Playing A Tiny Video Game With My Thumbnails Because I Hate Myself: A Review

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Let me introduce you to Thumby, a tiny video game system that I Kickstarted a while ago and was surprised to find in my apartment mailbox this week. I should’ve known it was coming because Kickstarter sent me multiple messages about it, but I only read Kickstarter messages when I want to find out why I didn’t get a Steam code for a video game that was clearly distributed in a previous Kickstarter message.

Thumby, as the name might imply, as probably does the title of this article - who’s to say - is an extremely small video game system. Like real fucking small. And that 'fucking' for emphasis is definitely needed here. According to the Kickstarter page, its dimensions are 1.2" X 0.7" X 0.3" (29.5mm x 18mm x 8.5mm). When you’re getting into the millimeter range, shit is getting weird.

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Seriously. I tried to take photos to give a sense of scale but it doesn’t quite match the feeling of it in your hands. And by hands I mean your by-comparison immensely large sausage fingers. I dropped it once on my carpet and had to get down on my hands and knees to find it. You won’t get that with a Switch. Is it a bug? Is it a feature? No, it’s me accidentally vacuuming up a entire video game system one day.

Speaking of, like the newest version of the Nintendo Switch, the Thumby has an OLED screen! Wow! Unlike the Nintendo switch, the resolution is a whopping 72 x 40. Probably because you couldn’t get it much smaller without throwing goddamn Pym particles at.

Rather than a ROM of your favorite game that you play for five minutes, the Thumby includes five games that you play for one minute. That group consists of TinyBlocks (a Tetris clone), Space Debris (an Asteroids clone), Thumgeon (an actual