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Post by Nester the Lark on Jun 3, 2020 8:48:26 GMT -5
Sega has announced the Game Gear Micro. There are four color variants, and each one only has four games on it (different for each color).
It doesn't seem to be going over well, but apparently, it was originally going to be even more stingy, with only one game per unit.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jun 3, 2020 10:28:30 GMT -5
They should have put all 16 games in the same unit. But I guess the model itself has more commemorative value than the games that run on it. There are better ways to play Game Gear games, so having playable games on these tiny screens is more of a novelty.
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Post by Da Robot on Jun 4, 2020 7:36:14 GMT -5
The only thing I can think of after seeing it's size in someones hands from the video.
Seriously, couldn't they have made it bigger? It's like there's a 1mm wide gap between the 1 and 2 buttons on the right side, won't it make playing any speed based game tricky to control if your thumbs are basically engulfing the d-pad and buttons?
I just can't understand outside of collectors who this could be for apart from Children and people with small hands? This entire thing seems like a late April Fools joke.
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Post by Nester the Lark on Jun 11, 2020 8:47:25 GMT -5
A remake of Alex Kidd in Miracle World has been announced.
Just recently I was thinking that with all the classic Sega franchise revivals we've gotten from indie developers, isn't it about time someone brought back Alex Kidd? And here we are!
It's interesting how open Sega has been to licensing out their old IP to be revived by small developers. Can't imagine Nintendo ever doing something like this. (Cadence of Hyrule doesn't count since it's not a revival.) Seems to be working out for them, though.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jun 13, 2020 9:16:24 GMT -5
Here's something rather amusing. In late March, 2019, SEGA Group held SEGA FES 2019, an exhibition where visiors can play their games and other large-format attractions. It just so happened that the closing day was the day before April Fool's, and they disassembled their SEGA logo display and loaded it on a truck to make it read GASE, Japanese for falsehood (in both senses of a joke and a deceptive lie).  Twitter user Shioreet came across the truck and took the photo, and SEGA's account retweeted with the comment "our April Fool's advertising truck went through Akihabara". Their Twitter account manager was later asked about it. As it turned out, this was not an intentional joke, just that the display and the truck's design means it had to be loaded this way. "You don't see the GASE logo everyday, so we jokingly retweeted this to share with our fans." Also, SEGA makes this tweet on April Fool's every year, as a literal "GASE neta" (intentional fake information as a joke): ガー＼(ﾟ∀ﾟ)／セー♫ It evokes the image of the SEGA logo sound effect, swapped around. Source (JP) |
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