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A game that gets effected by sunlight. Quite a good idea for a mild horror game.

It's a shame the game is boring.

Going back today.

You don't see the problem... it wouldn't benefit Nintendo....

no that's right, it would benefit us!! I hadn't realised this was a site for shareholders, obviously...

I bought Link's Awakening for a tenner just the other month, about 30 mins after I decided to look for it. Really hard to get hold of? No.

They're not commonly available in the shops anymore - not the main ones.

And Nintendo don't benefit from pre-owned games.

And if you already have a Game Boy capable of playing, then it doesn't put you at a loss.

Saves you carrying around two bits of kit if it all played on the DS.

How many people carry all their games around with them all the time - let alone have time to play more than one thing on the go?

That would just be me then :P

Edgy wrote:
> And Nintendo don't benefit from pre-owned games.

There you go again - is this the highest form of slavish fanboyness or what? Should you not be more concerned with what benefits you, than what benefits Nintendo?

Even though you seem to enjoy being treated badly if it means financial gain for an unrelated company, it is actually worse for Nintendo overall. Because if Nintendo keep gamers happy, they actually make money! Crazy but it works.

Oh for christ sake, I have a GBA and I have a vast array of GB and GBC software, as this software has been improved upon in the current generation of GB hardware the older GB titles don't get played.

If you are complaining you can't buy games released 5 years ago on a machine designed to re-invent the future then I'm shocked. You can play Zelda: The Minish cap, the Mario advance series, the latest 2D Metroid games, the best of the Advance Wars series, Mario and Pokemon pinball and that's not to mention the new and improved re-makes of Green and Red.

If it was an easy 5 minute job to implement a GB and GBC backward capability then Nintendo would have done it because it means they can boast a higher capacity of games you can play on the DS. I'm presuming it isn't, and as GBA software will be freely avalible before, during and after the DS launch then it is understandable.

If you think about it Nintendo are saving you from carrying a DS and a GBA around with you if you want to continue both franchises.

The DS is an independant hardware device from the GB series, I mean at least the GBA is still good for something.

And you cannot link the DS to the Gamecube.

I'll admit - when I got a GBA< despite my numerous GB titles, I never played any of them.

Well I got my GBA and saw it as an opportunity to play all the GB games I'd missed out on over the years, which is exactly what I did and I'm still doing.

You zealots need some focus, you're always dredging up Nintendo's past history in arguments about the quality of their games.. now you're saying it's all obsolete and irrelevant!

I'm just saying that I rarely used teh GB/GBC thing to play GB/GBC games.

We're not saying it's a good thing, mon ami. We're just saying that's no catastrophe.