Sentences with phrase «handheld game boy»

Yet Advance Wars managed to balance simplicity and depth so adeptly that it was able to cram a fantastically addictive strategy game into the handheld Game Boy Advance.

The firm, led by president Hiroshi Yamauchi, nearly owned the entire industry after the massive success of its 1983 Famicom console (released as the NES in America), and from the blockbuster handheld Game Boy, released in 1989.

Not exact matches

Nintendo, in particular, has been posting heavy losses — $ 366 million in 2012 — as quick, casual games on smartphones have displaced its Game Boy 3DS handheld.

So will beepers and watches and handheld digital assistants and, who knows, Game Boy Colors and Tamagotchis and dog collars and probably handguns too.

Nintendo's Game Boy, the grandpappy of today's handheld systems, celebrates its 25th birthday today!

Since the first Ace Attorney launched on the Game Boy Advance back in 2001, Nintendo handhelds have been the home for every one of Capcom's new lawyering adventures.

The Game Boy Color port was similarly praised for taking a graphically - impressive title and porting it to the platform in a complete and technically competent form, in contrast to other unsuccessful attempts at directly porting home console games to handhelds.

Stereoscopic handheld to launch February 2011 in Japan, March 2011 for US / Europe; price pegged at ¥ 25,000 ($ 299) in home nation; to include Game Boy Virtual Console.

The handheld will also feature a Virtual Console service for Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles, while several classic N64 titles will be re-released with 3D support.

Fusion not only met the standards of its lofty predecessors, but wholeheartedly exceeded the expectations of what a handheld experience, not to mention the Game Boy Advance specifically, was capable of.

Her first adventure bowed on Game Boy Color (and is worth a pretty penny) and she's predominantly been getting into trouble on almost every Nintendo handheld and home console ever since.

It's widely known that Microsoft at some point during its early days breaking into the games console business considered a handheld device to compete with Nintendo's then - current Game Boy Advance... Read More

The first two handheld Mario Tennis titles feature role - playing game elements, where the player controls a young boy or girl character who has enrolled at the Royal Tennis Academy and must set out to become the top - ranked player there, enter a tournament called «The Island Open» to challenge other tennis champions from elsewhere in the world, and afterward travel to the Mushroom Kingdom to challenge its stars, ending with a match against the game world's greatest tennis player of all, Mario.

Various other games have RPG elements fused into them, but are not traditional RPGs in the sense the aforementioned series are, such as some of the handheld Mario Tennis and Mario Golf games; namely Mario Tennis and Mario Golf for the Game Boy Color, Mario Tennis: Power Tour and Mario Golf: Advance Tour for the Game Boy Advance, and Mario Golf: World Tour for the Nintendo 3DS.

It has been the whipping boy of critics and outraged gamers since day one, and with every sales figure update or release schedule revision, many are keen to pounce on the handheld and declare it «dead».

It was originally released for the Game Boy back in 1991, making it the first handheld installment in the series.

The Nintendo Switch is essentially a hybrid console meant to bridge the gap between portable handhelds like the Game Boy and traditional systems like the Nintendo Wii.

Still no plaza tickets... and darn, today's hats are Nintendo handhelds (Game Boy, Virtual Boy, GBA and Nintendo DS) pic.twitter.com/uzdB 7FVQRF

I have the GB Boy Colour and have to say that it's an excellent handheld for its price and playing GBC games with a backlit screen on a handheld that resembles the original in its form factor is a game changer.

The SmartBoy is compatible with actual NTSC / PAL Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges, while sporting a classic - style tactile button set, making the SmartBoy look and feel like a real handheld gaming console.

It was designed by Gunpei Yokoi, who was the inventor of the Game & Watch and Game Boy handhelds, who was also the general manager of Nintendo's R&D 1.

Before the DS, before Game Boys, and even before games on phones, the handheld gaming device everyone had to get their hands on was Nintendo's Game & Watch unit.

I made a point to get Super Mario Land for my Game Boy as soon as possible since I needed a Mario game on my handhGame Boy as soon as possible since I needed a Mario game on my handhgame on my handheld.

The run up to Christmas 2003 is an exciting time for the Game Boy Advance with many fantastic new releases on the way, bringing the total catalogue of games available for the handheld console to over 400.

Comparing this to other systems in Nintendo's history, the NES sold over 61.9 million systems worldwide, the Super NES had sales of over 49.1 units, the first Game Boy sold over 118.6 million handhelds, and the Wii has sold over 101.5 million units.

The Game Boy was the original handheld system, the one that started the interest with playing games on the go.

Releasing a Mario game to launch the Game Boy was a no - brainer, and with the handheld's seldom - approached success, it only makes sense that Super Mario Land would rack up sales numbgame to launch the Game Boy was a no - brainer, and with the handheld's seldom - approached success, it only makes sense that Super Mario Land would rack up sales numbGame Boy was a no - brainer, and with the handheld's seldom - approached success, it only makes sense that Super Mario Land would rack up sales numbers.

Produced between 1999 and 2001 by SNK (producers of the Metal Slug series), it was a small handheld designed to compete with the Game Boy Color.

And for the time, Super Mario Land was a nice introduction for the series into the handheld market, though time has revealed that Mario compromised a lot in the transition to the Game Boy's launch.

Nintendo's Game Boy, the grandpappy of today's handheld systems, celebrates its 25th birthday today!

Not only because I'm a lifelong sucker for both handheld gaming and two - dimensional platforming, but the criminally underrated Game Boy adventure has long been one of my favorite series entries to date due to its emotional ending and countless contributions to the series» lore.

Now, the revolutionary first person shooter has made its way to an unlikely handheld, the Game Boy Color.

It's creeping up on Game Boy Advance's lifetime total of 81.51 million units sold, but it has a long way to go to compete with Nintendo's top dog in the handheld world.

Shortly after the launch of the Game Boy and throughout the 90's, fans of Nintendo products might have noticed something a little bit strange in advertisements for the handheld gaming juggernaut.

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Tags: Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, Handheld Gaming, Riddles» Handheld Journey, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Posted in Handheld Gaming Week

Like other «90s - era Game Boy rivals, the Nomad just couldn't compete, and its failure pushed Sega out of the handheld gaming industry for good.

Game Boy color was my first handheld.

To summarize, in part 1, both Ethan and myself talked about the past generations of handhelds, up to and including Nintendo's original beast of a Game Boy.

The Game Boy Advance was barely three years old before the Nintendo DS came out so there's precedent for Nintendo replacing a handheld rather quickly.

Save me Mr Tako: Tasukete Tako - San was designed by French indie developer Christophe Galati as a heartfelt homage to the many games he loved to play on Nintendo's original Game Boy ® handheld console.

The spin - off was designed to take advantage of the GameCubes propensity for four - player action, along with the consoles newfound ability to communicate with Game Boy Advance handhelds.

That's presuming the famed animation house would create a game for a 2008 film like Ponyo on a 1998 handheld like the Game Boy Cogame for a 2008 film like Ponyo on a 1998 handheld like the Game Boy CoGame Boy Color.

The Nintendo Switch is essentially a hybrid console meant to bridge the gap between portable handhelds like the Game Boy and traditional systems like the Nintendo Wii.

At first, I hesitated to suggest a Game Boy Classic as the next logical thing, because the Game Boy is a handheld, and putting screens on these things would probably be prohibitively expensive.

The Game Boy Advance SP, for example, was the first Nintendo handheld to feature a front - lit display and a clam shell design.

This cartridge is designed exclusively for use with the Game Boy Advance handheld.

There's more to handhelds than the Game Boy.

As part of their attempt to hold their rediscovered handheld success, Nintendo released several Mario games on the Game Boy Colour.

Due to the lack of solid games and the handheld's ability to munch through six AA batteries in less than five hours, the Game Gear didn't sell nearly as much as Nintendo's Game Boy.