Europe still In the dark as America gets Launch list and price confirmation.
Time to buy your plane tickets.
The Game Boy Advance will be launching in America on June 11th and will retail for $99.95. The games, listed below, will be sold at $29.95 and $39.95.
Nintendo is still to make an announcement about the European launch. Grrrr!
The US launch titles are:
Super Mario Advance
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Army Men Advance
High Heat Major League Baseball 2002
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
Fire Pro Wrestling
Top Gear GT Championship
Tweety and the Magic Jewel
Fortress
Iridion 3-D
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
ChuChu Rocket!
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2
Rayman
"There has never been a portable game system like Game Boy Advance, and never has a game system launched into such a booming market," said Peter Main of Nintendo of America. "Our existing portable system, Game Boy Color, remains the fastest-selling video game platform in America, achieving all-time sales records even 11 years after introduction. Game Boy Advance will set brand new records."
Nintendo also showcased its latest hardware add-on, which comes from camera manufacturer Olympus. The unit will read paper data cards which can hold up to 4’000 bytes of information.
Acting as a memory card-cum-Master System card, the media will be able to hold game saves, character information and mini games.
"This is one of our many innovative and simple ideas which the new console will bring to game players and game software publishers," said Atsuo Asada, Nintendo Executive Vice President. "Game Boy Advance is designed to offer an alternative to users bewildered by all the sophisticated features hyped up for other game machines."
At the press conference, Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s General Manager, confirmed that five classic Nintendo titles were in development, all of which will definitely be released for the console.
They are:
Metroid
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario World
Yoshi’s Island
Yoshi’s Story
Iwata also confirmed that the entire back catalogue of Nintendo NES, SNES and even N64 games were being considered for a GBA re-release.
We will bring you news of the European release as soon as we can squeeze it out of Nintendo and in the meantime, try not to turn green!
Nintendo is still to make an announcement about the European launch. Grrrr!
The US launch titles are:
Super Mario Advance
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Army Men Advance
High Heat Major League Baseball 2002
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
Fire Pro Wrestling
Top Gear GT Championship
Tweety and the Magic Jewel
Fortress
Iridion 3-D
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
ChuChu Rocket!
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2
Rayman
"There has never been a portable game system like Game Boy Advance, and never has a game system launched into such a booming market," said Peter Main of Nintendo of America. "Our existing portable system, Game Boy Color, remains the fastest-selling video game platform in America, achieving all-time sales records even 11 years after introduction. Game Boy Advance will set brand new records."
Nintendo also showcased its latest hardware add-on, which comes from camera manufacturer Olympus. The unit will read paper data cards which can hold up to 4’000 bytes of information.
Acting as a memory card-cum-Master System card, the media will be able to hold game saves, character information and mini games.
"This is one of our many innovative and simple ideas which the new console will bring to game players and game software publishers," said Atsuo Asada, Nintendo Executive Vice President. "Game Boy Advance is designed to offer an alternative to users bewildered by all the sophisticated features hyped up for other game machines."
At the press conference, Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s General Manager, confirmed that five classic Nintendo titles were in development, all of which will definitely be released for the console.
They are:
Metroid
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario World
Yoshi’s Island
Yoshi’s Story
Iwata also confirmed that the entire back catalogue of Nintendo NES, SNES and even N64 games were being considered for a GBA re-release.
We will bring you news of the European release as soon as we can squeeze it out of Nintendo and in the meantime, try not to turn green!
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