Flashback: When Nintendo Made A Pocket-Sized Console Just For Pokémon

While it looks like a Tamagotchi virtual pet with ideas above its station, the Pokémon Mini – released first in North America in November 2001 before arriving in Europe in March 2002 – is a Game Boy-like system that uses interchangeable cartridges, just like its bigger brothers and sisters in Nintendo’s handheld range. And what’s more, it included some connectivity features that not even the Game Boy Advance, released the same year, could boast of.

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