I absolutely adore my micro. I'm mostly a PC player and it met all my console needs. It's just so beautiful and well-crafted that it's hard not to fall in love once you've tried it. Very glad to hear that you were able to salvage yours in the end.
GBA was a day one console for me, actually the first time we ever got a console within its release window. Didn't have any GBA games for it right away so I played Oracle of Ages on it which I had only gotten recently. The micro is my favorite iteration. I didn't have one when it came out but bought one a few years ago along with a handful of games that I never got the chance to play. Some of my favorites are the Minish Cap, the Legacy of Goku II, Metroid Fusion, Advance Wars, and Banjo Kazooie Grunty's revenge since I think it did a good job of delivering a mini Banjo experience.
Great video, also I would recommend ezflash over the Super card SD, it's a bit more expensive but it doesn't suffer from lag and stutter like the Super card SD does
In Russia, portable (and home) consoles from Nintendo have never been popular. The only exception was probably the Switch and the "Dendy" consoles, which were a clone of the NES. And most of the Dendy users didn't even know what Nintendo was
you are making me wanna get a GB micro, I have a GBA but I have always been curious about the micro model. This has really ignited my interest in retro gaming, thank you for this video
Got the GB in 97, and the SP in 2003. I still have it too. Works fine, battery still charges. Between Pokemon and FFTA I have all the mobile RPGs I'd ever need. I play them to this today.
Golden Sun, Sia, Shining Force and the LOTR games I spent so much time on. But the series that took most of it was Mega Man Zero. Still play this system a few times a week. Just nice to play in small sessions and be satisfied.
I love gba,used to own the original (one without backlight) back in elementary school, but the power switch broke when I go to high school,so I bought a gameboy micro to replace it. Played through a bunch of games on it,Metroid,Metal Slug,Urbs,Castlevania and some fps games. I even played though Doom for the first time on the gba. I've heard SuperCard has slowdown issues and some graphical glitches,but it seems fine in the video.
How was the battery on this thing? I have never had a handheld console except for the game boy advanced and yet the only thing I played on it was Mario and yoshi.
I got one about 3 weeks after launch for my 13th birthday. I remember playing it quite a bit and taking it to school with me. But the main thing that I remember is seeing another kid in school with his PSP and being super jealous, unfortunately.. especially the fact that I had already had an GBA and an SP before so yeah. But I did end up getting a PSP about 7 months after that for my 8th grade graduation. So that was awesome. Anyway I got into retro gaming/collecting about a year and a half ago and I finally just scored a Gameboy micro on ebay last night for a good price. Been wanting one for awhile.
Dude I think playing Game Boy (let alone Game Boy Advance) an hour a day should almost be concidered blasphemous. Go out, play Game Boy wherever for hours, come back and then you can call it quits for a day.
So I did the challenge and honestly I loved it. It was difficult at first and I often found myself deviating at times to watch RU-vid or scroll instagram. But as time went on I got hooked to a lot of games and ended up having a great time. I’m a sucker for story based games and despite having flashy fast paced graphics, a lot of the core elements are similar between modern games with very early games. I find that if I play something a little more basic it helps my mind feel less burnt out, yet also makes me a little bored, but that goes hand in hand with dopamine overload that we all face these days. I highly recommend the challenge to anyone and everyone. Doesn’t matter what the console is, preferably from a previous decade or two though to really go back in time. Thank you for the video and I look forward to seeing your future challenges
Ok read all the comments and everyone was about Metroid Zelda castlevania megaman zero and of course Mario I’m surprised there are some games no one mentioned that I played and are very fun and everyone will hate me for this but I’m not a Zelda castlevania or a main type of Pokémon person I played Metroid zero mission to death I have megaman zero 3 And 4 but I’m horrible at those types of platformers my bread and butter will always be my most favorite game in a 6 game series mega man battle network 3 pirates of the Caribbean dead man’s chest and Pokémon spin-off mystery dungeon red rescue team hidden gems that I’m surprise people sleep and and don’t get talked all too often about that I’ve seen and it shocks me honestly
I was lucky to find The 25 anniversary Mario edition at my local gamestop back then I think i got a good deal on it because they didnt have a charger for it I still have it
Hi there. Great video! Any tips on commitment to school and studying? I'm sure this video took alot of discipline and you mentioned not playing GBA because you prioritized school.
I'd consider this a bust. You used a romcart (part of the charm of these challenges is recreating what it was like to play this as it was back then, which means choosing which carts to bring. If your carts are dirty, clean them), then you used emulation, then emulation again. It's a shame your Micro died suddenly, and maybe it was the flashcart that did it. Some draw more power than normal cartridges, and that may have caused something to go wrong internally. I'd suggest trying this again, officially next time.
I came here for this comment lol. I see so many videos like this that say I played xyz only for 30 days and half of it is spent playing on an emulator or on a PC, which complete defeats the purpose. Just say you played gba games for 30 days as you clearly did not play a game boy micro for 30 days
