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Funeral For The Game Boy Advance
Funeral For The Game Boy Advance
With the launch of the Nintendo DSi -- the first Nintendo handheld in eight years that can't play Game Boy Advance games -- I'd like to share some stories about how the GBA platform shaped me as a gamer. *** When a new system bumps an old one off, I ...
Looking Back at 1996: Nintendo's Fall, Part 1
Looking Back at 1996: Nintendo's Fall, Part 1
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Funeral For The Game Boy Advance
GoNintendo — ... officially stopped caring about the Game Boy Advance. With the removal of the GBA slot on the DSi, we can now see that Nintendo no longer wants to support the platform. If it still racks them up some sales, that’s perfectly fine. If not, they really don’t care. Lucky for us, the MTV crew still cares about the platform. They’ve put together a little goodbye for the system, including all versions that have come out. Time to click over, have a read, and shed a tear for a fallen friend. Article here Posted April 7th, 2009 at 5:50 pm | ...

A Eulogy For The Game Boy Advance [Nintendo]
Kotaku — ... MTV Multiplayer's Stephen Totilo does, lamenting the symbolic passing of the Game Boy Advance. He calls it "the first portable I cared about," a feeling I'd wholeheartedly echo. While I, like Totilo, had invested in a Game Boy Color—as well as an original Game Boy, Sega Game Gear, and Neo Geo Pocket Color—no portable system I'd played to that point felt as much like a unique, standalone piece of hardware capable of playing such deep, memorable software. ...

Was the Game Boy Color a Flawed Product?
Daniel Primed:: Gaming Analysis, Critique and Culture — ... team did a short retrospective on the Game Boy console, after all this year is the system’s 20th anniversary. In fact, a few publications ran articles covering the console’s history including MTV Multiplayer and the ...

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