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Game Forum / Nintendo / Game Boy / December 2003Leapster...this is actually pretty cool
I got a Leapster for my kids this year. I am super impressed with it. The games are well designed from an entertainment point of view even though they are educational. They have a nice polish to them. I think the graphics are interestingly unique as well. Maybe its due to the macromedia flash abilities. Laugh if you want but if this handheld had decent flash type games for older kids it would give the GBA a serious run for the money. I hope they release games before it is hacked... check it out Bump > I got a Leapster for my kids this year. I am super impressed with it. The > games are well designed from an entertainment point of view even though they [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > check it out Wantomeeto whipped out his/her/its Personal Electronic Thing, summoned a BellBot to DIYEb.25625$031.8938@fe3.columbus.rr.com , leaving his/her/its contact info (Watn@ton.com) with the deskbot, and proceeded to say: > Bump Ah, this isn't alt.baby.toys.crap.crap.crap No need to "bump" your message. You think we'd trade in our (literal) thousands of titles like Metroid Fusion and Sims for a machine who's three games include Dora the Explorer, Spongebob, and "1st Grade"? If you think this'll give the GBA a (in your words) "serious run for the money", you need your head examined.  Signature----------- Deep Thought ----------- Erase the Earth to e-mail me. I said "if" it had games einstein. Everything isn't an attack on the GBA. Purely a technical appreciation for it. It is well made. Try opening your mind > Wantomeeto whipped out his/her/its Personal Electronic Thing, summoned > a BellBot to DIYEb.25625$031.8938@fe3.columbus.rr.com , leaving [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > If you think this'll give the GBA a (in your words) "serious run for the > money", you need your head examined. Wantomeeto whipped out his/her/its Personal Electronic Thing, summoned a BellBot to 489Fb.9340$T2.4467@fe1.columbus.rr.com , leaving his/her/its contact info (Watn@ton.com) with the deskbot, and proceeded to say: > I said "if" it had games einstein. Everything isn't an attack on the > GBA. Purely a technical appreciation for it. It is well made. Try > opening your mind It clearly was an attack on the GBA, retard. You came to a GBA group, stated a product in the same GENERAL category (handheld electronic game players) and said it would "give the gba a serious run for the money". How is that not an attack? The product isn't even close to the same age range, mind. It's like going into a Sony group and saying "that VideoNow player is going to give Sony DVD players a serious run for the money". A shoddy product for children directed as an attack on a more sophisticated and supported piece of machinery. Boy, I'd sure hate to be Dell or Alienware. This'll give their mobile systems some fatal competition: http://tinyurl.com/284wz Signature----------- Deep Thought ----------- Erase the Earth to e-mail me. Let's get past this and try to at least have an objective discussion about this. I posted it here because the GB was the closest newsgroup I could find Wantomeeto whipped out his/her/its Personal Electronic Thing, summoned a BellBot to FvkFb.30393$031.27808@fe3.columbus.rr.com , leaving his/her/its contact info (Watn@ton.com) with the deskbot, and proceeded to say: > Let's get past this and try to at least have an objective discussion > about this. I posted it here because the GB was the closest > newsgroup I could find Ok, but it's still a "competitor product" (and I use that loosely). Fine, objectivity is fine. Let's look at the pros and cons. Leapster: <Pros> Apparently nice flash-like graphics. <Cons> Large and bulky Geared for a low age range Low support Three or four games: SpongeBob, Dora, and "1st Grade" I know No third-party accs. No FIRST party accs. I'm sure there's more. This is just looking at a picture of the thing. GBA SP: <Pros> LARGE number of games (range in the thousands) Games for young players Games for older players Small and light Internal light Rechargeable battery Buttons NEVER wear out Made by long-time Video game maker Many first and third-party accessories Backwards-compatible with the more countless thousands of older titles Nice SNES-like graphics. With a flash cart, can become anything from an organizer to a calculator Ports of classic games Many new titles Clamshell design resists scratched screen With TPA can become a TV <Cons> Ahm... Er... reflective screen kind of hard to see in weird light conditions... ah... if you smash it into pieces with a sledgehammer, it might not be able to be repaired... um... doesn't play XBox games... if ingested, may cause upset stomach... Seriously, I can't think of anything else off the top of my head. Signature----------- Deep Thought ----------- Erase the Earth to e-mail me. > Let's look at the pros and cons. > > Leapster: > <Pros> > Apparently nice flash-like graphics. Agreed. The graphics are decent. Sometimes ghosting in the form of lines occurs with white lines on a dark background. The screen has rather large pixels as well. Kind of like looking at a TV up close. Pretty nice size though for watching movies - if I can hack it for video-in. > <Cons> > Large and bulky Agreed. Heavy in my hands as I play it over time. The kids put it in their lap or on the side of the couch. > Geared for a low age range Yep. But hopefully they will throw some non-educational games out at a later date. Or, hopefully it will be hacked for flash games. > Low support Unknown - have heard that people with problems with the leappads get replacements when theirs go bad. > Three or four games: SpongeBob, Dora, and "1st Grade" I know Its brand new - so a quiet fall '03 release with 6 1st party games is pretty good - don't you think? > No third-party accs. we will have to see > No FIRST party accs. brand New - well have to wait and see > I'm sure there's more. This is just looking at a picture of the thing. > > GBA SP: Ummm...I really don't want to compare these - only because its not apples to apples. But if you were to compare say, the hardware. It is using a 32 bit risc processor with 12 bit graphics and 8 channel stereo sound. The screen has the GBA beat in size plus it is touch screen. Now...if the system was hacked and flash games were easily ported to it.or available legally for it - and they were good games..then I would rather play games on a Leapster than a GBA. IMO. > <Pros> > LARGE number of games (range in the thousands) [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Seriously, I can't think of anything else off the top of my head. I don't like opening my mind, dust get's in and messing with my thought processes... personally I hope that IF this system is cool people DO hack it... cause I don't like things to be too edjamacational... SEV > I said "if" it had games einstein. Everything isn't an attack on the GBA. > Purely a technical appreciation for it. It is well made. Try opening your [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Erase the Earth > > to e-mail me. Well, this thing is going to have issues. We returned the first one and the second is going back as well. The calibration routine used to sych the pen and touch screen display is flawed and does not complete. Therefore, without calibration the unit is useless. |
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