{"id":837,"date":"2025-07-31T19:21:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/thumby-color-micro-review-a-delightfully-tiny-gba-clone-that-doesnt-play-nintendo\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:21:53","slug":"thumby-color-micro-review-a-delightfully-tiny-gba-clone-that-doesnt-play-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/thumby-color-micro-review-a-delightfully-tiny-gba-clone-that-doesnt-play-nintendo\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumby Color micro-review: a delightfully tiny GBA clone that doesn\u2019t play Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tThe Thumby Color and Thumby handhelds.\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

It’s always a risk betting on new video game hardware from a little-known company: what if game developers never show up? But the $50 Thumby Color<\/a>, on sale this week, is an easier sell – the two-inch handheld is cute as a button, fits on your keychain, lets aspiring programmers build and publish games right on the web, and I’m finding it so much easier to play than the tinier $30 original<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Here’s my video comparing the two and showing off playable takes on Tetris<\/em>, Connect 4<\/em>, Minesweeper<\/em>, Doom<\/em>, Bust-a-Move<\/em>, 2048, <\/em>and more:<\/p>\n

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Tiny Game Boys you can actually play? It’s the $50 Thumby Color and $30 Thumby, from the makers of the TinyTV \u2026<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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