2005 – 2008retired
Game Boy Micro
“Small screen, big legacy: the last Game Boy went out tiny, tidy, and dignified.”
“Small, purple, and only interested in games — and all the better for it.”
The GameCube was Nintendo's fourth home console, launched in Japan in September 2001 and competing with Sony's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox in the sixth generation. It was Nintendo's first console on optical discs, quirky little MiniDVD-based ones at that, and unlike its rivals it played games and nothing else. People loved it for that focus, along with the handlebar controller, the wireless WaveBird, and the G
By February 2007, Nintendo had quietly discontinued the cube after a run that included GBA link cables, e-Reader connectivity, and even online play via a broadband or modem adapter. It left behind a legacy of doing one thing well in an era when everyone else was chasing the living-room-everything box. The little handlebar machine earned its spot in memory the honest way — by being, above all else, a games console.
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“Small screen, big legacy: the last Game Boy went out tiny, tidy, and dignified.”
“It scanned the cards, saved the data, and left us wanting a sixth game.”
“It had no main model to build — so you built everything.”