When I was a kid, I wanted a Sega Game Gear. It was like the Game Boy, but it had COLOR! Holy crap, so awesome! About a year ago, I bought a Game Gear at a flea market. It really isn’t that impressive. It’s bigger than the original Game Boy, it takes six AA batteries, and it drains them faster than the original Game Boy. The screen has to be tilted just right so you can see it. It’s worse than the original Game Boy Advance in that regard. And this might just be a problem with my particular unit, but I can’t turn the sound all the way off. The sound quality is also pretty awful. So, the Game Gear stinks.
But that’s not to say that it didn’t have some good games on it. The best game I’ve found for the Game Gear is Fatal Fury Special, which
surprises me quite a bit. Handheld ports of fighting games are rarely very
good, and it’s a very stripped down version of the game it’s a port of. It
doesn’t have any endings, it’s missing characters, it doesn’t have the multi
plane combat that made the Fatal Fury games famous, and it takes the
great
soundtrack from the Neo Geo and Genesis games and butchers it. Though in
fairness, it is a handheld game, so that’s to be expected. It’s also a lot
better than the Super Nintendo version of the Fatal Fury games in that regard.
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| Terry Bogard's Burning Knuckle, or as Terry pronounces it in his trademark Engrish, Burr Nuckoo. |
Seriously, the Genesis versions of the Fatal Fury games weren’t only
better games in most regards, they sounded a lot better too. Wrap your head
around that.
The game works very well on the Game Gear. The controls are very
responsive, and even though it only has two buttons for attack, it makes due
with what little it has.
If you’re a fan of fighting games and SNK games in particular, and you
own a Game Gear, then this game is well worth checking out.
Score: 8/10
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