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  • I was this close to getting a Game Boy Advance.

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #23990  by Torgo
 Fri May 18, 2001 10:30 pm
<div style='font: 9pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>I went around Narita during my 4 hour layover in Japan. When it was getting to close to my departure flight, I stumbled upon this small videogame store. They had a Gameboy Advance for 9800 yen(excluding tax) and games for 2500 to 2700 yen. I only had 9000 in my wallet and the guy wouldn't accept credit cards. Though the nearest ATM was only 5 min away, I didn't have the time to get the money end buy it, especially since the lines at the airport are pretty damn long.</div>

 #23992  by S.Cody2
 Fri May 18, 2001 11:13 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>Aww...You'd kind of mess up buying an import, though.</div>

 #23994  by Torgo
 Sat May 19, 2001 12:28 am
<div style='font: 9pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Not really. Nintendo isn't implementing any foreign lockout devices for the GBA or GC.</div>

 #23995  by S.Cody2
 Sat May 19, 2001 1:31 am
<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>But are you adept at reading Japanese? :)</div>

 #24003  by Torgo
 Sat May 19, 2001 1:48 pm
<div style='font: 9pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Because nothing requires a degree in Japanese like Dodge Ball and F-Zero.</div>

 #24005  by Eric
 Sat May 19, 2001 9:15 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah really! Complex stuff man.</div>

 #24008  by S.Cody2
 Sat May 19, 2001 11:25 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>I wa thinking more along the lines of the Lufia sequel.</div>

 #24011  by Torgo
 Sun May 20, 2001 12:53 am
<div style='font: 9pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Of course, I'll have to wait for English versions of text heavy games. C'mon Tactics Ogre...</div>

 #24021  by Zeus
 Sun May 20, 2001 2:31 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold", Modern; text-align: left; '>Man, I was THIS close to getting a free Gameboy Advanced. Nintendo was giving out the US ones for FREE every 10 minutes. You had a 1 in 13 chance of winning it. It was nuts.</div>

 #24028  by S.Cody2
 Sun May 20, 2001 8:10 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>Therein lies the bad idea. :)</div>

 #24073  by Crono
 Mon May 21, 2001 11:00 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Totally wrong. You can buy the imports of most of the games much earlier, and very few require reading anything. Then ya buy the text-heavy games like RPG's or Zeldas in America and play them ON the import system.</div>

 #24084  by S.Cody2
 Tue May 22, 2001 6:34 am
<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>TOTALLY THE WRONG! STEP DOWN IN TO SLIM PIMP, CRONO BITCH. ENJOY THE 'TIME BOX'!!!</div>

 #24085  by Torgo
 Tue May 22, 2001 6:42 am
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Easy there, Slick.</div>

 #24117  by S.Cody2
 Wed May 23, 2001 4:06 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>No one will get this reference, so I'm not sure why I made it. :)</div>

 #24120  by Torgo
 Wed May 23, 2001 5:47 pm
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>So it wasn't Sinfest, then? Where be it from, pray tell?</div>