Nintendo's handheld Gameboy

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Coming this summer to the States is Nintendo's hand-held "Gameboy"
(I don't know if they'll change the name, maybe walkNES??). My brother
brought one back from Japan. It is about 3x5x2 inches in size, has about
a 2-inch square LCD display, and duplicates the controls on the standard
NES pad. It has stereo output (I think only mono on a built in speaker)
through a headphone jack. It takes thin game cartridges that slide into
the top. The game he had (there are only 4 presently available) was a
baseball game which is very similar to one of the regular NES baseball
games. The game complexity and action are very similar to NES but the
display was lacking in my opinion. The main problem is the level of
constrast, making it somewhat difficult to see. In Japan, it costs about
$90 and about $40 for cartridges. I would expect prices to be about half
that here.

Eisuke Muroga
Department of Computer Science | 1304 W. Springfield Ave.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL 61801

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I forgot to mention that if you have a second Gameboy, you can link
them together with a cable and play two-player games.

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Please disregard my estimate of US pricing on the Nintendo Gameboy. I was
doing a rough extrapolation of electronics pricing in US vs Japan. I have
been told that the US price will be over $100.