![]() ![]() iPhone has 26x as many pixels on its screen.iPhone has 4,000x more RAM (I had to double check my math on that one, but it’s right).Weights are almost the same, but iPhone weighs 11g less.Yes, there was no emulation, it was just a mini-Game Boy inside your new Game Boy.įor fun, let’s compare these specs to one of the leading portable gaming platforms of today: the iPhone 6. It also had an 8 MHz 8-bit Z80 coprocessor, which was basically the guts of a Game Boy Color, bundled in to play your old games. The plastic casing is relatively light, weighing in at just 140 grams (or less than 1/3 pound). The display itself had a non-retina resolution of 240x160, and honestly is an eyesore compared to the screens we tend to look at these days. It had the capacity to display 32,768 colors on its 2.9 inch TFT LCD screen. The GBA was rocking a 32-bit 16.8 MHz ARM7TDMI processor with 256 KB of onboard RAM. Nintendo pushed the device as a souped up SNES and not a direct comparison to the original PlayStation. The big concern in 2001 was that it didn’t do 3D very well. Even at the time, critics commented on the lack of power in the portable device. ![]() Let’s find out!īy modern standards, Nintendo’s GBA is not a powerhouse by any means. The Game Boy Advance is a very affordable portable gaming system, so I want to determine if it’s worth your time and money in 2015. This isn’t going to be a retrospective on the Game Boy Advance, but a full on review. This review in 2015 isn’t what you would call “relevant”, but I find it important to occasionally go back to your roots and remind yourself of how things used to be. Since the summer of 2001, I have owned every other Nintendo handheld (not the New 3DS…yet), but none of them have brought me as much joy as my Game Boy Advance. My GBA library of games would grow over the years and I found countless great games to play on my beautiful purple Game Boy. The music! The exploration! The whip! I loved that game so much, and that was only the beginning. I also got Castlevania: Circle of the Moon a few months later, and that game absolutely blew my mind. In retrospective, it wasn’t that great of a game, but that’s how it goes sometimes. The visuals were astoundingly good, in my opinion, and I played that game for hours on end. The first game I bought was GT Advance Championship Racing, and I loved it. I didn’t even care that I was getting a purple system, the mere fact that I was able to get this thing was amazing to me! He got the black edition, and since we had to differentiate, I was stuck with the purple model. My best friend and I went to Walmart and plopped down $99 each sometime late in the summer. I was 15 at the time, and I saved up my money for months to buy one. The Game Boy Advance was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, and came to the United States in June of the same year. ![]()
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