NEW ERA OF
PORTABLE VIDEO GAMING ARRIVES IN U.S. ON JUNE 11
WITH $99.95 PRICE TAG, 15 NEW TITLES
Nintendo®'s
Game Boy® Advance To Further Expand Dominance In
'Anytime-Anywhere' Game Play
"It's like
playing TV video games-in the palm of your
hand!" That consumer response will be
repeated millions of times in America beginning
June 11, when Nintendo's wildly anticipated Game
Boy Advance arrives with a slate of 15 brand new
games designed specifically to demonstrate its
breakthrough performance, headlined by Nintendo
icon Mario in Super Mario Advance. The system
will carry a manufacturer's suggested retail
price of $99.95, while new game software will
retail for between $29.95 and $39.95.
Additional launch
titles include Nintendo's F-Zero®: Maximum
Velocity, as well as the following third-party
games: Army Men® Advance (3DO), High Heat®
Major League Baseball® 2002 (3DO), Tony Hawk's
Pro Skater (Activision), Dodge Ball Advance
(Atlus), Fire Pro Wrestling (BAM), Top Gear GT
Championship (Kemco), TweetyTM and the
Magic Jewel (Kemco), Fortress (Majesco), Iridion
3-D (Majesco), Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
(Majesco), ChuChu Rocket!TM (Sega),
Ready 2 Rumble® Boxing: Round 2 (Midway), and
Rayman (Ubi Soft).
More than 60
exclusive Game Boy Advance titles are expected by
Christmas, and virtually all games sold for
previous Game Boy systems are compatible with the
new hardware.
"There has
never been a portable game system like Game Boy
Advance, and never has a game system launched
into such a booming market," says Peter
Main, executive vice president, sales and
marketing, Nintendo of America Inc. "Our
existing portable system, Game BoyÒ Color,
remains the fastest-selling video game platform
in America, achieving all-time sales records even
11 years after introduction. Game Boy Advance
will set brand new records."
Game Boy Advance
decisively breaks the existing boundaries for
handheld video game play, boosting both screen
size and battery life by 50%, and picture
resolution by 66%. Game Boy Advance actually
delivers a sharper picture than current 32-bit
and 64-bit consoles playing on a 27"
television.
Game Boy Advance
runs 17 times faster and displays more than ten
times as many on-screen colors as Game Boy Color.
It will enable previously impossible scaling,
rotating and transparency effects. Two new
control buttons have been added to the original
Game Boy configuration to allow for more complex
and varied forms of game play. With select
multi-player software titles, four Game Boy
Advance units can be linked together by an
optional cable offering four-way game play with
all four players using a single game cartridge.
In addition, the unit itself is capable of being
used as a discreet controller for the upcoming
Nintendo GameCube console.
Game Boy Advance
will be available in three colors: Arctic
(white), Glacier (translucent blue), and Indigo
(violet).
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