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(Post a comment) » Nintendo Game Boy Player Review"Hey, you know this Game Boy Advance thing we made?"
"Yeah, brilliant idea to add that light system in afterwards!"
"Well, I've got another great idea."
"What's that?"
"Playing Game Boy games on the TV."
"We did that already. It's called the Super Game Boy."
"Oh. Well let's do it again."
"Ingenious! What shall we call it?"
"The Game Boy Player." |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Tagrineth at 07:52am 08/5/2003
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A few things:
First off, there are a few good reasons why Game Boy has
consistently beat EVERY OTHER HAND HELD EVER MADE. Atari Lynx?
Owned. Game Gear? Almost made it... but not quite. Nomad? Owned.
TurboExpress? Extremely owned. PSP is in the same boat, judging
from its specs, there is NO WAY it's going to have comparable
battery life without being as heavy as a laptop computer, if not
heavier. And by comparable, I mean REMOTELY comparable (50%).
#44, I've used a Nomad. Its size isn't anywhere NEAR GBA's. It's
like 4x bigger and 8x heavier with 1/5 the battery life from 2x the
batteries.
I have a Game Boy Player and it rocks, but I do agree that it does
oversaturate the picture a little too much for some games to look
right.
All the people saying 'oh its just a way to ca$h in', get a life.
To the people who said things like why play Metroid Fusion when you
can play Metroid Prime - uh, they are two entirely different games.
They're similar, sure, but Fusion is a completely different
experience from Prime. They're both brilliant. And besides that,
GameCube is pretty famous right now for its RPG shortage - they're
there now, but still very few - and it has almost no strategy games
at all. GBP allows me to play games like Tactics Ogre: The Knight
of Lodis, Advance Wars, and Mega Man: Battle Network on my TV.
That's a $@%& fine proposition if you ask me.
#27, the Graphics Whore: You call yourself a gfx whore, and that's
'why you play PS2'. Uh, right. OK. Sure. Whatever. The
PS2-games-with-good-graphics-from-a-gfx-whore's-point-of-view...
there are less of those than there are GameCube RPG/Strategy games.
wrt
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Anonymous at 10:42pm 07/8/2003
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Actually that was the system I was talking about. I mistyped when I
put in the GG. The Nomad is the system that is about the size and
power of the GBA and it was made about 7 or 8 years ago. I have a
friend who still has one.
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Anonymous at 09:34am 07/8/2003
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The best handheld was and still is The Sega Nomad.
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joe mamma at 09:23pm 07/7/2003
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I wouldn't go so far as to say Game Gear had the same technology as
the GBA SP. It was about 5 times larger, got 25% of the battery
life, and the screen was only properly visible at just the right
angle. Granted for some people these things mattered less than for
others, but I can tell you that in my mind anyway, I felt it was too
large and sucked batteries too quickly to be worth the money as
opposed to the original Game Boy. I admit that the pea-green screen
did suck donkey balls, but it also had a lot more games that I was
interested in.
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Anonymous at 02:03pm 07/7/2003
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I still don't understand that. The GG could play full Genesis games
and in color.
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Xen0n at 01:16pm 07/7/2003
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GBA SP is a very good handheld, the only thing close to being any
good at the moment is the GP32 which is great for emulators and divx
but there are hardly any commercial games for it, and you have to
import them from hong kong.
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Anonymous at 08:24am 07/7/2003
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if i remember right.. the game gears batteries lasted like 4 hrs at
most, and it took FOUR of either AA or AAA ( can't remember the
size)
and wasn't the orignal gamboy out when the gamegear was out ????
look what is stil going and look what is DEAD, so which is better
now ??????????????
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Caballero at 08:03am 07/7/2003
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Still waiting for the PSP. As a 20-something Sony makes things more
my style. Besides, how many Mario games can one man take?
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Anonymous at 07:19am 07/7/2003
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" GBA is an outdated, slow, ugly platform. Everyone
loves it only because there is no real
competition. That will soon change though. Thank
GOD! "
That made no sense. Why would I like something just because it has
no competition? I like the GBA because it has the best &$&!#@#
games! These are the types of games I grew up with on the Nintendo.
Just because a game has 3D graphics doesn't make it fun to play.
Thats why people buy the GBA because it has FUN games, even tough
its usability sucks (SP GBA backlight still sucks). What Nintendo
needs to do is get out of the hardware scene, and just make great
freaking games. Port all their famous titles to PS1, PS2, Xbox, PSP
, etc...
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Anonymous at 08:26pm 07/6/2003
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Well said. The Sega Game Gear had the same technology as the GBA and
it was made 8 or 9 years ago. Nintendo is pathetic. Wait until the
Sony device comes out. Basically a PS 1.5 in the palm of your hand.
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