Topic: RE: Pokémon Animated Episodes Available for GBA

[NewsBot]

Check out the press release to see which episodes are out!

POKEMON ANIMATED EPISODES NOW PORTABLE USING GAME BOY ADVANCE

New Technology Lets Fans Take Favorite Animation Anywhere

    REDMOND, Wash., June 21, 2004 -- On a plane, in a car, in the park or at the beach, for the first time ever fans can enjoy their favorite Pokemon(R) episodes using a Game Boy(R) Advance. Game Boy Advance Video lets users watch their favorite animated shows on their Game Boy Advance systems at an affordable price and with no need to buy additional hardware.

    Pokemon episodes include "Playing with Fire!" and "Johto Photo Finish" on one video pak and "A Hot Water Bottle" and "For Ho-Oh The Bells Toll!" on another. The Pokemon titles will be offered at an MSRP of $19.99. They join a lineup of other recently released cartoon favorites such as SpongeBob SquarePants(TM) and The Fairly OddParents(TM).

    "Consumers and retailers are clearly thrilled by this portable, skip-proof video technology," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president, marketing and corporate communications. "Whether it's the novelty of an exciting new product or the need for something to pass the time during the summer travel season, fans have been grabbing Game Boy Advance Video products off the shelves."

    The video paks look identical to Game Boy Advance game paks, fitting into the same slot. The plus button fast forwards or rewinds through the video, while the right and left shoulder buttons skip entire scenes. The start button pauses the action, while the select button returns to the main menu. The A and B buttons adjust the brightness.

    Game Boy Advance Video enters the market with a massive built-in user base, with more than 170 million Game Boy Advance units sold worldwide, including more than 21 million in the United States. In the future, Nintendo expects to offer animated content with Game Boy Advance Video that appeals to an older demographic.

[ruby_onix]

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Ty says: I'm interested in this other animation for older demographics bit.

Supposedly, 4Kids (the company that Nintendo put in charge of the Pokemon anime) recently backed down from their horrendously unpopular decision to "Americanize" the anime "Tokyo Mew Mew" into some bastardized "Hollywood Mew Mew" (although they've probably just backed down from the obvious "name change" aspect of it). They've also apparently grudgingly given permission for a company to release an uncut English-subtitled Japanese version of "Shaman King".

Perhaps by "older demographic", Nintendo means that they're going to stop letting 4Kids mutilate what are already Nintendo's most "kiddy" properties (like Pokemon and Kirby) in attempts to make them "beyond preschool-safe"?

Of course, I doubt it.

[Infernal Monkey]

Anybody that pays $20 for four short episodes of Fairy Odd Parents on GBA needs to be shot in the groin.  

[Bartman3010]

If they were $9.99, I'd get one.

They should release some of the Indigo Pokemon episodes. Like put all the Sabrina episodes on one cart, then I'd buy them.

Putting the Johto episodes on cartridge is....ugh.

[nickmitch]

They really should just put the episodes that you can't see on T.V. anymore.
Then they'd be almost worth the buy.

[Nephilim]

were still waiting for yu yu spirt dectective in aus on tv
now that the morning toons on free to air tv only goes for 1hour
there isnt much hope
I think these are more novelty but who knows, Would love to see these come to ds thu

[RABicle]

They should put Potatoes and Dragons, easily the greastest cartoon ever on one of these carts. At 5 minute episodes you could probably fit 12 episodes of sheer dragon brilliance onto a cart. That's an hour of laughing.

Link to Potatoes and Dragons: http://www.abc.net.au/children/show/programs/prog338.htm

[KDR_11k]

Or Happy Tree Friends! That'd probably fit.

[DrZoidberg]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force?

[RABicle]

Nah Aqua Ten Hunger Force = NO FIST

[odifiend]

Sealab 2021 would be great as well- I'd pay for it.

[Burning Excalibur]

Or Futurama and ESPECIALLY FAMILY GUY. I would buy every Family Guy episode they could put out.