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Game Boy Micro Announced
The Nintendo press conference this afternoon revealed the new Game Boy Advanced format: the Game boy Micro. The new handheld will play all GBA titles, and is only slightly larger than an iPod. From the article: "The sporty, silver metal Game Boy Micro measures a mere 4 inches wide, 2 inches tall and 0.7 inches deep, allowing it to sit comfortably alongside today's hippest technological gadgets. It weighs an astonishing 2.8 ounces, or about the weight of 80 paper clips. Yet Game Boy Micro has the same processing power and plays the same games as Game Boy Advance SP models, complete with standard face controls and gleaming shoulder and Start/Select buttons that literally shine." Photo available from the AP.
Very nice. Although, that screen is obviously tiny. It's about 2/3rds the width of the cartriadge. They did say it was the best screen they've put on a handheld though.
If it's cheap enough, I'll probably pick one up.
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The article doesn't actually say anything about a new game format or anything. Are we to assume that this tiny thing is simply a new exterior for the same GBA cartridges?
I would say I'm not excited about it (and based on the appearance I'm NOT excited), but I suppose they upped the format with DS so they can't be expected to release a new cartridge system for the Game Boy line too. And after all, the original Game Boy cartridges lasted through the original, pocket, and color. GBA has already had the horizontal one, the SP, and now the Micro (and to a lesser degree the DS), so maybe the next design for a Game Boy that comes out will pack a new cartridge design too.
I know I'm going to end up buying one (for my coffee table display case with all iterations of Game Boy in it), but my hands get cramped enough on the SP that I can't imagine anything smaller or thinner than that. I'm glad they're going back to the horizontal design though, it might take some of the pain out of it.
All I have to say is THANK GOODNESS. I love my SP, and have no problems if other people want to buy this Micro, but I'm extremely glad that this isn't the GBA's successor. The entire reason I love my GBA SP is because of the clamshell design - my GB, GBC, and GBA all had their screens scratched to hell because of the open design.
Having said that, now that they're milking the GBA design for all it's worth & expanding the line with GBA v3, it's going to be a very long time before we get the GBA's successor, innit?
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
The GBA Mirco is to the GBA / SP as the Gameboy Pocket is to the original Gameboy.
People will purchase the new one in spite of the original working just as well.
The largest official collection of Atari2600 games can be found in the Aspyr Activision Anthology. It contains about 52 Atari 2600 games, some of which are prototypes that were never released. The cartridge also contains the box art and manual for every single game, and many of them are multiplayer. There is also a score board, which keeps track of all of your high scores, and you can also earn patches (like you used to be able to in real life) for getting certain high scores in the games. I own this collection, and i've spent more time with it than with any other GBA title out there.
Here's a size comparison photo of the GB Micro: GB Micro. It looks to be about the size of a NES controller, something I would hardly call uncomfortably small.
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