Game Boy Advance: Compact fun.(Nintendo Company)(Brief Article)

Video Business, May, 2001 by Gaudiosi, John

Nintendo's 32-bit sequel to its best-selling 8-bit Game Boy Color launches June 11 with a $99.95 price tag. Game Boy Advance (immediately available in white, translucent blue and violet and in translucent pink in July) ships with 17 launch titles and is backward compatible with hundreds of Game Boy and GBC games. Its sound and graphics are a huge improvement over previous Game Boy models.

Although GBA is about the same size as GBC, it boasts a 2.9-inch reflective color LCD screen, that's 50% larger than GBC's. GBA also consumes less power, getting 15 hours of gaming out of two AA batteries compared to GBC's 10 hours.

GBA sports two shoulder buttons for added game control. Since the Communication Cable port allows one cable to link four. GBAs,...

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