That Sexy Little Thang
In this age of the Xbox 360, quad-core CPUs, and 12-inch videocards with clockspeeds that go all the way to where Children of the Phoenix Tribesmen with energy packs play with spinfusors, we tend to forget that small portable thing we carried years ago that even with the skyrocketing improvement in technology, has refused to go away. Yep, the Game Boy Advance has aged gracefully.
I mean who would trade hours when you would continually block your cousin from obtaining critical mountain passes in Advance Wars? Or pull off Fulgore’s 27-hit ultra combo on a sorry AI in Killer Instinct? Or just listen to that haunting majestic score of Golden Sun? There is just a feeling you get when you are on a bus hacking away at moblins, or at a beach blasting away at cacodemons that you can’t get when you are sniping away at Elites in Halo 2 or dodging Sub-zero’s blasts in the Xbox.
There’s just a whole universe and nostalgia crammed into that innocuous 2.9-inch screen that all the HDTVs in the world can’t give you.
I mean this:
can’t begin to compare with this:
Call me old-fashioned or a hypocrite (since I am a Dawn of War fanatic myself; I do love those Fire Prisms you see in the first picture) but yes, my GeForce 6600 GT can’t induce the same level of affection that I feel for those cute-but-deadly sprites my GBA’s LCD churns out. =)
Yes, definitely, the Game Boy Advance has aged well and what with the release of the Nintendo DS, handhelds won’t be going away anytime soon.
I’m starting to suspect Satoru Iwata has placed subliminal messages in his company’s games. Play play play……..
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