Sounds great, I´m always looking for money saving opportunities…
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My thoughts exactly! This was one of my first lessons in buying games. 
Even in the 90s, this was still the case: I’ll never forget how much more sophisticated the key art for Game Boy games used to look, compared to the games themselves.
Exactly, the art is in making players not care about this discrepancy.
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Well, I think that Nintendo succeeded in this regard, as the Game Boy was very popular - way more popular than the SEGA Game Gear, which provided much better graphics. Maybe because of the price.
Since I had both and really loved the backlit colorscreen of the Game Gear (don´t remember the price difference) I really think it was the overall greater quality of the games. Gameboy had a small green and black screen (I even had that magnifiying glass with the lights that you could attach to it) but a really great library. Game Gear was in color and backlit but didn´t have as much great games. Now Virtualboy was a technical disaster and the very very few games almost all were terrible, I think that thing was dead on arrival and never reached my shores(can´t even remember seeing on in a shop).
I remember playing both, and I remember exactly why I strongly preferred the Game Boy over the Game Gear. Using four AA batteries in the original Game Boy, I could play all day and well into the next. With a Game Gear, 6 AA batteries lasted me exactly one hour. What’s the point of a portable game system if I have to carry around a crate of batteries or keep it plugged into a wall? Nintendo understood that genuine portability required certain compromises, which was why the Game Boy didn’t have a backlight, more powerful processor, or a color display requiring at least three times as many sub-pixels. The Game Boy went everywhere, while the Game Gear stayed at home, all because the Game Boy could last easily 10-20 times longer than competing products.
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That’s true. A friend of mine had the same issue back then. He used to switch between both devices depending on whether an external power supply was available.
Strange I don´t remember that at all. But maybe we did mostly play with a cord and I just don´t remember that. I just can´t imagine playing a really long game like Defenders Of Oasis, when longevity of batteries would have been an issue.
I was the only boy in the neighborhood who had a Game Gear - everyone else had a Game Boy - and I remember it was quite frustrating, the batteries didn’t last long.
I wanted it because it was in color and because it was endorsed by Walter Zenga, which was my hero at the time and the reason I played as a goalkeeper in football. So yes, Zenga screwed me also on the sport side.
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So today I put down 20 bucks for the game for a third time. And my PS4 Pro doesn´t even arrive before wednesday! 
So expect me to talk about more about the game and the PS4 version in particular in the coming weeks.
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Oh, at first I thought you bought the Game Gear port…
OK 
Since it´s the Pro I´m all ready for the VR version…what do you mean there´s no VR version?! 
WHAT? There is still no VR version? Those lazy developers!
BTW those things are really old!
So I´ve started and so far it´s really nice. The console controls took a bit getting used to but after a while it was really okay (didn´t know the PS4 has a touchpad, too!) so far I´ve enjoyed a few phone book messages by community members and just generally stumbled around (almost completly solving the murder on the way, I still maintain that´s the easiest part of the game). Let´s see what the next few days bring and if I discover something new.
Did you know that there is a huge library with a lot of books to read?
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What? Noooooo!
I think that part five was a little bit easier.
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