The Game Gear Micro

I question the Game Gear Micro.

This video was originally released via Card #10 of the Scott The Woz Collectible Trading Cards in late 2022.

Edited by Justin Womble and Scott Wozniak

Main Channel: @ScottTheWoz

[Badastr]

Finally, I can play Game Gear games portably!

[aortaplatinum]

"You didn't have to recreate the inconvenience" -Japanese Twitter user replying to the GG Micro announcement tweet

[fungusonus]

I want to hear about someone whose first experience to megami tensei is beating the whole game on the game gear micro

[Gemna]

AAA batteries? If you arent depleteing the energy of a star for 10 minutes of gameplay you aren't having the true game gear experience

[PrixtoTNT]

"Wait, didn't we get this video befo- ooh, Game *Gear* Micro"

[Spindash]

Fun Fact: These were made by SEGA's Toy division, not their video game division. Same applied to the Astro City Mini arcade replicas.

[aeragonia]

"its still a flap! You can stick your little finger into it"

[DCONightingale]

Riddle me this, Sega: why can you name a game Mr. Balls, but you can’t look up dead dogs on the Dreamcast’s web browser?

[Colbdolb]

Maybe Sega was compensating for something

[ParmMannREBORN]

Only 4 games per Micro is a slap to the face

[gpoop]

Words like "pathetic" and "abysmal" get thrown around a lot in the gaming community, but hearing someone as usually positive and impartial as Scott use them feels kinda vicious.

[Nerdtendo]

Looks pretty average sized to me, actually above average….

[maroonghost]

Only halfway through the video did I realize that I was listening to this while playing Yakuza 0, a Sega game, on a Steam Deck, which is functionally a huge, modern Game Gear. How poetic

[leeartlee]

When I lived in a small place in NYC, I used my mini consoles ALL the time. I had to put most of my collection into storage (which that unit eventually flooded. Now that was life changing). But once I got back into a regular home situation, the mini consoles went to shelf candy…. like most of people’s collections. Because let’s be honest, if you have a huge collection, most of that stuff isn’t being used. The rare exceptions to that are people, ironically, like Scott who use those games in a unique kind of way. But even he admits to rarely playing SNES games on his SNES. He just plays them on Switch or some other convenient method.

[FeiFongWang]

That was my nickname back in the good ol college days

[RobVerKa]

There was a 5th Game Gear Micro, came in the collector's edition of the Aleste Collection, was coloured grey and came with 5 games instead of 4!

[myriadmediamusings]

We just need an Atari Lynx Micro and WonderSwan Micro, and we can get a whole line of micro console machines. A line of…Micro Machines….if you will.

[Markimark]

These consoles aren’t even a real Game Gear tribute, it’s just a Game Gear keychain novelty for the Japanese retro electronics, similar to Tetris keychains. They should’ve just made a near replica of the Game Gear with 20 games, it would’ve been a success!

[hadesKIU]

To be fair, if an N64 Mini was somehow ever released and somehow got GoldenEye, I feel like it would have a TON of staying power.

The N64 was the king of multiplayer - Mario Kart 64, a bunch of Mario Parties, Super Smash Bros, Diddy Kong Racing, Pokemon Stadium, and ofc Goldeneye.
If the system runs better than N64 on Switch, you would have a cute, dedicated, and portable way to essentially bring a portal to the past with you - for things like friend get togethers.

Other systems are like yeah, they're arguably objectively better to play, but that shared intention to have a good time together is a stronger reason to actually use the system (plus, it's small size would make it portable.)

[stonexl]

"Screen's the size of a grape."