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| The Big Bad
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|  "Pictures of the new GBA"
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Gamespot has the article! With Pics!
Link Here
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| Grave
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| "Re(2):Backlit GBA?" , posted Tue 7 Jan 12:09
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meh, call me old fashion or stupid but I just don't like it.
I don't like the clam shell shape and I've never had a problem with lighting (unless I played in a place that had no light sources, but that's my fault)...
See, I was okay with my GBA too, but I'm willing to pay for an improvement when I see one. I had a GBA since a little before the US launch, and besides the lighting problem, I liked it a lot. Now some of my friends have them, and multiplayer games on it are AWESOME. Especially at work, hehe.
This is a big thing to me not only because of the light, but the size. I carry a lot of crap around in my pockets, and if I had to choose between iPod for music in study halls and whenever, or my GBA, I'll usually take my iPod because it's smaller and more comfortable to carry. Plus, that's a whole hell of a lot of music.
Plus, if I buy this, I can keep my old GBA at home... for use as a controller for the GC GB Player!  Clever plot, Nintendo. Very clever!
This new one doesn't appear to support the e-Reader, though, so it's probably not for everyone. But I can see why they're releasing it... I know I want one.
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| Grave
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| "Re(3):Backlit GBA?" , posted Tue 7 Jan 18:02
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looks neat! i'm a bit irritated at the moment to read any of the articles, but so far it looks awesome
only two things worry me about it: the headphones thing that Omar posted and the "front-lit" thing that Ven mentioned
still looks nice. let's see what happens with it
The headphone thing certainly bothers me, I hope the adapter for them is tiny and unobtrusive. However, the frontlight is a GOOD thing. If you've ever seen a GBA with an Afterburner in it, you can understand why. I don't know if there's a technological reason for why they chose a frontlight over a backlight, but I do know that it looks damn good. Not at all as washed out as, say, a Game Gear's backlit screen. But we're talking two entirely different kinds of screens, and..
Blah. I don't know, but Gamespot has hands on impressions, and they say it's good. I'll be throwing my cash down in March to see for myself, I guess.
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| Time Mage 1144th Post
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| "Re(4):Pictures of the new GBA" , posted Wed 8 Jan 05:55
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Probably easy to break too. After thinking a bit, the clam design and its small size is making me uneasy.
Easy to break, that's what I think, yes. Also, maybe more difficult to play with it, since the buttons and d-pad are too near now, about GB distance. That can be a pain when playing fighting games. And the design, I just don't like it, but that's subjetive.
On the good side, there's the light, of course, and also the fact that, being clam-type, the screen will be more protected. I have my GBA screen scratchless (is that a word? :P), but I have to be very carefull sometimes. There's also the size once closed, that makes it very easy to carry...
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| Sensenic
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| "Re(5):Pictures of the new GBA" , posted Thu 9 Jan 00:02
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Probably easy to break too. After thinking a bit, the clam design and its small size is making me uneasy.
Easy to break, that's what I think, yes. Also, maybe more difficult to play with it, since the buttons and d-pad are too near now, about GB distance. That can be a pain when playing fighting games. And the design, I just don't like it, but that's subjetive.
On the good side, there's the light, of course, and also the fact that, being clam-type, the screen will be more protected. I have my GBA screen scratchless (is that a word? :P), but I have to be very carefull sometimes. There's also the size once closed, that makes it very easy to carry...
Agreed, thanks for explaining things for me  .
I don't see its design that ugly though, could be better but it's nice for me.
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This sounds awesome! 
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