Game Gear Micro / Nintendo Game & Watch Color Screen | Ashens 

I'll get one of these mini consoles when they are better than my cheap Bluetooth controller + emulating on my phone. Which hasn't happened

I had a feeling you sent him these.

hi the retro future

I purchased the game and watch because i love them so much and having the latest in the series was great for me, but i also was hoping it could be modded so i could put tetris on it

@Enmity the Kindhearted Nintendo is actively hostile to such efforts. The fact that NES is easy to mod is entirely because of their efforts to make manufacturing cheap, including using as cheap components as possible. Nintendo could reasonably called a company that manages IP and produces gaming systems on the side. Their hostility was clear in the "mod" scene, even before the first emulators started coming out. They will scrounge the last penny they can out of any game or gaming system. They started as a company selling cards for gambling. Not trading, not for children: gambling. Addictive, legally questionable, gambling. This fact helps in understanding the company and how it acts.

Dull joke

Lol game boy fans getting butt hurt over this

not a GBA though you can shove it right up to a light that can illuminate two whole rooms and the screen still would be dim

@@TorutheRedFox You would also go blind from the reflection!

And now. we have smartphones... How different school would have been if I had one of those to play with under my desk..

The new Game and Watch is EXACTLY what I dreamed my original Game and Watch could be.

That's a good point. Just because this is too small for adult hands doesn't mean it'd be too small for kid hands.

Omg i was the same and i really like these tiny handhelds ;)

I used to dream of the same thing, like in the 70s I wished I had a tiny TV that I could watch anything I wanted on it. That's why even with phones, I still like to carry around a tiny little MP4 player with my favorite movies saved on it.

Yep, those AAAs looked like AAs

lol

*epicest 😎

😮 lol

True lol

And next to it a game and watch

“On you go, to the big window in the sky”

It looks like a tv

So can it play Doom?

Please link to both. It would be most appreciated, broski. I have a Blue GG Micro and I’m cool with Baku Baku and Sonic Chaos. I’d like to replace Sylvan Tale with Outrun and Gunstar Heroes with GG Shinobi.

Game and watch is not easy to hack. You will need special tools

The battery companies miss you buying batteries for it though🤣

You can use AC adapter.

@@jareknowak8712 That's how I usually played it, not ideal for family trips though lol

Today we have decent rechargeable AA batteries though.

Get some "pre-charged" rechargeables. Eneloops are the best ones. (Pre-charged because they're actually capable of holding onto a charge for more than long enough to be shipped from Japan to you. Unlike the old-fashioned rechargeables which wouldn't stay charged for 2 femtoseconds without self-discharging themselves into environmentally-hazardous landfill.)

Allow me to introduce myself

This comment would really make more sense if the battery life were worse, at least markedly so, than the Game Gear.

Doubles as a weapon!

If you are playing an atari lynx, the pain is implied.

I think Ashens made two videos about the Lynx a few years back.

@@drwatson32bit right? The Lynx, despite being far more powerful, actually lasts longer on batteries.

Especially if the battery life is similar to the old one.

*(Nintendo flags Ashens' channel with a copyright strike for too many unnecessary shoutings of the words "DO YOU SEE?!")*

.....It puts the lotion on the skin!

It's a *micro* console, not mini.

Coming soon: Sega Saturn on a single grain of rice!

I do not see! It's too bloody small!

8:49

Lmao yeah, it's like the original designer heard people said the original was too big and went in the complete opposite direction

Oh man garry's mod and world of warcraft would be a fuckin nightmare lmao.

It's about the same size as the Game BOY Micro.

I have a Tetris console which is 1/3 the size of this GG. Not joking.

@@jareknowak8712 the fuck you're going to play Tetris alright in it

That phrase always irked me as a Nintendo-playing kid.

I had an aneurism reading that wtf

@@scorpius319 - Same. I may have been a child back in the day, but Sega's advertising still struck me as childish and off-putting.

@@DinoBunnyStudio A lot of Sega's technically superior choices ended up being their undoing. Nintendo has always worked off of inexpensive, well-understood hardware to keep their consoles affordable to the point of making a profit off of initial sales. Sega, on the other hand, wanted to include the newest and best for the sake of being ahead of the competition. Sega no longer makes consoles because the combined failures of the Sega CD, Saturn, and Dreamcast meant that they lost a lot of money investing in doing what "the other guy's don't." Even the Game Gear was barely successful, because it cost three times as much as the Game Boy at the time and Nintendo was about to release it first in a smaller form factor and then with a color screen.

Indeed, I think you've been able to get little capsule toy versions of the Game Gear there for yeeeears, about the same size as the Micro.

@@Agamemnon2 Yep. Not just Game Gears, Game Boys and all kinds of controllers as well. Japan loves little dangly things they can attach to their stuff so it can hang there and look cool.

They have a gachapon machine I see fairly regularly with tiny Sega consoles. I'm always tempted to buy one, but then I think "why the hell do I need a tiny bit of plastic that looks like a Saturn or Game Gear??" This thing looks like someone took one of those and said "what if this thing really played games??? that'd be cool!"

Suddenly I quite like the Game Gear Micro.

It's still too effing small

Yeah but if you forgot about it and the battery leaks. Theirs a high chance you'll have nothing to play either.

Yeah, get yourself a battery charger and a couple of packs of rechargeable double and triple As and you're good. Proprietary batteries are terrible.

@@DragoonBB "I'll leave the batteries in because I'm going to use it tomorrow" 10 years later: "Aww nuts!"

@@DragoonBB True, though I've found it's sometimes easier to fix than replacing a Li-ion, unless the manufacturers were kind enough to use an common type with a connector rather than soldering it straight in.

They sell this like a key chain that has a console built in not a mini console that you can use as a key chain

The Sega City astro mini looks like a winner when released on the 17th of this month. Bezal support too. Clicky sticks too.

I was just about to say this.

You can get some pretty decent credit card sized Fresnel magnifiers from AliExpress or Wish for about 10 for £1. I can't tell if this one looks terrible just because it's postage stamp sized or if it's bad quality or both, but 1.1x magnification is clearly not enough here.

Who?

@@JasperJanssen failed video streaming service that only had content in portrait mode

Yeah I find collections pointless if they serve no more than aesthetic purposes.

It's funny how Sega clearly only cares about the Japanese market for this megadrive era retrostuff, when the Japanese market barely gave a toss about the Megadrive and Gamegear back in those days. Why care about the markets that actually made them wildly successful amirite?

Just get a general 3rd party emulation device if you want it to be usable

@@jackkingsby116 Take a look at eBay prices for the ZX Spectrum, especially compared to original price. They were designed to be made cheaply as possible, and it shows in its reliability, and like all electronics of its age, the capacitors often leak and destroy everything on the board, and yet... An Apple I is up on eBay right now for 1.5 million dollars. I sometimes consider buying two of small electronic items, just to keep one mint just in case it makes me a millionaire someday! ;)

@@squirlmy wow that's a smart investment lol. I wish tech nowadays was more like the stuff of old. Sure it's better but I don't think a lot of this stuff is gonna have the same kind of sentimental value. Retro tech will always be cool to us future kids but modern stuff is boring. Ironically technology has come full circle where things are now too easy and we're looking at the past when things were hard with heart eye. Really crazy!

Silver Skull is good and all, but Future Ashens the Editor Man is top tier.

You HERETIC!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . It's Kirby's Avalanche.

Wow makes me feel old 😂😂

I'd take it over any switch game

@@Mireaze I guess you REALLY like Super Mario Bros. 1 and 2 then ...

@@klg9549 yes, and there's already a lot of work going on to put more games onto it since it uses standard nes roms.

@@Mireaze I'm talking about it on it's own, as it is now.

For €60 it should have Super Mario Land 1/2/3, Mario Bros 1/2/3, Dr Mario, Super Mario kart, Super Mario World 1/2

I mean it's not good when this piece of shit turns screen the size of a postage stamp from sarcastic aphorism to accurate description.

Nintendo has a great excuse though, just get a Switch and it's online service and the only game you aren't getting is the actual Game and Watch game that let's face it no one is going to play for more than 5 minutes these days.

@@Stephen__White It's the principal of it.

it's devolved into sega just tossing pebbles at nintendo's windows, hoping to disturb their sleep.

They shrunk down to fight, just like that transformers AU

@@Roboshi2007 That could refer to a couple of different storylines, but they actually did that in the main toyline - they started with Micromasters taking the place of the larger bots and then had the Beast Wars where the robots were roughly human size.

@@OtakuUnitedStudio There's an AU were the transformers never left cybertron until the energy crisis got so bad they had to fight proxy wars using smaller bots.

I loved my Nomad. Playing Vectorman in the car was the coolest thing in the world back in the day

So, essentially a portable Analogue Mega SG? I'd be all for that. I suspect the Analogue Pocket would get pretty close though.

What would be the point of that? It would be MORE expensive to produce personalized versions for each customer than to just toss every game on every console, so you'd literally be paying extra for the option of recieving less.

@@Pikachu132 Yeah, because nobody in the history of humanity has ever paid for a customized product.

@@WarpRulez The point is that it IS more expensive to prepare and send out a system loaded with your personalized rom collection picked from a list than it is to just send out one of the 10 000 pre-prepared systems you have in your storage. You're literally saying you want to pay someone to REMOVE specific roms from your system so you get LESS. It costs them literally nothing to just give you everything instead of removing the specific ones you don't want. People that pay for customized things pay for certain extras that actually cost the manifacturer extra as well. Already licensed roms cost nothing.

Considering it was just made for the mario anniversary and only using the game and watch design for nostalgia I'm not surprised it's just one game and watch game on there

If there was a stand it actually sorta would've worked as an alarm clock

ha, I was wondering the same thing, I remember they came with a metal kick stand on the back. Would have been nice if you're going to put it on a shelf and show the clock

I recall also reading that unless running with external power the clock screen automatically turns off after a short time, so another minus for the clock usage (original Game&Watch barely required any power for the tiny lcd clock they had)

@@Vokabre yep, I tried that with my very own yesterday. I haven't tried it with USB plugged in though.

My biggest complaint is where tf is the alarm clock?

Oh......

Sega will make a few hundred thousand of them and just cart them straight to landfill, never bothering to let it live.

With a mini VMU that fully works but is the size of your thumbnail

@@TheVirtuoso883 Given that the mini consoles have full-sized or at least 3/4 sized controllers, I'd expect a VMU to be smaller but not that much.

@Miles Prower Nothing pre-loaded, and it's not compatible with the original, so it's just sorta... there. Sure, it works, but there's nothing to connect it to.

Your wife hates me too, it's okay.

It looks like you can listen to Radiohead and cry as well.

I hate my wife

@@badger5008 godspeed and silver mt zion have some good songs to cry to

And the offbrand version of Kirby's Avalanche for the SNES.

Yeah I bought mine with zero trouble after release, from Amazon at RRP. Ironically the ebay prices that scalpers are listing at, are coming down gradually, as they've realised that theres no particular shortage this time around. Mind you... They'll be back with a vengeance when Nintendo takes them off the shelves in March.

I got mine super easy by walking into a store and buying it. They're apparently being made to keep up with demand, they just won't be available after March next year.

@@OtakuUnitedStudio exactly this!

@@OtakuUnitedStudio Guess I'll pick up a second to keep in the package unopened...

Hahaha nice one

What one Earth does that mean? Postage stamps are extremely useful for... you know... posting things.

@@Milamberinx I know. But I don't know too many people who still send letters or packages with stamps. When I send a package I go to a store and they put the postage on it. Maybe it's an age difference, but I havent had to use a postage stamp for years.

You have to go to a store to send parcels?! Are there no post boxes in your country?

The man has an old, dusty brown sofa. Of course he has postage stamps just waiting to be used.

@@GigglingChinchilla It's a lot more convenient to have stamps on hand to put on your bills and such when you pay them than to take a stack of envelopes to the office to have them print them out.

I mean, to be real, people could just build their own emulation handheld that can emulate several systems and hundreds of games for the money just one of those stupid things costs. There even are kits for it that still cost less than one of these systems. That's just how much of a ripoff these mini-systems are

Emulation will always be the best option to play old games because you can have the Game Gear/Gameboy/NES/Genesis-Mega Drive/SNES all on one place. These mini consoles will NEVER be able to offer that.

@@Stephen__White They could, but they have less storage space than a computer from the mid-90s

@@InfernosReaper See thing is you will very likely never see an official Mini console with all of those consoles in one system, and even if that does somehow happen you won't get every single game. That's my point. It wouldn't matter if they put a few terabytes of storage into a mini console, unless you want to hack it and put things onto it yourself you won't get everything in one place from an official product. It would just be far to costly to license all the old games that were not first party.

@@Stephen__White It honestly dumb that anyone should have to license 20+ old media in the first place. Of course, that's a problem with the copyright laws. They started reasonable enough, but a lot of extensions got tacked on over the years, especially when Disney, a company that made bank off remaking public domain works, was about to lose copyright over Mickey Mouse. Gotta love greedy companies and lobbying. But anyway, why does anyone need anything *official* for doing *all* of the games ever anyway? There are plenty of good kits for Pi computers. Official things really shouldn't just be cheapass emulation boxes anyway. They be actual hardware made smaller & more energy efficient using the 20+ years of technological advancement.

It 100% is. Sadly that's all he does, he isn't in the movie IRRC

Watch the whole video first

@@Alanphuphalee 4:17

Highly doubt you will use it. It looks nice and thats fine but really... expensive and to small screen.

Yeah, as long as you're actually going to play the games.

Better get it before GameStop closes for good.

It is.

@@OtakuUnitedStudio perhaps, but as I noted, the Game & Watch is correct to their original size, they were meant to be played at that size.

If they REALLY wanted to make a joke out of it, they should have made it a bit more powerful and shoved Sonic '06 on it.

$60 for two nes roms in a fancy case still isn't that enticing for anyone who isn't an insane collector.

Although playing SMB1 is like, the lowest bar there is. The sheer amount of ways to play that one game is astonishing. SMB2/lostlevels is a bit more rare, but only because no one cares about that one.

@@fattiger6957 It's enticing to my dad who like Mario and hasn't been able to play it since I took the NES with me when I moved out for college. He refuse to play a system with more than 2 buttons and a D-pad because he's afraid it will be too much to keep up with. And to be fair, since the Game & Watch came out in 1980, this is really meant for an older audience to begin with.

@@OtakuUnitedStudio Even for people with heavy nostalgia, paying so much for so little should be an immediate turn off.

They surely release one for every Mario Bros... Which is shame.

@@quagernag but they included the true super mario bros 2 already

Instead of nes games they should have had the game and watch mario games like mario cement factory

@@kahn1101 Doki Doki Panic was built off of a Mario 2 prototype that got shelved because Nintendo wanted to rush the sequel out, so they just made the original with new levels. Miyamoto didn't want to do that and didn't work on the Japanese version of Super Mario 2. He DID work on Doki Doki Panic AND its reworking to the NES as Mario 2. So really, the US Super Mario Bros. 2 has more right to be called the true one than the Japanese. And it was released in Japan as Super Mario USA, which was more popular than the mission pack they had gotten two years earlier.

@@bland9876 But it was meant to be part of the 35th Anniversary of the original Super Mario Bros. It's Mario first and Game & Watch second.

Phew that's a relief. I woke up this morning thinking oh boy a day off and a new ashens video but it was deleted like 2 minutes in and I was sad

It seems so cute. I feel like if there was a bigger, playable Game Gear Micro, Sega could still make this cute, tiny replica just for fun. They could keep making the playable version and a toy version (without electronics) which is cheaper. I think a toy version would be fun to carry around with keys and fiddle with without worrying about damaging an expensive collectors item. It could be a cute watch, keychain light, play some chiptune Sega tunes, FM radio and MP3 player. If the controls were improved, could it be a mini Bluetooth controller for smartphones? (just some random ideas) Maybe that could ruin the collectability of the collectors version, but I'm sure it would still be very unique.

Screen casting over wifi even might be acceptible.

@@zzoinks I was excited when they announced these Game Gear Micros hoping it would be in the vein of those smaller retro consoles but with modern advances like the NES/SNES Classic/Sega Genesis/PS Classic but when I saw just how small they were (and the fact they were exclusive to Japan) I was saddened. I owned a Game Gear myself back in the day and had a few games like X-Men Mojo World. I still want a Game Gear Classic that's smaller than the original brick but with the better backlit screen, rechargeable battery, maybe even an HDMI port so it could be played on the TV and perhaps an MP3 player for the hell of it.

I wanted one of those Game and Watches right up to the price because it fulfills a niche in my life that exists but at like £15-20 not that much.

Check out the second version of the SP with the much better backlit screen.

They had about umpteen million other GBA models by that point. The Micro was pretty much just a tail-end novelty.

I'd like to see a Game Boy Classic the size of a Game Boy Pocket but with however many built-in games, backlit color display, and rechargeable.

Just because it's small doesn't mean it's any less complicated to manufacture.

@@OtakuUnitedStudio and it probably wasn't made in massive quantities that would allow them to drive the price way down, either.