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| Steven Folberg 2004-09-18, 6:45 am |
| Hi!
Just got my first Nintendo product ever, a GBA SP. (On sale at Fry's for
$69.... I couldn't refuse!) Glad to see this forum exists! I'm excited about
the GBA; I haven't been deeply into video games for about ten years. I cut
my teeth on the Sega Master System and then the Genesis. I actually love
side-scrolling platform games, shooters, and action-RPG's (anybody remember
Wonder Boy In Monster World? Took me a better part of a year to beat that).
I actually don't enjoy 3D games very much.
My first two purchases with the GBA are Iridion II (from what I've read on
review sites, possibly the best space shooter on the GBA -- any other
suggestions??) and R-Type III, which I'm on my way to return unopened since
all the review sites say it's a really awful port of the SNES version.
Any other shooter recommendations?
I'd also like to get recommendations for platformers -- I hear the new Astro
Boy game is a hoot.
Thanks, everybody,
Steve
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| Steven Folberg 2004-09-19, 6:47 am |
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On 9/14/04 1:15 PM, in article 41473542$0$2668$61fed72c@news.rcn.com, "John
Salerno" <johnjsal@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
quote:
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> Well, my first recommendation to anyone who likes action/rpg is the two
> zelda oracle games. They are GBC games, not GBA, but you can still play them
> and they are just excellent. A new zelda game is coming out soon, too, for
> GBA.
>
>
Great tip, John, thanks. I haven't really considered GBC games since I tend
to go for maximum eye candy, and assumed GBA-native games would be better in
that arena.
Steve
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| Mike Tyndall 2004-09-21, 12:48 am |
| > > Well, my first recommendation to anyone who likes action/rpg is the two
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> Great tip, John, thanks. I haven't really considered GBC games since I
tend
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> to go for maximum eye candy, and assumed GBA-native games would be better
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> that arena.
If you're willing to venture into GBC territory, then I highly recommend
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. It's the original SMB (which was awesome), plus
the unreleased (in America on the NES, anyway) SMB2/Lost Levels, plus a cool
mode where you run through the levels finding things like red coins and
aiming for point targets. Great game 
//mike tyndall
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