Game Boy Advance Arrives · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 20, 2001 @02:50PM from the change-is-afoot dept.

Gary writes: "Nintendo begins shipping its next-generation handheld game in Japan this week. Nintendo estimates that it holds a 90 percent share of the portable game market, though some analysts believe that percentage to be even higher. It is the first to have a horizontal alignment, and it is 17 times faster than the Game Boy Color, which was released in 1998." This is the first portable gaming system I'm really tempted by -- horizontal alignment is The Way Things Should Be on such things;) Update: 03/21 03:53 AM by T : And Prabhjeet "The One" Singh writes: "According to Gamespot, Activision will be releasing a version of DOOM for Nintendos upcoming Game Boy Advance. No game has given me more sleepless nights. Now its time for sleepless plane rides, mall trips, etc. I can't wait."

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Does anyone else hate its name? by stevens · 2001-03-20 11:04 · Score: 5

I hate the name. It's like they're asking us to adopt pronunciation mistakes made by non-fluent English speakers.

Come on, "advance" isn't an adjective, it's a verb. It should be "Game Boy Advanced" if anything.

And if they wanted to be funny while misusing the language, it should be "All your game boy are belong to us." :-)