Posted: 4:57 PM - Mar 25, 2001
this really isn't a GAME review, but i thought it would belong here best.
so i got my GBA recently, but after three days, i realized i only spent two hours playing it. that's significantly less than what i was planning on spending with it before i bought it, and here are the reasons for it.
so let me start with the negatives.
firstly, the GBA uses passive TFT display for the screen. what this means is that unlike the Game Gear, like the original gameboy, the GBA requires lighting on the screen to actually be able to see the screen.
so you can't play it in the dark, and to make things worse, the first game i bought is castlevania, which naturally consists mostly of dark screens. so i'm finding my eyes getting quickly tired when playing the game.
i was originally planning on playing it mostly on my subway trips, and times spent in starbucks waiting for my buddies, lighting in those places tend to be less than appropriate for the passive TFT screen. (not bright enough)
and while i COULD just sit on my desk to play it (with better lighting, of course), to be honest, if i'm at home, i'd rather spend time on my PS2 than this handheld machine.
yeah, so there goes my biggest complaint with my new toy.
but OTHER than that, i think the machine is great. people ask me how the games are, and simply put, it's a SNES that you can carry around. the graphics are great, and the sound (especially with earphones) is more than good enough.
castlevania seems to have a lot of great music, and i really feel like i am playing my PSX castlevania as i am playing it.
besides, what could be better than intimidating 13 year old kids on the street with your GBA? (MWAHAHA, i'm old and have a machine that your parents won't buy for you until X-mas!)
but for now, i really can't say for sure if this machine was worth my money. mostly because of the screen that i already spent three paragraphs complaining about. but this could easily change once some of my friends buy the GBA and play F-Zero against me.
so there goes another short-ass "review" for the GBA.
=P
[Edit: just fixing the broken image links...![]()
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so i got my GBA recently, but after three days, i realized i only spent two hours playing it. that's significantly less than what i was planning on spending with it before i bought it, and here are the reasons for it.
so let me start with the negatives.
firstly, the GBA uses passive TFT display for the screen. what this means is that unlike the Game Gear, like the original gameboy, the GBA requires lighting on the screen to actually be able to see the screen.
so you can't play it in the dark, and to make things worse, the first game i bought is castlevania, which naturally consists mostly of dark screens. so i'm finding my eyes getting quickly tired when playing the game.
i was originally planning on playing it mostly on my subway trips, and times spent in starbucks waiting for my buddies, lighting in those places tend to be less than appropriate for the passive TFT screen. (not bright enough)
and while i COULD just sit on my desk to play it (with better lighting, of course), to be honest, if i'm at home, i'd rather spend time on my PS2 than this handheld machine.
yeah, so there goes my biggest complaint with my new toy.
but OTHER than that, i think the machine is great. people ask me how the games are, and simply put, it's a SNES that you can carry around. the graphics are great, and the sound (especially with earphones) is more than good enough.
castlevania seems to have a lot of great music, and i really feel like i am playing my PSX castlevania as i am playing it.
besides, what could be better than intimidating 13 year old kids on the street with your GBA? (MWAHAHA, i'm old and have a machine that your parents won't buy for you until X-mas!)
but for now, i really can't say for sure if this machine was worth my money. mostly because of the screen that i already spent three paragraphs complaining about. but this could easily change once some of my friends buy the GBA and play F-Zero against me.
so there goes another short-ass "review" for the GBA.
=P
[Edit: just fixing the broken image links...
]
I'll find the title later.