Gameboy Micro is a fantastic mobile game system

Michael Gartenberg | September 28, 2005, 05:14 PM

While there’s going to be a lot of buzz coming soon about the Xbox 360, right now I’m looking elsewhere for my gaming, especially gaming on the go. I’m especially fond of mobile gaming and I really like casual well designed games that I can play while killing time waiting at the airport or the like. I used to carry around a GameBoy SP but even that device was taking too much space in my bag. Cell phone games just don’t cut it for me in terms of quality. But now there’s a new device, that’s hardly taking up any space and it’s going to be a huge hit. It’s called GameBoy Micro. The form factor is amazing, it’s smaller than the SMT-5600 phone that I carry but it’s a full GB SP in every respect. The screen is amazing. It’s incredibly bright and the small size packs the pixels together nicely making the image look sharp and clear. While critics talk about the lack of new features, they miss the point. The RAZR was just another Moto phone and the nano just another iPod. This about form and how well it works in the mobile setting. Speaking of the nano, one of the things about the micro that’s excellent is the fact that you can change the faceplates. So if the screen scratches for example, you can just swap in a new one. This is a device that will appeal to gamers of all ages and yet doesn’t look or feel like a toy. Nintendo knows gaming, so all titles for the SP will work on this device as well and that’s a nice catalog of really good titles across all genres. This is going to be a hot seller for the holidays.