The Game Gear Micro 

Finally, I can play Game Gear games portably!

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

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

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

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

Only 4 games per Micro is a slap to the face

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

Maybe Sega was compensating for something

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

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

I want a Gameboy Micro Micro.

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.

What is this? a Game Gear for ants?

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!

That was my nickname back in the good ol college days

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?

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.

"Screen's the size of a grape."

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.

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.)

Ooh a Game Gear that doesn't die of capacitor issues or needs 6 batteries.

Imagine someone pulling this out and then the big window screen out of their pocket on like a bus, would be nuts

I had no idea scott was colorblind. I so thought he was making a joke when he said "might be green"

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.

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.

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.

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

What it should’ve been is a regular sized game gear with games built in

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!

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.

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 would love for SEGA to release a mini 32X console called the Neptune.

Wonder if anyone has rigged the board of one of these to a regular-sized custom Game Gear with a modern screen

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

Eye strain headache speedrun strats

Loved the video, Mr Woz

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).

It’s so cool that we get to see the birth of a new media like video games, and we genuinely need to have historians on it like you. Thank you for having a living museum in your collection and with your RU-vid.

Nobody is as thorough as you in your coverage. Well done, Scott.

I keep forgetting Scott is colorblind lol 10:25

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.

Love these format of videos

I'm sure it has a good personality

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.

"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"

16:06 made me crack up, man, keep it up, Scott. Godspeed!

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.

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

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!

Man, what a revelation!

can't wait for the Game Boy classic to come out. I've always dreamed of playing it portably

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.

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.

its a good day when you’re early to a Scott’s stash video

You should make a video on charging ports on top versus on the bottom of portable systems.

The fact that some text heavy rpgs were on some of these models is hilarious.

I can’t imagine reading the RPG dialogue on a screen that small lol. + I would have liked to seen how it compares to a Gameboy micro in size!

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 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.

Still has a better screen than the original GBA.

scott you are very much wrong about "just play it on the switch" i love to have system with zero fluff that I can flick on and be playing the games with the appropriate controller

Got me one of these and adore it, sat and completed Sonic on it haha

The game gear micro could've been different to where its more bigger and contains more battery and games but sega said fuck it and downsized it.

i just find it surprising that theres more than just one game per game gear micro

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.

Good Job editing Justin

Fun fact, the Allwinner F Series CPU in this is also used for aftermarket Linux head units

Perfect background noise vids

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.

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.

I always considered these micro consoles to be collectibles. In that context, i think these are nice.

I didn't know these were a thing... imagine playing Game Gear games portably, and I mean actually portably

thank you so much for giving the MD Mini the gas it deserves

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.

I love tiny things that are accurately reproduced, so this is awesome. Yes, I want to visit Japan someday.

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.

he took 7 minutes until he actually talked about the game gear micro

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

Got 17 minutes in before I realized this is Scott

When they come out with the micro TV tuner then I'll consider it. 😅

I love that the genesis mini cartridge slot is the perfect size for a gba game

These look like something you would get in a Happy Meal or Cereal box back in the day!

Awww, it's so cute. I actually want that Shining force version, although reading that little screen would be difficult. Super duper cute though.

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.

Actually Scott you don't have a complete set, there is one more Game Gear Micro that was exclusive to the limited edition of the Aleste Collection that only released in japan and it had all the games that were on that collection, 2 Master System games and 3 Game Gear games, the third one of which was developed just for that collection

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

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).

The problem with mini or classic systems being made from handhelds is that you can't really make them smaller or more convenient without making them impractical. The Game Boy and the Game Gear, while bulky, were already pretty small, and both are already smaller than the Nintendo Switch. Yes you can make them smaller, but why would you? They already had tiny screens before that people constantly complained about, so why make the screen 1/10th of my fingernail? That's.. so much worse Sega. I think instead of making them smaller, they should make them thinner. Keep the same size, just thin it down so it's not so bulky and can be transported much easier. The problem was never size, it was the fact the Game Gear was bigger than my head and weighed more than my little brother.

You're so right about Sega Genesis games being rereleased ad nauseam. Sega has SO MUCH history to pull from, but how many people just don't or won't know about it because it's less available to officially purchase?

The best way to get into the SMT franchise

Hope that you could talk about the NES Classic Edition, the SNES Classic Editon, the PlayStation Classic and the Sega Genesis Mini.

There are actually five of these. The fifth was exclusive to a special edition of some space shooter that was made for current day consoles. This fifth game gear micro is white and has 4 space shooters on it.

17:19 this is how I feel about the Zelda Game & Watch they released a few years ago. I love it dearly but have only used it twice.

wait until they release the gameboy mini micro! Now mice can enjoy Nintendo!

Don’t worry Scott, that one model was yellow with green buttons, so you win either way.