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The Clarion \ Jan. 25, 2008
An ode to the
green screened
portable wonder
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by BJ Wanlund
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Ah, the Nintendo Game
Boy. Anyone who was
around at that time who was
a kid remembers the original
monochrome-screened
white-cased Game Boy with
the D-pad and the purple A
and B buttons.
I certainly do, and while I
love my DS, I still pine for
the old days when purple
buttons were all the rage, and
portable games didn’t require
ultra-flashy graphics, ultra-
innovative gameplay
methods, and ultra-cool in
game music to succeed wildly
in the marketplace.
Games like Super Mario
Land, Daedalian Opus, Tetris
(the pack-in), Kirby’s Dream
Land, Donkey Kong, Dr.
Mario, Yoshi (called Mario
and Yoshi everywhere else),
Yoshi’s Cookie, Mario’s
Picross, Blades of Steel,
Pokemon, and many, many
other wild, weird, and
wonderful games defined an
entire generation.
And Game Boy is now
fading into the simset, thanks
to the wildly successful (in
today’s terms) Nintendo DS.
However, the Game Boy
brand is still (for now)
sharing a part of the
spotlight. The part of the
spotlight that the Game Boy
brand holds is quickly fading
into nothing, but those of us
who fondly remember the
original Game Boy will
always remember that
portable, whether or not it
was our first portable system.
If you want an original
Game Boy currently, good
luck finding a working model
on eBay. You’re probably
better off getting a Game Boy
Advance SP or a boxed
original Game Boy. The DS
does NOT play original Game
Boy games unless you’re
willing to use a Game Boy
Advance flash cart and put
the Game Boy games on a
memory card, modifying it
just a little bit so that you can
actually save your progress,
although most Game Boy
games don’t have a way to
save your progress, as this
was only for certain games,
like Final Fantasy Legend 1,
2, & 3, Pokemon, Kid Icarus:
Of Myths & Monsters, The
Legend of Zelda: Link’s
Awakening, and others of that
ilk.
It was really low of
Nintendo to not offer
backwards compatibility with
Game Boy and Game Boy
Color titles in any of the two
DS models that are out so far.
But, maybe we’ll begin to see
their logic when the new
Game Boy Downloadable
Channel debuts, whether on
the Wii as part of the
forthcoming Everybody’s
Nintendo Channel or on a
special DS game card that
relies strictly upon the
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
service built into the DS, with
downloading Game Boy &
Game Boy Color games (with
original green screens) to a
special GBA card that comes
with it, or whether a newer-
tech version of the original
Game Boy will appear with a
Single mattress and box spring.
Great condition—new. $100 obo.
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Wi-Fi connection not unlike
Amazon’s Kindle, where you
can think of a Game Boy
game, and download it
practically automatically with
Nintendo Wireless
Connectivity, along with a
free game every week to try
out, along with the games that
you buy.
Looking into the future, as
I try to see how much money
a company like Nintendo can
still make from arguably its
biggest moneymaker is like
having your fortune told
without a crystal ball in sight.
I honestly have no idea what
Nintendo will do to extend the
Game Boy brand once again,
or if they’ve officially
abandoned the Game Boy
forever.
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