Several years ago now I replaced the capacitors and backlight in the Game Gear I had as a kid. It st

Several years ago now I replaced the capacitors and backlight in the Game Gear I had as a kid. It still doesn’t work completely and I never dove in to figure out what other issues might be present.

At some point I picked up three dead Game Gears for next to nothing hoping that between them all perhaps I could get at least one working.

I’ve since picked up a new LCD from @bennvennelectronics and have been sitting on it for a while knowing I needed to do another cap kit on at least one of these things. And if you’ve ever attempted that, then you know that once is more than enough Well, I finally got around to that tonight.

One of the four would at least power on so I figured that was a good place to start. I swapped in a working audio board and just got done with the cap kit. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a working Game Gear.

Next up: the new LCD!