How small can you shrink the Nintendo Game Boy Advance? That’s a question TinyCircuits is answering with the Thumby Color, a GBA clone measuring just two inches in size that still manages to fit a directional pad, shoulder buttons, a rumble motor, a 16-bit color screen, and the ability to link two of them together with a USB-C cable for multiplayer gaming.
Unlike the myriad Game Boy and GBA clones released by companies like Anbernic, the Thumby Color is not an emulator. It doesn’t have enough processing power to play retro games nor enough storage to hold hundreds of ROM files.
It’s powered by a 150MHz Raspberry Pi RP2350 processor that’s paired with just 16MB of storage — yes, that’s megabytes, not gigabytes. Not being able to play...
