It did! The first boss was this crab guy in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen at the bottom of a slope. Heavy metal balls bounce down the slope from the top-left corner and you need to either jump over them or let it bounce over you, depending on how much bounce. Due to to low resolution of the screen, you have very little time to judge whether to jump or not. That fight kicked my lil butt a million times over until I just ripped the game out and put in Dynamite Headdy.
This was especially bullshit on the Game Gear specifically because it had a lower screen resolution than the Master System for which the game was originally made. (The Game Gear and Master System/Mark 3 are basically the same hardware, and many titles are conversions from one platform to the other.) Your field of view is narrower on the Game Gear, so you have less time to react to the cannonballs being shot at you since the projectiles come from off screen.
What you see on your TV using the Master System:
What you see on the tiny washed out screen of the Game Gear:
YES thank you for the images, it explains my pain perfectly. I should have kept my Nomad instead of returning it for a Game Gear but the Nomad’s ~1hr 45min of battery life on 6xAAs was less than half of what the Game Gear got.
I’m so glad it wasn’t just me being bad at games… I swear that games was so insanely hard! I never made it to the second boss and I put a lot of hours into it hahaha
The “scene” was way too small on the left or on the right. Sonic was accelerating way too fast too, which means you had to walk slowly… in a Sonic game. Also it was way too hard, but all GG were like that. Find an emulator and try it if you hate your life!
Yes, they were not ports but completely different games from a different developer.
My favorite Game Gear Sonic game is Triple Trouble. Finishing it 100% with all emeralds is hard, but if you ignore those it’s really fun. They even made the water level fun if you play with Tails!
I never had a game gear. Did it differ from the Genesis version?
It did! The first boss was this crab guy in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen at the bottom of a slope. Heavy metal balls bounce down the slope from the top-left corner and you need to either jump over them or let it bounce over you, depending on how much bounce. Due to to low resolution of the screen, you have very little time to judge whether to jump or not. That fight kicked my lil butt a million times over until I just ripped the game out and put in Dynamite Headdy.
This was especially bullshit on the Game Gear specifically because it had a lower screen resolution than the Master System for which the game was originally made. (The Game Gear and Master System/Mark 3 are basically the same hardware, and many titles are conversions from one platform to the other.) Your field of view is narrower on the Game Gear, so you have less time to react to the cannonballs being shot at you since the projectiles come from off screen.
What you see on your TV using the Master System:
What you see on the tiny washed out screen of the Game Gear:
YES thank you for the images, it explains my pain perfectly. I should have kept my Nomad instead of returning it for a Game Gear but the Nomad’s ~1hr 45min of battery life on 6xAAs was less than half of what the Game Gear got.
Lol, I love how loose game development was about platform consistency back then. That’s amazing.
Oh shit. I’m having flashbacks. And then after that boss drained most of our lives, if we won, the stupid paraglider took the rest of them.
I’m so glad it wasn’t just me being bad at games… I swear that games was so insanely hard! I never made it to the second boss and I put a lot of hours into it hahaha
The “scene” was way too small on the left or on the right. Sonic was accelerating way too fast too, which means you had to walk slowly… in a Sonic game. Also it was way too hard, but all GG were like that. Find an emulator and try it if you hate your life!
Yes, they were not ports but completely different games from a different developer.
My favorite Game Gear Sonic game is Triple Trouble. Finishing it 100% with all emeralds is hard, but if you ignore those it’s really fun. They even made the water level fun if you play with Tails!