Gameboy Advance - Vision Retreat

Advantages: Graphics are amazing
Disadvantages: The screen can be difficult to see

...What is it? ----------- The Gameboy Advance is the latest handheld games console from Nintendo. It is available in blue, white, clear blue and clear pink. I bought the clear blue console and it is apparantly the most popular. Unlike the Gameboy which was longer in height than width, the Gameboy Advance sits much more comfortably in the hands as it is much longer in width. The console is very uncluttered, on the right hand side you have the round A + B buttons, on the left hand side is the up-down-left-right button and 2 smaller round Start and Select buttons. On the top of the console, perfectly placed for your index fingers are 2 further long buttons/shoulders. On the underside of the console you have your on-off button and a volume button. The screen itself is a (quoting from the manual) - 2.9" TFT reflective screen that can...

free4susan 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Gameboy Advance

Advantages: Great colour graphics, long battery life
Disadvantages: No backlight, expensive games

...I first bought the original gameboy in 1993 for my birthday and at the time it was the latest craze and every one had to have one. What appealed to me was the addictive gameplay and of course its portability. Well a modern, colour gameboy was long overdue and at long last Nintendo have produced it. I bought my gameboy for £60 due to it being imported from Japan, but most shops currently sell it for £89.99. When I first turned it on with Mariokart Advance inside I was amazed at the speed and quality of graphics. It is a 32 bit machine which means it is twice as fast as a SNES, and it's graphics twice as good. The sound quality is quite good, although could have been better since there is only one speaker. The gameboy Advance now only needs 2 AA batteries and this last for a long time due to the LCD screen. The layout is now...

Alexis1 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Gameboy Advance SP, what does SP stand for?

Advantages: Portable, plenty of supporters, battery life, front lit screen
Disadvantages: No earphone port, no 3D graphics, average sound reproduction

...Let me tell you a little story, a true story that happened in my life. When the Gameboy Advance SP first came out, I was among the first people to rush down to my nearest game store, barge all the little kids out of my ways thanks to my being older, bigger and chunkier, and purchasing one of the first lot of Gameboy Advance SP's. Mine was pre-ordered so I didn't really have to barge, but anyway back to my story! I came home and had my very own silver little handheld gaming device and a copy of F-Zero, so yes I was very very happy. I played it for a while, next day I got bored of the game but that's another story. Well in any case this girl who I was really interested in popped over to say hi the following day. I let her in, asked if she wanted any refreshments, then she went and sat on my sofa in the lounge. So far so good, until she...

china_wolf 01.01.1970 · Read review
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