Portable Gameplay Advances On U.S. With Debut of Game Boy Advance; New Handheld System Arrives in U.S. Today with Slate of 17 Titles.Business Editors/Technology Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2001 It's a Boy! Nintendo's wildly anticipated Game Boy(R) Advance handheld system is available now and can be everywhere you are this summer. The new portable handheld launches today with 17 new titles designed specifically to demonstrate its breakthrough performance, headlined by Nintendo icon Mario in Super Mario(R) Advance and the high-flying racing action of F-ZERO(R): Maximum Velocity. More than 60 Game Boy Advance games This is a list of games for the Game Boy Advance handheld game system, organized alphabetically by name. This includes games released in the US, Japan, and Europe for the system. will be available by this holiday season. Game Boy Advance launched in Japan on March 21, 2001, selling 1.6 million units in its first five weeks. "Because of the strong game community we have built with our online customers, we get an early read on what gamers want, and we see strong demand for Game Boy Advance from fans of all ages," says John Sullivan, vice president and general merchandise manager, Toysrus.com. "Subscriptions to our 'Nintendo Delivers' e-mail program jumped significantly when we began featuring Game Boy Advance pre-order opportunities, contests, exclusive code and news. We're ready to deliver on one of the hottest items of the year." Game Boy Advance carries a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $99.95, while new game software retails for between $29.95 and $39.95. Nintendo projects shipments of 23 million units worldwide by March 31 of next year. "Game Boy Advance sets a new standard in portable entertainment," says Peter Main, executive vice president, sales and marketing, Nintendo of America Inc. "In fact, we expect it to expand on our dominance in this category with sales of up to 1 million units in the first three weeks." Game Boy Advance decisively breaks the existing boundaries for handheld video gameplay, boosting screen size by 50 percent. Game Boy Advance actually delivers a sharper picture than current 32-bit and 64-bit consoles playing on a 27-inch television. Game Boy Advance displays more than 500 times as many on-screen colors and is several dozen times as powerful as Game Boy Color The Game Boy Color (ゲームボーイカラー . The system is backward compatible with existing Game Boy and Game Boy Color software. With select multi-player software titles, four Game Boy Advance units can be linked together by optional cables offering four-way gameplay with all four players using a single game cartridge. In addition, the unit itself is capable of being used as a discrete controller for the upcoming NINTENDO GAMECUBE console. Other titles debuting today with the system include: Army Men(R)Advance (3DO), Pinobee: Wings of Adventure (Activision), Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (THPS), released as Tony Hawk's Skateboarding in Europe, is a skateboarding video game, and the first in the Tony Hawk's series. 2 (Activision), Super Dodge Ball Advance Super Dodge Ball Advance is a sports game for the Game Boy Advance based on the Nintendo Entertainment System game Super Dodge Ball. External links
THQ Territorial Headquarters THQ Tehsil Headquarters (Pakistan) THQ The Holy Quran THQ Theater Headquarters ) and Rayman Advance (Ubi Soft). Game Boy Advance is available in three colors: Arctic (white), Glacier (translucent blue), and Indigo (violet). A fourth color, Fuchsia, will be available on June 25, 2001. As the worldwide leader and innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co. Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its popular home video game systems. The systems include Game Boy, Nintendo(R) 64, Game Boy Advance and the upcoming NINTENDO GAMECUBE(TM). Since the release of its first home video game system in 1985, Nintendo has sold more than 1.4 billion video games worldwide, creating enduring industry icons such as Mario(TM) and Donkey Kong(R) and launching such franchises as Zelda(TM) and Pokemon(R). As a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Game Boy Advance or any other Nintendo product visit the company's Web sites, www.nintendo.com or www.gameboyadvance.com. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.061101/bb6 |
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