Game Boy VS Game Gear: Portable Powerhouses (Metroid II & Sonic 1) | Gaming Through the Years

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Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991)
Duration: 28:08
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Portable gaming really took off in the early '90s, and two companies in particular led the charge.

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Time codes:
0:00 - The State of Handheld Gaming Circa 1991
6:53 - Gunpei Yokoi & Nintendo R&D1
7:47 - Metroid II: Return of Samus
18:40 - The SEGA Game Gear
20:20 - Yuzo Koshiro & Ancient
21:00 - Sonic the Hedgehog (8-bit)

End Card Artwork by OcaRockaRina (Twitter)

"Tennis" "Baseball" "Tetris" "Super Mario Land" "Metroid" "Metroid II: Return of Samus" © 1986, 1989, 1991 Nintendo

"Sonic the Hedgehog" "Streets of Rage 2" © 1991, 1992 SEGA, Sonic Team, Ancient

Clips from "Jurassic Park" © 1993 Universal Pictures

Featuring music by Koutarou Nakagawa, Ryoji Yoshitomi, Masato Nakamura, Yuzo Koshiro

This video exists for the sake of analysis and review and is thus protected under Fair Use.



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