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Title: My 1st handheld since the GB Color...
Post by: StRaNgE on March 25, 2003, 07:58:57 PM
Today I found some GBA SP in at toys R us, they got their second shipment already but only had the cobalt. I originally was going to get a platinum but  said oh well and got the cobalt.

Now I gotta say I have played a regular GBA before and it did nothing for me.  The lighting  was horrid the screen was dark and  games like metroid lost everything. So I never got one. Today I picked up , The GBA SP, A link cable to my game cube, Metroid fusion, and Advance wars.

It  has been a fun day playing , linking the GBA SP up to the cube with Zelda was a blast, my son and I  could play together making the game even more memorable for the both of us then it was already.

Tonight I  had some time to play  some fusion and then even more of the advance wars.

While playing fusion I turned the light off and  remembered exactly why I had never bought a GBA before now. IT SUCKS!  My plan was to buy this and my 5 year old son a used GBA, but  there is just no way I can make him play  in that kind of eye strain, that would be just cruel after seeing the actual difference 1st hand.   So I plan to now give the  cobalt one to him when  I get the platinum myself.  This thing is tiny, I am shocked at how small it really is. Especially folded up.

All I can say is   if you    don't have one, spend the cash, throw your old game boy in the trash, sell it , do something, let your eyes live again. Now I  can only imagine what new life the GBP will bring to these games!!
Title: My 1st handheld since the GB Color...
Post by: David G on March 26, 2003, 03:27:42 AM
I havent had a handheld sine the original Gameboy.  The SP is a whole new system.   I played my friends GBA, but thought it sucked because of the screen.   Now my girlfriend and I are stuck on the SP, and I gotta buy her one cause she hogs mine all the time.
Title: My 1st handheld since the GB Color...
Post by: Michael_82 on March 26, 2003, 05:40:04 AM
I gotta shell out the cash for one of those bad boys.
Title: My 1st handheld since the GB Color...
Post by: StRaNgE on March 26, 2003, 10:30:23 PM
I am  loving it, I have been playing advance wars almost more then Zelda .
I can not believe how muchI  hated it two days ago and now the SP has me loving it.
Title: My 1st handheld since the GB Color...
Post by: PIAC on March 26, 2003, 11:06:56 PM
yes yes, tomorrow i get my SP, after 5 hours at work, i get to go home, lay in my darkened room (got no windows ) and play to my hearts content oh glorious day (except my damn friend got his today, this was the one thing iw as going to beat him in but nooooo =\)
Title: My 1st handheld since the GB Color...
Post by: RahXephon on March 26, 2003, 11:17:11 PM
My girlfriend is getting it for me for our 2 year anni.  NICEEEE.  I know what you mean about the screen, i have a gba and it is torcher, all i can think of is that beautiful light button.
Title: My 1st handheld since the GB Color...
Post by: David G on March 27, 2003, 03:32:44 PM
Lucky you, I get to buy my Girlfriend one instead...
Title: My 1st handheld since the GB Color...
Post by: TheResidentEvil on March 27, 2003, 04:00:06 PM
Hedh, yeah my gf is sooo jealous over my sp, I like to tease her, but that leads to her... well you know. So I gotta be nice so she'll be nice back. ~_^
Title: My 1st handheld since the GB Color...
Post by: StRaNgE on March 28, 2003, 07:17:07 AM
yeah gotta be nice or she might cut ya off. Lol

I wish my girl would play games. I'd be wasting 100 bones if I bought her one.