It’s since developed a fanbase in the retro-gaming community, and is a prized find among collectors. Its successor, the 16-bit Nomad, was doomed at debut by the infamously poor decision-making that was a Sega hallmark in the ’90s, as well as the North American debut of Pokemon Red and Blue on the Game Boy. The Game Gear’s short battery life and limited software library proved to be sticking points, but it was still a modest success. Sega managed to pose a challenge to Nintendo in the 1990s with the Game Gear, a more powerful system that offered a full-color backlit screen, which homed in on one of the original Game Boy’s most notorious weak spots. A few companies have tried to break into that end of the market over the years, but most of those competing systems, such as the Wonderswan or Neo Geo Pocket Color, are now historical footnotes. Starting in 1989, with the release of the original “gray brick” Game Boy, Nintendo had a nearly unbreakable hammerlock on the handheld gaming space. Several of Nintendo’s biggest franchises, such as Pokemon and Fire Emblem, either began on the portables or made a name for themselves there.
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