Despite offering a full color screen against Nintendo's green dot-matrix, Sega's Game Gear hasn't been so lovingly remembered. The handheld didn't have the library of its competitor, the GameBoy. It's legacy largely consists of slowdown, blur, and poor battery life. So as Virtual Console offerings go, Game Gear is probably the least revered. That's why it's such a pleasant surprise that, despite a weaker stable of games, the emulation itself puts others to shame.

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March 15 will mark the first appearance of Game Gear on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console, Nintendo has announced. The first set will include Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble, Shinobi, and Dragon Crystal, as we saw in the Japanese line-up. Nintendo also dropped word of a another classic title on the way.

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