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SEGA has decided to unveil one of its projects related to its 60th-anniversary celebration. It's not the rumored Dreamcast Mini that some may have been dreaming of, but SEGA is releasing a retro throwback system, in the form of the absolutely tiny Game Gear Micro. The teaser website is scant on details, but more information is to come on June 3rd at 13:00 Japan Standard Time (GMT+9).

[UPDATE]

Pricing details and more information has been given. The Game Gear Micro will cost 4,980 yen, and is planned to release on October 6th in Japan. Multiple colors of the Micro will be sold, each with different games on them. The standard black version will have Sonic the Hedgehog, Puyo Puyo, OutRun, and Royal Stone. A blue variant will come with Sonic chaos, Gunstar Heroes, Sylvan Tale, and Baku Baku Animal. There is also a yellow one which has Shining Force Gaiden, Shining Force: The Sword of Haiya, Shining Force: Final Conflict, and Nazo Puyo Arle no Roux. Lastly, the red Game Gear Micro will come with Revelations: The Demon Slayer, Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible Special, Shinobi, and Columns. M2 is in charge of porting the games.

The Micro measures in at 80mm x 43mm x 40mm. It'll also run off AAA batteries, or can be charged through a USB cable. Since it's just so tiny, SEGA will also be selling the "Big Window Micro", a magnifier that clips on and makes the screen size larger.

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[DarkCoffe64]

As much as these are next to useless, I can't help but love this kinda stuff, ahah.
Always liked, like, micro toys, especially if they transform too or combine or what.
Might get one if I find it at a bargain price... and hopefully you can add more games much like the other mini console too

 

[saishowaguu2]

This is one time that I'm glad that "Ninten-don't".

 

[HarveyHouston]

It's Game Boy Micro all over again...

 

[CMDreamer]

Definitely not for me, thanks... Next!

 

[MarkDarkness]

This is SEGA level of stupid.

 

[Magnus87]

1. 

Great for SEGA, I'm still waiting for a "GB Classic Mini"...

 

[UltraSUPRA]

[shameless plug]
I made a video about this yesterday.

[/shameless plug]

 

[GodFrame]

What an expensive keychain.

 

[Kurt91]

Everybody keeps comparing this to the Game Boy Micro. Did anybody actually have one of those? I did, and it was nowhere near as uncomfortable or hard to see as you guys keep making it out. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it couldn't play GB/GBC games, but other than that, it was pretty neat. It even had a thing on it to literally attach it to your keychain. It played the full GBA library, used a rechargable battery with pretty short recharge times, if I'm remembering it correctly, and had a nice bright screen that was easy to see. Why all the hate for the thing? I'd understand it if it was something like this where you only get the four built-in games, but that sucker was a full complete working GBA.

 

[KingVamp]

It has been too long, but I remember the GBM being comfortable too.

 

[Manurocker95]

Everybody keeps comparing this to the Game Boy Micro. Did anybody actually have one of those? I did, and it was nowhere near as uncomfortable or hard to see as you guys keep making it out. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it couldn't play GB/GBC games, but other than that, it was pretty neat. It even had a thing on it to literally attach it to your keychain. It played the full GBA library, used a rechargable battery with pretty short recharge times, if I'm remembering it correctly, and had a nice bright screen that was easy to see. Why all the hate for the thing? I'd understand it if it was something like this where you only get the four built-in games, but that sucker was a full complete working GBA.

The issue with these micro consoles is, at least you could play official GB games on the GBMicro but these can't (play original games). And yes, the micro is SO uncomfortable compared to the SP or regular GBA.

Btw, I still have mine.

 

[StrayGuitarist]

The emphasis should be on "Game Gear", not "Micro". The thing is I'd totally be interested in something like this if it wasn't smaller than the batteries used to power the original console.

 

[Bladexdsl]

the game weeny

 

[duwen]

Not what I was expecting from their tease, but I'm ok with this... I may even get either the black or blue variant (for Outrun and Gunstar Heroes respectively). Unfortunately the yellow and red ones render themselves useless by virtue of the fact that text is pretty important to the majority of those titles and I doubt it will be dechipherable on that teeny screen.

 

[Quarions]

Sega are such masters at trolling haha.

Everyone here that is mad is proving that Sega succeed

 

[depaul]

My dream console would be Dreamcast or Saturn mini.
Why? They're hard to find, difficult to emulate and feature many gems ought to be replayed.

 

[leon315]

Day 04/06/2020, the trailer video has officially 2774 like against 2773 dislikes XD.

LMFAO, SEGA EPIC FAIL.

 

[ciaomao]

Next step: single game mini consoles!

actually they have two games in one system, but you need to hack it.

 

[koshikage-yira99]

See for me personally, as an ant human hybrid, this is really fucking cool

 

[Pluupy]

Everybody keeps comparing this to the Game Boy Micro. Did anybody actually have one of those? I did, and it was nowhere near as uncomfortable or hard to see as you guys keep making it out. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it couldn't play GB/GBC games, but other than that, it was pretty neat. It even had a thing on it to literally attach it to your keychain. It played the full GBA library, used a rechargable battery with pretty short recharge times, if I'm remembering it correctly, and had a nice bright screen that was easy to see. Why all the hate for the thing? I'd understand it if it was something like this where you only get the four built-in games, but that sucker was a full complete working GBA.

I got a gameboy micro by mistake as part of an Ebay purchase. Wanted to buy 3 game boy advance SPs for my cousins in dominican republic, got two SPs and micro. That crap was extremely uncomfortable, and I have small hands even for a female. You aint gonna tell me you can play long gaming sessions on that without your eyes and hands hurting.