The genre du jour during the Game Gears heyday was rollicking side-on platformers, and Land of Illusion is an exemplary entrant in the canon. The…
The original hedgehog-themed platformer puts in a fine showing on Game Gear, with an inventive mixture of platforming game styles keeping the action fresh and…
Hammer-toting mad mallard, Mr D. Duck of Burbank, CA, ventures into a succession of seven enchanted lands in search of Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, and…
In standard old-school RPG fashion, the view is top-down and combat is turn based, but navigating the world is like exploring a maze. New terrain…
The game featured levels that looked like the console versions, but they were laid out differently, and enemies didnt have names and life bars like…
The Game Boy had Tetris to sell it, and when it came time to launch the Game Gear, Sega wasnt too proud to throw in…
Electronic Arts top-selling Strike series continues with Jungle Strike, the sequel to its desert-bound original. Whereas the first installment tasked you with turning several deserts…
The fantastically popular Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin was a huge hit for Sega and rights-holder Marvel. Legend has it that the latter renewed its license…
As comprehensive a shooter as Desert Strike may seem far too sizeable a package for scaling down to the baby Game Gear; but if the…
It may have come before Lucasarts took the reigns to Star Wars games on consoles, but it was no embarrassing cash-in. There was solid platforming,…
The Game Gear version of Segas Ayrton Senna-produced racer makes some compromises to fit everything in, but the crucial elements are still on show. Opening…
Taking cues from the TV show, story mode had cutscenes that set up the matches. While 8-bit graphics meant the fighting didnt look quite as…
The third installment in Segas acclaimed Illusion series was created by Sonic Chaos developer Aspect. Eventually ported to the Master System in Brazil, Legend of…
The arcade version of Segas After Burner successor featured a daunting 360-degree rotating cabinet to fully approximate the gravitationally induced loss of consciousness of the…
Codemasters had an early viral hit with CJs Elephant Antics, which introduced the world to smart-aleck pachyderm Columbus Junior. The initial game, which did the…
Once upon a time no one was really sure that home computers would ever work as games machines, and then Psygnosis released Lemmings and all…
Part of the wave of Amiga platformers that came ported across to Segas machines at the height of the platform boom, James Pond 2: Codename…
Until Electronic Arts expanded its genre-eclipsing Madden line onto handhelds in 1995, Sega and BlueSky Softwares Joe Montana Football was the first and best option…
The intrepid aquatic mammal undertakes a rescue effort that brings him to the far reaches of Earths oceans, to the remains of Atlantis, and even…
It might be hard to believe in an age of titles like God of War, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, or Dantes Inferno, but there was…