RyoShenmue wrote: I was going to really applaud you since I was looking at the art before actually reading the description. However you did admit to not making the art with out anyone questioning, although I am still curious who had made it. But you did put it together nicely and I assume it was you who put the description on the box itself. That was quite good as well.
I did a Google search for Shenmue Pixel Art and found that someone had created Ryo as he appears in two of the "screen shots". There was no background so I found some other Japanese-esq pixel art done by others as well. I don't know who made them but I know not to take credit where it isn't due.
I overlaid the Ryo pixel art onto the other pixel art to make what looks like a screen shot from what a hypothetical Game Gear version would have looked like. In all honesty, the backgrounds wouldn't have looked as good as they appear in these mock-ups.
I did create the description on the back based off of the N. American Dreamcast version of the game; altering it for what the Game Gear may have been capable of doing. I also piece-mealed many box arts to make this one. The bar code on the back for instance, is the actual bar code for the N. American Dreamcast version of Shenmue.
RyoShenmue wrote:But as far as the GameGear is concerned, just not my cup of tea. I loved the original Sonic on the Genesis. Due to how and where I was living at the time, my father bought me the GG and the Sonic came with it. It was my only game, beating it many times, but I was disappointed it did not have a single loop in the entire game. That was a Sonic staple. Although it was implemented in later Sonic games on the GG.
But I had played other GG games from other people and most were not that good. Some what recently I got the Game Gear/Master System portable. Half the games were blah, but the other half were quite decent and some were surprisingly darn good.
I had Sonic 2 come with my Game Gear and I later went back on got the original, buying it from a friend. I have five of the Sonic games released on Game Gear and loved most of them. The first Sonic game on the system doesn't hold up to the others.
All in all, I have around 22-24 Game Gear games still ranging from Sonic to Jurassic Park to Streets of Rage. Some great experiences but I agree that when you take off the nostalgia glasses, the games don't hold up well. I replayed Jurassic Park when Jurassic World was about to release in theaters and beat it in 30 minutes. Still fun, but I remember spending hours upon hours in that game alone when I was a kid.
RyoShenmue wrote:A shame this was never made on the GG. I wonder how it would of played out.
Yeah, there are a few games that I would have loved to see on Game Gear. I feel that a Ninja Turtles game would have been great but it never happened. Given that the Game Gear ended production around 1997, if Sega had decided to make a Game Gear version of Shenmue, it would have made it one of the last releases on the handheld as it was 1997 that production switched to Dreamcast from Saturn if I remember right.