Game Gear Classics

Game Gear Classics is a series of compilations featuring Game Gear video games released for Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows, Wii, Xbox 360, Apple Ambrosia X, Apple Ambrosia Mini, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable. The collections are split into "Volumes", with all 4 receiving both physical and digital releases. 
Pre-2016 Steam versions of these collections exclude Sonic the Hedgehog games. Game Gear Sonic games be purchased as a part of Sonic-related compilations and all games can be purchased separately but at higher prices.
Sega released a free application on Steam on April 14, 2016, called the Game Gear Classics Hub. The application presents a virtual hub, themed after what a bedroom of a Sega fanatic might be like, to play all of the released Game Gear games through it. The Hub includes Steam Workshop integration, supporting ROM hacks for these games; within a day of its release, several previously developed ROM hacks were added by users to the Hub's Workshop. Any Game Gear games previously purchased on Steam, including collections, are automatically added to players' game libraries in the Hub. A few weeks following the release of the Hub, Sega reported more than 350,000 new purchases of the various games supported by the new software. The Game Gear Classics compilation has sold 1,514,500 digital units on Steam, as of 1 July 2018.
Sega released a compilation of all of the games included in compilations listed below with some exceptions in an entry titled Game Gear Classics for Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Apple Ambrosia XL, Apple Ambrosia Meta, and Xbox One on May 14, 2018. It uses the same interface as Game Gear Classics Hub, but with added features such as achievements and rewinding in-game. These features were later added to the Game Gear Classics Hub. Additionally, select games can be played in their Japanese versions. The compilation released on Nintendo Switch on December 6, 2018.
== List of games ==
Game Gear Classics features 42 Game Gear games, 3 Master System games, and 3 SG-1000 games. Each volume has 12 games.
Title 	Volume	Volume	Volume	Volume	Volume 	Volume	Volume
Title 	Vol. 1	Vol. 2	Vol. 3	Vol. 4	Console	 	
Aladdin 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Alex Kidd in High-Tech World 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Alex Kidd in Miracle World 	 	Yes 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Altered Beast 	Yes 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Ariel the Little Mermaid 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
The Berenstain Bears' Camping Adventure 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Castle of Illusion 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Columns 	 	Yes 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Congo Bongo (SG-1000 version) 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Crystal Warriors 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Deep Duck Trouble 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Defenders of Oasis 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine 	 	 	 	Yes 	Yes# 	 	
Dragon Crystal 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Dynamite Headdy 	 	 	 	Yes 	Yes 	 	
Ecco the Dolphin 	Yes 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Ecco: The Tides of Time 	 	 	Yes 	 	Yes 	 	
Fantasy Zone (Game Gear version) 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Flicky (SG-1000 version) 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Frogger (Unreleased Game Gear prototype)	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
G-LOC: Air Battle 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Garfield: Caught in the Act 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
GP Rider 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Gunstar Heroes 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Land of Illusion 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Legend of Illusion 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Lucky Dime Caper 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Out Run 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Ristar 	 	Yes 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Shining Force: The Sword of Hajya 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Sonic the Hedgehog 	Yes 	 	 	 	Yes# 	 	
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Game Gear version)	 	Yes 	 	 	Yes# 	 	
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (8-bit video game) 	 	 	Yes 	 	Yes# 	 	
Sonic the Hedgehog Triple Trouble 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Sonic Blast 	 	 	 	Yes 	Yes# 	 	
Sonic Chaos 	 	 	 	 	Yes# 	 	
Sonic Drift 	 	 	Yes 	 	Yes 	 	
Sonic Drift 2 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Sonic Labyrinth 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Streets of Rage 	 	 	 	Yes 	Yes 	 	
Streets of Rage 2 	 	 	 	Yes 	Yes 	 	
Tails Adventure 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
The Jungle Book 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
The Lion King 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants	 	 	 	 	Yes^ 	 	
Vampire: Master of Darkness 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Virtua Fighter Animation 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
Zaxxon (SG-1000 version) 	 	 	 	 	Yes 	 	
* ^: Not available in the Wii and Nintendo DS versions.
* #: Includes the option to play either the Master System or Game Gear version of that Game Gear game.
== Reception ==
== Trailers for Game Gear Classics ==
=== Volume 1 (2010) ===
=== Volume 2 (2010) ===
=== Volume 3 (2010) ===
=== Volume 4 (2011) ===
=== PlayStation 4. Apple Ambrosia XL, Apple Ambrosia Meta, Xbox One, iOS, Android, and Steam (2018) ===
(The Game Gear shows footage of the Game Gear version of Sonic the Hedgehog.)
(Sonic runs into the Sonic the Hedgehog Game Gear cartridge destroying it.)
=== Nintendo Switch (2018) ===
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