Author Topic: Is Game Boy dead? (Read 46817 times)

Glorb · « **Reply #120 on:** November 29, 2006, 08:41:28 AM »

Well, you may remember Game Boy as the belligerent maniac member who was so belligerent and maniacal that he was banned before he even joined. He was later eaten by a bear, but his family prefers pople just forget about him.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #121 on:** November 29, 2006, 08:32:11 PM »

frostbite wasn't saying the DS was bad, he was saying, why make a system that's not as good as (worse than) the DS?

Quote from: Robert on November 28, 2006, 08:38:12 PM

("Hey, check out the new Game Boy! We're still making DS games, but because we want your money, we're gonna release two handhelds so you can buy games for both!)

Yeah, instead they went "Hey, check out the DS! We're still making GBA games, but because we want your money, we're gonna release two handhelds so you can buy games for both!"

bobman37 · « **Reply #122 on:** November 29, 2006, 09:46:27 PM »

I personally think the Game Boy itself is dead. Most Nintendo fans already have a Game Boy Advance or Nintendo DS. Game Boy Advances have the ability to play any previous Game Boy game, and Nintendo DSes can play Game Boy Advance games, thus making most Game Boys obsolete. As for the production of Game Boy games, I really think the only Game Boy Advance games worth looking at are the Final Fantasy re-releases, and even those are starting to be re-released on the DS. I think Nintendo has pretty much switched gears to the DS, handheld-wise.

There's my opinion. Sorry if I was repeating what someone else said, I was too lazy to read all those pages back there.

Eclipsed Moon · « **Reply #123 on:** November 29, 2006, 09:54:00 PM »

I gave my GBA SP to my sister when I got my DS. Now when I want to play GB and GBC games, I have to use my Game Boy Color. But that's cool because I'd rather play them on there anyway. In conclusion, all I'm lacking is a backlight.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #124 on:** November 30, 2006, 05:49:19 PM »

bobman:
FF3 is the only Final Fantasy remake for DS. 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 are all on GBA.
What do you mean about that, that the only good GBA games ever are the FF remakes?
I can think of a few more that are pretty good...

Robert · « **Reply #125 on:** November 30, 2006, 09:45:01 PM »

Quote from: Chupperson Weird on November 30, 2006, 05:49:19 PM

bobman:
FF3 is the only Final Fantasy remake for DS. 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 are all on GBA.
What do you mean about that, that the only good GBA games ever are the FF remakes?
I can think of a few more that are pretty good...

Actually, I heard from X-Play (A video game review T.V. show) that after the positive sales of FF3 for the DS, Square Enix has expressed intentions to remake some of the other FF titles, as well. But yeah, there still are good games being release for the GBA, such as Drill Dozer, Summon Night and it's sequal and others. I guess it's not entirely over for the GBA.

SushieBoy · « **Reply #126 on:** November 30, 2006, 09:58:27 PM »

I second that, Chup, what about Super Mario Advance? Sonic The Hedeghog Genesis! even though, the Chef says it's bad.

BP · « **Reply #127 on:** December 01, 2006, 01:53:05 AM »

Is The Chef God? No, if you think it's good, that's your opinion. Anyway, you phools phorgot about Mario & Luigi, Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, and some other good ones. I won't name any more, because then there won't be any "some other good ones" that I could think of. Heh.

But the GBA fed off of remakes, mostly. No big deal, I really appreciated being able to play Yoshi's Island without the use of eBay. But as I've said in my previous posts here, coughyes the GBA can be considered dead. Don't leave the GBA games at home though.

Glorb · « **Reply #128 on:** December 01, 2006, 09:43:56 AM »

That's exactly my point, I think. The Game Boy's pretty much dead as a doornail, but that doesn't mean it's forgotten, or that it was a bad system. I mean, the N64 is pretty much decomposing, but that had some great games. I think that only when a system fades away can we truly appreciate its greatness. For example, right now the original Xbox is the equivalent of a senile old man
trying to look hip with ports of year-old PC and PS2 games. But in about eight years - Boom! - the Xbox nostalgia will kick in, right about the time that PS3 starts to become ancient and grow a beard, so that we could complain about the Good Old Days, back when you didn't need to spend $600 on a system and $50 on a controller, you only needed to spend $30 - $40 on a game and $20 on a controller.

SushieBoy · « **Reply #129 on:** December 01, 2006, 02:17:24 PM »

That is what I think, Microsoft completly left the Xbox whe the 360 came out, They can't keep up with systems very much, not like Nintnedo, once the GBA and GCN came out, Nintendo made more games for the 64! Like Paper and Doctor Mario.

Eclipsed Moon · « **Reply #130 on:** December 01, 2006, 02:40:09 PM »

Wrong. They dropped the N64 harder than they ever dropped anything before. And both of those came out before the GameCube.

bobman37 · « **Reply #131 on:** December 01, 2006, 09:25:27 PM »

Quote from: Chupperson Weird on November 30, 2006, 05:49:19 PM

bobman:
FF3 is the only Final Fantasy remake for DS. 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 are all on GBA.
What do you mean about that, that the only good GBA games ever are the FF remakes?
I can think of a few more that are pretty good...

I realize that FF3 is the only DS remake, what I'm saying is there are potentially more in the future.

I never said the only good GBA games EVER are FF remakes... just, the ones being released currently. It's all opinion, anyway.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #132 on:** December 02, 2006, 12:44:20 AM »

Well I might agree with you there. Of course, GBA games are barely a trickle now.

SushieBoy · « **Reply #133 on:** December 02, 2006, 10:12:07 AM »

Hmmmm, *play the cheetah girls on GBA* this is a disgrace to the gaming world, I'm insulted!

Metal Sonic v2.0 · « **Reply #134 on:** December 03, 2006, 01:34:43 AM »

I'm sure that 500 million other people have thought of this already, but I think that an adapter should be officially released by Nintendo, which could be inserted into a (for example) Game Boy micro and allow it to play original Game Boy and Game Boy Color games (and possibly even package it with the micro). If that ever happened, I would actually buy a micro. If it's impossible, then asses to me.