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#1 2005-05-17 5:29 pm
#2 2005-05-17 5:41 pm
- Mr. McPhee
- Looking into the Sun
- From: Number 9
- Registered: 2004-04-14
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Re: New gameboy
Can you post a pic as I am behind a filtered firewall and all I get is a message saying I am trying to look at GAMES
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#4 2005-05-17 5:53 pm
- Jon
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Re: New gameboy
Holy crap I just noticed how small it is, look at the cartridge.
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#5 2005-05-17 6:04 pm
Re: New gameboy
Gah! Start and Select buttons not on the face! I have too many games that require the use of those to be handy! 
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#6 2005-05-17 6:09 pm
- NAG
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Re: New gameboy
I think that is a little too small for me.
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#7 2005-05-17 6:13 pm
- Thunderstruck
- Goatee
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Re: New gameboy
It's just another version of the GBA, I don't think it will play original GB games.
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#8 2005-05-17 6:14 pm
- Jon
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Re: New gameboy
What I don't get is why would nintendo want to make another gameboy advance, probably the least comfortable one by looks of it.
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#9 2005-05-17 6:23 pm
- G5Addict
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- From: Berkeley, CA
- Registered: 2004-10-15
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Re: New gameboy
Mr. McPhee wrote:
Can you post a pic as I am behind a filtered firewall and all I get is a message saying I am trying to look at GAMES
Do you also get a message saying you are trying to look at porn?
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#10 2005-05-17 6:35 pm
- Mr. McPhee
- Looking into the Sun
- From: Number 9
- Registered: 2004-04-14
- Posts: 1220
Re: New gameboy
G5Addict wrote:
Mr. McPhee wrote:
Can you post a pic as I am behind a filtered firewall and all I get is a message saying I am trying to look at GAMES
Do you also get a message saying you are trying to look at porn?
Yup and sex and personal photo storage and dating and everything else, damn you work filter!
Oh and that thing is tiny, I dont know I think I will still get a DS
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#11 2005-05-17 6:40 pm
- Jon
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Re: New gameboy
Meh any 9 year old fat kid will put this in their back pocket and sit on it and it will get crushed
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#12 2005-05-17 6:48 pm
- Thunderstruck
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Re: New gameboy
it's the size and weight of an iPod mini.
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#13 2005-05-17 6:53 pm
Re: New gameboy
Thunderstruck wrote:
it's the size and weight of an iPod mini.
which, coincidentally, has also been stuck in back pockets and sat on by fat kids.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#14 2005-05-17 7:32 pm
- Jon
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Re: New gameboy
indeed
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#15 2005-05-17 7:38 pm
- sosumi
- numbery
- Royal Wombat
- From: North Mexico
- Registered: 1999-02-21
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Re: New gameboy
PSP is teh 0wnz.
And the micro seems like it was designed with the college student who likes to play in class in mind.
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#16 2005-05-17 10:37 pm
- Boxcutter
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Re: New gameboy
The original SP is still better designed. Better the the PSP and I own one. Flip up screen always rules.
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#17 2005-05-17 11:04 pm
Re: New gameboy
Boxcutter wrote:
The original SP is still better designed. Better the the PSP and I own one. Flip up screen always rules.
Clamshells are for girls and girly men.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#18 2005-05-17 11:12 pm
Re: New gameboy
I like it's slightly 70sish style..
Very small screen, my digital camera has a 2"; it's small.
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#19 2005-05-17 11:12 pm
- NAG
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Re: New gameboy
Thats why phy has a Bondi Blue iBook.
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#20 2005-05-17 11:13 pm
Re: New gameboy
NAG wrote:
Thats why phy has a Bondi Blue iBook.
Or an LG vx6000. Or an LG vx3100. Or an alarm clock that is a clamshell. Or an eMate 300. Or any laptop. Or...
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#21 2005-05-17 11:22 pm
- Moses
- Life is like a box of Cactuar
- From: The O.C.
- Registered: 2004-12-08
- Posts: 3094
Re: New gameboy
This will go great with my SP and slimmer PS2. Neither of which I actually own.
I can only express puzzlement, which borders on alarm.
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#22 2005-05-18 12:17 am
- TheConfuzed1
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Re: New gameboy
Thunderstruck wrote:
It's just another version of the GBA, I don't think it will play original GB games.
GBA plays all Gameboy games. It's the DS that doesn't play the originals.
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#23 2005-05-18 12:24 am
- Thunderstruck
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Re: New gameboy
My bad
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#24 2005-05-18 12:47 am
- Aqua OS X
- Shark Sandwich
- From: Oakland, CA
- Registered: 2000-06-05
- Posts: 12669
Re: New gameboy
Donovan Osaya wrote:
Boxcutter wrote:
The original SP is still better designed. Better the the PSP and I own one. Flip up screen always rules.
Clamshells are for girls and girly men.
Or for people who don't want to forget to sit on their phone, and accidentally dial their boss at a bar after they just called-in sick.
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#25 2005-05-18 7:26 am
- SonicSamurai
- Tachikoma!
- From: Section 9
- Registered: 2003-01-28
- Posts: 5129
Re: New gameboy
I cant wait until some dope cries out for a bigger screen.
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