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Nintendo Game Boy Advance Console Videos >>
Rating Reviewed By AnonymousFrom USA Review Date 08/21/2003 Overall Rating  5 of 5 Visitors rate this review 3.40 of 5, 5 votes Rate this review? Summary The best handheld system.Sound GreatGameplay Has most of the games from super nintendo.Classic games like super mario world 1 and 2,and super mario bros 1,2,3 and donkey kong country are all now playable handheld.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Super NES fanFrom dual Review Date 04/16/2003 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Visitors rate this review 4.00 of 5, 2 votes Rate this review? Summary Happy 10th birthday Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It looks like Nintendo redesigned the Super NES into a handheld and renamed it gameboy advance. I amazed after all these year the Super NES live on athough it getting smaller and smallerand pretty soon it will be gone for good. Me and my freinds nicknamed it "Super NES Pocket" becuase of game like Mario World and Zelda: Link to the past. "The 16 bitter still proves it still got some gusto. Sound It's look like they shrunk that SPC700 PCM Wavetable MIDI chip in the Super NES to fit in the Gameboy advance. The SPC700 "samples"intruments (MIDI), voices and Bleeps and bloops that sound better than than old NES/Gameboy. Athough it sounds distored through the little biult in speaker so headphone make it clear and you get pure bass. A few games "sample" bleep and bloop that sound NES/Gameboy qaulity but those are lazy game devolpers. This is an 8 bit sound system producing 16 bit MIDI sound overall. But at least they ditched the old 4 bit producing 8 bit bleeps and bloops. (Rectangle, triangle noise waves and low qaulity DPCM) Gameplay It's like a Super N controller with a screen in the middle but they ran out of room for X and Y buttons but still has L and R.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By FrankFrom Ohio Review Date 01/04/2003 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Visitors rate this review 3.00 of 5, 1 votes Rate this review? Summary The Game Boy Advance isa graet idea idea by Nintendo. This is the first Game Boy unit i have owned so I can't say about the earlier units other than than this is the best handheld game so far. It has good graphics & the games aren't so expensive either. It really comes in handy because you can take it with you anywhere & never get bored. Not Playstation-quality graphics but very impressive.Sound OK, but could be louder. It depends of course on the game itself. Some games have louder sound than others.Gameplay Cannot comment on this since it varies on the type of game you play on the unit.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Dan, The Skydiving WoodchuckFrom Kahului, Hawaii Review Date 11/30/2002 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Visitors rate this review 5.00 of 5, 1 votes Rate this review? Summary Do you remember 16-bit? I'm sure some of you do. Before the PS2/Gamecube/X-box, and before the PS2/Saturn/N64, there was the original system war: SNES vs. Sega Genesis. Some may argue that long before this the Master System and the NES qualified as a System War, but unfortunately, Sega did not have anything more than a cult following at that time. No, 16-bit was when the first true system war was raging. While both systems were fantastic, and both sides had their hardcore fans, most will agree that in the end, the SNES undoubtedly won. To this day, many argue that the SNES is still the greatest console of all time.Now, the GBA has been released, and many are touting it as a handheld SNES. Sure it has less buttons than the SNES controller, but basically it matches up. So is the GBA a handheld version of "the greatest system of all time"? The answer, is no. The Gameboy Advance is much, much more. Graphically, it compares right nicely with its 16-bit cousin. Everything animates about as well, and even on such a small screen, it works better than you'd likely ever imagine in the graphics department. But graphics weren't the reason the SNES had so many fans. The SNES had fans because it had a huge selection of games. There were a few mediocre, and some downright bad games in there, but for there were also lots of fantastic games too. There were RPG's, there were platformers, there were shooters, there were adventure games... Literally something for everyone on that golden little system. The real question is: Will the GBA be getting this kind of game selection? The big thing that pushed Nintendo to push out such great games was the fact that Sega's Genesis was proving to be some stern competition. Genesis had great games of its own, covering just as many genres, and to maintain its fanbase Nintendo was forced to innovate, and was forced to create the greatest games they could. Without the competition in the handheld department, can we really expect great things from the GBA? You bet. Nintendo may not have any handheld competition, but they do on the console front, with their Gamecube system currently locked in competition with Sony's PS2, and Microsoft's X-box. To bring in as much money as possible, they've got to win gamers on the handheld front as well, and they're doing just that by bringing back some of their classics, such as Metroid, Mario Kart, and Zelda. On top of that, they're getting new Castlevania games which hope to expand upon the gameplay presented in the PS1's Symphony of the Night. But that isn't all folks. Now that Sega is out of the console wars, where are their games going? The answer is that they're producing games for all of the systems, including the GBA. We're getting some classic Sega games here as well, including Revenge of Shinobi, Sonic, and others. Those who call the Gameboy Advance a handheld SNES, as big of a compliment as that is, aren't doing it justice. This is a handheld version of the first, and greatest system war. This is the SNES, the Genesis, and everything that those two systems and their competition embodied. The GBA is quickly turning into a classic gamer's paradise. Get one. You will not regret it. Sound This is probably the GBA's only real downfall. The handheld can't possibly recreate the sound of the 16-bit consoles from just one tiny speaker, especially when it is so badly placed that the lower part of my thumb often covers it. Still though, the sound isn't terrible, and nobody should play a game for its sound anyway.Gameplay This should be judged on the individual games, but considering the selection of games that are coming to the system, you can expect superb gameplay to be the norm.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By luke kozakewyczFrom England Review Date 11/24/2002 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Visitors rate this review 1.00 of 5, 1 votes Rate this review? Summary Now about £60 is a handheld console that has thousands of colours and much better graphics. This is the Gameboy Advance. The best handheld out! If you still got the out of fashion Gamboy color then leave it on your bed and go out a buy the advance as it is alot more powerful and has more games! Rating: %98Sound The sound hasn't improved from the other gameboys. Like i said before it is the games that makes the sound. Agh. You can in fact make the volume louder than before!Gameplay All the games have use of the new feature, the R and L shoulder pads! You will use them alot in the new games. Unfortunately it hasn't yet come to the X ad Y buttons. But that doesn't matter right now. Let's look into the graphics.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member.
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