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Nintendo Embedding Classic Games on Trading Cards

Posted by michael on from the yay-I-got-the-white-sword dept.

bacontaco writes "Here's a quick article over at Adrenaline Vault about Nintendo's plan to put out old-school Nintendo games with the use of a e-Reader that plugs into the Game Boy Advance and trading cards that can be swiped with the device. The article flips back and forth on which console's games will be supported, saying either NES or SNES games will be used with the cards. It's kind of eye-opening when you think about how games that seemed so great so long ago can now be fit on something so small as a card."

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  1. Re:Where is the data? by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 1, Redundant

    According to the full press release on the nintendo site
    "The e-Reader hardware has a one megabit flash ROM to store up to one video game for continued play

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  2. Re:A Little more info... by gmhowell · · Score: 1, Redundant

    And a little more info here at the e-reader site.

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  3. Re:long ago? by fobbman · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A bit of trivia. It actually called Donkey Kong. True story!