Released in the early ’90s, the Sega Game Gear portable console featured many awesome game franchises such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Star Wars, Spider-Man, X-Men, Batman, Battletoads, and Chuck Rock.
Here are the top Sega Game Gear Emulators ever created for Windows:
#1 – Fusion (Version 3.64)
This is the highest rated Sega Game Gear emulator.
#2 – Gen Plus! (Version 0.9.9.61)
This free emulator works great and is rated at #2.
#3 – FreezeSMS (Version 4.6)
Another terrific free Sega Game Gear emulator.
#4 – Meka (Version 0.73)
This emulator works for multiple Sega game systems including Game Gear.
#5 – SMSPLUS (Version 1.5)
An emulator that is compatible with both the Sega Game Gear and Sega Master System consoles.
The Game Gear was developed by Sega as a rival color handheld gaming system to the Nintendo Game Boy. It was released in the USA in 1991. While it became quite popular in its own right, the Sega Game Gear never became as big as the Game Boy due to lack of third party developer support. However, the handheld still ended up with a decent-sized library of games at around 390.
The Game Gear had very nice specs for its time, sporting an 8-bit, 3.58 MHz processor, 160×144 resolution 3.2″ color screen, and 8 KB of RAM. When the handheld first hit the shelves in America, it sold for a hefty $150. Several cool accessories were created for the Game Gear including the “Game Gear TV Tuner” that allowed users to watch live TV on their handheld screens, the “Gear-to-Gear Cable” which allowed two systems to connect together for multi-player support, and the “Super Wide Gear” magnifier that made the screen look larger than 3.2″.
One of the major drawbacks to the handheld console was the batteries — it required 6 AAs that only lasted 4-5 hours. This was in a day and age where rechargeable AA batteries weren’t nearly as popular and available as they are today, so parents had to spent a lot of money on batteries to keep their kids happy. The emulators you’ll find here are capable of playing all the games via roms and you won’t have to worry about battery life.