The Gameboy has sold more than any other consol, not bad for a system over 10 years old! Selling easily over 100 million units! The Gameboy was never actually very advanced, even at it's launch, typical of Nintendo's brilliance, it was designed for battery life over power. Other systems that tryed to cash into the Gameboys success all failed because of how they tryed to improve on the main "fault" of the Gameboy. The original Gameboy only had a monochromatic screen and whilst a colour screen seems the obvious improvement over the Gboy, all the competition failed. The Gamegear and the Atari Lynx both used a colour screen and were technically far more advanced than the Gboy, but both ate batteries as fast as Homer Simpson in a doh!nut factory. Sure you could plug it into a power supply but doesn't that defeat the purpose of a portable system?

Years later saw the release of the colour Gameboy, Nintendo was just waiting for the right time to release the colour screen, at this time a colour screen was now economical enough to mass produce without a huge price tag and also advanced enough to not use much juice, sure the GBColour was just a stand in for the GBAdvance, but it sold by truck load because of how much of an improvement the screen made, even with old games! The Legend of Zelda 4 was re-released for the GBC launch, Zelda4 was already an immensely popular game on the GB (arguably the best) and even though most GB owners already owned it, the mere thought of playing it in colour was drool-inspiring. Needless to say, this also sold truckloads.

Soon it is time for the release of the GBA, the time has come for Nintendo to release the sequel to the GB, not just a modified GB or a GB with a quirk, the GBA is the first real successor to the Gameboy and of course it looks like it will be HUGE. Again the GBA is not going to be all that powerful, but again Nintendo have waited for the right technology to be affordable and it should launch at bout the price that the GBC launched at and again will have a massive battery life. Most importantly the GBA is backwards compatible with the old GB games, whilst some of you that are reading this may see this last comment as being hypocritical because of how I hassled the PSX2 for being backwards compatible, the handheld market is quite different. With handhelds you only really want one because of portability instead of lugging around two systems, which would just be a huge hassle!

We all know that a system is only as good as it's games and the original gameboy would be no where near as popular and would have died ages ago if not for these games
-Tetris
-Zelda
-Pokemon
Sure there are a lot of really good games, maybe some that are even better, but these games alone would have sold tens of millions of systems! What games are going to be around for the launch of the GBA? The GBA will need it's own exclusive games because even though it plays old games, no one will buy it to play their old games on because they will not be improved at all, sure you may look a bit flasher playing your old games on the GBA, but apart from that? Fortunately Nintendo have the best in-house development ever, but what is actually confirmed? Mario Kart is going to be the big launch title and will defiantly provide an incredibly awesome link up title, especially now that you only need one copy of a game instead of one game per player! Also a GBA specific Zelda is apparently in the works, but apart from that we shall have to wait and see. Expect to see some souped up SNES games to be released though! Starfox is defiantly on the top of my wish list!

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