The Gameboy Advance

Deleted 3 years 1 month ago Posts: 54340	on june 11th 2001, the gameboy advance was released in north america. as nintendo said when it came out, the gameboy advance was like a super nintendo in the palm of your hand. it had backwards compatibility with gameboy and gameboy color games, and had 15 hours of battery life. however, what it lacked was a backlit screen, one similarity that came from the past two gameboy systems. in early year of 2003, the gameboy advance SP was released. this was a slightly smaller gameboy advance that could flip open to play, and after the complaints about the original gameboy advance model's screen, this one came with a backlit screen, and the backwards compatibility stayed. and for the first time ever for gameboy, we were given a rechargeable battery with an AC adapter in each box. in the year of 2005, one last gameboy advance system was released, called the gameboy micro. this was a much smaller system, and came with different faceplates. unfortunately, this was the only gameboy advance feature that couldn't play gameboy and gameboy color games. i wasn't a fan of the micro though, as the screen was so small that you had to squint just to read text dialogue

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guineapig64 3 years 1 month ago Posts: 640 Account Disabled	I still have my Game Boy Advance but I don't play with it as much as I used to. I do remember playing with the Game Boy Advance like crazy when it was first released. Right now, it has a broken battery cover but other than that it still works great. Good information, by the way!

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chrisno51 3 years 1 month ago Posts: 1846	It's pretty hard to find new games for them in stores now, it's all DS now, but this was a nice system. The first model I didn't care for much, hard to see, the SP was great, the micro was too small and couldn't play the original GB games. I own a red SP, and have the original box for it too.

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adventure_of_link 3 years 1 month ago Posts: 11018 Super Mod	Bought my GBA used from a friend... it hardly gets any attention anymore, since I got my DS and it still has a GBA slot, so... :\|

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badfish 3 years 1 month ago Posts: 603	no one is a fan of the micro, i cant really say i am either. i still kinda want one just cuz i never had one
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fistoflegend 3 years 1 month ago Posts: 3811	chrisno51 wrote: It's pretty hard to find new games for them in stores now, it's all DS now, but this was a nice system. The first model I didn't care for much, hard to see, the SP was great, the micro was too small and couldn't play the original GB games. I own a red SP, and have the original box for it too. You can pretty much get any gba game you want online though. I enjoyed mine times,but was never a big fan of it. I feel that once you get away from nintendo first party games the quality of software just really drops. There are a few games I plan on getting though for it. I still have mines and play it every now and then.

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chrisno51 3 years 1 month ago Posts: 1846	adventure_of_link wrote: Bought my GBA used from a friend... it hardly gets any attention anymore, since I got my DS and it still has a GBA slot, so... :\| It's still good for playing original Gameboy and Gameboy Color games, that the DS can't play, if you have any that you care to play. fistoflegend wrote: chrisno51 wrote: It's pretty hard to find new games for them in stores now, it's all DS now, but this was a nice system. The first model I didn't care for much, hard to see, the SP was great, the micro was too small and couldn't play the original GB games. I own a red SP, and have the original box for it too. You can pretty much get any gba game you want online though. I enjoyed mine times,but was never a big fan of it. I feel that once you get away from nintendo first party games the quality of software just really drops. There are a few games I plan on getting though for it. I still have mines and play it every now and then. Oh, yes I know. I love ebay and ect. Just curious, what games tare planning on getting for it?

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I bought a Japanese GameBoy Advance in May 2001. Along with a Japanese version of Chu Chu Rocket.
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MagneticDestroyerX3 2 years 4 months ago Posts: 640 Account Disabled	I used to have a Game Boy Advance, but I lost the battery cover. I still have my Cobalt-coloured Game Boy Advance SP and the Charger for it. I swear that I have 30 different GBA titles for that system so far as well as a GBA Game Link, an E-Reader, and 2 GBA Wireless Adapters as well. Yes, I also play my old Game Boy games on it as well.

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Deleted 2 years 4 months ago Posts: 54340	MagneticDestroyerX3 wrote: I used to have a Game Boy Advance, but I lost the battery cover. I still have my Cobalt-coloured Game Boy Advance SP and the Charger for it. I swear that I have 30 different GBA titles for that system so far as well as a GBA Game Link, an E-Reader, and 2 GBA Wireless Adapters as well. Yes, I also play my old Game Boy games on it as well. speaking of the e-reader, the cartridge can't fit in a regular model ds, but it fits in perfectly on the ds lite i have a few of those pok'emon e-reader cards, but they won't work because i need another card that works with the one that i have in order to play a game

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ActionBastard 2 years 4 months ago Posts: 4903	I went ape shit when these very first came out. I remember I had to get one. They were really awesome back then. It totally was like a super nintendo in your hands, I think that is one of the reasons I was so drawn to this. I miss my GBA now, don't remember what happened to that thing but At least I still got my original Game boy.
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Deleted 2 years 4 months ago Posts: 54340	i used to have the gameboy advance exclusive issue of game informer, issue 99 when they also talked about the first few titles coming out for the gamecube. they talked about the ups and down of the gameboy advance, giving me second thoughts about buying one, until interact started selling the rechargable a/c batteries. remember when the first model needed like 6 AA batteries?

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Riphard
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i had an original Gameboy and these two crap-tastic items..
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Dyzfunk7ional
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^ HA, there was also a DD watch. It was a frenzy back then around late 80's for those things.
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Riphard
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fixed the photo
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magicalgirlj 1 year 9 months ago Posts: 249	I still have my GBA SP. I wonder there was never a headphones jack
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Deleted 3 years 1 month ago Posts: 54340	I bought a Japanese GameBoy Advance in May 2001. Along with a Japanese version of Chu Chu Rocket.

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Riphard 2 years 4 months ago Posts: 2417	i had an original Gameboy and these two crap-tastic items..

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Dyzfunk7ional 2 years 4 months ago Posts: 4869	^ HA, there was also a DD watch. It was a frenzy back then around late 80's for those things.

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Riphard 2 years 4 months ago Posts: 2417	fixed the photo

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