Comments on: Portable gaming/Santa question

By: mr_snips

mr_snips — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:40:51 +0000

The solution is clear - buy a GBA (or a DS, which I think is supposed to play GBA games as well), and then get this

By: mr_snips

mr_snips — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:38:47 +0000

are you on that, BTW?

Yes - though curiously I only seem to be getting half the messages at the moment:-) (I imagaine more will trickle through eventually...)

By: Martin McCallion

Martin McCallion — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:21:38 +0000

Thanks. Though I’m not really moved by computer games any more. But if I could have a vintage Asteroids machine…

By: asajeffrey

asajeffrey — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:10:35 +0000

Seconded. GBA still appears to rule the pre-teen market. The PSP you buy for yourself.

By: Martin McCallion

Martin McCallion — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:07:57 +0000

Thanks. That’s the impression Frances has been getting in the shops, too, and also what I infer from Paul B’s comments on the B50 list (are you on that, BTW?)

By: mr_snips

mr_snips — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:59:14 +0000

The PSP is much more for grown ups than the GBA or the DS, i.e. it’s twice as expensive and has games like GTA: Liberty City Stories, while the GBA tends more towards Charlie and the Chocolate Factory territory.

By: Martin McCallion

Martin McCallion — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:25:07 +0000

Thanks. Those are the sort of directions we’re looking in, certainly. Is Nintendo considered better (in whatever sense) than Sony, generally? Or is the PSP a whole different kind of beast? From the prices Frances saw, the PSP is a lot more expensive?

By: mr_snips

mr_snips — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:07:22 +0000

Gameboy Advance?

The Nintendo DS is newer (more powerful / more exciting / blah blah blah), but somewhat more expensive and possibly harder to get hold of.