oh huh, apparently the main reason the game gear was such a battery hog was that it used a ccfl backlight

apparently you can mod a game gear to use an led backlight pretty easily and modded ones have comparable battery life to a game boy (about five times a stock game gear)

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@packbat you don't really think about how recent LEDs usable for lighting are as a thing, really

as an electrical engineer today, we would never even consider using a CCFL for anything battery-powered

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