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• Super Nintendo Entertainment

  Published: July 30, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: Games, Game Boy, Nintendo, Arcade Games

  The Super Nintendo Entertainment System really blew me away when if first came out back in the early 1990s. The first Nintendo Entertainment System was amazing and groundbreaking in itself, but when the SNES came out it was really the dawn of the modern era of video games for me. The Sega Genesis [...]

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• Super Mario Bros Games

  Published: August 2, 2007, 7:45 am

  Tags: Games, Game Boy, Arcade Games

  The Super Mario Bros are one of the most recognizable pairs of video game characters ever created by Nintendo. When the first Nintendo came out in the mid 1980’s it was of course a huge success, but not right away. The very first Nintendo games didn’t immediately stand out from other games on [...]

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• Learning Games For Kids

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:55 am

  Tags: Game Boy, Family, Educational

  My son hates to read. He hates it with a passion and I’ve yet to find a book or magazine that interests him enough to want to read it. But video games? Watch out - he’ll be busy for hours! Of course, most video games have little to no value when [...]

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• Capcom Games Back on N-Gage in 2008

  Published: August 27, 2007, 8:12 pm

  Tags: Portable, Capcom, Capcom, Game Boy Advance, Gba, Mobile, N Gage, Nokia, Portable

  at the time was the Game Boy Advance, which was a complete beast. Sporting cellphone functionality, it aimed to chip away at the GBA's market dominance and failed miserably. Nokia didn't give up on the N-Gage property altogether, though, as it planned to move gaming onto a line of smartphones that should see the light of day sometime

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• Gameplay Is An Art Form - VGB Editorial 1

  Published: August 29, 2007, 8:29 am

  Tags: Features, Videos, News, Metroid, Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, Nintendo Ds, Game Boy Advance, Wii, Nintendo Wii

  ending got me to thinking, gameplay . . . is like an art form. Yes I’m serious. Think about what it takes: the skill involved, how much the mind is processing inside the head of the player playing, and how smooth it is if you are an expert. Obviously you can’t apply this to every game out there. But it does apply to many games I can

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• Buying Used Ps2 Games For Your Kids

  Published: August 12, 2007, 6:10 am

  Tags: Games, Game Boy, Cd Roms, Computers

  But these days, used PS2 games are everywhere. There are no less than four stores in my area that specialize in reselling used PS2 games in mint condition. This means I always have a great chance of finding the titles that my son wants the most, and is usually my first stop when his birthday [...]

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• August NPD: 360 Way Up, PS3 Down, Nintendo Hardware Still Dominating

  Published: September 14, 2007, 12:02 pm

  Tags: Take Two, Sony, Nintendo, Games Industry, Madden, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Games, Game Platforms, Activision, 2k Games, Game Companies, Bioshock, Game Boy Advance, Gba, Madden, Metroid Prime, Nintendo, Npd, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation Portable, Ps2, Ps3, Psp

  and only 50k more than the Game Boy Advance. Yikes. PlayStation Portable's drop can likely be attributed to the remodeled PSP (PSP Lite you know you want to call it that, Sony) being on the verge of release. Lastly, we have the Xbox 360 which saw a boost of 100k units sold bring it to 270k on the month, which is a tremendous boost. It's

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• History of Final Fantasy Retrospective Part 10 - From Game Boy to Chocobo to Mystic Quest to TV and movies

  Published: September 27, 2007, 2:11 pm

  Tags: Features, Videos, News, History Of Final Fantasy, Retrospective, Game, Videogame, Game Boy, Snes, Chocobo, Chocobo Tales, Chocobo Mysterious Dungeon, Final Fantasy Unlimited, Last Order, Advent Children, Spirits Within, Final Fantasy Legend Of The Crystals

  franchise. This includes the Game Boy installment named Final Fantasy Adventure, which would actually end up being the first game in the Mana series (It was called Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden in Japan), Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest (the “easy for Westerners” FF), the long list of games starring Chocobo, including Chocobo

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• Clips: Remembering Gunpei Yokoi

  Published: October 4, 2007, 8:20 pm

  Tags: Clips, Game Amp Watch, Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, Kid Icarus, Metroid, Nintendo

  for inventing the company's Game & Watch and Game Boy hardware. Yokoi also acted as producer on Nintendo-developed software like Metroid and Kid Icarus with the R&D1 and Intelligent Systems teams. For those who haven't yet watched RobotBling's fantastic piece on Yokoi titled "The Greatest Inventor", I highly recommend doing so. Great thanks

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• NTSB Cites Lax Safety Controls, Pilot Error in Ariz. Drone Crash

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Ntsb, Cites, Lax, Safety, Controls, Pilot, Error, Ariz, Drone, Crash, U S National Transportation Safety Board, Arizona, Pam Sullivan, Steven R Chealander, Federal Aviation Administration, Nintendo Game Boy, Libby Airfield, Mark Rosenker, Nogales, Sierra Vista

  Sophisticated computer systems on a 10,000-pound unmanned drone were no match for its pilot's failure to follow a checklist when confronted with a computer glitch.

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• Nintendo Wii and DS sales on Thanksgiving rampage -- trumps own GBA record

  Published: November 28, 2007, 4:44 am

  Tags: Game Boy Advance, Gameboyadvance, Gba, Nintendo, Reggie Fils Aime, Reggiefils Aime, Wii

  sales record was held by the Game Boy Advance in 2005 with sales of 600k at the time. Nintendo also said that Wii sales are on track to hit 17.5 million before March 31, 2008. Now, for those of you saying that Nintendo is purposely limiting production to drive up demand, Reggie has this for you, "A shortage benefits no one, we're disappointed.

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• Nintendo DS Breaks Game Boy Advance Sales Record

  Published: November 28, 2007, 9:27 am

  Tags: Nintendo, Gamer Life, Games Industry, Consoles, Game Boy Advance, Gamesindustry, Gaming Market, Gba, George Harrison, Handhelds, Holiday Spending, Nintendo, Nintendo Ds, Wii

  the same week in 2005, the Game Boy Advance sold 600,000 units and this was without strong competition in the portable gaming market.Rounding out the week for Nintendo, crowds of shoppers also purchased 350,000 Wii systems along with millions of games and accessories. “As shoppers look for ways to maximize their limited holiday spending

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• GlucoBoy blood-sugar testing game finally ships

  Published: December 7, 2007, 8:20 am

  Tags: Diabetes, Game Boy Advance, Gameboyadvance, Glucoboy, Health, Medicine

  We first noticed the GlucoBoy blood-sugar testing game for the Game Boy Advance way back in 2004, but it's taken three years for inventor Paul Wessel to get the necessary approval from Nintendo to start manufacturing the game. Targeted at kids with juvenile diabetes, the device rewards timely testing and target blood sugar levels by doling out

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• DDR your GBA

  Published: December 17, 2007, 9:45 am

  Tags: Ddr, Game Boy Advance, Gameboyadvance, Hack, Mod

  his DDR pad to control his Game Boy Advance, and got himself a good game of Pac-Man going. The video after the break demonstrates the very type of hijinks that can ensue, and also serves as a helpful reminder why Nintendo was insane not to include a backlight in original Advance. Yeah, we're still bitter about that.[Thanks, Joe]Continue reading

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• Gift idea for Gamers !!!

  Published: December 20, 2007, 8:15 am

  Tags: Gift Idea, Gifts, Ps2, Gamefly, Nintendo Ds, Gamecube, Xbox 360, Game Boy Advance, Gamers, Gamefly Com, Psp, Gift Certificate, Shopping, Xbox, Ps3, Video Game Rental, Wii

  to try out all types of games without a large investment. GameFly is the leading online video game rental service in the United States. They deliver the widest selection and availability of games for the Nintendo's Wii , Sony's PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Xbox , GameCube , Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and PSP

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