Sega Genesis Classic Game Console – Sega Gear

This game console comes with 81 built in games @ a reasonable price, with 2 controllers. Sega genesis is fun & is a lot easier for younger children to play and understand compared to the more advanced video games that are out today.

Good product. Worked well. Cords on controllers are a little short so we had to move some furniture closer to play, but it was fun.

Graphics are exactly the same quality as the original, so it looks really bad on a large tv. It’s heavily pixelated but still good for a laugh. Worth the price.

I was really excited to receive this as a Christmas gift. If you’re into late 80s games, this is a really nice thing to have.

PROS- (1) The price is right. (2) The system is small and compact. Thus you can easily find a place for it. (3) It includes TWO 6 button controllers that seem to work well. (4) The connections are external. So unlike the Atari Flashback, it is very easy to just switch the game system in and out with your DVD player. (5) You get a great amount of games, and some really good ones too! ‘Golden Axe,’ ‘Golden Axe 2,’ ‘Golde Axe 3,’ ‘Altered Beast,’ ‘Columns,’ ‘Sonic Hedgehog,’ etc. (6) There is a cartridge port. So if you have Genesis cartridges leftover from the late 80s, you can play them again.

CONS (1) I was looking forward to visiting the 3 ‘Mortal Kombat’ games again. And while they are here, they are not so playable. By that I mean, on the SUPERN NES, ‘easy’ meant beginner friendly, and ‘difficult’ meant a good challenge for a longtime expert. Sadly, that’s not the case here. ‘Easy’ means difficult, and ‘Difficult’ means absurdly and ridiculously difficult. At first I thought this was a problem with my system. But then I looked online and noticed other people were having the same problem, (2) It claims to have 80 games. But only 1/2 are SEGA GENESIS games. The other 40 are these random crap ware games. Most, though not quite all are absurd and unplayable. ‘Break the Fire Line’ is like ‘Space Invaders.’ I’ll allow it. ‘Bubble Master’ is ok. ‘Chess’ is ok. ‘Spider’ is halfway decent. But the others are complete garbage.

FINAL ANALYSIS: The 3 ‘Mortal Kombat’ games aren’t really so playable. But even if you subtract these three games, you are still left with a generous number of great classic games. Yea. Some people complained that the graphics are not the exact same, and some of the music isn’t the same. While I do I understand, I also feel that you have to be a little forgiving when you’re getting this number of games for such a low price. Yea. Some people complained that some of their favorites weren’t there. But again, you’re getting so much for so little.

While I would have liked to have played the Mortal Kombat’ games again, I am still happy with this gift. And I can highly recommend it for late 80s nostalgia.

UPDATE: I still prefer this over the NEW SEGA MINI. (A) This has two 6 button controllers, whereas the SEGA only gives you 3 button controllers. To put “Street Fighter’ II and “Eternal Champions” in the new SEGA MINI, but only give you 3 button controllers was either absurd or just greedy. And be it absurd or greedy, neither is good. You don’t include games that will require you to eventually buy another two controllers. That’s just wrong. (B) This version will play most SEGA GENESIS cartridges whereas the SEGA one will not.

I’ve had few products in my life that actually made my jaw drop due to the obscene lack of quality control. Having had purchased a SNES months ago that has ran flawlessly and already provided countless hours of entertainment for my family, I really had no concerns about ordering another new classic game console so we went with the Sega.

Day one, the console arrives and my two older sons decide to give it a go. Right from the start the 1st player controller is unable to establish connection to the device despite being plugged in carefully. Console is turned on, troubleshooting for about 30 minutes before the controller randomly begins to work. Now that this issue is seemingly behind us we proceed to the game selection, wow a great variety of games, sadly half of them DO NOT WORK.

Apologies for the caps, but seriously, nearly half the games would not load, or when they loaded the picture quality was beyond recognizable, I’m not talking pixels and poor picture, I’m talking a blob of distorted mess on your tv screen.

From there it goes down hill, each day the 1st player controller continued to be faulty & several games would randomly not work, then work, and so on. We finally sent it back for a full refund due to no viable solution being found or offered.

Hopefully this is not the norm, but for my family this was a waste of time & money.

Para los que somos de la vieja escuela y crecimos con los videojuegos, es una excelente oportunidad de tener nuevamente en las manos esos juegos que nos hicieron sentir superheroes o querer tener la valentía de esos personajes. Si eres gamer de corazón debes tener esta consola en tu colección.