[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Wardad:
Game Boy - It defines the handheld game market.
Game Boy dominated the market by having a large number of popular game titles and a lower cost of ownership (cheaper games and the batteries Lasted longer).

[rant]Personally I am pretty peeved at the Gameboy people right now. My ten year old son scrimped and saved his pennies for months cause he wanted a Gameboy, so he got an Advance. A bigger P.O.S. I have never seen produced by what is supposed to be a reputable company. I can't understand how anybody buys these things. Actually I do know. People are stupid like me and plunk their money down assuming since it's from Nintendo it will be useable and then Nintendo won't give you your money back and wont let the stores give you your money back if the box has been opened. Cause they know if they do they won't make a damn cent off these things.

The screen is absolutly not viewable unless you are in very bright light conditions, and then you get a glare from the reflection off the screen. The various add on lights are just a way to get another ten bucks form you and are just as worthless.

All the money they spent on the 32 bit processing and graphic power is useless without a freaking backlight Nintendo. So what if the batteries Last longer? Of course the batteries Last longer if you can only play the game for 30 minutes a day when the sunlight is the brightest.

Shame on them. Battery life shmatery life. Put a backlight in the damn thing and make the game take 4 AA's instead of 2. Why is that so hard to figure out?

Fortunatly there is a company that sells an aftermarket kit to add a backlight to the game. It's another 25 bucks, but since Nintendo won't give me my money back and the stupid game boy is useless without it I will buy it. I'll tell you this though if I had to buy the kit from Nitendo I'd sooner chop the damn thing up into little pieces and mail it to them postage due then give them another dime.[/rant]

Phew, I feel better.

Geoschmo

[ March 02, 2003, 14:53: Message edited by: geoschmo ]