Game Gear was pure crap. Bought one because everyone was on about how it had color and was better and more advanced than the GameBoy in every way. Sure, the images on the screen looked pretty but the games were insanely short and it used 6 AA batteries that it drained in no time. Not to mention it would get so hot it would sometimes burn your thumb through the d-pad. Great system that Game Gear. Not six months later I traded it in, games and all, and bought myself a limited edition ice blue GameBoy Pocket with Link's Awakening. The game took me months to beat, the 2 AAA batteries lasted nearly forever in the thing, it never burnt my fingers, and it was small enough to fit in my pocket and as such it went pretty much everywhere with me.

That taught me a good lesson about looks not being everything at a decently young age. Game Gear looked extremely sexy, but treated you like crap and any adventures were over before you could even begin to enjoy them. GameBoy was cute enough, even though it looked a little basic with its dot matrix display, but was ready and willing to give you a wild and fulfilling experience that wouldn't stop... You know, if its name didn't have the word "boy" in it, I'd be a little more comfortable with this analogy...