Game Boy Advance

Imagine that your Nintendo Switch didn’t have the ability to connect online and that the competitive game you’re currently playing only supported local multiplayer. It’s a little hard to picture in 2023, right? That’s what Mega Man Battle Network fans had to deal with during the early 2000s. If you wanted to have a battle with your friend during Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance days, they’d have to be within your immediate vicinity and have a Link Cable available to connect two GBAs. 1st Trailer - Mega Man Battle Network…

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“What if” is always a fun question to ask, and over on the YouTube channel Gameboy Custom, they recently wondered what the Nintendo DS would have looked like if it took a bit more design inspiration from the Game Boy Advance SP. We think Nintendo made the right choice, but it’s interesting to see what others potentially had to play with in other dimensions of the multiverse.Critics were quick to question how the Nintendo DS, which featured two small screens oriented vertically, could possibly compete with the Sony PSP’s…

Photo: Andrew Liszewski | GizmodoThe Game Boy Advance is my favorite video game platform of all time, and while I loved it from day one, I didn’t love the original version of the handheld. It took almost two years for Nintendo to right the original GBA’s wrongs, but its successor, the clamshell GBA SP, was worth the wait (and the years spent struggling to see the games I was playing).For the most part, the GBA platform was actually more powerful than the Super Nintendo, which arrived a decade earlier. Putting all of that…

Although the original Game Boy is considered an iconic piece of hardware in the annals of gaming history, one talented modder recently showed us what it would look and feel like with the Game Boy Advance’s landscape design. But instead of churning out a fancy 3D render, they instead went and built a fully functional prototype.Some would argue the original Game Boy’s portrait design (with the controls below the screen) was perfect, although in terms of ergonomics, the original Game Boy Advance’s landscape design (with the…