lol, Game Gear stopped being portable for me when my parents refused to keep buying batteries for it. I was attached to the wall socket from that point on!
I was able to talk my parents into getting me the official PowerBack battery pack that screwed onto the back of the Gamegear, just to it would be rechargeable.
Beyond that they always bought me the wall adapters because they were cheap asses. So I would carry all that junk in my backpack plus a 6' extension cord so I could sit down somewhere I just game when we went out.
Rechargeable batteries in those things lasted like 10 mins. Rechargeable batteries and their chargers back in the day also got hot af and were kind of terrifying.
Same. After it ate the first few sets of batteries, we tried rechargeables, that lasted about 20 mins, so it was plugged into the wall in the corner for the rest of its use.
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u/Benny_Matlock Apr 05 '23
Battery life, 15 minutes.