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	RETRO GADGET: Game Boy Micro

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7-16-2009 5:31 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/63ce2f3f-203f-4885-a02c-74300bd307a3/7E4C6C4B-2A67-4998-9895-435EB2DC2354/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10287278-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10287278-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5" style="font-size: 11px;">news.cnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10287278-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><H1>Retro Gadget: An ode to my Game Boy Micro</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10287278-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.cnet.com/img/9F471221-0EE9-4FDD-A27A-C19EBD7614CF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10287278-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P>Oh, GBM, you've been hiding. In a plastic drawer, under some socks and a 60GB
<A section="luke_topic" href="http://www.cnet.com/ipod/">iPod</A>, you lay upside down next to your coiled-up charger. I admit I've ignored you in recent years, what with the Nintendo DS Lite and
<A section="luke_topic" href="http://www.cnet.com/apple-iphone.html">iPhone</A> (and sometimes <A href="http://reviews.cnet.com/consoles/sony-psp-3000-black/4505-10109_7-33248763.html" class="cnet-product">PSP</A>) vying for my mobile attention. Your little plastic case, and the Game Boy Advance cartridges you played, were overlooked.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10287278-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5">Recently, though, I pulled you out again. It all happened because the <A href="http://reviews.cnet.com/nintendo-dsi/" class="cnet-product">Nintendo DSi</A>, while an excellent handheld, cannot play GBA cartridges anymore. To play <A href="http://reviews.cnet.com/game-boy-advance-games/super-mario-advance-4/4505-9975_7-30971804.html" class="cnet-product">Super Mario Bros. 3</A>, I needed your services. Removing you from the gear drawer, I was impressed that you still seemed small. Smaller, in fact, than any of my other gadgets, except for the <A href="http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/apple-ipod-shuffle-second/4505-6490_7-32069562.html" class="cnet-product">iPod Shuffle</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7E4C6C4B-2A67-4998-9895-435EB2DC2354/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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