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Nintendo White Console (GBA) | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: £69.99
Buy Used: £10.00
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 8823
Platform: Game Boy Advance
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 3 - 18 years
Operating System: Game Boy Advance
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 1.7 x 0.1
Model: AGB-001
UPC: 045496712129
EAN: 0045496712129
ASIN: B00005B8G2
Release Date: June 22, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Game Boy Advance features power that would have been unthinkable back when the original Game Boy was launched. Its 32-bit RISC CPU runs circles around the former machine's 8-bit workhorse, allowing it to process program instructions much faster. What that means to everyday gamers is more intricate visuals, more simultaneous movement on the screen, and better sound. In fact, the often-annoying bleeps and bloops of old-school Game Boy titles are being replaced with digitised stereo sound. When you first pick up the system, you'll notice how lightweight it is. It's a little less than 150 grams, but a little larger than a deck of playing cards. The GBA's wider shape fits better into a wider range of hands, and the screen is fitted with antiglare technology--you need pretty good light to play by, but you won't be craning your neck and tilting the unit to see around the reflection of the light bulb in your screen. You'll also notice the graphics. Essentially sporting redesigned SNES technology, you'll see things on the GBA that the big consoles do, such as scaling (making objects larger or smaller) and rotation effects--technological advances that will affect the look of everything from crossing a finish line to scoring a goal to crawling through a dungeon. The extra processing muscle also means you can network up to four Game Boy Advance units together, via the communication cable, for multiplayer fun from one shared cartridge. Because the Game Boy Advance system is backward-compatible, it will play not only its own line of colourful games--including such launch titles as Super Mario Advance, F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, and Kuru Kuru Kurin--but also almost all of the monochrome and colour games that have already been released for the previous Game Boy systems. It seems that Nintendo have wisely struck a balance between size, price, and power consumption. And considering how well the old 8-bit system weathered the decade's technological storms, the Game Boy Advance seems here to stay. --Porter B Hall
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 ok but misleading image of product January 13, 2008
S. Li
Apparently this console is just an upgrade of game boy color console and it isn't built with lcd light screen until the sp came out. But GBC is more comfortable to hold than the gba. It's quite deceiving because the image they published on the boxes on both console (gbc and gba)shows that they have a bright light screen, but until u purchased it or read the description - however images always has a great influence in whether u want to buy the product and then you find out it it not what you expected, which is misleading. Though it is a good console.
 Shame on you Nintendo! Shame!! Shame!!! September 9, 2007
i wrote this (Bucks)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a Nintendo fan boy. I've tried to get help but it just gets worse.
But even I freely confess that Nintendo pulled a dirty trick with the original GBA.
The games were fantastic, Advance Wars was reason enough to own a GBA all by itself. But how were you supposed to play it when you couldn't see a thing? The screen was dark and incredibly reflective. In most lighting conditions the graphics were completely invisible.
I tried various 'light accessories' but they were all junk (even those recommended by offical magazines). But that's not the end of my GBA woes, the D pad was blister-enducingly tiny and the other buttons were pretty nasty clacky affairs.
The GBA was a broken product that should never have been commercially released. The only reason to own one is if you are a Nintendo crazed completist collector.
Bah Nintendo, Bah!!!!
 Brill! October 13, 2001
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a brilliant console and came in at just the right time!I was thinking if I found my Game Boy Colour(which I have) I would lose it on purpose to get a new GBA.The colour looks great and the graphics are wonderful.
Superb August 3, 2001
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the most impressive console on the market. PS2 eat ya heart out! Nintendo have finally got the price and supply right. With games like F-Zero, Kuru Kuru Kurin, Rayman and Mario out now and games like Zelda advance on the way, splash the cash and get the greatest console on earth!!
Design perfection July 27, 2001
Harry Carr (Teddington)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Game Boy Advance is a marvel of design from Nintendo. And a quick glance at the revolving animation overload of gameboyadvance.com shows you just how proud they are of it. With good reason, too. What makes it far, far superior to anything nearby, WonderSwan, Neo Geo Color and such, is the presence of a 'super-reflective' screen as as opposed to the back lit and battery hungry screens of the aforementioned systems. As a result, you can get 25 hours and more out of 2 AA batteries. And thats a definate plus. Looking at the first batch of games, it is very promoising. Mario Kart Advance, boasting 40 tracks (more than it's snes counterpart) gives us a glimpse of the mode 7 capabilities, and super mario advance shows exactly how snes games can be ported over with no fuss. And they even throw in a nes game on that, too, with the graphics of the updated snes counterpart. The only `fault` visible right now is hardly a fault, it`s simply a system limitation. The absence of `z buffering` means games like Starwing are highly unlikely. Hardly a fault, but a slight shame. So we can look forward to classic snes games being ported over for the paltry sum of 30 pounds. And with the growing interest in the game cube, and the future compatibility of the gba and gc, we can look forward to some very intersting tie ins from mainstream game developers like square and sony. Excellent little machine, and with astounding power. A return to form for Nintendo!
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