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Just 'cause they're selling doesn't necessarily mean it's alive.
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Sure, a game comes out for it occasionally (that ISN'T a multiplatform title)...but is that really "life"?
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I feel that most of the 'meatier' portable games have been upgraded to the DS. FF Tactics, Advance Wars, Castlevania, Mario RPG, Pokemon, Mario Kart...all have DS incarnations.
However, there are still several smaller sized games that I love, and will play from time to time in bite sized chunks on my Micro, games that haven't gotten a DS version: the original Mario, the original Zelda, the original Dr. Mario, the original Wario Ware, Astro Boy, and Mario Golf. A lot of these games are perfect for 10 minute little 'burst' gaming sessions.
My undying love for the original Wario Ware ensures that I will be carrying around some kind of GBA compatible device until the day I die. Heres a little anecedote: On one flight from Tokyo to Chicago, I played Wario Ware the entire flight. I didn't eat, I didn't sleep, I didn't even stand up once to go to the bathroom.
And one more thing, hopefully since the DS cards are so small, it will ensure that we see DS compatible devices for a long, long time.
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My other memory of the GBA was owning that exact one shown in the picture above. And how it was next to impossible to play, thanks to having no light. I remember swiveling lamps around, adding brighter bulbs to the lamps, then finding bulbs a bit duller, to take away from the glare of the overpowered bulbs. It was a nightmare. I didn't really appreciate the GBA until the DS was released and I could finally see the games I had been trying to play.
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I feel that the Game Boy name will go down as a symbol of the golden age of portable gaming, before everything else was tacked on - watching movies, listening to music, taking pictures. Yeah, they're cool, but it's leading some away from what portables were meant for - fun games everywhere.
I'm not saying the DS, DS Lite, and DSi aren't fun or original. I own an original DS, and I love it to death. But I'll always remember growing up with the Game Boy, from the green and black monochrome, to when I first saw color on a portable (Wario Land, by the way), to my first Nyko Worm Light, to back lit screens and amazing graphics.
I'll miss you, Game Boy brand. You were incredible, and will always be an icon of portable gaming.
04/08/09
Other than that, I agree with everything you say. Good, goddamn solid, no frills gaming. It fulfilled everything that the original b/w gameboy hinted that it would become. For my part, I can't wait until that Saga rerelease... FFL2 on the original gameboy was such a great game and I still have fond memories of it.
04/08/09
I do fully support the great castlevania/metroid/Advance Wars games that sucked my free time in bed and in airports.
04/08/09
That was actually the one thing that I disliked about SML3... I wish they'd done one More true mario game on the platform, instead of switching to Wario right then and there.
Does anyone remember the weird Double Dragon 2 that they put out on the gameboy? It wasn't like the NES double dragon. You didn't jump kick... instead you did something that looked a lot like SF2's dragon punch... and you had to hit the button twice to do it.
04/08/09
But I think the SP is probably the sexiest piece of technology, I have ever owned.
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The GBA Micro came out in 2005.
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*fires tear gas canisters*
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How am I supposed to read Kotaku journalism now!?
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As for Star Ocean it may just be that the market is saturated with the JRPGs. I know people who are still working on tales of vesperia and wont be picking this title up until they are done. I think it may be suffering from having such a high density of JRPG releases.
03/23/09