't know why it was called Bubble Puzzle. It was just another Bust A Move game. It Probably was the very first bubble popping video game. The bubbles had faces on them, and when the bubbles got to the bottom of the screen and it was game over there were angry looking faces on them and they growled. This was the most fun bubble popping game I ever played! Another one was a Yahtzee game. When you clicked on the dice to roll them you heard the voices from the characters of Star Trek Next Generation. I don't know what this game was called. Roll the dice one time and you can hear Jean-Luc Picard saying 'On Screen'. Roll them another time you can hear Data saying something. Roll again and you can hear Worf saying something. Another one was Phoenix which was a game I played at the arcade. I can't find it either. I would really appreciate it if anyone can help me find these games!

[@daveperry2772]

If you play the black and white games on a game boy color you can play it in color!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Well, kinda.

[@jescis0]

​@@GregsGameRoomwell if not the Gameboy game on Gameboy Color… it does on the Super Gameboy(2) 😉😉😉😉

[@jasone3962]

I wanted to hear the music on Marble Madness for the Game Gear. Because the music that the Game Boy was playing with the original music the music from Game Gear play different than the original?

[@Whats.Next.Videos]

It amazes me that I'm the only person that seems to have used rechargeable batteries for my Game Gear. I mean, why would anyone use disposable batteries???

[@GregsGameRoom]

They weren’t as prevalent back then. I always used my ac adapter on my Lynx

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I loved the Atari Lynx, like the Atari Lynx likes batteries.

[@KingC89]

There's a Chase HQ game for the Gameboy Color too that's really good.

[@tdebug1]

I remember very well the Earthworm Jim for GB and it just becomes impossibly difficult later in the game. In the bathyscaphe mission you need to be pixel perfect to proceed. Not sure if this is any better in GG version.

[@nsptyty9617]

Hey when you mentioned that you liked: "Link's Casino" better then "Cesar's Palace" what did you mean? I searched for "Link's Casino" game and there was no such thing, so how did you come up with it?

[@GregsGameRoom]

Lynx Casino for the Atari Lynx.

[@cimbakahn]

I just had a Clarity of thought moment. I think that yahtzee type game was called something like Captain's Yacht or Cappy's Yacht.

[@linkdk59]

The Tintin in Tibet also existed in color for the Game Boy color, same as for Tintin and the Seven Crystal Balls

[@icecreammm2]

I owned a DMG but I didn't like it as a kid because I didn't have any good first party titles and I hated the slow/non-backlit screen. Now I own both and I prefer the Game Gear. The mickey mouse games are great platformers for the GG. I have done a backlit + bivert mod for the DMG and an led backlight mod for the GG. While it doesn't make a big difference for the GG, the DMG got a lot better. Now I can enjoy some first party games that just were a blurry mess before.

[@jescis0]

I don't think emulation is going to give you the actual hardware issues! GameGear was backlit and colorful when Gameboy was the only one available at the GameGear's launch… and even being just B&W(Green&Darker Green even) it was better at batteries lasting longer than the GameGear! 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@DovonMac1]

Game gear is better performance machine but at the cost of low battery Gameboy didn’t require as many batteries and also lasted longer because of power usage. In the 90s buying batteries constantly would be an issue without rechargeable which were very expensive.

[@user-pe7up5od7i]

The Game Gear was the precursor to the Sony PSP and PS Vita.

[@dstcoyote22rants]

The game gear version of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was not only the better of the two compared to the Game Boy… But it was the best out of all the release based on season 1… plus the Sega games had the green ranger… Nintendo didn’t…

[@JamesChessman]

Good gaggle of games. I’m almost gagging as I’m gargling the gaggle

[@tokin420nchokin]

A Benn Venn screen will do wonders for your old game gear

[@tarantinoish]

I was hoping to see Jurassic Park on this list. I don’t know why, but I loved that game on Game Gear.

[@NotAGarage]

I came for your WWF Raw review. it was lacking 😭 Raw is a masterpiece on SNES!

[@jasone3962]

When it comes to mimicking the classics I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing I guess it just depends on what type of player you are. If you like the classics and you want them to stay classic or not

[@BenChurchill76]

The Gameboy Color came out after the Game Gear was already dead, so it’s not fair to compare Gameboy Color games. It was competing with the OG Gameboy, and there were comparable games, like Aladdin, for instance; there was a monochrome version that was different from the GBC version.

[@d0dg3st4r]

There's nothing fair or unfair about it, it is just spooking at both side by side so people can see them. People also compare NES/SNES games with PS1 games. It's interesting to see them side by side and note the similarities and differences, and which one we like better, which can often be surprising.

[@BenChurchill76]

I got both the original Gameboy and the Game Gear during each of their respective launch years and loved them, but generally if there was a cross-platform release, I preferred the color Game Gear versions. But, each system had their exclusives that were great. I loved the Game Gear though, and also had the TV tuner that was pretty amazing for the time; being able to watch TV anywhere.

[@plainlazy2097]

There is a GBC version of Bubble Bobble called ‘Classic Bubble Bobble’.

[@Cyberpunk001]

The Game Gear was basically a shrunk down Master System. So much so that there was a slot adapter that let you play Master System games on it. I actually always really liked the Master System/Game Gear version of Sonic 1. Yes it was a lot slower than the Mega drive/Genesis version, but as for the platforming, I thought it was better.

[@sowhodecidedthat3924]

The gamegear wasn't so good as a portable and had poor battery life and whilst was more powerful came later. Gameboy also had Pokemon. Not really fair to compare these devices as they are technically worlds apart, but there is reason why Gameboy as popular.

[@nbttl1975]

Cool in retrospect but there was a crappy version of Spiderman Return of the Sinister Six for Gameboy wasn't there?

[@AtomicFolly]

The gamegear was technically better than the Gameboy and even the Gameboy color but two things stood out in this video for me. Because you're emulating these games you don't get to see the ghosting both handhelds had. While both had ghosting issues gamegear was far worse imo. Also while backlit the gamegear was still hard to see but not as bad as the Gameboy. Now the Gameboy color didn't have ghosting issues but the lack of a backlight was still an issue. Wish you could have played each game on each system for a proper overall experience.

[@sirjohnmandeville7488]

It's incredible it took Nintendo 7 years to make something comparable to the old Gear.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Ultimately, the Game Gear's "chews through batteries like there's no tomorrow" negates any positives their versions of a game has. Because, what's the point of a portal handheld, if your options are to nearly constantly change batteries, or be tethered to a wall via an adaptor?

[@peterlane1391]

I had both. The game gear drank batteries like water, which is why I never played it long.

[@MaxOakland]

I don’t see how the Gameboy can match any of the Gamegear versions. The Gameboy succeeded because of the games the Gamegear didn’t have. And great battery life and a lower price

[@sergeleon1163]

When comparing not only the DMG Gameboy, but also the Gameboy Colour you should take in consideration the Gameboy colour released like 7 years later 1998 vs Game Gear 1991 (US/Europe and 1990 Japan)

[@GregsGameRoom]

Release date didn’t matter to me, only the gameplay.

[@andyball3231]

For all intent and purposes, the gameboy colour was the gameboy 2, whereas there wasnt a gamegear 2. The comparison was against 2 different generations with very different tech availible

[@DS9TREK]

That Tintin folm was made by Steven pielberg, not Peter Jackson. I wish they'd made more of them. All of them in fact.

[@DovonMac1]

When you play the gameboy games that don’t have color you should left color out of the judge phase because you use it way to often gameplay and sprites are what matters

[@warrenellis1023]

Long live Eugene Levy.

[@DovonMac1]

At least the gameboy version of mortal Kombat had more sprites for animation and less choppy

[@Freddy78909]

This is not really a fair comparison since Game Gear was next gen compared to Game Boy ... but still entertaining video none the less. I'm actually surprised Game Boy was so successful with such primitive games

[@patg108]

Game gear versions will be better in graphics and music usually. But the game boy had the battery life advantage, basically you COULD play them for much longer. After all nobody really had a screen mod then so your options were to plug into the wall or buy massive amounts of batteries or car charger. Game gear versions were basically SMS ports (a previous home console) on the go. And the general public was probably exposed to a lot of Tiger electronic handhelds, so even the game boy would be a significant upgrade from one of those.

[@patg108]

And another factor was that game boy tended to have more exclusives (spinoffs contribute a lot to that), and significantly different versions. Whereas the game gear was pretty much literally a 8 bit version of a game you could probably have on the genesis or snes (mostly genesis/megadrive but there's bound to be some on both)

[@astroferret4700]

I wish you had used the Gameboy color version of lion king, it’s pretty comparable to th Game gear version

[@annstevens6223]

You’re wrong about MK II for gameboy. Most people love it.

[@enmadaniaisabel1552]

I HAVE MY GAMEBOY COLOR AND MY GAMEGEAR AND I LOVE BOTH OF THEM ALL THE WAY UP TO SWITCH AND VITA I HAVE ALMOST ALL OF THEM BUT NOMAD AND VIRTUAL BOY T.T

[@matthewbailey9405]

If you want to know why the Gameboy beat the Game Gear I suggest you play Sonic 1 and 2 on GG and then plan Mario Land 1 and 2 on GB. The GG Sonic games are quite janky to say the least, compared to the buttery smooth experience of Mario on GB.

[@chumorgan443]

G.G felt ahead of its time when compared to the G.B.

[@d0dg3st4r]

The actual GB first gen is a horrible grey brick, but it was actually a very capable system! When I was younger I wrote it off as a low resolution green and black piece of trash, and never knew anything about the GG. I later loved the GBC for Pokémon. I have played a lot of old GB and GBC games since and both of them are far better than I gave them credit for. Metroid II Is a beast of a game. Gamegear, again, original hardware is pretty bad (tiny screen, chunky, takes infinite batteries to play for a day) , though better than the OG GB. Now that we can play them on better hardware, the games for both condoles are amazing retro titles! The only hardware between the two that was really good was the GBC though the GB Lite was pretty servicible if you don't mind the lack of colour.

[@whanethewhip]

Well, at least with the Game Gear you didn't have to hit yourself in the head with a dead squirrel-pop to see colors.

[@christophergkassel6611]

I uad extensive libraries on both> Silent Game. Sonic Youth and....LIGHTS OUT! Haha..Game Gear had the back light. The comparable stuff, Always preferred some color, if I had to choose a title on BOTH > I always stuck with SEGA.

[@criativoscopio]

Wait, that Aladdin on GBC is an official release? Looks like a bootleg tbh

[@marccaselle8108]

The gameboy mortal kombat 2 plays a hell of a lot better than mortal kombat 1 for Gameboy

[@syliagray]

I would say that even without color display, the Gameboy would be the winning choice, not just for affordability and battery life, for the sheer number of games, and quality games. The fact that Sega Game Gear was lacking in Super Mario Land, Mega Man, and Pokemon games would be a deal-breaker for me.

[@Lilbroda]

The Game Gear got a Mega Man game. Pokemon series didn´t exist back then, and why would Sega have the biggest nintendo franchise on their system? That makes no sense.

[@syliagray]

@@Lilbroda Yeah, just ONE Mega Man game. I want more than one.

[@syliagray]

@@Lilbroda And it didn't have to be Pokémon exactly but a game like it made by Sega that took the world by storm, but no, that never happened.

[@Lilbroda]

@@syliagray like Sonic? I mean, it's not like Pokémon was made by Nintendo anyway, it was only licensed by them, the Game was made by Game Freak.

[@syliagray]

@@Lilbroda I'm not saying that the Game Gear didn't have any good games. Just not a lot. It may have been better if they fostered better relations with companies like Capcom. And Nintendo is not exactly a saint here either because they tried to discourage 3rd party developers from developing for competitors like Sega.

[@javiles2331]

Who is the winner?

[@d0dg3st4r]

Imagine if the GG hadn't been discontinued and Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow came out on the Sega handheld too!

[@nathleflutiste]

This could not happen since it's a Nintendo license.

[@TheWolvesCurse]

there is a gameboy advance version of bubble bobble, but i guess that's an unfair comparison, as the architecture isn't the same as the gameboy and gb color.

[@calculateddeclination5534]

The game gear is basically the prototype to the game boy advance.

[@mrsuarez430]

Gameboy was awesome but I had a game gear and it was just as fun so fun I traded my nes for one since I already had just got a genesis

[@AmigaDog]

Game Gear all day for me🤘🏻

[@Umo2000]

It seems like you did indeed have an emulator issue with Prince of Persia. Sounds fine here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpmknox9mJhqpqM But I hear you, I always liked that game in theory but had zero patience for it in practice. Never made it more than 5 minutes in…

[@johneygd]

Those old arcade games were waaaay too many times ported to those systems and even today those games getting overprereleased again and again all to grab some more bucks, Pac attack is clearly a game whose tried to cetch in on the tetris & dr mario craze while also using a title wich rimes with each other, Lemmings on the gamegear blows the gameboy version out of the water into shame.

[@gaymerherb]

Wait...so which one had more wins?

[@GregsGameRoom]

I don’t keep a count anymore.

[@gentuxable]

0:54 that is called parallax I think.

[@danielcontee7851]

sometimes bro, just gotta have color

[@disconinja108]

Game Gear is better, although GameBoy have more games in its library and that means it should have more good games also, bur anyway I'm going with Game Gear

[@futuregamer5791]

Sega was releasing commercials dogging on the monochrome screen of the Gameboy at the time. Then finally almost a decade later Nintendo fans finally got a a colored screen with the release of the Gameboy color. By that point Sega wasn't even releasing any more games for the Game Gear. So there was no direct competition between the two. Game gear was already discontinued thus making any kind of KZbin video comparing the two pointless.

[@bryanlima9566]

It's the same arguments as to compare the NES and SMS. SMS wins in hardware, but NES wins in softwares.

[@SplorinRyan]

I'd like to go on record as saying that Bart vs the space monsters was the worst game gear game

[@GregsGameRoom]

I almost covered that one but there isn’t a GB version. Wonder why?

[@marccaselle8108]

Wooof

[@BRockin25]

Imo Game Gear was significantly better but all magazines/media pushed Game Boy

[@email6743]

This is mistitled obviously, should be Game Gear vs, Game boy COLOR 🤨🤦

[@DocNintendo]

So eho won?

[@rhasce]

Battery tech was not in par with gamegear

[@FUGP72]

Aladdin is so weird. Nintendo said their SNES version was so crappy because they didn't want Aladdin to have a sword. but then their Gameboy version was basically the superior Sega Genesis version of Aladdin, sword and all.

[@GregsGameRoom]

The GBC game is a pretty good port.

[@FUGP72]

@@GregsGameRoom Is it truly just the Sega Genesis version all the way through? The shows you show are literally exactly from the Genesis version, enemy placement and all. In that regard, it has to be good since that Genesis was so good. Although, part of why it was so good was the music and sound, so the Gameboy version definitely misses out there.

[@DarthEquus]

The quote is actually from Shinji Mikami, the director of Resident Evil at Capcom. But yes, he said the Genesis version is better because of the sword.

[@lazarushernandez5827]

I think with the Game Gear version of Aladdin, they intentionally made it different from the Genesis because they wanted people to buy both if they had both platforms (similar to what they did with Sonic the Hedgehog and Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusions).

[@FUGP72]

@@lazarushernandez5827 It's just weird that Nintendo copied the Genesis Aladdin pretty much exactly. Obviously I di9dn't see the whole game, but that parts shown here are the same, right down to enemy placement. The fact that Nintendo used the "Aladdin was not a violent character in the movie" as their reasoning for not having a sword in their SNES game (despite him holding a sword on the box art) makes it ever weirder still. It truly was pretty much a concession that the Genesis version was much more widely loved (and today, remembered) than the SNES version. I didn't play a lot of SNES games, but there were two types of games I played where Genesis absolutely blew the SNES out of the water...the Disney movie games, and sports (specifically, the EA Sports) games. Both of which were extremely popular groups of games for that generation. (Genesis did better with the EA "Strike" series like Desert Strike, as did the Playstation with the sequels Soviet and Nuclear, than the SNES and N64 as well. so maybe it was just an EA thing.) I guess you can throw in the Mortal Kombat type game too with their silly no blood rule.

[@elgeniomaestro]

I've never understood why people hold the Game Boy on a pedestal, sure, it had fantastic games, Link's Awakening, Tertris, Super Mario Land 2, Pokemon, I guess Metroid 2, but it has aged the worst of the Nintendo games, but really, what else is there on the Game Boy that isn't just a bad port or just awful in general? It was a novelty, for sure, and being that the Game Gear was much more expensive I can see why most people only had access to it, but that thing sucked, pretty much everybody was just trying to cram NES, SNES into it or even MS-DOS games on the Game Boy Color instead of making something that could work within those limitations and if they did, they almost always screwed up somehow, the Mega Man games suck, no surprise there, they were made by the idiots of Minakuchi Engineering, who also fucked up X3 and The Wily Wars, James Bond 007's combat is awful and it really screws you up at the penultimate level, Duke Nukem is just a bad version of Duke Nukem 2 and the penultimate level is also garbage, the practically unavoidable enemies also screw you up there, on a freaking run and gun game.

[@robbiedoblin]

You can't really rate the games on sound, controls, game speed, and graphics when you emulate them and not play them on original hardware

[@udokee7409]

Did u compare Pokémon? Oh wait.. 😏

[@jasone3962]

The Game Gear version of Lion King is way better than the game boy version. The Game Holy virgin doesn't even have tree or shrubs in the background it's just black

[@xTerrySunderlandx]

aladin game gear has the 2 most anoying and boring intro stages (in fact those 2 levels made me completedly abandon the game for been so absurdly boring and simple) it was recently that someone told me there is actual gameplay after those 2 levels that i decided to resume that game. The gameboy version is a downgrade version of the genesis one (wich is good as well) bubble booble for the gameboy is a better version, the game gear has some nice colours and the game works as intended (a copy of the arcade one) the gameboy version is a little bigger (and actually a different version) there are 3 games on the gameboy puzzle bb on gameboy has 3 versions as well if you look at the first one released then yes the gg one is better (but super zoomed) Prince of persia on the gamegear looks gorgeous, but the gameboy version plays better (and the sound problem it's because of the emulator, i had it on gameboy and i do not rememer hearing that all te time) read rush i get what you say but it's waaaaaaaaay smoother and it controls way better on gameboy color, so im choosing that one. Spiderman vs sinister 6, the gamegear version is actually the NES version (i do like the game, but it's not a good one) , the gameboy one is a dif game and its AMAZING (far superior and quite good)

[@GregsGameRoom]

First 2 Aladdin stages are a turn off but I think it gets better.

[@noiselabproject9659]

I actually like those stages too though, trying to balance where to be on the screen and when to jump to avoid getting caught or hit

[@moobutt5381]

I never liked that Game Gear had all them Disney games, and not a single Alex Kidd game 🤦‍♂️