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Is anyone really excited about what the gba can and will do?
I am.
You see, the gba has been out for 5 months and already the cream of the snes crop is available for the system. Doom, mario kart, bomberman, Street fighter 2 and final fight are ready to buy NOW. sometimes i cant really belive i am playing these games on such a tiny machine.
The reason the GBA is doing so well is because the 16-32 bit cartrige based console market has had a very long time to develop. When the snes came out Id were toying with a wolfinstein 3d update, yoshi was just a baby and polygons were suspected to be a rare form of dissapearing parrot. Over the many fine years of gaming that insued, Sega had its golden age and golden axe, nintendo really hit home with the fx chip and thousands of people who thought games were for nerds changed their mind.
When someone makes a GBA game, they can just take a gander at all the game engines and techniques that had taken their predecessors years of hard work to make, and implement them into their games in only a few days. In fact the best selling GBA games so far have been simple conversions of already infamous classics.
Several key players are also stepping in the market as well. Ecks vs sever, a good 1st person shooter based on a film (like goldeneye) is coming out ONLY for GBA when an entire array of machines could have the game. In fact so many 1st person shooters are coming to GBA I am begining to think it make overtake the PC shooter market.
Also, when you compare the advance of the psx, which could barely run doom and needed two systems for a deathmatch now has quake 2 and medal of honour 2 running on it in COMPLETE 3d quite smoothly. Quite a power increase. IF games are already so advanced and developed only half a year into the GBA's life span, you must consider what the possibilites could be. Starfox, legend of zelda, and many more classics are already a certainty. What amazment will this little handheld be capable of? I dont know for sure but i am very excited.
Are you?
I am.
You see, the gba has been out for 5 months and already the cream of the snes crop is available for the system. Doom, mario kart, bomberman, Street fighter 2 and final fight are ready to buy NOW. sometimes i cant really belive i am playing these games on such a tiny machine.
The reason the GBA is doing so well is because the 16-32 bit cartrige based console market has had a very long time to develop. When the snes came out Id were toying with a wolfinstein 3d update, yoshi was just a baby and polygons were suspected to be a rare form of dissapearing parrot. Over the many fine years of gaming that insued, Sega had its golden age and golden axe, nintendo really hit home with the fx chip and thousands of people who thought games were for nerds changed their mind.
When someone makes a GBA game, they can just take a gander at all the game engines and techniques that had taken their predecessors years of hard work to make, and implement them into their games in only a few days. In fact the best selling GBA games so far have been simple conversions of already infamous classics.
Several key players are also stepping in the market as well. Ecks vs sever, a good 1st person shooter based on a film (like goldeneye) is coming out ONLY for GBA when an entire array of machines could have the game. In fact so many 1st person shooters are coming to GBA I am begining to think it make overtake the PC shooter market.
Also, when you compare the advance of the psx, which could barely run doom and needed two systems for a deathmatch now has quake 2 and medal of honour 2 running on it in COMPLETE 3d quite smoothly. Quite a power increase. IF games are already so advanced and developed only half a year into the GBA's life span, you must consider what the possibilites could be. Starfox, legend of zelda, and many more classics are already a certainty. What amazment will this little handheld be capable of? I dont know for sure but i am very excited.
Are you?
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I dont care nerd boy, farore still gives you the power of wind! (farore's wind)
What next the baked bean fairy?
What next the baked bean fairy?
farore is the god of wisdom
Din - power and other one is love.
Din - power and other one is love.
American have it now. The little s.o.b's!
Then again, the GBA has no region lock-out chip, so we could just import the game..... Another triumph for the all powerful Game boy advance! Hurrah!
Then again, the GBA has no region lock-out chip, so we could just import the game..... Another triumph for the all powerful Game boy advance! Hurrah!
when's it out?
Golden sun will rule, it even has some polygon based attacks for (bleep) sake! snes rpgs didnt have that!
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