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I'd have to delete the entire poll and create it again to do that, so I'd rather not.

Um Natural Violence? You either love portable gaming or you are spamming.

Voted GBA. I was never more excited about a piece of gaming hardware than that. I read about it in Nintendo Power (it was a feature story) and I flipped out. I loved the Game Boy Pocket and Color; when your household only has one TV the family always shares, and your dad wants to watch his football or basketball when you want to play games (and you know who wins that contest), you really appreciate being able to play a handheld anywhere anytime. I was waiting for the GameBoy's next stage even before Nintendo announced it. When I saw the quality the games promised (my first thoughts were of a pocket-sized SNES) and I saw the upcoming library it was settled as far as I was concerned; I was getting a GBA.

It was the first handheld/videogame hardware that I ever bought with my own money. Saved up for months to get $150 (100 for the system, 30 for Super Mario Advance, the rest was for sales tax) and I bought it as soon as I could (within the 1st week it sold). My friends got it around the same time I did, so we spent that whole summer sitting on the curb sharing games and playing.

There're really just too many titles for it that I found highly entertaining (Mega Man Battle Network series, Mega Man Zero series, Metroid: Zero Mission & Fusion, Golden Sun 1 & 2, Advance Wars, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, LoZ: The Minish Cap, Ecks vs. Sever 1 & 2, Sonic Advance series, and more...) It's no surprise to me that the GBA managed to help pull Nintendo through sales-wise for the 6th Gen. even as the GC sold less than the Xbox or PS2. Best memories come from playing Mega Man Battle Network 2 with my friend, especially via the Link Cable (I always won our battles )

It's a shame to see my GBA in the shape it's in today. Just sits on the floor, unprotected, where once I was afraid of letting the slightest bit of dust or moisture around it. The screen's cracked, a result from no linger caring to put it in its little pouch-case. It only gets used in the "Mario Kart Marathon Madness" me and my sister play each December (we play all of the Mario Karts chronologically, all courses, all day) and we need a GBA to hook up to the GameBoy Player. I once sat down to play Game & Watch Gallery 4, out of idleness. Such an old game that I almost hasn't touched it a decade, yet I still found myself almost getting late for work. I played the DS just as much, but it doesn't have the teenage memories of growing up in the 6th Gen.

Wow, you went the wrong way this time. Nintendo DS and the Nintendo DSi play the same games; they are the same console. Same for the Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, and Game Boy Micro. And PSP and PSP Go (no one liked that thing but homebrewers). You learned the wrong lesson from my console listing!

Want to pad your list a bit? Hehehe you know I can help. Microvision (the very first handheld), Atari Lynx, Sega Genesis Nomad (though hardly portable, it counts), WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color/SwanCrystal, TurboExpress (PC Engine GT), Game.com (touchscreen and internet access in 1997! totally sucked), Gizmondo, Neo Geo X, and of course, the ultimate handheld of all, the Nokia N-Gage . There is also the ones, as NaturalViolence would put it, that no one cares about: Hartung Game Master, Gamate, Mega Duck (Cougar Boy), Entex Select-A-Game, Entex Adventure Vision, Leapster Learning Game System (sadly it counts), Leapster2, GameKing I/II/III/221/222/Handy Game (sheesh), Tapwave Zodiac, and well there's more but I'm bored.

DS can't play DSiWare, the few DSi exclusive games, won't get the extra features on DSi enhanced games, and the faster CPU probably makes some homebrew apps better. DSi can't play GBA games natively (not sure how good gbaemu4DS is).

I had alot fun memories with the GBA

(02-21-2013, 03:08 PM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]when your household only has one TV the family always shares, and your dad wants to watch his football or basketball when you want to play games (and you know who wins that contest), you really appreciate being able to play a handheld anywhere anytime.

Now there is the WiiU :3

(02-21-2013, 03:08 PM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]It's a shame to see my GBA in the shape it's in today. Just sits on the floor, unprotected, where once I was afraid of letting the slightest bit of dust or moisture around it. The screen's cracked, a result from no linger caring to put it in its little pouch-case.

I droped my GBA in a bucket of water once , after a few days it dried out and worked purfect XD

I've had tamagotchis go thorough the washing machine. They all lived.

My GBA was stolen in school i'll never forget the name or face of the no. 1 suspect, curse you solomon, wherever you are, i know its been 10 years but i still cant let it go.

My GBA is in perfect shape . Well, minus the battery door latch, but that's just old plastic. Not a scratch on it. I saved up for months as a kid, doing chores to get it. Got it on launch day, and loved it for years and years. My PSP and DS just weren't the same for me.