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News   Gameboy Advance Player Info
- Posted By Francis Bonnet, 01.14.2003

For those of you who have been hiding under a rock for the last few weeks, Nintendo not-so-recently announced that they were developing a peripheral, which allows you to play Gameboy Advance games on your Gamecube. This device, called Gameboy Advance Player, connects to one of the expansion ports on the bottom of the Cube and allows you to insert your GBA cartridge into a special slot (don't read too much into that) and played on your TV either in full screen or with a border (think Super Gameboy). Well, the lucky Japanese have been given a release date of March 21 and a suggested retail price of about $40. Now there's no release date in the U.S. yet, but I'm sure we'll get it here eventually. Of course, if you're impatient you could always import it; there probably isn't going to be any regional lockout since it's only a peripheral, but don't quote me on that. Nothing's known for sure until it's in the public's hands.

Another interesting tidbit is that Japanese peripheral maker, Hori, has announced that they are developing a controller that will be used specifically for the Gameboy Advance Player. The controller, which looks like it goes to the same beauty salon as the Super NES controller, will be dubbed the "Digital Controller" and retail for about $12.50 U.S. dollars. The Digital Controller features NO analog stick since it is being manufactured specifically for the use of GBA games. My only complaint is that the button setup is exactly the same as the Gamecube button setup - it would have been nice if Hori completely ripped-off the Super NES controller and gave us four equally sized face buttons. Instead, we get a half-@$$ed rip-off job that looks like some sort of weird genetic mutation of two different gaming eras. So far there are only two colors - black and purple. You may now click on the thumbnails on the right to view them.

Source: Gamepro