Game Boy Advance (Nintendo Game Boy Advance)

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Product:	Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Date:	18/07/01 (220 review reads)
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Advantages: good graphics

Disadvantages: expencive

Are you ready for the ultimate portable gaming experience?
On July 11 2001 nintendo will release the game boy advance as the next step in there portable gaming experience. With the console itself costing a mere £80 you get a lot for your money. They games cost about 30 to 35 pounds each. There are 15 release games all in all they consist of Tony hawks 2 and super dodgeball. You all know what tony hawks 2 is but super dodge ball is a new craze where you play the old school game dodgeball. The gameboy will benefit from better graphics as there will be 32 bit. I know your thinking that that’s the same power of the playstaion but it isn’t. The Gameboy runs on separate modes where mode 10 is like the playstion. So far doom on the Gameboy advance reaches up to mode 7 which is still 3D.
The Gameboys new revamped shape means it gains some extra buttons to help with control. It gains the L and R buttons on the side. So does this mean fighting games are going advance? What do You think?
For all the people that have got millions of games for the old gameboy there is no need to worry as the gameboy is 100% compatible with old existing games. Can everyone remember the days where you wanted to a linked game with your mates but your friend has not got the game will that problem is sorted with special games and a special link. The first game to use this technology is Mario Kart where you can race against a friend without a cartridge. There is also the advantage for a link cable which can connect 4 gameboys a time. This is being used by the command and conquer style game called gameboy wars.
There are also special features which can be wired into the game for special entertainment here are the following:
1.Gameboy pokemon album (You can scan in cars for a gameboy catalogue)
2.Mobile adapter(This is used so you can play games online the games which may use this are Mario Kart)
3.Printer(there are also talks for a new colour prin
ter to come out)
Sooooooo you want to know the stats well lets compare it too the Colour Gameboy

GBA
GBC

CPU
32-Bit ARM with embedded memory
CPU
8-bit Z80

Screen
2.9" TFT reflective screen

240x160 resolution

40.8mm x 61.2mm screen size

32,768 possible colors

511 simultaneous colors in character mode; 32,768 simultaneous colors in bitmap mode
Screen
160x140 resolution

32,000 possible colors

56 simultaneous colors

Size (mm)
82mm(L) x 144.5(W) x 24.5mm (D)
Size (mm)
75w x 133h x 27d

Power
2 AA batteries
Power
2 AA batteries

Software
Cartridge format

Game Boy and Game Boy Color compatible
Software
Cartridge format

Game Boy compatible

Battery Life
15 Hours
Battery Life
10 Hours

As you can see the gameboy Advance is much better.
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