Seven years ago Banpresto developed Super Robot Taisen Advance, which brought mecha from Nadesico and Gundam together for the first time. On June 19th, the Game Boy Advance game is getting is a facelift when it becomes a PlayStation Portable…

  Last year, I discovered an ESRB rating for Samurai Deeper Kyo, which was likely related to the anime series and a Game Boy Advance game published by Marvelous Interactive in Japan at the tail end of 2002. Without even…

While the Nintendo DS is popular in Korea, the Game Boy Advance was never officially released there. However, the PC is king and there are plenty of available emulators available that can play GBA games. Perhaps, one publisher (pirate?) saw…

Visteon modified their Game Boy Advance automobile entertainment console and crammed it into the back of a headrest. The screen looks crisp, but it is unfortunately it uses the same awkward triangle shaped controller, which looks like one a large…

Kitsune Sniper pointed out something (thanks!!) I was absolutely unaware of. Atari snapped up the rights for Shin-Chan and released two Game Boy Advance games in Europe. Most European games get a multi-language release, but not the Shin-Chan games. Atari only…

Three years ago Banpresto released a Shin-Chan game ripe with movie parodies. Crayon Shin-Chan: Arashi wo Yobu Cinema Land no Daibouken is a basic platformer where you take Shin through an action bastard themed first stage and jump on enemies.…

Nintendo has a small, but legal presence in mainland China under a different moniker. All of the products get an iQue sticker on them and once in a blue moon a new game comes out in Chinese. I think the…

The collective community of Mother/Earthbound fans at Starmen.net banded together to launch a campaign to bring Mother 3 outside of Japan. For the past few weeks members have been mailing envelopes to Nintendo with Earthbound fan art, circulating Earthbound propaganda posters…

Destineer is quickly becoming a new home for anime licensed titles. They released Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy and according to the ESRB it looks like they picked up a Samurai Deeper Kyo game for the GBA. There is a market…

Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix + was just released today in Japan and it comes with a bonus disc with a remake of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. The PS2 remake moves Chain of Memories into 3D and it has…

After the whole GDC was over I strolled around San Francisco in search of a go board. While wandering around I stumbled upon a shop with a massive supply of pirated Game Boy Advance multicarts sitting in the display counter.…

Three games won prizes in the entertainment division in the 10th annual Japan Media Arts Festival. Rhythm Tengoku, Wario’s musical microgame collection for the GBA, and Shaberu! DS Oryouri Navi, the DS cooking guide earned excellence prizes. The grand prize…