GBA Gaming

With the advancement in technology even the kind of games that children play are getting smarter and more interesting. Earlier kids were confined to play sports or girls would play doll. Later to that, came an era where kids would play video games like Mario and Racing. This marked an ear where technology was even taking over children. As time passed children got hooked to computer and started playing games on computer. Now is the time where kids are getting smarter day by day and Playstations and Gameboys rule their world.

Gameboy is a gaming device, which unlike Playstation and computer doesn’t need space or electric connection. It runs on batteries. To play games on Gameboy it needs to be held in the hand. Initially Gameboy-Nintendo had devised a game called Tetris, which was a brick puzzle, game. This game got a great amount of popularity. The Gameboy with Tetris sold 3 million devices. This Gameboy has four controls: A, B, Select and Start. There is an ON/OFF switch on the top of the device.

After the success of Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo launched Gameboy Color and Game Boy Advance. Game Boy Advance or GBA, as it is popularly known as. It is of 32k bit and was launched in 2001. Games of Pokemon and Mario can be played on this device.

After the success of Game Boy advance, Nintendo launched a few upgraded versions to attract the young adults. They were Game Boy Advance Sp and Game Boy Micro.

Game Boy Advance SP was launched in 2003. This was a sleeker version of Game Boy Advance. The GBA could be connected to other devices via a cable. However it still required the batteries to operate it.

The SP model is more like a notebook. It has a flip top and has a backlight to give it a smarter look. The game boy micro is more like the older version of GBA but it is a sleek black one, which is more fashionable. There are a lot of accessories, which come with all the three models to enhance the capabilities. The accessories are Wireless Adapter, Play-Yan- it a MP3 player for Nintendo. It has a memory card in it. Through this memory card you can download games from Internet and store it in the card. You can also get e-reader and video.

After the success of GBA, many such players have come into the market, but the GBA has attracted most of the attention. Many colors have been launched to attract various segments like pink, silver and blue. You can store 700 games at a time in this. Game Boy Micro is priced at $90 and GBA SP is priced at $80 in the market. The earlier version of GBA has been discontinued.

There are news that they are going to improvise these two versions and launch a more sleek and smart computerized version with higher mega pixel and a built it memory card which will have more storage capacity.

Till then game on.