You do get half the battery life of the GBA, however, but I’d rather have to charge up a little more often than go through AA batteries faster than the Duracell Bunny at Burning Man Festival. Granted the GBA uses batteries and is a lot bigger, but I’d still call that a win! That’s the same as the purple GBA that we all know and love, though the Gameboy Micro still manages to come out at just over half the weight of its bigger brother.

… though I fear the change may have been too little too late to save it from dwindling into obscurity at the hands of the DS marketing team. That puts the Micro instantly ahead of the original GBA and GBA SP which both had frontlit screens… I never knew that many colours existed! That would definitely make buying paint a lot harder!