
The Gameboy Micro was first released in Japan on September 13th 2005, followed by America just 6 days later. They must have had their reasons… surely. Nintendo had always been thinking about creating an even smaller Gameboy, though quite why they decided to do it after the release of their new Nintendo Dual Screen handheld I will never know.

We’ve seen the DMG get slimmer, colour added into the equation, a camera peripheral entering the Guiness Book of Records, and the whole design being flipped 90 degrees for increased comfort. The Gameboy has had a pretty striking evolutionary process since its release back in 1990. As the name suggests, this handheld was pretty tiny, and we’ll get onto just how ‘micro’ the Gameboy Micro was in a second. It also had a brightness switch too, for anyone who’s really interested in the subtle differences.īut back to the Gameboy Micro. The AGS–100 GBA SP was an updated console released in N.America with a brighter backlit screen that went completely black when turned off.

It’s a follow up to the success of the GBA and came out around the same time as the AGS–100 GBA SP model.įor anyone who just assumed that I spat out some Alphabetti-Spaghetti, then let me explain. The Gameboy Micro is the last handheld Gameboy that Nintendo produced. Let’s start with the basics and work up from there.
