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"Why the Game Boy Advance is the coolest thing since frozen bread"

Is anyone more excited about the GBA now, then they were @ the PS2 launch? I am...for some reason. Maybe its the temptation of Mario Kart - just like in my trusty SNES' hey day. If you have read this message and are thinking what a fool I am, you thunk wrong! The GBA will be Nintendo's route to the top of the gaming hierarchy. With the obvious financial success of the inpending GBA (most stores have 200+ reservations for the diddy console already), Nintendo will not have the pitfall of bancruptcy looming over their head,like poor Sega did (RIP, Dreamcast) and will hopefully go on to manufacture more games than the N64 (which was the N64's main draw back - lack of games)for the eagerly awaited Game Cube.
I personnally cant wait for the next Zelda Advance title (Ahh, those beautiful 'Zelda: A link to the past days' on the Snes....)and I even think that the inevitable Pokémon release will be good. I think that the milestone for GBA developers to aim for should be to produce a handheld 3-D shoot 'em up. I'm not talking GoldenEye, more around the Duke Nukem' sprite based shooters of old. Then add the fantantastic link up ability of the GBA into the equation, and you have the formula for unlimited success. But until then, we'll have to settle for Mario Kart Advance and F-Zero X as the multiplaying titles....unless Bomberman Advance can reproduce the magic it did on the Snes as a multiplayer.
You may be thinking that I'm looking through rose tinted glasses at the 16-bit era, but believe me i'm not, I still settle down for a good game of Super Mario Kart on my Snes from time to time (In favour of my N64 and Dreamcast!).
All I can say is that I can't wait for it to be released, and that my holiday is going to be a tad more interesting this year!
PS - By the way, the 'Glacier' GBA cover is the best :)

cookie monster wrote:
> I dont think that the white machine will be that popular, it will
> show up all the dirt and sweat from your hands.

You mean you would play a GBA with dirty hands?

Burn him! Burn him, I say!

I dont think that the white machine will be that popular, it will show up all the dirt and sweat from your hands.

Pah, stupid White GBA's they'd look okay if the buttons were light blue but NO! Trust Nintendo's designers and colour co-ords to mess everything up!

The Purple is the best followed by the blue, pink and white respectively! "Nuff Said"

I'm getting a Purple one, simply because it Rocks!....

Pepetuallly Motioned GBA, how cool! Leave it on the table and watch it wobble!

lol, Yeah!

Still need to see them and compare mind!

White import GBA = Very happy now, very happy later.
coloured UK GBA = not happy now, happy later.

It's all a case of mathematics.

Hmm you are not being sarcastic are you Grix. LOL. He is right who cares about cacky games like TH2 when you can have a different color case.

Grix Thraves wrote:
> Yeah, who cares about the game... as long as you've got the same
> colour GBA as everyone else, you'll do fine with it...

Lol

Personally I prefered the original colors. The best was the grey one with orange buttons. Dat was Phat Jack. Off the Hook so to speak.

Yeah, who cares about the game... as long as you've got the same colour GBA as everyone else, you'll do fine with it...

I've heard people say that the GBA is just a portable SNES. That aint right, I said that like its a bad thing. The SNES' ruled, I've still got mine. :-D

Funky_Puppy wrote:
> Being 32 bit makes it the same as the playstation except it's
> portable. Nuff said

No. It's too small. Look at the screen shots. It barely equals snes graphics.