Gameboy SP

Advantages: Lots of fun
Disadvantages: Can get a big obsessive

...I was 17 in March, and I'm indesicive to say the least, so I always get completely random birthday presents to save the hassle of actually asking me! From my parents I got lots of lovely clothes and jewelery, driving lessons, quality digital camera and money. Friends got me an assortment of smellies and other girly stuff. My brother got me a battery charger and lastly, my boyfriend got me trainers. And a Gameboy Advance SP. A Gameboy might seem like a strange present to get a 17 year old female, but I'm hooked on champ manager and play gamecube almost obsessively, so it made sense in a way! The SP is the newest addition to an already huge selection of portable game consoles, many of which come from the same Nintendo family. There's the original gameboy, gameboy colour and the gameboy advance. They all do the same thing some may...

Celia86 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Review of Nintendo GameBoy Advance

Santa brought us super duper new gameboys.

Advantages: Small sleek and integral light.
Disadvantages: Needs headphone adapter

...since the Atari. We could barely imagine how they managed to create a console that let us play games on the move. Believe it or not, I still possess one of the original Gameboys and ten years on its still working perfectly and I play Super MarioLand, on its Dot Matrix LCD screen that boasts 14 shades of grey. In 1998 Nintendo decided to spruce up the Gameboy's image and to this end they not only shrunk it in size to 75mm x 27mm x 133mm, and a much lighter 138g, but they added an impressive upto 56 simultaneous on-screen colours. In 2001 the third incarnation arose, the Gameboy Advance. And this truly brought a new experience to handheld gaming, boasting a 32 bit CPU, and upto a massive 32,768 colours on-screen, we now had gameplay to rival the playstation, only in a handheld console. But the real killer, was the capability of the GBA...

sandemp 01.01.1970 · Read review
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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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