NEW ERA
OF PORTABLE VIDEO GAMING ARRIVES IN CANADA ON
JUNE 11 WITH $139.95 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 Canada 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 $139.95.
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), Tweety* and the Magic Jewel
(Kemco), Fortress (Majesco), Iridion 3-D
(Majesco), Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
(Majesco), ChuChu Rocket!* (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 MacDougall,
Nintendo of Canada Ltd, president. "Our
existing portable system, Game Boy* Colour,
remains the fastest-selling video game platform
in Canada, 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 per cent, and
picture resolution by 66 per cent. 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 colours as Game Boy
Colour. 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 colours: Arctic
(white), Glacier (translucent blue), and Indigo
(violet).
As a wholly owned
subsidiary, Nintendo of Canada Ltd. leads the
$650 million video game industry in Canada. From
its headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Nintendo distributes and markets the Nintendo 64
system, and the portable Game Boy Colour - the
world's best-selling video game system.
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