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Long before anyone had ever heard of the PlayStation - when everybody thought of Sony as a manufacturer of hi-fi, TVs and VCRs - the UK completely lost its marbles over a new console. It took the form of an ugly, brick-like plastic handheld object sporting a near-illegible mono screen and was, of course, Nintendo's Game Boy. Briefly, even the rush-hour commute to the City of London became a fascinating anthropological exercise, as hordes of chalk-striped yuppies (it was the height of the 80s) lined Tube carriages, grappling with the intricacies of Donkey Kong and Super Mario. Questions were asked in Parliament as schools banned the infernal brain-rotting machines.
As anyone who has had a keen interest in videogames over the years knows, the games industry moves in peculiar waves. And now might just be the time to brace yourself for another outburst of games-related hysteria, as, on 22 June, Nintendo unleashed it's Game Boy Advance on an unsuspecting British populace.
Don't be tempted to dismiss Game Boy Advance as a mere toy: it is, by some chalk, the most powerful handheld console ever, with a touch more power under the bonnet than Nintendo's old Super NES console. Marry that with decent ergonomics, an excellent colour screen (which, alas, isn't backlit, so you can't play the machine in the dark), two shoulder buttons that make surprisingly sophisticated gaming at least theoretically possible, and the chance to chain four machines together for multiplayer action and you have a serious piece of kit. But it's the games being readied for the Game Boy Advance that, more than anything, will beguile a gaming public hungry to find something new.
The GBA version of Tony Hawk's 2, for example, is mind-blowing. Just think of the PlayStation version, albeit with a fixed-camera view, and you'll get an idea of what it looks like. I personally can't wait to step on a Tube and find four City boys in a huddle, racing each other around the surreal tracks of Mario Kart Advance. And even Sega has committed itself to bringing Sonic The Hedgehog to the GBA.
Games developers love preparing games for handheld consoles, as even GBA games can be produced by small teams and over much shorter periods than are required for full-blown console games. So they're all getting in on the act. Of course, Nintendo could have somehow mishandled the Game Boy Advance's launch. Although that was very doubtful, it has happened in the past. Think back, for example, to the farcical launch of Sony's PlayStation 2. If you went through the whole PS2 pre-registration rigmarole and lashed out an exorbitant £300, you must be feeling somewhat cheated, considering the lacklustre nature of the PS2 games which have so far appeared.
But have patience: the PlayStation 2 is a gaming craze waiting to happen - although the wait has been uncomfortably protracted. At last, though, some joy for PS2 owners does lie on the horizon. July saw the launch of the mighty Gran Turismo 3. If, as a PlayStation 2 owner, you've been subjected to taunting by your mates about having more money than sense, get a copy of GT3 and they will eat their words. Metal Gear Solid 2 should appear in time for Christmas, too, although there won't be a PS2 version of Tomb Raider this year.
But by the time the PlayStation 2 acquires a portfolio of games that goes some way towards doing it justice, we'll be preparing for the launch of Microsoft's Xbox. Xbox may be ugly, but it's a mighty impressive machine and, unlike the PlayStation 2, will be launched with a selection of blinding games - notably the sumptuous, high-octane shoot-em-up Halo, the stupendous-looking Malice (developed by Brit outfit Argonaut) and the hilarious Munch's Oddysee. From the beginning of next year, the papers will be full of the Godzilla versus King Kong battle between Sony and Microsoft and videogame fever will once again grip the nation. As long as the nation can wrest its attention away from its Game Boy Advance for a moment.
As anyone who has had a keen interest in videogames over the years knows, the games industry moves in peculiar waves. And now might just be the time to brace yourself for another outburst of games-related hysteria, as, on 22 June, Nintendo unleashed it's Game Boy Advance on an unsuspecting British populace.
Don't be tempted to dismiss Game Boy Advance as a mere toy: it is, by some chalk, the most powerful handheld console ever, with a touch more power under the bonnet than Nintendo's old Super NES console. Marry that with decent ergonomics, an excellent colour screen (which, alas, isn't backlit, so you can't play the machine in the dark), two shoulder buttons that make surprisingly sophisticated gaming at least theoretically possible, and the chance to chain four machines together for multiplayer action and you have a serious piece of kit. But it's the games being readied for the Game Boy Advance that, more than anything, will beguile a gaming public hungry to find something new.
The GBA version of Tony Hawk's 2, for example, is mind-blowing. Just think of the PlayStation version, albeit with a fixed-camera view, and you'll get an idea of what it looks like. I personally can't wait to step on a Tube and find four City boys in a huddle, racing each other around the surreal tracks of Mario Kart Advance. And even Sega has committed itself to bringing Sonic The Hedgehog to the GBA.
Games developers love preparing games for handheld consoles, as even GBA games can be produced by small teams and over much shorter periods than are required for full-blown console games. So they're all getting in on the act. Of course, Nintendo could have somehow mishandled the Game Boy Advance's launch. Although that was very doubtful, it has happened in the past. Think back, for example, to the farcical launch of Sony's PlayStation 2. If you went through the whole PS2 pre-registration rigmarole and lashed out an exorbitant £300, you must be feeling somewhat cheated, considering the lacklustre nature of the PS2 games which have so far appeared.
But have patience: the PlayStation 2 is a gaming craze waiting to happen - although the wait has been uncomfortably protracted. At last, though, some joy for PS2 owners does lie on the horizon. July saw the launch of the mighty Gran Turismo 3. If, as a PlayStation 2 owner, you've been subjected to taunting by your mates about having more money than sense, get a copy of GT3 and they will eat their words. Metal Gear Solid 2 should appear in time for Christmas, too, although there won't be a PS2 version of Tomb Raider this year.
But by the time the PlayStation 2 acquires a portfolio of games that goes some way towards doing it justice, we'll be preparing for the launch of Microsoft's Xbox. Xbox may be ugly, but it's a mighty impressive machine and, unlike the PlayStation 2, will be launched with a selection of blinding games - notably the sumptuous, high-octane shoot-em-up Halo, the stupendous-looking Malice (developed by Brit outfit Argonaut) and the hilarious Munch's Oddysee. From the beginning of next year, the papers will be full of the Godzilla versus King Kong battle between Sony and Microsoft and videogame fever will once again grip the nation. As long as the nation can wrest its attention away from its Game Boy Advance for a moment.
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Hmm, maybe Shaneo will be our first Pinky!
Shaneo, if you were just quoting that, and not trying to pass it off as your own work, all you have to do is just put something like:
Quote from www.where-ever.com
At the top and then put the article in. If you don't, and it is blatantly copied from somewhere else, some people may think you were cheating, and passing off some one elses work as your own.
Quote from www.where-ever.com
At the top and then put the article in. If you don't, and it is blatantly copied from somewhere else, some people may think you were cheating, and passing off some one elses work as your own.
Shaneo, everyone knows you've been trying to win GAD for ages.
FantasyMeister wrote:
Check it here if you
> like:
http://www.tvchannel.co.uk/games/features/content
> /next_gaming_craze.htm
(remove space)
Busted!
Shaneo, I'm still waiting for you to explain Lamarckian Evolutionary Theories in relation to your Planet of The Apes post.
Check it here if you
> like:
http://www.tvchannel.co.uk/games/features/content
> /next_gaming_craze.htm
(remove space)
Busted!
Shaneo, I'm still waiting for you to explain Lamarckian Evolutionary Theories in relation to your Planet of The Apes post.
What the hell are you on about, I very much doubt PS2 owners feel cheated (inc me) as you so strongly put but more on the lines of where are the games you promised us and fix this damn anti analysing. The games are slowly making their way here but the PS2 hasn't been around for a year yet,some people will say yeah it's been out since march in Japan but our releases are way behing theirs and i don't see no final fantasy X or hard drive here if you know whatta mean.
When the Gamecube and Xbox are released they have minimal games to offer and I think people will look closer to the PS2.
The only Thing I feel cheated about is Capcom putting Resident Evil zero on the gamecube first which means another heap of cash which i just can't afford!!
If i went out and bought a GBA and had to dish out £34.99 for the snes mario kart then I'd feel cheated :)
When the Gamecube and Xbox are released they have minimal games to offer and I think people will look closer to the PS2.
The only Thing I feel cheated about is Capcom putting Resident Evil zero on the gamecube first which means another heap of cash which i just can't afford!!
If i went out and bought a GBA and had to dish out £34.99 for the snes mario kart then I'd feel cheated :)
Yes indeed FM. This was not a blatant GAD win, but I was trying to bring an interesting topic to the forums in no hope of winning GAD and incase any of you are curious, credit goes to Steve Writer from www.tvchannel.co.uk.
You missed off the end bit Shaneo:
"Steve Boxer is a freelance games writer. He writes a games column for the Daily Telegraph and also contributes to the industry games magazine CTW. He also contributes to magazines like Ministry, Arena, Ammo City, Muzik and The Evening Standard. He has also appeared on Newsbytes and Game Over."
Check it here if you like:
http://www.tvchannel.co.uk/games/features/content /next_gaming_craze.htm
(remove space)
"Steve Boxer is a freelance games writer. He writes a games column for the Daily Telegraph and also contributes to the industry games magazine CTW. He also contributes to magazines like Ministry, Arena, Ammo City, Muzik and The Evening Standard. He has also appeared on Newsbytes and Game Over."
Check it here if you like:
http://www.tvchannel.co.uk/games/features/content /next_gaming_craze.htm
(remove space)
Long before anyone had ever heard of the PlayStation - when everybody thought of Sony as a manufacturer of hi-fi, TVs and VCRs - the UK completely lost its marbles over a new console. It took the form of an ugly, brick-like plastic handheld object sporting a near-illegible mono screen and was, of course, Nintendo's Game Boy. Briefly, even the rush-hour commute to the City of London became a fascinating anthropological exercise, as hordes of chalk-striped yuppies (it was the height of the 80s) lined Tube carriages, grappling with the intricacies of Donkey Kong and Super Mario. Questions were asked in Parliament as schools banned the infernal brain-rotting machines.
As anyone who has had a keen interest in videogames over the years knows, the games industry moves in peculiar waves. And now might just be the time to brace yourself for another outburst of games-related hysteria, as, on 22 June, Nintendo unleashed it's Game Boy Advance on an unsuspecting British populace.
Don't be tempted to dismiss Game Boy Advance as a mere toy: it is, by some chalk, the most powerful handheld console ever, with a touch more power under the bonnet than Nintendo's old Super NES console. Marry that with decent ergonomics, an excellent colour screen (which, alas, isn't backlit, so you can't play the machine in the dark), two shoulder buttons that make surprisingly sophisticated gaming at least theoretically possible, and the chance to chain four machines together for multiplayer action and you have a serious piece of kit. But it's the games being readied for the Game Boy Advance that, more than anything, will beguile a gaming public hungry to find something new.
The GBA version of Tony Hawk's 2, for example, is mind-blowing. Just think of the PlayStation version, albeit with a fixed-camera view, and you'll get an idea of what it looks like. I personally can't wait to step on a Tube and find four City boys in a huddle, racing each other around the surreal tracks of Mario Kart Advance. And even Sega has committed itself to bringing Sonic The Hedgehog to the GBA.
Games developers love preparing games for handheld consoles, as even GBA games can be produced by small teams and over much shorter periods than are required for full-blown console games. So they're all getting in on the act. Of course, Nintendo could have somehow mishandled the Game Boy Advance's launch. Although that was very doubtful, it has happened in the past. Think back, for example, to the farcical launch of Sony's PlayStation 2. If you went through the whole PS2 pre-registration rigmarole and lashed out an exorbitant £300, you must be feeling somewhat cheated, considering the lacklustre nature of the PS2 games which have so far appeared.
But have patience: the PlayStation 2 is a gaming craze waiting to happen - although the wait has been uncomfortably protracted. At last, though, some joy for PS2 owners does lie on the horizon. July saw the launch of the mighty Gran Turismo 3. If, as a PlayStation 2 owner, you've been subjected to taunting by your mates about having more money than sense, get a copy of GT3 and they will eat their words. Metal Gear Solid 2 should appear in time for Christmas, too, although there won't be a PS2 version of Tomb Raider this year.
But by the time the PlayStation 2 acquires a portfolio of games that goes some way towards doing it justice, we'll be preparing for the launch of Microsoft's Xbox. Xbox may be ugly, but it's a mighty impressive machine and, unlike the PlayStation 2, will be launched with a selection of blinding games - notably the sumptuous, high-octane shoot-em-up Halo, the stupendous-looking Malice (developed by Brit outfit Argonaut) and the hilarious Munch's Oddysee. From the beginning of next year, the papers will be full of the Godzilla versus King Kong battle between Sony and Microsoft and videogame fever will once again grip the nation. As long as the nation can wrest its attention away from its Game Boy Advance for a moment.
As anyone who has had a keen interest in videogames over the years knows, the games industry moves in peculiar waves. And now might just be the time to brace yourself for another outburst of games-related hysteria, as, on 22 June, Nintendo unleashed it's Game Boy Advance on an unsuspecting British populace.
Don't be tempted to dismiss Game Boy Advance as a mere toy: it is, by some chalk, the most powerful handheld console ever, with a touch more power under the bonnet than Nintendo's old Super NES console. Marry that with decent ergonomics, an excellent colour screen (which, alas, isn't backlit, so you can't play the machine in the dark), two shoulder buttons that make surprisingly sophisticated gaming at least theoretically possible, and the chance to chain four machines together for multiplayer action and you have a serious piece of kit. But it's the games being readied for the Game Boy Advance that, more than anything, will beguile a gaming public hungry to find something new.
The GBA version of Tony Hawk's 2, for example, is mind-blowing. Just think of the PlayStation version, albeit with a fixed-camera view, and you'll get an idea of what it looks like. I personally can't wait to step on a Tube and find four City boys in a huddle, racing each other around the surreal tracks of Mario Kart Advance. And even Sega has committed itself to bringing Sonic The Hedgehog to the GBA.
Games developers love preparing games for handheld consoles, as even GBA games can be produced by small teams and over much shorter periods than are required for full-blown console games. So they're all getting in on the act. Of course, Nintendo could have somehow mishandled the Game Boy Advance's launch. Although that was very doubtful, it has happened in the past. Think back, for example, to the farcical launch of Sony's PlayStation 2. If you went through the whole PS2 pre-registration rigmarole and lashed out an exorbitant £300, you must be feeling somewhat cheated, considering the lacklustre nature of the PS2 games which have so far appeared.
But have patience: the PlayStation 2 is a gaming craze waiting to happen - although the wait has been uncomfortably protracted. At last, though, some joy for PS2 owners does lie on the horizon. July saw the launch of the mighty Gran Turismo 3. If, as a PlayStation 2 owner, you've been subjected to taunting by your mates about having more money than sense, get a copy of GT3 and they will eat their words. Metal Gear Solid 2 should appear in time for Christmas, too, although there won't be a PS2 version of Tomb Raider this year.
But by the time the PlayStation 2 acquires a portfolio of games that goes some way towards doing it justice, we'll be preparing for the launch of Microsoft's Xbox. Xbox may be ugly, but it's a mighty impressive machine and, unlike the PlayStation 2, will be launched with a selection of blinding games - notably the sumptuous, high-octane shoot-em-up Halo, the stupendous-looking Malice (developed by Brit outfit Argonaut) and the hilarious Munch's Oddysee. From the beginning of next year, the papers will be full of the Godzilla versus King Kong battle between Sony and Microsoft and videogame fever will once again grip the nation. As long as the nation can wrest its attention away from its Game Boy Advance for a moment.
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