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Game Boy’s new release full grown
■ Nintendo's Game Boy
Advance, a far cry from its
predecessor, hits racks June 11
by Billy O’Kebfe
College Press Exchange
In the coming months, young men and
women everywhere will receive their
degrees and diplomas as a symbol of their
transition to full-on adulthood.
Nintendo’s Game Boy, on the other
hand, will receive something else — namely,
a larger screen, longer battery life, a huge
grapltics and speed upgrade, and the ability to
play games like no handheld gaming system
before it.
Slated for a June 11 stateside debut and
priced at a cool 99 clams, the Game Boy
Advance is more than another upgrade for
Nintendo's wildly popular handheld, which has
sold more than 100 million units in its
extraordinary 11 -years-and-counting lifespan. Tltis
time, it’s a whole new set of gears.
The most obvious sign of Game Boy manhood
is in the games. For one thing, the Game Boy
Advance’s grapltics make ;tll other handheld games
look like fuigerpainting. And the games themselves
move at breakneck speed without ;uty of the blur
or w;ish-up colors that could really hurt the G;une
Boy’s performance. Anyone who longs for the
days of 16-bit gaming, when the Super NES and
Sega Genesis ruled the Earth, is in for a very good
summer, because the GBA is all that and more.
Still, huts of the original Game Boy ;uid Quite Boy
Color should feel fairly at home with the GBA.
The button layout, while adding shoulder (Land
R) buttons to the mix, remains hugely the siune.
and while the shape of the GBA is horizontal to
the Gtune Boy's vertical arrangement, the small
system should be an e;tsy fit for iuiyone who could
tame the system’s clunky ancestors.
The best news of all for Game Boy fans:
backward compatibility. While exceptions may
spring up from time to time in the future, every
one of the G.utie Boy’s 500-plus titles, whether
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ii came out in 1989 or 2001, is expected to play
just fine on the GBA. Perhaps the most drool
worthy news, however, is not the GBA's backward
compatibility, but its forward compatibility.
Nintendo hits fashioned the handheld to work
in tandem with its equally drool-worthy next
generation console, the Gamecube. Players will
be able to exchange data between Gamecube and
GBA versions of select games, and the GBA even
doubles Gamecube controller, functioning
much like the Sega Dream cast’s innovative Visual
Memory Unit controller.
For gamers who itch for a little company, the
(iBA’s multiplayer captibiliiies ;»re a most welcome
addition. Whereas the onginal G;une Boy allowed
two players to link up their systems and duke it
out, the GBA allows up to four. And while both
players needed separate copies of the same g;une
to engage in Game Boy warfare, only one copy is
necessary for a similar bloodbath on the Game
Boy Advance, a huge plus.Nintendo has been
ridiculed in the past for repeatedly pushing back
hardware release dates, but the Advance's June
11 coming-out party should cause no such
headaches if the wildly successful March launch
in Japan is any indication. Not only did
Nintendo deliver the system on time in Japan, but
it took on a huge mountain of pre-orders and
satisfied them all.
Are you listening, Sony?
Nintendo plans to roll out at least 15 games
on launch day. including Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
Dodge Ball Advance, Mega Man EXE, Ready to
Rumble Boxing tuid G BA-exclusive versions of
Nintendo’s own Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart
• and F-Zero franchises.
The company says that it expects to have more
than 60 GBA titles on the shelves by the time
Christinas — and the arrival of the Giunecube —
are in full swing.
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Next to Columbiana
Centre
781-3067
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(PG-13)
1:45, 4:15, 7:30,9:30
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2, 4:30, 7, 9:30
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10
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