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CAGiversary!
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Well it has finally happened. The Gameboy Advance is done. No more Gameboy Advance systems are being manufactured. No more games are coming out for the system. The DS/GBA thread is about 95% DS talk now. But oh what a ride it was! I remember picking up an import system a couple weeks before they came out in the U.S. My friend was very envious when I whipped out my GBA and had an early released copy of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. "It looks just like the Playstation version" my friend gasped. Well it didn't exactly look like the Playstation version. But it looked damn good, a lot better than any Gameboy or Gameboy Color game. The system was amazing. It was like having a portable Super NES in the palm of my hand. The system introduced us to some great series like Advance Wars and Fire Emblem. It also brought back some memories with classic games such as the Mario Advance Series and the Legend of Zelda Link to the Past. The system only got better with the release of the SP and the SP with backlight. Final production of the GBA SP halted sometime late last summer from what I can tell and no stores have got any new systems in. As far as I can tell the last game ever released in the U.S. was Pet Hamsterz 2 on November 13, 2007 (very exciting). Well here's to ya little buddy. Its been a great 6 or so years of portable gaming! (Oh and if you haven't bought a GBA yet you might as well forget about getting a new one, they are impossible to find and $140 on ebay) What are some of your favorite memories of the GBA?