If they had made something about the size of the original GBA with like 20 games on it they really would have had something worth looking into.

It makes more sense in accessorized Japan and that's as far as it goes.

@xflarearcadia1766

3 жыл бұрын

@Iamasillyboy Yesiam Yep, agreed. I can picture people dressed up Cosplay and have the collection hanging on keychains.

@Sirg17x

3 жыл бұрын

@Iamasillyboy Yesiam honestly would only consider if it were like $12 as a collectable impulse buy like Amiibos are for Nintendo fans. You are asking me to pay $12 per game on severely limited hardware. No thank you.

@sweet_sukeban4022

3 жыл бұрын

@Iamasillyboy Yesiam youd be surprised at how much shit costs here in japan. 50 bucks is nothing.

@cityofsinsful

3 жыл бұрын

Dude this thing is so small is going to strain my eyes 👀

@4sakend1

3 жыл бұрын

I feel there is a Family Guy reference here but i can't quite put my finger on it.

my giant hands would accidentally crush this thing, also imagine the strain on peoples eyes. so expensive for.. so little

@xeno4693

3 жыл бұрын

Sega is so dumb this is why they fail all the time

@dboss7387

3 жыл бұрын

Cross-eyed

@JeskidoYT

3 жыл бұрын

Not even people with glasses can play this

@Prolificx

3 жыл бұрын

This would be good for a small child that is decent at sonic games. I still don’t get the price point...

@damian9303

3 жыл бұрын

You’re paying for the nostalgia

I completely forgot this existed til now. This thing is so ridiculously tiny, and there’s an rpg model of this? How is anyone supposed to play this?

@Matanumi

3 жыл бұрын

They don't. Its a cute collector like john said

@RoboBlue2

3 жыл бұрын

The RPGs work surprisingly well. I can still read the Japanese text, and I played through the first battle in Shining Force Gaiden last night.

@bonitoflake7

3 жыл бұрын

@@Matanumi Wait his name is John 🤯

@modernretro9894

3 жыл бұрын

papa nanor yes haha

@RyanREAX

3 жыл бұрын

@@bonitoflake7 John Downey or something like that

This looks like it would be a thing that you get from boxes of cereal from the '90s

@afriend9428

3 жыл бұрын

Millennial Math *Buys all kinds of cornflakes and never getting one for free*

@xuwenya

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@michaelharris5281

3 жыл бұрын

@@afriend9428 you have to send in three cornflake stubs and pay for shipping lol

@jballs5434

3 жыл бұрын

That grammar tho

@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy

Жыл бұрын

But those are not even games. Those were 3 sprite nonsense that you switch between when you press a button or two.

Cell phone companies: phone is to small for a headphone jack! Sega: we put a headphone jack on a mighty bean!

@charlesgurley7030

3 жыл бұрын

LOL that's insane

A gamegear the size of a gameboy advance would have been perfect

@SmallSpoonBrigade

3 жыл бұрын

TBH, I don't get why they didn't do that or even one that was a mere half the size of the original, but with improved battery life. They probably could have still made it for under $100 and sold tons of them. Then again, I also don't get why there's so few games when Sega had so many great first party titles for their hardware. A slightly larger handheld with more games and they might have been able to talk people into paying closer to $100 for the set.

Wait if it takes batteries than what is the usb for?

@ChrisPBacon-xn9up

3 жыл бұрын

To charge?

@btchcraft3244

3 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same

@WillisPtheone

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisPBacon-xn9up To charge what? The batteries are normal AAA batteries. It does not have a internal charging circuit. There is no internal battery. The usb is used to POWER the system if you are not using AAAs. That is it the port is just for power it does not charge you can not plug it in and wait and unplug it and play later it is either tied to a wall wart or AAAs. Just like the old days you either had the AC adapter and played near an outlet or you had a backpack full of AAs.

@ChrisPBacon-xn9up

3 жыл бұрын

Willis Pearson soooo, you don’t need batteries???

@316whatupz

3 жыл бұрын

To hack 😂🤣

If they would've done a full sized re- release with a rechargeable battery, an ips screen, and some modern improvements and market it to collectors that would've been way better.

@fattiger6957

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe not full sized because the GG was a chunky beast back in the day. About the size of a GBA with a 2.5-3 inch screen would be perfect.

@matthewmontalvo6795

3 жыл бұрын

You could mod a psp instead of waiting

@algunoscuenticos

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, maybe same size as the original, with bigger screen, better resolution and finally more energy efficient.

@sublime_tv

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like Sega wanted to go super-novelty here because maybe the sales would not have been much different with a larger GG.

As one of the few kids who had a Game Gear, this really disappoints me. They could have made it around the same size of the GBA (with a screen that is proportionally bigger than the GG) and it would have been perfect. I guess we have to wait for the Game Boy classic to get a proper handheld mini console.

@light_player07

3 жыл бұрын

Instead, they made it the same size as Game Boy Micro.....

@zaxmaxlax

3 жыл бұрын

A gameboy classic mini will sell like hotcakes even if nintendo charges a 100 bucks for it.

@MrSupersonic2012

3 жыл бұрын

@@light_player07 Funny you say that. It's actually SMALLER than the Gameboy Micro. Lol

@Clear_Spectre

3 жыл бұрын

It's definitely a proper disappointment.

@light_player07

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrSupersonic2012 Game boy Micro is already uncomfortable. This is just ridiculous

They could have made it a little bigger and still call it “micro”

i'm annoyed and happy I didn't get this at the same time

@ryschy1059

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. I preordered all 4 of them earlier in the year and canceled the order about a month afterwards because I sat down and really thought about it. I wanted them, but not at 50 bucks a piece. If they were 20 bucks each or so, I probably would have kept my order.

@segaristar1655

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect way to describe it. Me too. Actually looks good but also it's a bit insane. Seems like it plays well

"ok Sega" describes everyone's reactions to sega the past few decades

@chriswiandt4907

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously. It's hard to imagine we bought a Sega Dreamcast back in the day looking at modern day Sega. Totally different company after the Dreamcast died.

@EternalLovefield

3 жыл бұрын

@@yzois Not quite. Sakura Taisen is getting a big push with the latest game, Space Channel 5 VR is really cool, Monkey Ball retro is coming soon, Jet Set sold really poorly ( though I still love it a lot), a new Eternal Arcadia is in the works by the creator but not yet picked up by sega, Panzer Dragoon series is in the hands of Forever Entertainment, Dotemu has Bare Knuckle. I get your sentiment overall, but Sega is still making moves. I just don't think the home console/PC space is their moneymaker compared to the arcade/entertainment industry. Not to mention the Game Gear Micro is very popular in Japan at the moment, though I think it was made for die hard fans like myself and it's impractical compared to an everdrive in a Game Gear.

@danieljason4915

3 жыл бұрын

@@EternalLovefield don't forget about the Virtua Fighter announcement

@zacheray

2 жыл бұрын

There are books describing their toxic work culture in Japan. Sega of America was suffocated after its huge success.

Sega really does what Nintendon't

@DarkLink1996.

3 жыл бұрын

Not always a good thing

@dontnickmyname

3 жыл бұрын

Actually Nintendo will be re releasing the Game & Watch. It will be bigger, so more playable. However it has even less games, just 3. And it is even more expensive.

@remixchild

3 жыл бұрын

Nintendo already did that

I'm modding this baby to play PS4 games

@SuperNitroZ64

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@robertsmith20022

3 жыл бұрын

Pshhh!!!! Pleb. Pc oR NoThInG RAWWWRRRRRR!!! 🤣🤣

@LordDragox412

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertsmith20022 It can run Doom, that's good enough for me >:P

@dragoe7441

3 жыл бұрын

xd

@zachh2864

3 жыл бұрын

Tell me how that works out for you.

Sega must of been smoking some good sh|t when they came up with this idea

@alvallac2171

3 жыл бұрын

*must've (contraction of "MUST haVE") Similarly, it's could've, should've, would've, may've, and might've.

@khhnator

3 жыл бұрын

the idea is good, the price that is kinda off

@panicbombz4192

3 жыл бұрын

@@alvallac2171 this aint school

@iskamag

3 жыл бұрын

sega loves to do that all the time

As James "The Nerd" Rolfe (AVGN) would say: "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING"???

@SmallSpoonBrigade

3 жыл бұрын

It's nice to see that they're also bringing back retro Sega execs for the launch. I'd hate to think they'd do something that made sense like launching this in the US or having a US version of it. It's sad to see how many nice things get destroyed by Japanese companies because the top execs don't know what they're doing. This is a bit like those mini consoles that Nintendo has been producing where they didn't bother to produce enough of them. I thought about getting the NES classic, but ultimately chose to just buy vintage carts and dump them myself for emulation. So, Nintendo wound up with nothing from me because they mismanaged the launch. This is more or less the same thing, a version for the US would make sense as the US was a larger market for them than Japan was.

Zoolander: What is this?... a Game Gear for ants?!

even *watching* you handle this thing is painfully uncomfortable!

Sega just can't seem to get the sizes right, originally too big and now too small 😑

@JezzmanGAMES

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the third one will be juuuuuust right?

Stuff like this is really cool to me as just a technological marvel, like I've always thought "like what if you made an NES these days how small could you make it?" and this basically answers my question, we could make old consoles REALLY small, to the point where we get limited in how small we can make them by the size of our hands.

@fattiger6957

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently you can run a lot of emulators on smart watches.

@schiziodcrown

3 жыл бұрын

Do you work for sega?

@nitinanku

2 жыл бұрын

@@fattiger6957 Oh easily, stuff like the Apple Watch have some very capable processors

iPhone: "There's not enough space on the iPhone to out a Headphone Jack." Sega: "We've managed to put a Headphone jack on this tiny console!"

@DrMario_666

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes because an iPhone and this toy have the same shit inside

@fjosh6

3 жыл бұрын

And the Game Gear micro is water resistant certified.

@DrMario_666

3 жыл бұрын

Josh Frye so is iPhone haha

@LordDragox412

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrMario_666 Indeed, iPhone is water resistant, as in resistant to any water that is at least one meter away from it. Any closer and your warranty is void due to water damage.

@megamix5403

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrMario_666 found the iPhone shill

I really don't understand why this exists. That entire thing needs to be about 3 times larger.

@BlackSpidersTV

3 жыл бұрын

More like 10 times

@Zan_Jayna

3 жыл бұрын

Asians have tiny fingers..

@Mwing317

3 жыл бұрын

this was supposed to be sold only in a sega show held in japan, more like a keychain with playable games other than a mini game console, for diehard sega fans in japan, but because of covid19 they had to cancel the show and thus it is now being sold online in japan

5:13 I was just thinking that, I would've bought that. I hope the dreamcast mini won't be that small. I would love a game gear mini with sega master, game gear, genesis, Saturn, dreamcast games.

Even if you understand Japanese, god reading katakana on that tiny screen.

@ergonomics_of_flatulence

3 жыл бұрын

did you mean kanji?

@homerthompson416

3 жыл бұрын

@@ergonomics_of_flatulence No way they put kanji in Game Gear games, did they?

@sweet_sukeban4022

3 жыл бұрын

Its not hard at all. The screen is the nicest part of the system actually

@homerthompson416

3 жыл бұрын

@@sweet_sukeban4022 Wow, surprising. I have an OLED Vita and it's hard to read kanji in Persona 4 Golden, so I figured even kana would be a pain on that tiny screen.

I did pick up one of these from Japanese Amazon! I love it for what it is to me, and that's a an itty bitty slice of my childhood. Rather than is being a truly portable smaller game gear, I looked at it as a commemorative novelty item that was also designed to function. The Game Gear Micro *is* absolutely micro, but it's almost all the cooler for it. The buttons and switches all work rather than being on there just for show, and it is playable for a short period time because that screen really isn't too bad. I would have absolutely loved this as a kid, even though my parents would have scolded me for playing on something so small. As an adult, it's an expensive reminder of my childhood that takes up very little space and it's more usable than a scale model would be.

This device certainly makes no sense to us, but they love these type of micro devices in Japan, that's why it was just Japan exclusive I guess. I also was thinking to get one to use as a keychain :)

I almost forgot this was even a thing coming out. The hype came in and out so fast it was like in one ear out another.

This could've been so much better. Just imagine a GG the size of a GBA, 40 games with 2 Newly translated obscure Japanese games, or 2 Beta games, support for original cartridges and TV output. Such a missed opportunity

@fattiger6957

3 жыл бұрын

Even without cart support and tv out, that would have been great. The GG has a special place in my heart cause its the only handheld I had as a kid. But, I don't think Sega wanted to put too much effort into this. It was only released in Japan, after all.

It's like those toys that m'donalds gave out in Happy meals back in the day.

How considerate of them to make consoles for newborns. It gives them something to occupy themselves with when they aren't contemplating the meaning of milk.

@xenos_n.

3 жыл бұрын

First words are "mama" and "game gear micro"

@suhtangwong

6 ай бұрын

What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?

This is a video I've been waiting for. Thank you for diving on this land mine lol

its a conversation piece. And it looks fun to play with here and there.

Awesome shirt!

As soon as I saw Jon’s tweet about this the other day I knew this thing was gonna be on a Tech Wave video this week

@WIProgress

3 жыл бұрын

Spawn Wave*

@SCJhoops

3 жыл бұрын

Lost WEENGS lol it sounds kinda weird to refer to him as Spawn Wave in this sense lol maybe I should’ve just said his tweet, or your tweet as if I was commenting and talking to him

Lol the thumbnail looks funnier than usual.

Really cool TechWave Jon(SW). Man they wasn't kidding about it being Micro lol.

It amazes me how they couldve made something to rival the potenital gameboy mini, but instead they made this.

there is also a grey version, with the aleste games that will be released in december

The small feature where you can turn the game covers sideways to show the spikes is a nice detail. Doesn’t excuse the price and I’m sure if they thought it through more (adding language settings) it would be worth getting all of them.

This is super random but what happened to the Atari VCS? Like wasn’t it supposed to launch this year?

@fattiger6957

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's supposed to still come out in December, but just like I though people forgot about it in all the next gen hype. A month after both next gen consoles is seriously the worst time to launch it.

That makes the pocket sprit look amazing.

salute to u and evan love the channel

Now wonder Sega lost the hardware war. Like what's so appealing about a small handheld like this? It'll be a pain to play on.

Where's the timestamp guy? I haven't seen him in a while. I Hope he's doing ok.

@nayyarrashid4661

3 жыл бұрын

Last time I checked he had his own youtube channel... The OG timestamp guy

@legendarymooseman

3 жыл бұрын

Spawn now puts time stamps in the description, so i guess that's why. Also what would you need a timestamp on this video? Its all 1 topic.

@nickbuis3307

3 жыл бұрын

There's time stamps in the descriptions now when applicable

@chriswiandt4907

3 жыл бұрын

Timestamp guy needs a res

@LordDragox412

3 жыл бұрын

You didn't pay him so he got a job or else he would starve. You monster >:(

Great video on this mini system! I struggled with the dpad on the Xbox 360, but only with 2D side scrolling games for some reason. Nice Neo-Geo t-shirt!

It is not even a mini, it’s a micro. Who will make the first nano?

What? When how did I miss this. cool video

Well good to know I’m not missing out on anything. If this was in the US, I might consider buying it but it’s going to sit on a bookshelf as a knick-knack more so than being played.

1:44 Baku Baku was released in the U.S. I played it in like 1997 on my North American GameGear

Baku Baku was on Saturn too. I had it and it was pretty fun.

The box looks like one of those boxes that themed candy tins came in that I used to get as a kid!

Gotta get the micro scope glass.

i'd buy a saturn if they put all of shining force 3, translated to english, on it.

Props for the MMPR: The Movie game cartridge size comparison.

At exactly 2:35 should have been the thumbnail xD Man I would not try playng through Phantasy Star in it

It seems like this is just using a phone display connector for the screen. I believe connecting an old phone's display to thus would work.

My hand is cramping just watching this.

Good information. I agree it was a strange choice to make it so small.

It's so cute though. I wonder if it looks life size when you set it next to the mini genesis.

reminds me of those tiny keychain bibles, they were an accessory not meant to be actually used.

I hope we get a limited localisation in NA I actually think it's really cool I would love to keep one in one of my cargo shorts pocket for when I am waiting through my SAT

If you ever travel in Asia there are candies that stuff inside a tiny plastic shell that look like a video game device. This packaging look exactly like one.

My hand is cramping just looking at this thing

Cool video tech talk lol

Considering that Game Boy Micro was mentioned, I would've loved a size comparison with that.

So in short: way too expensive for what it is.

@alvallac2171

3 жыл бұрын

*too

@ThisAlias

3 жыл бұрын

*too

Oh wow....i totally forgot about this

Just looked where I usually buy Japanese imports. Now the bundle is $329. Which is actually an improvement, because a couple days ago they were "sold out".

If you press start button long enough while playing, you can access the save state menu. Not that you will use it anyway.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall in the board room when this got approved. My guess is thY thr Game Gear has a higher level of significance in Japan than it did in America.

2020 couldn't get any worse Sega: Here is the Game Gear Micro

How about Master System Mini, with FM sound and all the games that only the regions where it lasted much longer got?

I have too many fond memories of the Game gear to sully it with this thing.

If and when they bring over those cereal toy prizes, I just want the yellow one.

You need the magnifier unit that comes with the package of all four game systems.

As was said, the only real bad thing about it is the dpad. The magnifier (comes in the 4 pack) helps visibility a lot. The micro USB is for running it without batteries.

Thanks for offering the comedy.

0:07 It doesn't look that small actually. 0:10 Oh, wait, that's the whole box! WTH? 😅

i’m a nintendo guy but that said this looks neat if it’s not too expensive. I really like tiny consoles for some reason.

Those things should be like sub 10$ keychain fobs.

@alvallac2171

3 жыл бұрын

Even for that, it's pointless. Get an 8BitDo Zero 2 controller for your keychain and emulate on your phone with the Genesis Plus GX core in RetroArch. There is no reason to own one of these, except as maybe a novelty decoration for collectors. They should have made it a more usable size, or just not done it at all.

If the screens weren't so small, I'd probably buy the yellow one. I'd love to play those Shining Force games.

I think a Saturn Dreamcast hybrid console could be cool, but it wouldn't probably be as nostalgic to some people compared to dedicated systems.

They sort of made 5 of these even, (one being just a shell) but unless buying all of them at once 4 is all you can get. So really going for the collector types there I supposes.

That RGT bit got me corpsing 🤣

Its beautiful

Lets do this!!

I just started laughing so hard cause I just remembered when he uploaded a video and you could see he was shirtless in the reflection of the switch lmao

@Succer

3 жыл бұрын

@referral madness yeah lol

I hope for a master system mini with all 16 of these game gear games for North America

I wonder if it would be possible to mod this thing to be bigger.

Something telling me this game gear hardware is going to be used as a vmu for the dreamcast mini

Someone just needs to make a huge magnifier/controller-expander attachment for this much like the original gameboy had

This would need one of those screen magnifiers they sold for the original Game Gear.

it seems like a free happy meal's gift

Someone actually figured how to access the microcontroller using the UART interface in the F1C200s. That means that indeed can be hacked, ill not be surprised if we see the gamegear mini running NES games or getting NTSC games running.

I want the white one with GG Aleste 3 on it.

My hands are cramping just watching this. It is a super cool thing to throw on a backpack keychain, but this thing is a novelty through and through.

8:00 Bruh that D-Pad be looking like a Lego brick

That headphone jack looks huge! Haha!

You can use google translate and your phone camera to translate the screen / booklet works really quickly for Japanese to English, and it’s free...