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Game Gear with Columns (UK launch set)
UK launch set · Sega · 1991
Why
There’s no units produced with a source and not enough listings. We don’t make things up.The Game Gear is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sega. It was released in Japan on October 6, 1990, in North America and Europe in April 1991, and in Australia in 1992. The Game Gear was the first handheld console by Sega and competed with Game Boy from Nintendo, Lynx from Atari, TurboExpress from NEC in the fourth generation of video game consoles. Sega rushed the 8-bit Game Gear to market to compete with the Game Boy. It shares much of its hardware with the Master System, and can play Master System games with an adapter. Its hardware is superior to Game Boy, with a full-color backlit screen and a Z80 CPU.
For now, in English only. Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0How to tell them apart
EU logo; distributed first by Virgin Mastertronic.
Details from sources
Launch date from Daily Mirror 1991-06-29 advert via Sega Retro; en.wikipedia/Next Generation say Europe April 1991.
Data source: en.wikipedia.org
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