GAME BOY MICRO
Words Craig Grannell
RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES 2005
Seen the new Sega Game Gear Micro? Why can’t Nintendo do something like that?
Nintendo did do something like that - way back in 2005. With the Game Boy Advance brand starting to tire by that point, Nintendo decided to give it a boost with a pocket-friendly (and cramp-inducing) new form factor. Sega’s dinky console might set hearts aflutter by looking like a Game Gear that’s shrunk in the wash, but the old Micro wins where it counts, in being thinner and having a much larger display: a whopping 2in, at a resolution of 240x160.