This is the Game Gear version.
An adventure game where you play as Ecco the Dolphin swimming through deep sea mazes, solving puzzles, defeating enemies and finding keys to advance to the next area.
It can be pretty difficult swimming around without bumping into everything or messing up a puzzle but the time travel science fiction plot-line provides some motivation to keep going and see what happens next. This is driven through tidbits of dialogue you get when you use your sonar on fellow dolphins and killer whales. This adds nicely to the atmosphere.
The A button is for a charge attack, the B button is for swimming quickly and the START button is for Ecco's sonar. Since this button on the handheld is harder to press than the other buttons, it can be unpleasant to press rapidly at times such as when you have to navigate a dark tunnel. Not sure what it was like on the original Game Gear.
Passwords use 5 digits. All information is quite legible on the handheld's screen.
If you bring up the map with Ecco's sonar by holding START, then press LEFT, A, B, A, B, DOWN, B and UP you get into an excellent cheat menu where you'll find a level select and sound test, gain access to all the dialogue messages and the ability to set flags for invincibility, unlimited keys and being able to swim everywhere without colliding with anything.
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