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TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! (media.piefed.world)
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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I have several game gears so have some first hand experience.

90s batteries didn't last long. Regular batteries are 1.5V, rechargeable are 1.2V. When freshly charged they can be around 1.4V, but the game gear will quickly "detect" the voltage dropping and start indicating low battery.

Older batteries didn't hold as much charge as modern batteries do. You can go hours now with rechargeable batteries, but it used to be different.

As a kid, I had a game gear fanny pack that held the device, some games and all the batteries I could cram in there, which was a lot.