The Game Gear Micro
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- 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
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Finally, I can play Game Gear games portably!
😂
...Oh wait.
3DS virtual console
I can’t wait for the day I’ll be able to play gameboy games on the go, Nintendo, make it happen 🥺
It's a rip off when you can play game gear games on the 3DS from hacking.
"You didn't have to recreate the inconvenience" -Japanese Twitter user replying to the GG Micro announcement tweet
Japanese Twitter is some of the funniest shit I’ve ever seen sometimes.
What no wonderswan mini?
🤓☝️ Erm, ackshually, it’s called X.
No it isn’t
@@Flame07518 *S H U T*
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
Don't worry, those batteries die in like 3 hours just like the good old days
The Game Gear might had battery issues, HOWEVER UNLIKE THE GAME BOY it had an extremely easy to use ac/dc port. I played the Game Gear for hours and hours plugged to the wall. It was an awesome console.
I doubt it's AAA, I've NEVER seen a handheld use anything more than AA. Even the original Game Gear used 6 AAs, he likely just mixed it up. These videos have no script, so errors like this are probably more common.
@@Frustratedartist2 Game Boy and Game Gear fans can get along. It's not the 90s anymore, tf are we slashing each other's necks for? I personally love my Game Gear AND my Game Boy Colour equally, they are both great consoles in their own right.
Those screens are so power hungry because actually, the lighting comes from a furnace that’s fuelled by the souls of orphans, even the batteries are only there to power the shovelling of Soul Coal™. If you listen to the speaker closely when the system’s powered on, you can hear a faint buzzing, that’s the wails of the forsaken. True facts.
I want to hear about someone whose first experience to megami tensei is beating the whole game on the game gear micro
"So what was your fist MegaTen game? Was it a Persona game? SMT Nocturne? SMT 5?"
"Last Bible on the Game Gear Micro."
Somewhere out there there has to be a person whose first SMT game was Jack Bros on the Virtual Boy.
@@pattersong6637 it was the first one in america
Some poor child in Japan absolutely had this happen to them. Last Bible III is easily the best of the LB games
Bet
"its still a flap! You can stick your little finger into it"
Instructions unclear: My friend has two counts of sexual assault now.
@@koolaid33😬🤣
"Wait, didn't we get this video befo- ooh, Game *Gear* Micro"
I mean we got another Wii u video so I wouldn't be surprised
@@smbfanmanI wonder which one of Scott's 9 Wii U units he prefers on any given day
Fun Fact: These were made by SEGA's Toy division, not their video game division. Same applied to the Astro City Mini arcade replicas.
That explains it
Yep, that would make a lot of sense.
Oooohhh. The Sega name explains everything.
Makes you wonder though. Nintendo also made toys once upon a time: but they got rich off them.
false. sega toys only did the astro mini.
That wasn't fun.
Only 4 games per Micro is a slap to the face
As someone who modded one with more games, I can say that you don't need more games. This thing isn't very enjoyable to use. I got like 4 hours of shining force and now I'm done
Honestly, it was a slap to the face in general from how small they are, and the fact they only launched in Japan (because I guess the rest of the world never bought the Game Gear, which is flat out wrong?), not having more games sucks but were you really gonna play on this dinky, $60 USD glorified keychain?
@@koolaid33these are novelty collectables, nobody expects to actually play these
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.
Maybe Sega was compensating for something
To me, the Game Gear Micro is the Lord Farquaad of Mini Consoles
You DID say that Sega was compensating for something, after all.
What does compensating mean
Big big energy
Well if it's the game gear "micro" would that mean that SEGA is compensating for their huge pp? But not like huge as in its attractive, I mean so huge where its hard to even walk and every day of your life is miserable.
@@Curlyheart sega just stopped wearing pants and just lets it dangle
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?
mr bones
Back when Scott was funny
@Luxcalibur what episode was this? I've wanted to hear Scott talk about Dreamcast
@@Prosper_Dean it was one of Scott’s first videos, either the Switch wishlist or the Switch presentation overview, from 2017
@@Luxcalibur Scott’s early videos are charming, no doubt, but the growing pains of his writing and editing make his early videos increasingly difficult for me to rewatch compared to his videos from 2019 onward.
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.
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!
I was just about to say that. I have that one. Being a Shoot`em Up its at least more playable than the rest in my option.
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.
Even if we get those, we’re sadly never getting a Game Boy Micro so we won’t have all 4 fronts of portable consoles in the 90’s covered
Wonderswan micro would be crazy. I’ve been within two feet of one (I’m amazed I survived too) and it’s difficult to see that thing getting any smaller
@@MissUmbraThere already is a GameBoy micro though haha. The very tiny landscape gba from 2005
@@MissUmbra Game Boy Micro Mini
Gba Micro micro
Looks pretty average sized to me, actually above average….
Actually looks huge to me. And it has a great personality
I may need to hold ur hand for this one 😔
This is the biggest game gear I’ve ever seen, that anyone has ever seen.
It looks cute.
@@SakuraAvalondon't be a size queen.
I want a Gameboy Micro Micro.
Gameboy μ
Game Gear Quantum
portable unit for bugs!
The Gameboy Teeny
Please no, ill take a gamewatch for Pokemon red and blue
What is this? a Game Gear for ants?
Close. For large beetles, actually
it needs to be at least….THREE times bigger than this
It's a Game Gear for baby geckos, inspired by Gex.
Blue Steel, he’s done it!
The Asian giant hornet.
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.)
I'm certain it would be exactly the same as NSO N64
Not just the N64, but Nintendo in general is pretty reliable with having multiplayer games. Maybe the N64 is what really kicked it off, but pretty much every console since has just as many if not more multiplayer games. Mario Kart, Mario Party, Smash, and now you have games like Splatoon and various Nintendo-themed sports titles to add into the mix as well depending on the console you're looking at!
"Screen's the size of a grape."
That was my nickname back in the good ol college days
Micro?
@@incognitro1420 It gets cold up in Boston, let's be adults about this ok
Don't worry fam, college students can be cruel. I'm sure your working with some top-of-the-line videogame machines now. That's.. that's what you were talking about, right?
Imagine someone pulling this out and then the big window screen out of their pocket on like a bus, would be nuts
I would be very pleased.
Ooh a Game Gear that doesn't die of capacitor issues or needs 6 batteries.
Instead, you can't see the damn thing! Remember not to lose it, or it'll enter the shadow realm!
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!
I had no idea scott was colorblind. I so thought he was making a joke when he said "might be green"
I mean the buttons are literally green.
He's literally said it in almost every Gameboy video lol
Isn't it a running "joke" of him? (No actual joke since he *is* colorblind, but he mentions it at like most occasions)
@@bland9876 Yeah, but he was talking about the case, which is clearly yellow.
@@jorgemtzb9359 Yes the case is yellow but it's funny that he specifically mentions green because the buttons are green so it does kind of sound like he's just joking. Why would he pick green of all colors if he couldn't see that the buttons were green?
I've made that kind of joke before where you say something and then you immediately say something afterwards that you couldn't say if your first sentence was true.
I'd say there is definitely a userbase for mini consoles outside of collectors. Families who don't find a modern console worth it but a nostalgic patent impulse buys a cheaper mini console. Like how I playyed our ms.pac man plug and play a lot before my family got a wii.
And how big do you think the player-base of 'families that don't find a modern console worth it but a nostalgic patent impulse buys a cheaper mini console' is? I can imagine there's maybe five families in the whole world like this.
@@koolaid33 Consoles costing hundreds with games each costing $70 makes a home game console a tough sell. Moreso now that "it's a cd/dvd/bd player" doesn't matter to many in the streaming age.
@@koolaid33 that description is literally my family
It's actually common in more country areas for these consoles to be used because we can't get good enough internet for modern consoles to work correctly and parents don't really feel like buying games they aren't familiar with.
I use my 200 in one bootleg Gameboy I found in the Walmart self checkout more than I ever played the PS4.
So there's definitely a market, but it's in the back country where you might never see lol
It's a relatively niche market. Most of the hype and sales surrounding these things come from collectors who may or may not use them. The audience who'd buy these things to actually use them as their 'game console' isn't large enough to sustain a production line.
@@qactustick Tbh the biggest barrier to non-collectors buying these nowadays is how many, even kids, have smart phones these days that can play games like these. Wasn't the case when my family didn't have a console.
The Game Gear Micro would be great if it was half the size of the original and had all 16 games, with another 4 added, and nice 20 game selection, would have made this an amazing product.
It'd be a great product for Japan. 6 out of the 16 games they chose have no English versions and while one of those six is a puzzle game you can probably play fine the others are pretty text heavy. Even if you add another four for an even 20 you'll have people complaining if they can't play 5 out of 20 games without learning Japanese.
As someone who played the heck out of my Game Gear and even had a power adapter so I could play it without worrying about batteries when at home, I'd say it's a pretty accurate reproduction, especially if the d-pad is terrible as you seem to suggest.
My power adapter blew up
@@KaitouKaiju If you still have your Game Gear, you should get a new adapter. They still sell compatible adapters at most electronics shops.
I really loved the SNES Classic for its ease of portability. For several years it was *the* thing I brought to friends' houses, it was a nice change from playing modern games and it was always super easy to set up. It gets a lot more life breathed into it especially once you hack it to add more games and systems to it.
I had a friend who travelled a lot of business and he brought it on all his trips!
In regards to how practical the mini consoles are, my SNES Classic was great for me because it was a really cost effective way of getting my hands on an official version of Earthbound which I really wanted to try.
When was this? By the time the SNES Classic released, Earthbound was already available on the Wii U AND New 3DS. And by now, it's on the Switch Online SNES emulator.
What it should’ve been is a regular sized game gear with games built in
Who would buy a Game Gear Normal?
@superduperdrew12345 Me
Bingo,crept slightly smaller with a clearer screen, you know, updated
@@superduperdrew12345 I bought an original Game Gear, so I'm definitely dumb enough to.
Regular-sized is too big. OG Game Gear was way beefier than a lot of people remember. That said, this is massively overboard.
hey it may be small but it has a great personality
The perfect to watch after seeing Sonic x shadow at the summer games fest
Good lord was it boring.
@@WH250398It's Summer Game Fest. It's a snoozefest every single year.
The actual event with big announcements is the Xbox one, usually happening a day or two after SGF.
@@WH250398fym bro they cooked with that
@@jeevannair393He was talking about SGF as a whole
@@evdestroy5304 Oh you're probably right then. The Killer Bean game looked fye tho
I would love for SEGA to release a mini 32X console called the Neptune.
Never, not gonna happen. Personally, the 32X is too dogshit for them to waste time and money making a mini version of it. They also like to keep dead things dead, so stuff like the Neptune, along with the Pluto and other cancelled Sega consoles are probably never gonna see the light of day again.
Is it just me or is Scott looking in his game collection and going "Hmmm... I need to make video... AH HA *insert random ass thing* ILL MAKE A VIDEO ON THIS!"
Wonder if anyone has rigged the board of one of these to a regular-sized custom Game Gear with a modern screen
There's a Raspberry Pi drop-in kit for game gear shells called the Zega Mame Gear, I'd recommend checking it out!
I keep forgetting Scott is colorblind lol 10:25
"a cute little thing
It's like a cute little thing
And it's cuuute
And it's just a cute little reference but like, it's like "oh...it is kinda cute"
But it's just a cute little thing
It's just cute
It's just like a cute little thing like"aw, ...I remember Sega" like, and it's just like cute"
Something tells me that he thinks it's cute.
Eye strain headache speedrun strats
16:06 made me crack up, man, keep it up, Scott. Godspeed!
i spent SO many hours playing a game gear, and had the whole "set", with the big screen, the battery pack/power bank, analog TV tuner too! and it all fit into a carrying case together with slotted spots for games just like nowadays. if it wasnt so expensive for wat it is, i'd buy one!
I can't wait for these things to have the decency to have an HDMI port.
I remember importing the black game gear micro a while back and kinda fell in love with it 😂
Fuck i forgot about this
There is a 5th GG Micro, but it only came in a special edition of the Aleste Collection. It is in white, and it has *five* games! It's mostly the collection of the games featured in the actual game proper, but it's pretty cool! I actually did buy one off eBay, back in 2021 and it's been my favorite thing to own. I do remember beating GG Aleste 1 on it... twice.
I did eventually get the blue Game Gear Micro, just for Sonic Chaos 1. I do play them from time to time, especially the Aleste one.
The fact that some text heavy rpgs were on some of these models is hilarious.
Ok i gotta admit that I was very impressed as soon as that puny screen turned on, Better than i expected
Scott owning the Last Bible game gear micro is a piece of information that I am now aware of
The Sega Genesis mini was a great introduction to retro gaming for me, got me to start collecting for the original consoles like the nes and genesis
Actually, the version of Tetris on the Sega Genesis Mini is a brand new port made exclusively for it that's different from the unreleased version from the '90s (though they're both based on the Sega arcade version of Tetris, hence why they look so similar).
I really liked the concept of the cartridge slot on the atGames Sega Genesis mini, just the execution was bad. You need rock solid emulation (and a hdmi port) for it to be usable on modern TVs and for those who have nostalgia for the system. I wish more of the mini consoles had included a cartridge slot so you could play any actual games you have on them.
I'm sure it has a good personality
I wouldn’t call the mini home consoles collectors items. When I was a kid for a very long time all my family had was an Atari 2600 flashback and a couple of those plug and play games (Disney and SpongeBob). To us they were our video games. We used them just as much as people use their modern consoles. I think they are the home video game systems for low income families. And they do a great job at that.
1:35 when the autotune glitches
I think this would be cute for like $10, but idk how you can justify $60+ for something you can barely actually play.
well, it was marketed as a Novelty Collectible not as an actual Console kinda like those Arcade Cabinet keychains
so, i dunno if that counts...
@@Artista_Frustrado Still expensive for a novelty keychain
@@jesusramirezromo2037 yeah, is pretty pricey
Loved the video, Mr Woz
Nobody is as thorough as you in your coverage. Well done, Scott.
I don't know about thorough, he didn't even open up the other two.
I didn't know these were a thing... imagine playing Game Gear games portably, and I mean actually portably
You.. do play Game Gear portably? Not sure what you mean by 'actually portably'.
@@koolaid33 the Game Gear and Atari Lynx were infamous for having terrible battery life, making it hard to play with them on the go
@@koolaid33 In addition to what the OP said about them having terrible battery life, the Game Gear was very bulky and not necessarily convenient to move around. It was more portable in the sense that the Switch is portable in "I can play on the bed and walk over to the bathroom and keep playing" rather than something like a GBC or GBA that could literally just go in your pocket everywhere with you.
I actually quite like using my mini consoles. Maybe I'm just pedantic, but I feel like I'm always missing something when I play these older games on newer hardware, and so I really enjoy having what's essentially a compact, digital version of the system they were released on with the controllers they were meant to be played with.
My most sacred memory of Sega Genesis was from a well put together idea called Sega Channel.
I can’t imagine reading the RPG dialogue on a screen that small lol.
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I would have liked to seen how it compares to a Gameboy micro in size!
I always considered these micro consoles to be collectibles. In that context, i think these are nice.
15:02 lol they actually made that for this?! lol love that!
The reason the flap actually works on the Genesis mini is you can buy a mock up of a 32X and also a Sega CD and combine into the best console add-ons ever. They do not add any functionality, only looks.
Now we need the tv tuner! That won’t work with any tv signals now :) oh and the adaptor for mega system carts!
I've actually beaten Road Rash, Aladdin, Sonic Triple Trouble, Power Rangers, & Ax Battler on this little device in the past year I've owned the blue one. It's hard to see at times, but you get used to it
I think what's worth noting is that 2 years ago sega did release the genesis mini 2 which also had a pretty decent library of genesis games with some CD games thrown in.
Millennials are DIFFERENT! Plugging in two cords is getting it all hooked up! Like it’s a lot of work.
thank you so much for giving the MD Mini the gas it deserves
You should make a video on charging ports on top versus on the bottom of portable systems.
What?! That tiny little thing was a real handheld console?! That's crazy! 😮
can't wait for the Game Boy classic to come out. I've always dreamed of playing it portably
In Japan there is an entire market for micro gaming machines. There are micro arcade machines with pacman, for instance. They're more for decoration than for actual gameplay. Because the game gear micro was release only in Japan I believe Sega was aiming for that demographic specifically.
10:25 I don't want to laugh at someone's struggle, but the console being yellow with Green button made it even funnier. It"s like it's perfectly optimised to mess with Scott.
Scott: "Its made with premium, baked in bones for funsies!"
Fun fact, the Allwinner F Series CPU in this is also used for aftermarket Linux head units
Still has a better screen than the original GBA.
getting one of those at games sega genesis consoles as a kid is what inspired me to finally figure out how to get my model 1 working and connected to my tv LMAO
I don't know about you, I actually used my mini consoles to play some games. The SNES had some RPGs, not exactly "play for a weekend then shove in a drawer" type games. I turned on my SNES classic every day for weeks. Still come back to it sometimes, there's nothing impractical about it as long as you have an extension cable.
Yea it all depends on a person want, especially if you want more then what "legally" available and not wanting to spend 40 bucks for a collection of 5 roms with half ass emulation.
As I've commented befor I think SEGA should have made one device about the size of a GBA that had a decent selection of games.
AtGames' stuff is pretty shoddy, but they made a little portable Game Gear system (I think only available in the EU), but it was actually pretty decent, and you got more out of it than these Game Gear Micros, for cheaper, and on an actual screen.
Tetris was actually on the Sega Mega Play arcade that used a Genesis and like 10 carts. Since it was "arcade" it got around the console licensing.
When they come out with the micro TV tuner then I'll consider it. 😅
It's basically one of those keychain micro arcade but in a gamegear case
I love that Sony saw at games mega drive and said that they want to get a piece of the pie
Fun fact: The ROM for Sonic & Tails (Sonic Chaos) is edited where the Level Select and Sound Test codes are edited to make the codes easier to press (due to the small size).
these classic editions were quick 100+ million cash-ins. A $5 plastic box and $5 controller that cost like $100, they made a KILLING on every one of them, but like anything, they flood the market and kill it before it becomes a thing
Got 17 minutes in before I realized this is Scott
Forgot about the white one with Aleste
A friend of mine bought a snes mini, hacked it to add more games to it and, whenever our group of friends (we're around 10 or 11) get together at someone's house, he brings it and we have a BLAST playing some old school games.
Our favorites are international super star soccer and mk3
Game gear on the drive to my grandparents’ (4 hours each way) was me begging me dad for a 12 pack of batteries. This was why the game boy and a borrowed copy of links adventure became my mainstay for road trips. I miss the “cool kid” factor that game gear gave me in 4th grade though lol.
12:09 is when he finally opens the damn thing
I feel like playing an rpg on these would actually be torture. The tiny text would be like reading text on a PS3 or 360 game on an old 12 inch CRT tv. If you know you know.
THIS IS A GAMEGEAR FOR ANTS
It’s exactly what it is. A collectible. I haven’t touched my mini consoles in years
The great thing about the flap on the Genesis mini is that Sega sold the tower of power. A collection of accessories to make it look like you had a Sega CD, 32X, Sonic & Knuckles cartridge with Lock On™ Technology, and Sonic 2 cartridge. All of them are non-functional, but its a cool collector's accessory set.
Would love to see a size comparison between this and the Game BOY Micro. I've a feeling it's even smaller than that one.
The sega equivalent of the Gameboy micro
i just find it surprising that theres more than just one game per game gear micro
The game and watches had 3 games on them at least i think
10:07 Funnily enough, it's both!
Kinda
The system itself is yellow while the buttons are green
Wonderful! Now I can get a game gear that’s big enough for my pet mouse to play.