R.I.P. - Game Boy (In name only)

[diskoboy]

Nintendo has finally, officially, retired the Game Boy name.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/16/game-boy-name-may-be-over-and-possible-wiiware-in-2007/

It was nice knowin' ya. :(

[JSoup]

It's ok. We still have a library of a few thousand games (spanning all incarnations of the Gameboy) to keep us warm at night.

On the bright side, the brick doubles as it's own headstone.

[bangtango]

It's ok. We still have a library of a few thousand games (spanning all incarnations of the Gameboy) to keep us warm at night.

On the bright side, the brick doubles as it's own headstone.

It is always worth keeping a brick around because that is the way Tetris was meant to be played. It just isn't the same playing it on other (later) Gameboy models. Actually, I still play a few of the very early GB games on the brick, by choice, like TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan and Super Mario Land.

[JSoup]

Final Fantasy Adventures just doesn't feel right on anything but a brick.

[alxbly]

Who here remembers Nintendo's cautious remarks about the DS when it was first announced; "DS will NOT replace the Game Boy" and "DS will not compete with the Game Boy". I guess we knew that Nintendo couldn't fully support two handhelds.

RIP Game Boy, we had good times. For me the ultimate Game Boy will always be this beauty:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/alxbly/More/scans/handyboy.jpg

LOL

[Barbarianoutkast85]

I cant believe it. No sir I dont like it...

[samael64]

RIP Game Boy, we had good times. For me the ultimate Game Boy will always be this beauty:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/alxbly/More/scans/handyboy.jpg

LOL

I have one of those! And was quite excited to receive it all those years ago!

[neuropolitique]

This is a bad idea.

[swlovinist]

There isnt anything else they could do with the system. They supported the Game Boy line for 18 years. The DS is on track to outsell the game boy line if the current support keeps up. It was time to retire the system.

[bangtango]

This is a bad idea.

I agree.

Plenty of third parties, even if many of them are just B-list or C-list, would have been interested in "keeping the lights on" for a portable system with such a huge user base. Nintendo could have just sat back and let other companies keep it alive with more ports, remakes, the occasional original and yes, even the expected shovelware. It wouldn't have killed Nintendo to do one or two more first party games a year for 2-3 more years either. I don't know how much it costs Nintendo to make the SP's, but I think they could have milked just one more price drop. I suppose it makes sense to retire the name sometime but it wasn't the least bit necessary.

The smartest thing Sony has ever done (gaming related), in my eyes, was to allow their PS1 and PS2 to live for so long. It just makes sense to keep around proven products.

[Chuplayer]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/alxbly/More/scans/handyboy.jpg

STD. We can help you win.

I'm literally rolling on the ground laughing my ass off right now.

[Nesmaster]

STD. We can help you win.

I'm literally rolling on the ground laughing my ass off right now.

You and me both! I looked long and hard to see if that was a photoshop job. LOL

[alxbly]

You and me both! I looked long and hard to see if that was a photoshop job. LOL

It really is that bad and it really is... real! There's one on eBay just now... I'm sorely tempted... LOL

Just so I can say I got an STD from eBay!

[diskoboy]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/alxbly/More/scans/handyboy.jpg

LOL

Talk about overkill...

[retroman]

Say it aint so....now where am i gonna play Dora and Barbie games. Darn.

[GrandAmChandler]

This is a bad idea.

This is a very bad idea.


Also. THIS is the ultimate Gameboy:

http://cache.hebbes.be/mmo/8/385/674/8_-339354514_hoved.jpg

[Rob2600]

Nintendo has finally, officially, retired the Game Boy name.

To quote the first sentence of the article you linked to:

"Nintendo marketing exec. George Harrison says the Game Boy name may be put to rest."

"May" is not the same as "definite."

[Leo_A]

How come some of you are acting like this is a announcement of support for the GBA being discontinued? As far as I know, they're still producing GBA's and theres still games in development.

[neuropolitique]

This is a very bad idea.


Also. THIS is the ultimate Gameboy:

http://cache.hebbes.be/mmo/8/385/674/8_-339354514_hoved.jpg

Please tell me that is yours, Chris. If so we may need to talk about a deal.

*edit* Nevermind, Just noticed that it is the Brit version. oops. :/

[PapaStu]

How come some of you are acting like this is a announcement of support for the GBA being discontinued? As far as I know, they're still producing GBA's and theres still games in development.

Not really. GBA's are gone and dead. SP's are no longer being produced nor are the Micro's. What you see out there is what you're gonna get. Game wise all thats come out (save for FFV) in the last 6 months has been Disney/7th party crap. There is no money to be made for either publishers or Nintendo on this front. And even if people decide to want to make more (which i'm sure they could, just that retailers won't really choose to carry them because they want stuff that sells) they can because DS's have GBA slots.

And how is this such a bad idea? We've been DS'ing it now for over 2 years. The system has something like 350 games on it including many amazing ones. Maybe they were a little heavy handed in killing the name like they did, but they've moved beyond the GameBoy we all can for our modern games as well.

[Push Upstairs]

You and me both! I looked long and hard to see if that was a photoshop job. LOL

STD was an actual company.


The real question is...is the store "BEST" still around? I haven't seen one of those in like 16 years!

[rbudrick]

If the Gameboy name is dead this can only mean that the next system will also have more than one screen. My guess is at least two widescreens, ala PSP, with built-in motion detection, rumble, multi-point touch screens. I dunno, I'm talkng out my ass, don't mind me. The DS has crapload of life left in it yet.

-Rob

[8-bitNesMan]

We've been DS'ing it now for over 2 years.

I know I'm splitting hairs here, but in four scant months it will have been 3 years. I'm sitting here wondering where the time went...

[scooterb23]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70...s/handyboy.jpg

Was there a scene in Transformers I missed??

[monkeysuit]

To quote the first sentence of the article you linked to:

"Nintendo marketing exec. George Harrison says the Game Boy name may be put to rest."

"May" is not the same as "definite."

This guy knows what he's talking about. Give it a few years and I'm sure we will all be floored with the announcement of Nintendo's new Gameboy.

/wishful thinking

[Cryomancer]

DS 2 shall be called "GAME MAN"

ok not really, but hey.

[GrandAmChandler]

Please tell me that is yours, Chris. If so we may need to talk about a deal.

*edit* Nevermind, Just noticed that it is the Brit version. oops. :/

I have two. One boxed and one loose. Both American. PM me.

[Gemini-Phoenix]

Looking at an archived report on Joystiq, I came across the following:

[quote="Joystiq"]"The Revolution will connect with the Game Boy Evolution, but not with the Nintendo DS. Aside from the usual benefits of a controller with a built-in screen, classic Nintendo titles can be downloaded onto the GBE's internal memory for nostalgia on the go. And speaking of nostalgia…"[quote]

So, there may still be a slim chance that we might see a detatchable "Pod" style handheld device that would connect to the Wii and have internal or even removable storage. The basic premise for such a device would be to be able to upload the downloaded Virtual Console games onto it's media (Perhaps an on-board hard-drive, or even flash memory card) so you can play these classic games on the move. A handheld Virtual Console if you will.

Failing that, maybe there would be a market for a device that let you "Rewrite" onto a blank DS cart, to be able to play Virtual Console games on the DS...???

[NE146]

Yep.. if there's one company fully cognizant of it's history, it's Nintendo. They'll pull out from their catalog whatever it may be at the drop of a hat.

Heck, I always considered the DS as the full blown resurrection of the Game & Watch after all (albeit not in name)

[DeputyMoniker]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70...s/handyboy.jpg

Was there a scene in Transformers I missed??


Dead link.

[scooterb23]

Yeah, I just copied and pasted the shortened link from posts above...it was just the Mecha-Handy Boy Game Boy pic again...

[hbkprm]

it's time to move on

[Poofta!]

Who here remembers Nintendo's cautious remarks about the DS when it was first announced; "DS will NOT replace the Game Boy" and "DS will not compete with the Game Boy". I guess we knew that Nintendo couldn't fully support two handhelds.

RIP Game Boy, we had good times. For me the ultimate Game Boy will always be this beauty:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/alxbly/More/scans/handyboy.jpg

LOL



STD... we can help you win... LMFAO.

[MarioMania]

what ever happened to MS Games like Halo on the DS

Talking about MS..Why they don't have a Partnership in the Handheld Market..Begening with the DS & the GBA

[8-bitNesMan]

it's time to move on

HBKPRM: A man of few words, but much action...

[bangtango]

HBKPRM: A man of few words, but much action...

You have to admit he says more in five words than some do in four paragraphs.

[Iron Draggon]

Not really. GBA's are gone and dead. SP's are no longer being produced nor are the Micro's. What you see out there is what you're gonna get. Game wise all thats come out (save for FFV) in the last 6 months has been Disney/7th party crap. There is no money to be made for either publishers or Nintendo on this front. And even if people decide to want to make more (which i'm sure they could, just that retailers won't really choose to carry them because they want stuff that sells) they can because DS's have GBA slots.

And how is this such a bad idea? We've been DS'ing it now for over 2 years. The system has something like 350 games on it including many amazing ones. Maybe they were a little heavy handed in killing the name like they did, but they've moved beyond the GameBoy we all can for our modern games as well.

well GBA's and GBA games aren't exactly dead and gone yet, but they are definitely dying and disappearing now... all the stores are cutting back on their GBA inventories or eliminating them completely... which is a real shame, because the GBA should have just as much life left in it as the DS does...

however Nintendo has never been known to keep anything in their portable lines around for very long... they are constantly releasing new and improved versions of the same old thing when it comes to their handhelds... and I am really surprised that it's worked so well for them for so long... every other hardware company that has tried to hash and rehash the same old shit over and over again has failed miserably, except Nintendo... they still thrive on doing it... GB, GBP, GBC, GBA, GBA SP, GBA SP2, DS, DS Lite, the list goes on and on... in fact I'm also really surprised that they haven't revived the VB yet... if they were to build it to its original design specs, with all 3 colors of LED's instead of just red, I bet that it would leave the DS & the PSP in the dust, or at least it would certainly give them both a run for their money... and surely the price of producing it the way that it was originally designed to be produced has got to be very affordable by now, if cost really was the only reason why they didn't produce it with all 3 colors of LED's in the first place...

[Rob2600]

GB, GBP, GBC, GBA, GBA SP, GBA SP2, DS, DS Lite

You forgot the GB Micro.

[Jorpho]

To quote the first sentence of the article you linked to:

"Nintendo marketing exec. George Harrison says the Game Boy name may be put to rest."

"May" is not the same as "definite."

Indeed.

I pine once again for the quality low-priced GBA titles that seem readily available in the US but entirely absent from Canada, where I might find something decent deep in a pile of licensed crap but still with a $20 price tag attached.