For all its graphical bravado, the SEGA Game Gear crashed and burned at the fact that it required six AA batteries to function - and not for all that long either, leaving Nintendo’s technologically weaker Game Boy (and Tetris) to speed ahead and leave the Game Gear eating dust.

SEGA's mini Mega Drive/Genesis might be dead and buried in most territories, but in Brazil it has given the go ahead for TecToys to release an officially licensed handheld device that features some of the platforms most popular games, reports Kotaku.

For around $100 USD players will receive 20 in-built games and a TV output socket. Sadly, the internal memory is fixed and there's no cart slot, so you'll be stuck with Sonic & Knuckles, Alex Kidd and Echo the Dolphin forever. That said, it only requires half the number of batteries as the Game Gear did.

Well, it could be worse.