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What? Sega has a keychain?
No, this gadget that looks like a keychain is actually the ultra-small retro game console-Game Gear Micro launched on the 60th anniversary of Sega. Its size is only 80mm x 43mm x 20mm, the size is only 40% of Game Gear, and the display is only about 1 inch. In addition to increasing the USB charging method, Game Gear Micro has the same key distribution as Game Gear.
Different from the usual shopping products onlyThere is a variable called “color”. This time Sega compared four different games to four different color game consoles, so that you can only buy all the games you want to play.
The four games in the black version are Sonic the Hedgehog, Poo Poo, Out Run, and Royal Stone.
The blue version includes Sonic and Tars, Gun Heroes, Sylvan Tale, Baku Baku Animals.
Yellow version has four games of Bright Power Gaiden • Expedition to the Kingdom of Evil God, Bright Power Gaiden • Evil God Awakening, Bright Power Gaiden • Final War, Nazopuyo Aruru no Ru.
The red version is pre-installed with Goddess Reincarnation Last Bible, Goddess Reincarnation Last Bible II, Game Gear version Ninja, and Gems Box.
The price of one set is 4980 yen, and the purchase of the deluxe version package requires 27255 yen, which is about 1780 yuan. This price is about to buy a Switch.
A magnifying glass accessory called “Big Window” is also included in the set, which can be used to enlarge the screen of Game Gear Micro, and the visual effect of the screen will change to about 5 inches.
As a replica of the Game Gear, a game console that was thirty years ago, the person in charge of Game Gear Micro stated that its positioning is “a playable model toy”… wait, Sega You only made a toy after thirty years?
The Game Gear was probably the best handheld except Game Boy. It was equipped with a color display and could watch TV. Unfortunately, the battery collapsed after seven years. I didn’t expect that there would be little progress in the 30-year follow-up flight. The screen is still much smaller. The children playing Game Gear were now in their 30s or 40s. Is the one-inch screen afraid that their presbyopia will come too late?
This is not the first time Sega has made a re-engraving machine, it may be that it tasted the sweetness of last year’s engraved Mega Drive, which was beaten by Game Boy thirty years ago. Li’s Game Gear is coming back this year.
It is quite different that MD is a 16-bit home console launched by Sega in 1988. It has about 30 million units sold worldwide, which is also Sega’s highest-selling game console. In addition to excellent performance, classic game series such as “Sonic” were also born on Sega MD, which also trained the first generation of domestic console players.
The Game Gear used a color display, but it was gradually defeated due to problems such as reduced battery life, not easy to carry, and single content in the game library. Even if there are 10 million units sold, it is still less than one-tenth of Game Boy. This handheld, which appeared to fight Game Boy, failed to fulfill its mission in the end.
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“Cookie” get together fried rice
Compared to Sega, Nintendo is one of the masters of the remastered “Fried Rice”.
Regardless of whether “mini” or “Micro”, Sega all steal the “small tricks” of the game console from Nintendo. As early as July 2016, four years ago, Nintendo “mini” the NES game console that was released in 1985, and released the NES Classic Edition version, which was quickly sold out once it was launched.
The official price of the $60 console is the highest mentioned on the Amazon platform of nearly $300. You can almost buy a 1TB version of Play Station 4, but it still does not stop people. Shortly afterwards, the Famicom Mini mainframe engraving machine was also difficult to find after the release.
After that year, the former classic model Super Famicom was also re-enacted by Nintendo, called Super Famicom Mini, which was still reduced in size, and built 21 classic games, and also joined the flight game that was not officially released at the time. “Interstellar Firefox 2” as an egg, triggered the enthusiasm of the old players to buy. This model was originally priced at 79.99 US dollars, Amazon’s hottest stage was also fired to 192 US dollars.
In May 2018, Nintendo once again announced that it will re-launch and sell the re-enacted mini FC game console on June 28, which is still the same as 2016, but this time also launched the special 50-year anniversary of the JUMP special mini The FC host has attracted the attention of many old players.
At the same time that more and more people are pursuing more top-level gaming functions, Re-engraving game consoles look out of place, and anyone can feel a thick “antique” at the ear and eye taste.
But Nintendo’s re-enactment strategy was miraculously successful. The sales of NES Classic Edition and Famicom Mini have achieved a double harvest, and by May 2017, the total global sales of the two reached 1.5 million units. Even more than Pl in the monthconsoles such as ayStation 4 and Xbox One. In less than half a year, Nintendo’s Super Famicom Mini global sales exceeded 4 million units.
Seeing the success of Nintendo’s re-enactment of consoles, Sony also recreated the PlayStation. However, it was selected as the “most disappointing ranking in the game world in 2018”, and IGN also gave a low score of 5.5 to the PlayStation Classic replica console, calling it a “decoration”.
More than feelings
It seems to be just a “mini” reproduction of the host, but it is far from that simple. In the matter of retro game consoles, Nintendo is not only reducing the proportion of the console, but also looking hard at each item, appearance, games, and playability. In comparison, other manufacturers may not have seen this. Reengraving is their means and their purpose. It belongs to the sentimental package.
However, the meaning of each item to people is not only itself, but also the beautiful memories carried behind it. If you can find the beauty you once had on Sega’s “keychain” this time, it’s worth it.
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