Lik-Sang recently reported on a third-party original NES adapter for the GameBoy Advance SP. Apaprently it was developed by a Taiwanese manufacturer and was featured recently at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair. The product is already being produced and we recently found it on eBay for under $50 including shipping.
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Sony has officially announced the release date of it’s Play Station 3 Console. It will be arriving Spring 2006 for an estimated cost of $300. Some gamers are speculating the price will be more as it comes with a few new surprises including 2 HDMI ports. The PS3 will use the Blue-Ray disc technology with the ability of holding over 50GB of data on a single DVD media.
November 1, 2005 is the release date for Star Wars: Battlefront II the sequel to the best selling Star Wars game of all time: Star Wars: Battlefront. It’s successor looks to have bigger maps including larger flight areas for air and space vehicles. The graphics look only slighty improved but there are many new vehicles and battle scenarios–so we think it will be great. Pop on over to Lucasart’s Star Wars Battlefront II site to take a look.
Atari has announced it’s return to the retro gaming market with their new Atari Flashback 2.0. Inspired by the recent rash of TV Games, Atari has decided to cash in on the retro gaming craze by releasing this sequel to their succesful Atari Flashback machine. The original flashback featured the hokey 7800 joysticks which no one ever liked and often broke. It sported a 20 game variety of 7800 and 2600 games. The new Atari Flashback 2.0 will look just like the beloved Atari 2600 albeit a smaller scale, but has a real Atari 2600 ROM in it as well as real 2600 joysticks. In fact, you should be able to swap out your original sticks if you like–it’s the same pin-out! It will have 40 games in all, 20 classic and 20 new. All of us ancient Atari fans are drooling to find out what the new ones are.
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