a shout-out to Gameboy Advance SP

[Lord_Santa]

just wanting to ramble a bit, about my initial experience with the GBA-SP

I figure if it has all the GB/GBC/GBA games available and it makes GB games colored
it has "widescreen"(?) and I haven't recharged it since I bought it, about 2 weeks ago
of course I don't play it "all the time", but sufficiently to make any DS/PSP having to be recharged at least twice by now

from what I heard the GBA-SP battery lasts for 18 hours (I bought mine factory-new), how true that is, I don't know

but one thing is for sure, it's been running far longer on one charge, compared to my DS-Lite

and on-top of that, the only reason I kept my DS-Lite was (apart from Giana Sisters DS, of course) due to being able of emulating GBC games on it

I've not to this day bought a GBA game, but there are a few titles I think look interesting (Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc.)

but the main reason I have it, is to play my GB/GBC games with

it's absolutely brilliant in playing old games, as you get not only backlighting (I have a worm-light for my GBC, but that's nowhere near as good as this), you also get the chance to enlarge the screen

this may not work well for all games, but it works perfect for the Zelda games, etc.

all in all, I am strongly in favor of voting the GBA-SP to be the best damn handheld on the market

it's got 3 generations of games and if I'm not mistaken, it is also able of emulating a little bit (correct me if I'm wrong)

it has 3 generations of strong titles for handheld and a battery-life that outlasts anything current-gen

it's as many bits as I will ever need (although I mainly stick to 8-bit)

and it's foldable!

--- end of ramble

[Mr.White555]

if only it had a headphone jack...

[Lord_Santa]

if only it had a headphone jack...

I'm buying one of those converters, so that I can use standard head-phones

oh yeah... did I mention it's compatible with Gamecube?!?!?

:edit

.... wait a minute

:edit 2

it really doesn't, does it?

[toadhall]

just wanting to ramble a bit, about my initial experience with the GBA-SP
I've not to this day bought a GBA game, but there are a few titles I think look interesting (Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc.)

You have no idea what you're missing out on and I'm not talking about just Zelda and Final Fantasy. Lots of good games on that system

[noiseredux]

just wanting to ramble a bit, about my initial experience with the GBA-SP
I've not to this day bought a GBA game, but there are a few titles I think look interesting (Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc.)

You have no idea what you're missing out on and I'm not talking about just Zelda and Final Fantasy. Lots of good games on that system

really.

[toadhall]

really.

Nah. It's a terrible, terrible system. All the games are for kids.

[noiseredux]

really.

Nah. It's a terrible, terrible system. All the games are for kids.

oh. I won't get one then. Thanks!

[swiftzx]

really.

Nah. It's a terrible, terrible system. All the games are for kids.

Of course, we all know Noise is the Sony guy. What the hell would he know about a Gameboy?

[Lord_Santa]

really.

Nah. It's a terrible, terrible system. All the games are for kids.

are you seriously trolling a Nintendo thread with something as obvious as ye ol' "Nintendo is for kids" argument?

Nintendo does not seem to target any one specific age with most of their games, but rather their games can be enjoyed by a variety of people

they have clever gameplay mechanics in their games, which show a certain quality which other companies have yet to succeed

hence Nintendo has stayed in the business for all these years

I've not to this day bought a GBA game, but there are a few titles I think look interesting (Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc.)

You have no idea what you're missing out on and I'm not talking about just Zelda and Final Fantasy. Lots of good games on that system

really.

I'm not the tell me what to play kind of person, but in all honesty I have no clue what titles the GBA has apart from the "obvious" (Golden Sun, Zelda, Final Fantasy, SNES conversions, NES conversions, Harvest Moon, Mega Man, Kirby, Banjoo Kazooie, IK+)

any recommendations? I'm mainly an RPG, Action, Puzzle, Platform, Adventure kind of guy

[noiseredux]

toadhall was joking man.