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 GAME BOY micro
Nano is in. Micro is in too.
Just bought a GAME BOY from Sim Lim Square yesterday. Alas, it was not the new GAME BOY micro (GBM) but the older GAME BOY Advance SP (GBASP).
This is supposed to be a birthday gift for Lucas from his grandmother and boy was he happy when he saw the set! I was given the task of buying the set for him as the only 'game' that my mum knew and understood is 'mahjong'. Nintendos and PSPs are foreign to her.
I was very much tempted to buy the GBM but the MINUTE screen size really put off that idea. Yes, the screen is WAY brighter than the GBASP but its size killed it.
RPG games with conversations and text-heavy games will make you squint your eyes so much just to read the text that you might just as well buy magnifiers to play them! This definitely is not meant for kids! Playing with handhelds is already not an eye-friendly hobby, and with such a small screen, it just makes things worse! GAME BOY Advance SP
While the screen size is the major problem with the GBM (for me at least!), its overall design is a winner. Shaped almost like mobile phones, it has a solid, metallic feel and the lighted START and SELECT buttons definitely adds the icing to the cake!
Another good design feature is SKINs. You can buy skins/covers/housing/whatever-you-call-them for your GBM just like you would for your mobile phone... on release day, there were about less than 10 designs to choose from, but with time, there should be a lot more coming.
If I had the extra SGD200.00 to spare right now... hmm.... Christmas present for me, anyone?!?!? The black one is cool. :)
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moe at 12/15/2005 12:20:00 PM
