Nintendo Handheld Gaming Thread (Game Boy to DS)

[ninjainspandex]

Just got the Jetsons Robot Panic for the Game Boy for $14 shipped off ebay, guy had it for $20 with best offer and I made a $14 offer and he accepted immediately, thats the lowest I seen it and prices are all over the place since there is usually only one or two up on ebay at any given time, is this game uncommon? Its a great hidden gem for the system and it is made by Taito so you know it is good.

[ExedExes]

Best launch lineup ever.

Let's see the GBA launch lineup.

Army Men Advance
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
ChuChu Rocket!
Earthworm Jim
Fire Pro Wrestling
GT Advance
Iridion 3D
Konami Krazy Racers
Namco Museum
Pinobee: Wings of Adventure
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Rayman Advance
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2
Super Dodge Ball Advance
Super Mario Advance
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

Yeah I'd say that's pretty solid. I've got a few of those too.

Just got the Jetsons Robot Panic for the Game Boy for $14 shipped off ebay, guy had it for $20 with best offer and I made a $14 offer and he accepted immediately, thats the lowest I seen it and prices are all over the place since there is usually only one or two up on ebay at any given time, is this game uncommon? Its a great hidden gem for the system and it is made by Taito so you know it is good.

The 3 Jetsons games on the NES, SNES, and GB are uncommon for sure. They don't come up often, and the prices are crazy. However, the best deal according to VGPC is the Game Boy version. Loose cartridge is going for $15-$20.

[alienjesus]

Best launch lineup ever.

Let's see the GBA launch lineup.

Army Men Advance
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
ChuChu Rocket!
Earthworm Jim
Fire Pro Wrestling
GT Advance
Iridion 3D
Konami Krazy Racers
Namco Museum
Pinobee: Wings of Adventure
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Rayman Advance
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2
Super Dodge Ball Advance
Super Mario Advance
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

Yeah I'd say that's pretty solid. I've got a few of those too.

The PAL line up had Kuru Kuru Kururin too.

[ninjainspandex]

Heh is there no Tony Hawk 1 for the GBA? I thought that was the only one I was missing, no wonder I couldn't find it apparently it was on the GBC only

[Tanooki]

Best launch lineup ever.

Let's see the GBA launch lineup.

Army Men Advance
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
ChuChu Rocket!
Earthworm Jim
Fire Pro Wrestling
GT Advance
Iridion 3D
Konami Krazy Racers
Namco Museum
Pinobee: Wings of Adventure
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Rayman Advance
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2
Super Dodge Ball Advance
Super Mario Advance
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

Yeah I'd say that's pretty solid. I've got a few of those too.

True fun story. I had the GBA shortly after the arrival of it in Japan, had a friend running a shop in Rochester NY called upstategames. Sold me the glacier one at cost along with Mario Advance and F-Zero. Played the hell out of that, shortly there after ended up with Chu Chu Rocket too. I took that thing to E3 that year, the same year they did the wheel of free GBA systems+1 game thing every 5min of the 3 day open floor show. I took the train up and back the day I went, got a lot of looks from other people with that on the Amtrak. I was further satisfied by the confusing need for stores to release GBA games upwards of over 2 weeks before the system came out. I ended up being a regular at the game store going in every few days buying games I wanted carrying the GBA with me. I ended up getting Castlevania, Super Dodgeball, Tony Hawk, Iridion, Konami Krazy Racers, and Namco Museum.

RFGeneration has a nice article too. http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/dshei ... h-1772.php

I ended up regretting Idirion though since the 3D wasn't well done with too many stupid deaths. Namco Museum I kind of did too, partly, because it didn't save scores which was so cheap. Despite my big love of the old GB/GBC I ended up appreciating the GBA just a little bit more, it's still my favorite handheld system as the stuff since just doesn't do it as well for all intents and purposes. DS was like a mix of N64 3D and GBA like stuff and the 3DS is like a portable console which loses that handheld quick gaming feeling. Normally I never buy games in that much bulk, ever (really was a one time thing) for a new system, but I played out my 3 games I had, saved a heap from my college job since I lived at home and later from working at Midway so I went all out, no regrets, they got played to hell and back. My brother only got a few like the GT Advance game from Japan along with mario and f-zero, then locally he got that pinobee and rayman game. I felt like I go the better end of things. He did get a few others I did like tony hawk and iridion too.

[ninjainspandex]

My first experience with the GBA was in the Summer of 2001 before it even came out in the US, I was at a summer camp in Boston that had a large number of foreign kids. My roomate was from South Korea and he had gotten a GBA and Mega Man Battle Network imported from Japan. I got to play quite a bit of it even though it was all in Japanese and I had no idea what was going on in the game, but it certainly looked cool. I ended up asking my parents for one with Castlevania Circle of the Moon for my birthday that November.

Also my roomate had a Wonderswan Color with Final Fantasy, a handheld I had never heard of before. But apparently it was huge in Korea at the time.

[ExedExes]

Iridion was a super ambitious launch title. It looked amazing because Shin'en did a lot of programming magic to get all those graphics and sound on the cartridge.

So Maximum Velocity was also a launch title. I forgot to mention that. As you know I just finished Konami Krazy Racers.

The GBA had a strong launch and it's just as good right now.

[Tanooki]

Yeah that's the thing, people say this console or that system had the best lineup of launch games, but if you pull off the rose tinted beer goggles, none of them ever really did, except maybe the GBA.

Go fire up a list and show another with that many solid releases at or within a month of the system hitting the stores, it had quality and quantity. People easily will finger something because it had *a* Mario or Zelda, or it came out with Halo or something else -- wee you got 1 or 2 really decent games, then turds and a lull. The GBA never really had much of a drought and it blew it out hardcore when it arrived. Most people (kids market in particular) could never afford the stack of games I snapped up staggered in pre-launch so that stuff would last a long stretch but it didn't even really need to as stuff kept coming. The best systems throughout Nintendo history like the NES and old Gameboy didn't have anything on the GBA as far as the day one volume and quality as it had something for most people to enjoy. It wasn't kid based only or all loaded up with T and M stuff, it was a good solid mix for various groups when you toss in the non-age centric F-Zero, and then things like Iridion, Namco Museum, castlevania, firepro, gt advance, and tony hawk.

[casterofdreams]

Come to think of it you're right. If you take a look at a calendar release of all the games during its lifetime it was hit after hit after hit. A constant stream of games for 5 years straight. Many of those games are now classics that define the system.

I don't normally see that systems nowadays.

[jmbarnes101]

I bought two GBA's, one for me and one for my wife at the time, at launch from Target the day they released. I had just lost my first real job out of college, they laid off half the accounting dept but I had prepaid them so picked them up anyway. For games I picked up Super Mario Advance and Chu Chu Rocket and shortly thereafter I picked up Fire Pro Wrestling and Castlevania. It was and still is a great system and I still have them both. Unfortunately I've gotten rid of a lot of my favorite GBA games. I'm patiently waiting for a GBA Everdrive.