I finally got to play one. Its so sleek. The box is sleek looking too. Like an expensive watch or something. When its on, the Start and Select buttons light up. There is a red light behind them. Another thing I can add to my "If I had money to burn..." list.
Game Boy Micro (It's Out!)
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't the game boy micro just a remake of the game boy advance? What could it do that the original cannot?
It can only play Gameboy Advance games. So its not backward compatible with previous Gameboy games.
I'll quote what I said in another forum:
If I didn't already have the Gameboy Advance, GBA SP AND the Nintendo DS that can PLAY GBA games I might be interested in this. As it stands right now, I own enough damn Gameboy Advances already.
I'm not interested in the GBA Micro, but the new GBA SP with the backlit (as opposed to side-lit) screen is very tempting. I realize that once I get a DS I will have a backlit screen to play GBA games on, but the DS does not play GB and GBC games 😞
A guy I work with has the graphite one. Its so nice to be able to see it better.
Anyone notice that the Graphite GPA SP is just a casing/button color flip of the Onyx GBA? Te graphite has black buttons while the onyx has grey buttons.
That's kind of neat, and sorta makes me want to buy both so I can take them apart and assemble an all Onyx GBA and an all Graphite GBA. Assuming the backlit display doesn't interfere with swapping these pieces around, I'd probably keep the GBA that got the backlit display and throw out the one with the old frontlit display. Like what happened with those ET cartridges, I'd probably mix the frontlit GBA into a batch of cement, then bury it in a desert. So nobody can get ahold of it.
I'll get a job in a little over 1 year, so the prices will be down on the micro. This is going my way because my GBA is wearing out.