Mr_Reece

It's my first review for NLife and I wanted to start with what was a personal favourite of mine during the N64 days

@JimLad Yeah, while the controls feel tight and responsive and Rage Wars is still very much worth playing, the N64 pad does present a little bit of a hurdle nowadays. If you can get past that though, it really is a cracking multiplayer game

@TrueWiiMaster all good points mate, but the fact remains that the Micro - regardless of how strongly you or I might feel about it - was something of a misfire. People have spoken out in its defence on here, and that's fine, we all have our own opinion. But there's no denying that its lack of commercial success - which I openly admit was in part down to the DS; I did in fact state the the GB brand succumbed to the DS brand in the article - was in no small way down to the fact that many gamers saw little point in it. Nintendo is a company that is well known for releasing re-jigged versions of hardware, and the Micro represents one instance where they went one step too far and dropped the ball somewhat.

So a PSP is a Game Boy as well, going by your logic.

@TrueWiiMaster yea but GBA accessories not being compatible with the DS is something different entirely. The DS may have had the ability to play GBA games originally, but it was a brand new line of handheld; originally intended to be a third pillar beside Nintendo's GB brand and home consoles. Had it been named the GBA DS then its incompatibility with GBA accessories would actually be something to take issue with.

The Micro screen did indeed have a sharper image in terms of visual quality, but that means naff all if it's so small you need an electron microscope to make it out

Besides, I didn't actually insult the Micro in the article as such. I merely pointed out that it wasn't the massive success that the GBA and SP were, partly down to its shortcomings. Just look at its sales figures.

GB Game Paks
GBC Game Paks
GB or GBA link cables
GBA wireless adapter
GBA e-Card Reader
GCN/GBA link cable
GB Printer
GB Camera

None of these are compatible with GBA Micro, according to its instruction booklet, although Nintendo did release GBA Micro-specific "adapters", which isn't the point really. It's never good when a company redesigns a console and renders consumers' accessory purchases of the last few years utterly useless unless they purchase something else

@tealovertoma With the Micro, Nintendo exceeded itself in making the thing very portable, but scarified any practicality in the process. The screen is ridiculously small and my big man hands cramped up after a short while because of the inhuman position I had to twist them into. Plus the face buttons were so small they were both covered by one of my thumbs.

The GBA SP was easily the pinnacle of handheld console design until the DS came along.

@StephenYap3 totally agree about Superstar Saga. One of the best games ever, on any platform

Tetris has to be the most timeless game in existence. Few games still hold their appeal this much after so many years

@Knux Stay tuned, mate. Shouldn't be long now.

But the fact remains that the people who'd rather see a new Pokémon RPG must outnumber the people who'd rather see a new Rumble game by a thousand to one.

Besides, we all know that THE best Pokémon spin-off game was and will always be Pokémon Trading Card Game on the GBC. That was epically epic.

It's hard to get excited about this. It's like Pokemon Dash all over again: Nintendo rushing a spin-off while they make people wait for the next generation of Pokemon RPG's.

A second circle pad from the outset would have been preferable, and yes it does look monumentally stupid, but as an extra control option it can only be a good thing even if its existence makes a future 3DS redesign even more inevitable.

On the plus side, now I won't have to buy a PSVita should I ever have the desire to play FPS's on the toilet.

@7 same here. Give me The Minish Cap and I'll be happy