Game Boy Micro: The same old tricks...

x24 · Post by **x24** » Tue May 17, 2005 4:22 pm

yah.. they put back tha headphone jack.. doesnt look like anything too special but I will probably get one since I'm tearin my old one up to make a console.. hope it dont cost too much..

EmreNU · Post by **EmreNU** » Tue May 17, 2005 4:47 pm

I think I'm finally starting to understand Nintendo's strategy... this device is perfect for portable gaming, it's so small you can literally take it out of your pocket and play, fairly inconspicuously. The SP is small but I think the problem is that you see lots of little kids running around w/ SPs so they are stereotyped to be for kids. I have a NES edition SP but I have really never played it in public because it is slightly bulgy in the pocket and attention-grabbing (I don't want everyone on the El train to know I'm playing a gameboy). This seems perfect though for its application.

That said, I probably won't get one because I have already gone through a GBA and am perfectly happy with my SP.

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:00 pm

right on... also i have to many gameboys in my pants.

goodie · Post by **goodie** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:02 pm

Lucretius wrote:
goodie wrote:No this is just a remade GBA. The GBE will most likely come next year.
Nope. This is it...*sigh*...The DS looked like the Double Screen Game and watches and this flat out looks like a normal game and watch...sad...

Uh no, the GBE will come. This is not it. And how can you not like it? It looks awesome.

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:07 pm

I'd grab one if were cheap, like around $50.

Odd placement for the Start and Select buttons. I guess it doesn't really matter, as most games don't require their use except for menus.

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:13 pm

yeah still a much more cleen look for the GBA... maby this is just a prototype with a gba port, maby it will be the GBE (dam the GBE is pointless) any sway they should remake the DS for next christmas...

Onsecond thiugh this is probly nintendos rebirth along side the REvolution.

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:17 pm

pretty nice. might buy one, just to say i have every type of gameboy. (Every one!!! thats impressive because im only 14 and gbo came out 2 years before i was born)

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:51 pm

...I always thought several incarnations of the same thing is pretty pointless, at least 3 within 5 years.

I can understand the Grey Game boy in 89, to the GBP in 95 or so, then the GBC in 98. That's 3 in 9 years, and each had a substantial improvement, but this is just sad...my GBA is just as good as this new Micro(sans backlighting), and it is 5 years old.

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:23 pm

Maybe they'll pull a fast one on us, and say at like 11:59PM before the release date, "Oh yeah, its the GBE!"

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:25 pm

NOT ANOTHER GBA!!! I hate you Nintendo, I hate you!!!

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:25 pm

nah they wouldn't do that... Mr. Myamoto, they're on to us, wait did i just type that???

shelter pitfall · Post by **shelter pitfall** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:25 pm

How sturdy is this new game boy? Can I chuck it at a wall and it will survive?

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:27 pm

How are we supose to know??? theres only a prototype right now

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:31 pm

I wonder....can someone make a GameBoy case out of a brick?

And I'm not counting the grey brick of '89.

Post by **bicostp** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:54 pm

That reminds me of the old egg-dropping test, if you are talking about case durability. (build something out of a styrofoam cup, bubble wrap, and a Twinkee that will let an egg survive a 2 story drop. You know, that kind of thing.)

As for chucking it at a wall, it would probably get dented, if it's really aluminum (which is harder than sheetrock.)

I remember one of my friends in ewlementary school had a NES. He got frustrated and threw the controller at the wall. (the old rectangular carpal-tunnel killers.) It LEFT A DENT in the wall, and was not even scratched!