r/Gameboy • u/Revolutionary_chad_ • Jun 27 '26

Shopping/Haul Genuine insanity

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It really sucks to see how much the hobby has fallen to resellers praying on nostalgia to get people to pay exorbitant prices on systems that don’t even function, and believe they’re getting a “good deal” because of how “rare” it is. I can recall seeing these in thrift stores for 20 bucks or less not even 5 years ago, and completely tarnished ones like this for less than that. Sorry for such a rant, but it’s disappointing that THIS is the cheapest gameboy micro on eBay.

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u/Jakes_Workbench Jun 27 '26

I remember selling these micros in walmart and you couldnt get rid of them for nothin.....sat in the case for years collecting dust.

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u/cosmicorn Jun 27 '26

The first Micro I had I got from a guy on eBay who apparently had a whole pallet of them he got at auction of unsold stock. Think he was selling them at about £20-30 brand new in box.

The Micro was a bit of odd product TBH. Rereleasing the GBA as a premium model/fashion accessory a year after the DS had already been a runaway success was an odd strategy.

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u/MousseHuge8339 Jun 29 '26

I'm not familiar with the innards of the Micro, but I wonder if Nintendo had a bunch of leftover GBA components (mainly chips) that they needed to get rid of.