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Sneak Peek at Gameboy Advance ... & FAQ's This is Erik, known as Scythzor on the pojo message boards. Together with Dark Golduck and Daniellugia, I work at Nintendo Norway. They have gotten some European Game Boy Advances, and asked if we wanted to test them. We said yes, and drived to Unsaco. There we got to play the GBAs. First some info: ·
It will be released in June. ·
It has 32 bit graphics, and you can play original Game Boy
games on it. ·
You can use it as a controller on the GameCube console. ·
The machine is about 10 cm wide, and 6 cm high, and the games
are about half the size of a GB game. Well, we started up with playing F-Zero: Maximum
Velocity. It was a racing game, with vehicles that could drive
in about 350 mph. We started with some practicing. The controls were
quite easy, A was gas, B was brake, L and R was hard turns. Yes, L & R.
On GBA there are L and R buttons. If you drove at the side of the road, you lost power.
The less power, the less speed. When you had lost too much power, you exploded. After some practising, we went for the Grand Prix. I
was not very sure about the vehicles, so I just picked a red one. It had
good max speed, but terrible handling. I don’t know about Eskil (Dark Golduck), but
I thought it was too hard, so I reset and used another vehicle. Wow, this
had quite good max speed, and very good handling. I went second into goal,
and advanced to a new level. The graphics were awesome, and the sound was
good. The next level was nearly impossible. There were ice
which you slipped on, and I went right into the side of the road. After 3
rounds, I exploded, and that was OK, because I was 9th anyway. We decided to take a multiplayer game. We picked a level called: “Bianca course” and
started driving. Like many other racing games, if you press gas right before
you go, you get a turbo start. I got that, while Eskil got a terrible one. I
did the round well, and won over Eskil. This was by far the coolest Multiplayer-game. Well, over to next game. It’s kuru kuru kururin.
(Yep, that’s how you spell it!). You are a little duck-looking guy, that have to find
his brothers and sisters. You drive a helicopter, that have a propel that’s
spinning slowly around. You must go through narrow paths, and it needs some
timing to get through. I started with some training. Hah! Easy! I go to first level. Not too hard, some timing, and I
was through. The second was a bit harder. There were pads that I
needed to touch to spin the other way. This was needed to do some of the
turns. It was kinda hard in the beginning, but after a while, it got easy.
The third level was quite hard. It was quite long, but in the middle of the
course there were a big heart that refilled your hearts. By the way, you had
3 hearts and lost one each time you touched the wall. You could also
decorate the propel, like you can decorate your room in Pokèmon G/S. When I managed to beat the third level, one of the
sisters appeared. LOL! Kururin said: “You must go home. Mom is worried
about you.” Like this it continued for the next levels, harder
and harder for each time. It was not a advanced game, but still I think it was
really cool! This was my favorite in single-player mode. Now it was time to get something to eat. We went to
the nearest gasoline station, and me and Eskil almost spinned around, guess
we have played too much kuru kuru kururin. The last game was Super Mario Bros. For those of you who own or have tried Super Mario
Bros on NES, this is the same. I got bored of it fast, it was too easy. (Err,
actually, I didn’t manage to beat level 1.3.) I played it for about an hour, desperately trying to
beat level 1.3. Eskil did it, though. This was Eskil’s favourite. I didn’t like it very
much. Since I played Super Mario All Stars (A cartridge
with 5 different Mario games) on SNES, I didn’t like it. (No offence,
Mario fans, this is just my thoughts). I wish they made Super Mario World instead. Oh well, both I and Eskil was bringing our GBC with
Pokèmon Silver. We discovered that we could play old Game Boy Games
on the new Game Boy Advance. We inserted our Silver cartridges, and the GBA link
cable. But it didn’t work! We told Kirsti, our boss, and she didn’t know. We thought for a while, then I said: “Maybe if we
use the old Link Cable to play old games?”. We tried, and it worked. We understood how stupid we were, of course the GBA
use a different Link Cable system! Well, we played 2 games, I won one of them, and he
won the other. After that, we just played on the GBA for a while,
different games and some Multiplayer, before we watched the clock. Oops, time to leave. The time went fast, but it was too dang cool to be
true!! Looking forward to the official release date, guess
who’s first in the store... Well, hope that cleared up a few things for all ya
GBA fans out there! Hope you liked this article! This is Scythzor, signing off.
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