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The Game Gear Micro is STUNNINGLY ill-conceived.

• 0:10 – Why has Sega has designed the Game Gear Micro to be as unappealing as possible?
• 40:55 – I’ve been playing Baten Kaitos for 15 years. Maybe I’ll finally finish it!
• 49:48 – I finally finished Dragon Quest XI. It was good.

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Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen.  Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:57 PMScrungle Humingsworth​hello andrew

6:57 PMla noir master that’s right​hi

6:57 PMScrungle Humingsworth​hope you’re strapped and staying safe

6:58 PMla noir master that’s right​it is a good game

6:59 PMla noir master that’s right​have you played la noir

6:59 PMla noir master that’s right​yep

6:59 PMla noir master that’s right​I beat the game

7:00 PMla noir master that’s right​did you play it on your channel

7:01 PMjordan thompson​ive been buying up a lot of junk to feed my new ps2 addiction, I spent some rewards points in final fantasy 12 its my first final fantasy game hopfully its worth a damn

7:01 PMla noir master that’s right​cool

7:03 PMjordan thompson​I had the game genie attachment making the behemoth even bigger

7:03 PMjordan thompson​jaguar was Atari

7:05 PMScrungle Humingsworth​what the fuck? that looks like a keyring add-on that I buy at a gamestop

7:06 PMScrungle Humingsworth​sega – if your eyesight sucks, you can’t play our gamegear

7:07 PMjordan thompson​a dreamcast mini would sell better

7:07 PMScrungle Humingsworth​just make a better dreamcast and release it

7:08 PMScrungle Humingsworth​watch as people scramble to buy it

7:09 PMjordan thompson​well andrew my 5 week old infant wants to play game gear

7:09 PMScrungle Humingsworth​Jordan have your infant play quake

7:11 PMjordan thompson​ive seen shrek 2 on gameboy video on the micro, im a masochist

7:12 PMaddictedtochaos​The Sega Game Gear micro/mini is a hard pass for me.

7:13 PMaddictedtochaos​Would have been a better idea to just announce a Game Gear Collection for current systems.

7:13 PMjordan thompson​if I was a sega ambassador and the media ask me why the game gear was made id say we did it for the lolz

7:15 PMjordan thompson​do it andrew the monitzation you get is pennies anyway ….. just being honest

7:15 PMScrungle Humingsworth​AYO PUYO PUYO?

7:17 PMjordan thompson​I cant wait to lose it in my couch

7:17 PMScrungle Humingsworth​rioters in NYC broke into the Nintendo store and stole the donkey kong statue

7:18 PMScrungle Humingsworth​who steals a statue

7:21 PMjordan thompson​imagnine if they stole his bananas

7:21 PMScrungle Humingsworth​yeah I saw it on twitter lmao

7:23 PMScrungle Humingsworth​most of the brand statements feel like a copy and paste

7:23 PMScrungle Humingsworth​but they get praised for doing Jack shit

7:23 PMScrungle Humingsworth​*cough* blizzard *cough*

7:24 PMjordan thompson​how about “we’re a video game company and have nothing to do with social politics, but as humans we feel bad for the current ongoings in the world.”

7:25 PMScrungle Humingsworth​i think of you as an EPIC GAMUR, but a good friend. we may not agree on everything 100% but that doesn’t mean we cant still be friends

7:27 PMjordan thompson​J.K. Rowling is a crackpot who cant shut her mouth on social politics but I still love harry potter, people need to find a way to disassociate the art from the artist

7:29 PMScrungle Humingsworth​Oh I’m talking about how they banned the free hong Kong players for saying free hong kong

7:29 PMScrungle Humingsworth​but this happens and they go out of their way to show support

7:30 PMjordan thompson​just imagine if Diablo 4 was a stadia exclusive AHAHAHAH

7:30 PMScrungle Humingsworth​Oh dude blizzard only cares about the money

7:31 PMScrungle Humingsworth​>brands and companies friends

7:31 PMScrungle Humingsworth​thats a reddit moment

7:33 PMjordan thompson​hitlers paintings for millions so there is a market for the taboo

7:35 PMjordan thompson​“youre not someone I wanna have lunch with” damn why so harsh Andrew

7:36 PMjordan thompson​the guy who directed the jeppers creepers movies was a formerly convited pedophile and did his time and has been living free for decades. dispite his past the jeppers creepers movies a cult classics

7:37 PMaddictedtochaos​All things Activision Blizzard are financially motivated

7:37 PMScrungle Humingsworth​blizzard gets ALOT of funding from tencent, which is why they are usually pro China and quell alot of pro democracy stuff for chinese players

7:44 PMSusanne Christ​hey guys ^-^ its saturday! lol

7:44 PMLyricallyC​which game and hello all

7:45 PMLyricallyC​Ah Baiten Katos

7:45 PMLyricallyC​Such a hard game to find

7:45 PMjordan thompson​grandpa Andrew its 2050 why are you still playing this gamecube game

7:45 PMLyricallyC​You actually have a collectors item with that andrew

7:46 PMLyricallyC​I couldn’t find it nowhere in my state

7:46 PMaddictedtochaos​At least you’ve played it. I’ve owned it for years and haven’t touched it yet.

7:46 PMLyricallyC​YES

7:46 PMaddictedtochaos​It is fairly rare.

7:47 PMLyricallyC​It was very limited when it came out I think

7:47 PMjordan thompson​so how old do you think you’ll be when you get nostalgic and want to playthough it again

7:48 PMSusanne Christ​unemployment ammirght?!

7:48 PMaddictedtochaos​Been wanting to buy a second Switch but they are impossible to find at retail prices. Only available through scalpers.

7:49 PMLyricallyC​I just want a Treasure collection to come

7:49 PMLyricallyC​NICE

7:49 PMLyricallyC​LOL

7:49 PMaddictedtochaos​That is probably worth a pretty penny.

7:50 PMaddictedtochaos​Monolith Soft was the dev

7:50 PMSusanne Christ​is the other guy ever coming back? lol

7:50 PMLyricallyC​Namco I believe

7:50 PMjordan thompson​money/andrews quilty of life > sisters happiness

7:50 PMSusanne Christ​dawww

7:51 PMSusanne Christ​good to hear ^-^

7:51 PMLyricallyC​Was MonolithSoft indie when Baiten Katos came out?

7:52 PMaddictedtochaos​They were owned by Namco at the time. Nintendo bought them years later.

7:52 PMjordan thompson​its now we all slowly realize the reason andrew doesnt have any other co host is cause were his only other friends

7:52 PMScrungle Humingsworth​nioh did a good job with history

7:52 PMScrungle Humingsworth​Andrew eisen discord server when?

7:53 PMLyricallyC​Ah thank you

7:53 PMSusanne Christ​nu huh he has dave!

7:54 PMLyricallyC​I wonder if you played Tales Of Symphonia?

7:54 PMaddictedtochaos​Grandia 2 did the same thing with a character

7:58 PMjordan thompson​sorry to backtrack but with all the gaming companies getting wrapped up in selling nostlgia imagine a gameboy micro mini OMG

8:00 PMjordan thompson​ask the magic conch

8:00 PMLyricallyC​I plan to get back to it on PS4 and still want it on Switch

8:01 PMLyricallyC​amen

8:03 PMjordan thompson​I dont know why ive never thought to ask this but have you played the 2016 ghostbusters dungeon crawler game

8:03 PMSusanne Christ​i love tales. tales of bersira is my fav ^-^

8:03 PMLyricallyC​That was my first Tales game and that’s how I got into the series. I love the tradition but something about Action JRPG’s I love

8:04 PMLyricallyC​yes

8:04 PMLyricallyC​Skies need to comeback

8:04 PMaddictedtochaos​Skies of Arcadia needs a remake and sequel so bad

8:04 PMScrungle Humingsworth​im surprised you haven’t talked about de blob andrew

8:05 PMaddictedtochaos​I mean a from the ground up remake. Made for newer systems.

8:05 PMjordan thompson​remakes are getting overdone. what game would you demake

8:06 PMLyricallyC​NOOOO

8:06 PMLyricallyC​EXACTLY

8:07 PMaddictedtochaos​I miss my GBA micro. Vanished when I moved. Would cost a lot to replace.

8:07 PMLyricallyC​How would a Jem and the hologram RPG go

8:07 PMjordan thompson​why are my handhelds looking like I could eat them in a bowl of milk

8:08 PMaddictedtochaos​Tales of the Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. It is a sequel to Symphonia. It isn’t bad but the first game is better.

8:10 PMLyricallyC​Both games have amazing soundtracks

8:10 PMjordan thompson​if the kids from honey I shrunk the kids found the game gear mini it would just be a game gear to them

8:11 PMLyricallyC​Oh good lawd

8:12 PMLyricallyC​Monster Hunter=Kid Nikki

8:14 PMLyricallyC​Jem=Elite Beat Agents?

8:14 PMScrungle Humingsworth​OSU?

8:15 PMjordan thompson​after a hand full of episodes andrew is now the jem historian

8:17 PMjordan thompson​Andrew youre thinking to much, the 10 year old girls now 30+ these days would have been okay with a simple rhyme game

8:18 PMLyricallyC​No I love what you just did for it

8:18 PMLyricallyC​Nope no Jem gam

8:19 PMjordan thompson​so are you the bronie equivalent of a jem fan

8:21 PMScrungle Humingsworth​dude I remember some CURSED stuff coming out of /mlp/ on 4chan

8:22 PMjordan thompson​I totally want to send you a jem Barbie now

8:22 PMScrungle Humingsworth​I still remember that MLP jar project….

8:22 PMLyricallyC​Pizazz

8:22 PMLyricallyC​with her vocal scream

8:24 PMScrungle Humingsworth​burglar breaks into home, burglar proceeds to hear a banshee like scream

8:24 PMScrungle Humingsworth​there Andrew stands, large VCR in hand, as he screams a primal roar, bringing down the VCR on top of the burglar

8:24 PMjordan thompson​I have a VCR built into my CRT

8:24 PMLyricallyC​lololol

8:26 PMScrungle Humingsworth​Oh god I gotta see this

8:27 PMjordan thompson​theres doesnt seem to be any jem video games but would you be willing to stream the board game

8:27 PMAndrew Eisen​There’s a board game?

8:28 PMAndrew Eisen​Don’t know if I could stream it but I could probably review it or something. I’ll look into it.

8:28 PMjordan thompson​I Google searched for video games but a board game came uo