Sound - ###-#### Graphic - ###-#### Playability - ####-##### Type - Shooting Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####You have an aircraft and fly through various levels. Items that you collect increase speed and weapon and shield power. A boss has to be defeated at the end of each level. It is fun to play, but there is one thing: Each time you lose a ship, you also lose the bonus items you carefully collected.
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - ###-#### Type - Adventure / Shooting / Puzzle Specials - Password Developer - Eden / Sega ALTOGETHER - ####In the year 2026, you have to bring down the anti-democratic government. Fight your way through isometric (4 degrees of freedom) sewers, skyscrapers and factories and kill robots, mutants and other baddies with a cool variety of high-tech weapons. A little thinking has to be applied 'cause doors only open using cards. Not really 3d, but great shooting anarchy anyway.
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - #### Playability - ###-#### Type - Jump 'N' Run / Adventure / Puzzle Specials - Password Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####Astérix has made it to the Game Gear, and now here goes the official game. Morphing between Astérix and Obelix, you have to find a way out of the stages by jumping over platforms, punching out romans and finding keys. What makes this game stand apart most other jump 'n' runs is that you always have to puzzle around a bit. This game is fun, though it won't knock you out really.
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Sound - ### Graphic - #### Playability - #### Type - Role Play / Fighting Specials - Password Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ###-####The King of a fantasy-land wants you to bring back the Golden Axe. You visit towns, fight enemies while you travel and jump through jump 'n' run levels. The password option is quite useful, I think it would really be hard without that. In the towns you can listen to some people talking and learn to use special powers.
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - ####-##### Type - Puzzle / Strategy Specials - Password Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####This is another Columns clone: Each block falling down carries an animal or food for an animal. Bring an animal to one or more of the food blocks it eats and both will disappear. The opponents you have to beat grow harder and harder with time. It's styled Japanese-kitschy (like sometimes in the Sonic games), it won't get too easy too early and features rendered graphics. Cool!
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - #### Playability - ### Type - Jump 'N' Run / Fighting Specials - None Developer - Sega / Rare Coin-It / Tradewest ALTOGETHER - ###-####You control a humanoid toad rescueing the princess and punch and jump your way across various strange creatures and landscapes. This is fundamentally just a more or less average jumping, kicking, running and hitting game, but it has some nice gimmicks to offer, like the first level boss, who you get to fight from its point-of-view in a sort of computer grid mode.
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Sound - ##### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - ##### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Disney Software ALTOGETHER - #####You play Mickey Mouse! Minnie has been captured by an evil witch, so you have to fight your way through some excellent jump 'n' run levels. The monsters in the levels are easy to fight, but often it takes a long time to find out how to fight a boss. But that's really alright. Practise and you will suceed!
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - ## Type - Jump 'N' Run / Adventure / Fighting Specials - None Developer - R. A. K. / Sega ALTOGETHER - ##-###You control Chakan, a vampirish guy, through a bunch of levels in a fantasy game world. Well, OK, the graphics are good, especially Chakan himself, and, OK, the sound is cool, like the speech at the title screen, but... it's just too hard to play. All enemies run into you, so you lose much of your health before having killed them. Use a cheat machine and it'll be good though!
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Sound - # (only sound effects) Graphic - ### Playability - ###-#### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - Password Developer - Sega / Core Design ALTOGETHER - ###You are a stone age man and have to rescue your wife. Pick up stones to make your way through the levels and kill some mad dinosaurs. But all this has to be done without music! Use your CD player to hear other music, playing the game only with sound effects is boring!
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Sound - ##### Graphic - #### Playability - #### Type - Puzzle / Strategy Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####Blocks of Stones fall down. Each block consists of three stones. Each of the stones has its own color. Bring three stones together that have the same color and they will disappear (Oh, it's so silly to write this, everybody knows!).
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - ###-#### Type - Adventure / Role Play / Jump 'N' Run Specials - Password, 4 Languages Developer - Codemasters ALTOGETHER - #####Cosmic Spacehead, inhabitant of the planet Linoleum, wants to discover earth. You're picking up things, use them later and talk to others. The jump 'n' run stages are quite mean and tricky, but there are also skill games like the car race, so it's all very extensive (the cartridge is bigger than normal ones). If I had to name the most addictive games I wouldn't leave this one out.
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - #### Type - Strategy / Role Play Specials - 2 Player Mode, Battery Backup Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####You control Princess Iris, who has a crystal which the bad guys want, and some fighters among her. You fight against evil fighters. You always play battles in map view, where you control your fighters, and in the next round the Gear plays its evil fighters, and so on. If you win, you go to a city where are shops and new fighters to hire, and then you go to the next battle.
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Sound - ####-##### Graphic - #### Playability - ####-##### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Disney Software ALTOGETHER - ####-#####This is the sequel to "The Great Dime Caper", also starring Donald Duck. And, as you might have expected, it's better! Uncle Scrooge has been cursed by an old golden amulet he had taken away from an island. Donald now must bring it back so that his uncle won't be cursed anymore. Donald is now animated much better and, somehow, it's simply more fun to play!
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Sound - ##### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - #### Type - Role Play Specials - Battery Backup Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####The dark forces in this fantasy-world rise again. Let other men join your party and you will find it easier to fight all the monsters. Buy better equipment in the shops and talk to other people. You don't even need a password, you can save up to three games on the cartridge!
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Sound - # (only sound effects) Graphic - #### Playability - ###-#### Type - Shooting / Strategy Specials - Password Developer - Tiertex / Electronic Arts / Sega ALTOGETHER - ###In a set of missions, you must complete tasks such as rescueing hostages and destroying enemy bases to stop World War III from happening. To do this, you fly your helicopter over isometric fields, shooting enemies and so forth. It might be hard to familiarise with it, but details like briefings and co-pilot selection make this not much short of more advanced versions.
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Sound - ##### Graphic - #### Playability - #### Type - Action Specials - None Developer - Sage's Creation ALTOGETHER - ####You control two platforms that take an invincible ball through some levels. Make the ball destroy common enemies and level bosses, and do all this before time-out. The game concept is taken from the brick and block games on the early video game consoles (There are also lots of these games for Windows!).
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Sound - #### Graphic - ##### Playability - ####-##### Type - Jump N' Run / Adventure Specials - Password Developer - Disney Software ALTOGETHER - #####Aladdin has to keep Jafar, the Sultan's evil advisor, from using the Genie (the ghost inside the lamp) to take over the kingdom. To succeed, Aladdin has to get the lamp deep in the Cave Of Wonders, escape from there and finally defeat Jafar. This game is quite similar to Prince Of Persia (the same kind of moves) and excellently animated. But one thing is: It's a bit (too) short.
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Disney Software / Virgin ALTOGETHER - ####We know the story. We know the animals. So I'll get straight to it: Simba, the lion, jumps around through beautiful stages, roaring and beating his enemies. As he grows older, the levels get more tricky so you need more and more skill. Bonus levels let Pumbaa gain lives for Simba. Another great Disney movie game, it was clear that it would be good, wasn't it?
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - ### Type - Role Play Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ###-####You have to fight your way through 30 fantasy-levels. Pick up weapons, magic books and armor. The further you get, the harder the enemies are to kill. Each level is covered with trees (or other things) and you need to discover what's behind them. They're like fog that disappears if you touch it, and some remain at their positions as walls (Man, this is hard to describe!).
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - ##### Type - Puzzle Specials - Password, 2 Player Mode Developer - Sega / Compile ALTOGETHER - #####A great Columns clone: Differently colored beans, falling down in pairs, disappear (are rescued) when four are combined. But that's not all: There is the Scenario, Exercise, and Puzzle mode, each of them very cool on its own. In Scenario, you battle a computer opponent, in Puzzle, you solve certain tasks, and in Exercise, already the little cheering Has Bean is very funny.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - ###-#### Type - Jump N' Run Specials - None Developer - Sega / Treasure ALTOGETHER - ####Dynamite Headdy has to save his hometown using his head(s). He has got six different ones, each with a special ability, so he can, for example, just hit the bad guys with his head bouncing forward or regain energy by using the sleep head. Nice graphics and animation, maybe there should be more lives for him. After all, this is a nice little jump n' run unlike most others.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Playmates Interactive / Shiny / Eurocom / Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####Earthworm Jim is an ordinary worm - but he's got a super-power suit that helps him protect the world from the evil, various strange fellows... Don't worry, Jim owns a gun, and, being a worm, he's very flexible. This game is a very good conversion of the computer and console version, none of the thrill and crazyness is lost. It's just very funny, as long as you don't hate worms.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ##### Playability - #### Type - Action / Adventure Specials - Password Developer - Sega / Novotrade ALTOGETHER - ####-#####Ecco's family disappeared and he has to find them. In each level, there are evil fish to kill, friendly fish to eat and secrets to find out with the help of your sonar. When Ecco needs air to breathe, he can jump out of the water, which looks pretty realistic. Ecco is animated excellently, and you can also control him quite well.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ##### Playability - ####-##### Type - Action / Adventure Specials - Password Developer - Sega / Novotrade ALTOGETHER - ####-#####This is the sequel to Ecco The Dolphin. Of course, you'd expect enhancements in this one, but: The character and background graphics are exactly the same, and there are just a few new ones. The only things that make this one better are: A morphing ability (morph into other animals), swimming in 3d stages, finding air easier (so you won't die too soon) and a more magical story.
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Sound - ### Graphic - ##-### Playability - ### Type - Puzzle Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ###You play a boy that broke into a factory to bring food to the people. Let assembly lines take the food to the people, but be sure they get what they want because each of them only takes one certain kind of food! And don't let the guard catch you!
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Sound - ##### Graphic - ##### Playability - #### Type - Shooting Specials - None Developer - Sega / Sanritsu ALTOGETHER - ####You fly a spaceship through fantasy-levels. Shoot the enemies to collect money. Buy upgrades for your ship in shops that sometimes appear. It's all fun, but it's hard to kill the bosses. It's not so good that you lose your upgrades when you're killed.
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - ####-##### Type - Fighting Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - SNK / Takara ALTOGETHER - ####-#####A variety of 9 fighters, a huge amount of special moves for each of them, some nice backgrounds that change throughout play, and 3 different ways to play make Fatal Fury Special quite a great fighing game. The whole atmosphere is pretty much like in Street Fighter 2 or Eternal Champions, and it's quite impressive to see how good it looks compared to the arcade version.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ### Playability - #### Type - Flight Simulator Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ###-####This is a real flight simulator for the Game Gear. You can select a mission and then kill all the enemies you have to. There are airplanes, helicopters, tanks and battle ships that want to destroy you. When you finish a level, you can buy armor, fuel and missiles. Though you only have one live, they can't kill you easily. The graphics are very simple, but that's alright.
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - #### Playability - ###-#### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Virgin ALTOGETHER - ####In this game, you have to protect the environment playing one of two kids. You have to collect a certain number of McDonald's-arches before Ronald McDonald will let you get out of the level. If you collect 10 or 20 more arches, you'll enter a bonus stage. However, it takes a little practice to get through the game with only a few lives and no continues.
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Sound - ### Graphic - ### Playability - #### Type - Adventure / Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ###-####Know the movie? Your parents went on holiday and left you home alone! Save the houses in your neighborhood from the "Wet Bandits"! Jump around in the houses and collect items to build weapons that hurt the bandits. Outside, follow their car so you'll be the first in the house they want to loot next. Lay traps and shoot them with your self-made weapons until the police arrives!
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - ###-#### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Millenium/Vectordean / Tiertex ALTOGETHER - ####James Pond's mission is to prevent the evil Doctor Maybe from blowing up all of Santa Claus's toy factories. To do so, he has to make his way through some levels where he sometimes must collect all bombs in order to be able to use the exit. RoboCod's special ability is that he can stretch his body so he's able to reach platforms he can't reach by jumping.
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - #### Playability - ##### Type - Jump 'N' Run / Adventure Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####The game to the blockbuster movie. The dinosaurs on the island broke loose! You'll have to catch them or the park won't open! Each stage begins with a shooting sequence in which you shoot dinosaurs jumping on your car. Then, you jump around, collect items and send dinosaurs (great animation) to sleep till you face the boss dinosaur. Not too short, not too long, and really cool!
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Sound - # (only sound effects) Graphic - ####-##### Playability - ###-#### Type - Driving Simulation Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Domark ALTOGETHER - ####Choose between 3 game types (Practice, Super Bike and Arcade) and go! There are famous tracks from around the world, and the graphics are even better than in Out Run (rain, tunnels etc.). Of course, there are also other bikers who want to win, so don't let 'em overtake you! It's a bit hard to learn the controls, but once you can do it, it's really fun!
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - #### Playability - ###-#### Type - Jump 'N' Run / Puzzle Specials - Password Developer - Flying Edge ALTOGETHER - ###-####Rats got into Krusty's Fun House! Pick up stones to build ways that take them into traps. Collect extra items, find secret bonus levels and write down the passwords (the passwords are names of people from the Simpsons' town Springfield).
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Sound - ##### Graphic - ##### Playability - ##### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Disney Software ALTOGETHER - #####Mickey Mouse is back! He fights enemies in various levels to get to the Phantom's castle. Use your head to find secret passages and to defeat the level bosses. Shrink in size, climb walls, swim underwater, and receive gifts from other Disney-Stars (also starring in this great game).
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Sound - ##### Graphic - ##### Playability - ##### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Disney Software ALTOGETHER - #####Mickey has to save the world by rescueing the Tree Of Life. This game has not got so many improvements to offer compared to the second one, but by no means it is less fun. It is even easier than the one before so you'll make it now (but it's not too easy). Anyway, a magical story, nice graphics and more playing variety (for example a ride on a bumble bee) make this really great.
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Sound - ##### Graphic - #### Playability - #### Type - Puzzle Specials - 2 Player Mode, Password Developer - Psygnosis ALTOGETHER - ####A well-known computer game, now on the Game Gear. Give your lemmings special abilities like building bridges and digging holes to find the way out of the level. In each level, another number of your 20 lemmings has to be rescued. A password is available for each level.
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - #### Playability - ###-#### Type - Action / Puzzle Specials - None Developer - Atari / Tengen ALTOGETHER - ####Once more, this is one of the absolute arcade classics converted to the Game Gear. You carefully navigate your marble through an isometric 3d maze, taking care of staying within the field's limits and avoiding various obstacles, having to reach the exit before time elapses. This conversion is pretty good, if you're a fan of the game you won't be any disappointed!
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Sound - # (only sound effects) Graphic - ##### Playability - #### Type - Driving Simulation Specials - 2 Player Mode, 1-2 Players On 1 Game Gear Developer - Codemasters ALTOGETHER - #####One more of Codemasters' special extra-large cartridges, this is perhaps the best this sort of game gets on the Gear. Choose a mode of play and race all those miniature vehicles through respective nicely animated top-view courses (e.g. a bathtub, sandpit, breakfast table), evading various obstacles and beating opponents. Good controls for once, great variation, ace in all!
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - ###-#### Type - Fighting Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Saban / Bandai / Banpresto / Sega ALTOGETHER - ####I'm absolutely no Power Rangers fan, so take this for completion purpose only (:-)). This game is essentially a fairly good fighting game with no less than 16 playable characters, each with specific special moves. The accent however lies on the story mode, which combines fighting in several stages with a plot and lets you fight harder and harder enemies, each stage ending with a boss.
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - ##### Playability - ####-##### Type - Fighting Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Arena ALTOGETHER - #####Fight! Choose between six different fighters, each with different special moves. Beat the others, beat two in a row and kill the two Mortal Kombat "masters" with your awesome Fatality! Also use the "Bloody Code" to add blood to your game! Excellent!
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - ##### Playability - ####-##### Type - Fighting Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Acclaim ALTOGETHER - #####Fight again! This game is really almost the same as the first Mortal Kombat. But, now you can choose between eight fighters, it is already bloody and you don't need to fight two in a row anymore. That makes it easier to win, sometimes even too easy. And, there are new Special Moves and Fatalities. After all, there's nothing really new.
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Sound - ####-##### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - #### Type - Sports (Basketball) Specials - Password Developer - Arena / Iguana ALTOGETHER - #####Choose one of the famous American basketball teams, select your player and go! The game's mode is two versus two, where you control one player of your team. You can perform various moves and a lot of different dunks which are quite easy to learn. You see statistics of all players, and after each game you've won, you get a password which is quite useful.
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Sound - ####-##### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - #### Type - Sports (Basketball) Specials - Password Developer - Arena / Iguana ALTOGETHER - #####I actually copied the ratings from NBA Jam part one here, so, yes, this is the same. What has changed or improved is: More statistics for each player, three players in each team (play two at a time), and a lot of new options including power-up items scattered on the ground (bombs, turbo etc.) and hot spots on the ground from which your dunks will score more points.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ##-### Playability - #### Type - Sports Specials - Adventure / Jump 'N' Run / Fighting Developer - Tecmo / Sega ALTOGETHER - ###-####This is a Shinobi-alike ninja action game. The story's simple: You, Ryu, must stop a mystical organization. Fight all the bad guys and a boss in each stage and see what they have to say after you defeated them. This is mainly an average, graphically sometimes quite cheap, action game with not too much to offer, but this kind of cheapness can sometimes be refreshing somehow.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ###-#### Playability - #### Type - Sports Specials - 1-4 Players on 1 Game Gear Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####Take a challenge in seven different sports including running, swimming and archery. Use the training mode to practise and choose what kinds of sports you want to take part in. Be 1st, 2nd or 3rd, and let your national anthem be played.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ###-#### Playability - ####-##### Type - Driving Simulation Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####Drive a Ferrari in a car race. There are sceneries from around the world. But watch your time! You always have to drive with full speed and you shouldn't have a crash more than +/- three times! At the end of each level, you can choose what level you want to enter next.
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Sound - ##-### Graphic - ### Playability - ### Type - Driving Simulation Specials - None Developer - Sega / U.S. Gold / Probe ALTOGETHER - ###In contrast to the classic, original Out Run, this sequel has apparently been directly converted from the Master System version. There is a (rather sparse) story woven around the driving sequences and you get to drive different vehicles, but all in all, the gameplay is rather edgy and they should generally have improved the game for the Gear version. However, it's OK.
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Sound - ##-### Graphic - ##-### Playability - #### Type - Action / Strategy Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ###-####Who doesn't know this plain but good games from the early arcade days in which you, the penguin, have to move and break ice blocks in order to kill some mean monsters and line up diamonds in a row in order to survive to the next stage? This Game Gear version of that classic comes in a pretty plain, "authentic" way, minimalistic in everything, but the cult remains, of course!
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Sound - # (only sound effects) Graphic - ##### Playability - ###-#### Type - Sports (Golf) Specials - 1-4 Players On 1 Game Gear Developer - EA Sports / Black Pearl ALTOGETHER - ####Play golf on the Game Gear! Incredibly well done 3d graphics, quite a wide range of playing styles, several cool clubs and three courses make this a very good one. And 3d landscapes on the Game Gear, calculated newly at each point you stand on the course, that's exceptionally great! If you like golf simulations on the computer, this won't deceive you at all!
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - #### Type - Puzzle Specials - Battery Backup Developer - Tengen ALTOGETHER - ####You, the prince, have to rescue a princess. There are 100 levels. In each of them you have to find a way to rescue the princess who waits at another place in the level. Find a way to the princess by breaking stones and killing slimes and bats. Once you've completed a level, it's finished forever (The battery backup is very useful!)!
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Sound - ### Graphic - #### Playabilty - ##-#### Type - Driving Simulation Specials - Password, 1-8 Players On 1 Game Gear, 5 Languages Developer - Rage / Sega ALTOGETHER - ###-####There are not so many driving games on the Game Gear, and this is one of the few top-view games (you see the car and course from above). There are several of the real racing courses from around the world, and real cars like the Mini Cooper. So, drive and try to win... but firstly, winning can be extremely difficult. You need to practice a lot, but then you'll more or less like it.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ##### Playability - #### Type - Shooting Specials - None Developer - Sega / Compile ALTOGETHER - #####You have to kill bad ships. One weapon has to be chosen at the beginning, and its power will increase rapidly, and you won't even lose all of it when being killed! The weapons you don't select can be found later so you can take them in exchange for the old one. Great graphics, almost like a PC shooter! Hint: for real action, use speed level 8!
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Sound - # (only sound effects) Graphic - ####-##### Playability - #### Type - Adventure / Fighting / Jump 'N' Run Specials - Password Developer - Domark / Broderbund ALTOGETHER - ####The evil Jaffar wants to take over the kingdom and marry the princess, so it's up to you to stop him! You are inside a dungeon and have to find a way out in an hour. The character is well animated and looks very realistic. As you proceed, you fight guards in a fighting mode, jump over deep chasms and, of course, you have to stay alive! There's no music, but that's OK.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ### Playability - ###-#### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Sega / Hertz Co. ALTOGETHER - ###-####Rescue your sister! Discover different levels and collect new weapons and other special items. Shoot the enemies and some level bosses. Keep an eye on your ESP power which, for example, will enable you to get invincible for a certain time.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - Password Developer - Realtime / Sega ALTOGETHER - ####If you know the animated series, you'll initially be attracted by this. The name already tells the story, and your job is to fulfill your task with either Ren or Stimpy (you have 3 lives with each of them). Throughout the several stages (e.g. The Blacker Than Black Forest) there are always new challenges to approach, and the cool cartoon-like animations are really nice.
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Sound - ####-##### Graphic - ##### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - Password Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####Being another attempt of Sega's on creating a cultish character, this is essentially very similar to the Sonic The Hedgehog games. Ristar moves through various stages, performing nice moves and speedily bolting skywards, eliminating bad guys, and so on. If you like this sort of colorful, cute-ish fast-paced game, go ahead and get your hands on this!
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Sound - ### Graphic - #### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run / Shooting Specials - None Developer - Virgin / NMS Software ALTOGETHER - ####The future: The Skynet CPU rules the world and it's up to RoboCop to destroy the CPU. Collect more powerful weapons than your pistol, the best one is the rocket launcher, and kill the bad guys and Terminators using them! While RoboCop is walking or jumping, he can shoot at almost any direction. RoboCop, our hero, is pretty well animated, and so are most of the enemies.
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - ##### Playability - #### Type - Fighting Specials - None Developer - SNK / Takara ALTOGETHER - ####As far as I know, this was the first SNK / Takara game for the Gear, and, it's a great one. There are 9 characters, a lot of backgrounds, and even more special moves. And everything is animated very excellently. However, compared to Fatal Fury Special, there are hardly any options to be set, there's only one fighting mode, and you can't even select your opponent or background.
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - ####-##### Type - Various Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####Finally, a game pack on the Gear! Made up of Columns (here in an enhanced Flash mode only), Pan-American Road Rally (a more basic, but cool Out Run), Penalty Kick (scoring goals versus the Gear, held simple) and Championship Tennis (not astonishingly elaborate, but a very nice Tennis game), this is all in all a neat not-to-be-bypassed collection.
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Sound - ##### Graphic - #### Playability - #### Type - Adventure / Jump 'N' Run / Fighting Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####You are the red ninja and have to rescue four other ninjas. Slice the enemies and use each ninja's special power to let some cool things happen. Each ninja has his special weapon. The final level is almost as extensive as all the previous levels together! Now go get 'em!
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Sound - ##### Graphic - #### Playability - ####-##### Type - Adventure / Jump 'N' Run / Fighting Specials - Password Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####The red ninja is back again! He has to rescue the other four again. The abilities of each ninja are improved compared to the first game, also the graphics look better. What's also good about it: You may walk through a level again to collect the bonus items you didn't get the first time.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ### Playability - #### Type - Cards Specials - None Developer - Beam / Interplay ALTOGETHER - ####-#####A solitaire card games collection. 12 games in all, offering a great variety of those neat little games you play when you do nothing, from Klondike over FreeCell and Poker to Florentine. What else can I say? Nice logo pictures for each game, simpler cards animation, two different tunes and options including an undo function make this a great one for those who like this kind of games!
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Sound - ##### Graphic - ##### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - #####After a countless number of Sonic jump 'n' runs, Sega must have got tired of that and tried something new again. This time, you can either play Sonic or Knuckles (for the first time) and move them through some new stages. Yes, they had some new ideas again, and it seems that all graphics are rendered! So, if you like Sonic and you're looking for a little change, go for this.
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Sound - ####-##### Graphic - ##### Playability - ##### Type - Driving Simulation Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####The Sonic hype here also catches the world of racing games... and the result is just great! You can choose 1 out 7 Sonic characters, and then choose one of the 3 leagues, each of which consists of several greatly animated courses, some round, some one-way. There are cool things to collect, nice course sensitive occurances (like falling over the edge or caves), so, this rules!
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Sound - ####-##### Graphic - ##### Playability - #### Type - Puzzle / Action Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####This is another one of these Sonic games that aren't jump 'n' runs. Sonic has to get the Chaos Emeralds by finding three keys in each of the three levels of each labyrinth stage. It all happens from an isometric point-of-view (like in Marble Madness). There are several interconnected platforms in each level, covered by bumpers and badniks. The bosses are just OK. A nice action puzzle.
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Sound - ##### Graphic - #### Playability - ####-##### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - #####If jump 'n' run has a name, it must be Sonic The Hedgehog! Use your spin attack to kill the enemies and collect rings to gain points. Destroy monitors to run faster and to get invincible. Cool levels, nice soundtrack! But that's not all: There are also some pinball-style bonus levels where you may collect lives and continues!
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Sound - ##### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - ####-##### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - #####Sonic passes through some new levels to catch the evil Doctor Ivo Robotnik! Better graphics than in the first game and some cool tunes will keep you playing it all day. Secret code for level select available! Many new features like running loopings and gliding through the skies!
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Sound - ##### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - ##### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - #####Sonic is after Doctor Robotnik again, but this time, his friend Tails, a two-tailed fox, joins him on his journey, so you can play each of them! Both have got special abilities to perform now, Tails can even fly using his tails! There are bonus stages again (there weren't any in Sonic 2) and new features in the normal levels like pogo sticks and rocket shoes!
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - ####-##### Type - Pinball / Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####Sonic has to rescue the world yet again by destroying Doctor Robotnik's Veg-O Fortress, protected by an extensive pinball security area. In each stage, Sonic is thrown around by the flippers you control, looking for emeralds in order to complete the stage. Sometimes it's really confusing because there are multiple connected tables in each stage, but maybe that makes it so cool.
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Sound - ####-##### Graphic - ####-##### Playability - ##### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - #####Triple Trouble: the evil Knuckles The Echidna, Jack The Weasel and Doctor Robotnik want to take over the world! But, of course, help is on the way as Sonic and Tails are there. Play each of them in the normal level, the time trial stage and in the new 3d bonus stages! Again, there's cool new stuff like the snowboard, plus, you can listen to all the sounds using Sound Test!
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - ####-##### Type - Shooting Specials - Password Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####A classic title, this is fundamentally a 3d shooter not unlike G-Loc, in which the protagonist, who steadily moves along some fantasy world fields in first-person view, shoots everything that comes along and evades what can't be destroyed. Some digitized speech, well-done animation and fluency and the general fast pace of the game make this great shooting frenzy fun!
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Sound - ##-### Graphic - #### Playability - ##-### Type - Jump 'N' Run / Adventure Specials - None Developer - Flying Edge ALTOGETHER - ###We all know Spider-Man, the famous comic figure. Now, on the Game Gear, the evil Kingpin placed a bomb in New York and tells the people that Spider-Man did it. Spider-Man has several useful abilities like climbing walls and throwing nets at the bad guys. There are loads of text sequences, and I guess that's why the levels aren't so large. But it's OK.
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Sound - ##### Graphic - ###-#### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run / Adventure Specials - None Developer - Sega / Tiertex ALTOGETHER - ####The movie saga as a jump 'n' run on your Game Gear! Being Luke, find R2-D2, C3P-O, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo and Princess Leia to let them give you hints or to let one of them be the jumping and running team leader! You're also able to fly Han Solo's Millenium Falcon or an X-Wing to destroy the Death Star! Huge game, there are tons of levels!
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Sound - ##### Graphic - ###-#### Playability - #### Type - Fighting / Jump 'N' Run Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####Choose one character, Axel or Blaze, and fight the brawlers on the street. Perform some killing power slams, some jump kicks and many punches to clean the streets! Pick up special items like bombs, knifes and pipes to smack them! What are you waiting for?
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Sound - ##### Graphic - #### Playability - ####-##### Type - Fighting / Jump 'N' Run Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####Axel and Blaze are back with a new companion, Skate! They once again have to clean up the streets. The graphics are enhanced, and now, there are 14 special moves for each player that have to be discovered! New Items, new standard moves! Don't hesitate to get this one!
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Sound - #### Graphic - ###-#### Playability - #### Type - Puzzle / Strategy Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####This game has the same rules as Columns (Look at the Columns review to get them). But, there are new ways to play, you can play it in Normal mode, in an enhanced Flash mode (get the flashing stone(s) away) or in the Story mode where you play against the computer (Or should I say the Gear?). There are also new special stones which, for example, flip the stones upside down.
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Sound - # (only sound effects) Graphic - ###-#### Playability - ### Type - Driving Simulation Specials - 2 Player Mode Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ###-####As one of the first seven Game Gear games, this was noteably conceived when everything just began. Some vehicle customisation and a practice mode add flavor to this Formula 1 racing game, and it's fun on the whole, but a lack of real graphical variation (like backgrounds) might make you skip to a game with more varied gameplay, say Out Run, unless you're particularly into F1.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ##### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run / Adventure Specials - Password Developer - LucasArts / Black Pearl / Realtime ALTOGETHER - ####In this second Game Gear Star Wars adaption, you mainly jump, run and shoot your way through spaceships, Ewok trees etc., but you're also able to, for example, fly a Speederbike in a cool 3d stage and do different nice things. Since this is a 16 bit cartridge (!), the graphics are colorful, more or less smooth and quite detailed, and it's also easier than Star Wars.
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - ##### Type - Jump 'N' Run / Adventure Specials - Password Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####Tails has to rescue his holiday island, on his own, that is. And that's why this game doesn't focus on speed. As he walks, jumps and flies through the stages, Tails collects various weapons and tools (also for underwater use), for instance a remote robot (for discovery) or a night vision device. It's mainly a jump 'n' run, but it's got many adventure elements in it. Great!
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Sound - #### Graphic - ##### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - Password Developer - Red / Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####Tempo Jr.'s dance partner has been kidnapped, and without her he won't win the dance contest! So, you jump and run and fight ants, bees, frogs and other mean enemies to free her. This is mainly a cool platform jump 'n' run, but what makes it stand apart are the supersmooth and very detailed sprites, particularly Tempo is animated just as good as he'd be on, say, a PC.
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Sound - # (only sound effects) Graphic - #### Playability - #### Type - Puzzle / Strategy Specials - None Developer - Gametek ALTOGETHER - ####Essentially a Chinese stones game kind-of thing, this is a neat little puzzle game. At different grades of difficulty, you have to clear up a board of differently colored stones by making them jump by two spaces over each other, clearing up those you jump across. It gets more tricky as colors combine to secondary stones and so on. If you like these games, you might get addicted.
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - ### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Disney Software ALTOGETHER - ###-####Another Disney jump 'n' run. Donald has to rescue his nephews, get some dimes back and finally defeat the evil witch! It's quite a good game, but not as excellent as the (yet) three Mickey Mouse games in this file. When you kill an enemy, a diamond appears instead of it, but you can't pick it until it reaches the floor. This game's just not as perfect as the Mickey Mouse games.
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Sound - ### Graphic - ### Playability - ## Type - Jump 'N' Run / Adventure Specials - None Developer - Flying Edge ALTOGETHER - ##Don't buy this! It's so damn hard to play! You, Bart, have to protect Springfield from some aliens. In the first level, you have to spraypaint or remove all the purple objects. Any time you want to use one of your items, you have to push the D-button and button 2 exactly simultaneous. That, for example, is something which is hard to do in this game. I didn't ever get past level one!
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Sound - ### Graphic - ### Playability - ###-#### Type - Jump 'N' Run / Adventure Specials - None Developer - Flying Edge ALTOGETHER - ###This one's better than the Space Mutant game. You visit places around the world. There are not only jump 'n' run levels, but also you can play a Memory Game or other skill games. In the jump 'n' run sequences, you sometimes walk, but you also use your skateboard. The level boss is always one of Mr. Burns' relatives (I'm sure you know who Mr. Burns is).
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Sega / Turner Entertainment ALTOGETHER - ###-####Surprise: You are Tom and have to catch Jerry. There are jump 'n' run levels, but also bonus stages! The details are pretty good, and it's sometimes funny to watch how the two animals behave. It's not so good that the game has such a small number of levels.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ##### Playability - ##### Type - Fighting Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - #####After the success of the 3d fighting game on the greater consoles, Sega must have cared about the Gear one last time and released this. The result is a fighting game than can be considered one of the best on the Gear. You have 7 cool characters, each one with special moves, and an excellently animated story line (while the story itself is rather crappy). Now isn't that enough?
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Sound - # (only sound effects) Graphic - ##### Playability - ###-#### Type - Pinball Specials - 1-2 Players On 1 Game Gear Developer - Teque / Domark ALTOGETHER - ####This game is one of the very few Game Gear pinball games, and it shows that pinball playing is possible on the Gear. A medieval-style story is the background to one huge main table where you can light up all sorts of things etc. and a few bonus tables. The graphics are really as cool as in PC pinball games, and this game can really be a challenge since it's not to easy.
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Sound - # (only sound effects) Graphic - ###-#### Playability - ##-### Type - Adventure / Jump 'N' Run Specials - Password Developer - Virgin / Core Design ALTOGETHER - ###As I advised you to do in Chuck Rock, turn on on your CD player here. You jump and punch your way through the levels (each level comes with a password). When you reach a certain strenght, you mutate from human to wolf, this wolf is able to shoot. Your character's details are quite good, but that isn't enough to let the game appear better than it somehow is.
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Sound - ### Graphic - ### Playability - ###-#### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ###-####In Europe, this one's called "Wonder Boy", in the USA it's "Revenge Of Drancon", I think. You have to save Tanya from Drancon! Shoot your enemies with axes and tear off the level bosses' head. There are 40 levels, but it's always the same music, this is a little boring. You can sometimes use a skateboard to speed up.
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Sound - ##### Graphic - ###-#### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run / Adventure Specials - Password Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####-#####Wonder Boy has mutated into an animal! Buy better weapons and better armor in shops and find ways to the level bosses (always dragons), then kill them. When you kill a boss, you transform into another animal and start at the same place where you started before, but every animal has its own special ability, so there are always new ways.
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Sound - #### Graphic - #### Playability - #### Type - Action Specials - None Developer - Sega ALTOGETHER - ####The classic brick and block games will probably never turn boring, and this is quite a successful attempt to convey this simple game type to the Game Gear. Woody Pop is your platform hero, who you move around in order to avoid the little ball from falling into the abyss below. As you proceed, you get more specials, harder-to-break bricks and real enemies. Don't get obsessed!
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Sound - ###-#### Graphic - #### Playability - ####-##### Type - Sports (Wrestling) Specials - None Developer - Acclaim / Realtime ALTOGETHER - ####-#####"Wrestling's rudest and roughest", the box says. And it's really cool! Choose one of many ways of wrestling like Tag Team, Survivor Series or Brawl, select one out of ten of the famous WWF wrestlers and fight. Many realistic moves and even a special move for each wrestler (a bit hard to learn). I guess it couldn't be much better.
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Sound - #### Graphic - ###-#### Playability - #### Type - Jump 'N' Run Specials - None Developer - Gametek ALTOGETHER - ####Playing Zool, the ninja of the "Nth" dimension, you have to get out of a scary world and defeat the evil Krool. In each level, there are certain objects you can pick up. If you have 99 of them, an arrow at the top of the screen shows you where the exit is.
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