• MysticKetchup@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        This is also just a bad article. No real justification for why they listed one over another, just a listicle that mentions a couple of the greatest hits

        • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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          Yeah, the GBA really should be on top. The other systems just had lower-quality versions of what was available on consoles, but the GBA was the only source of high-quality 2D games for its time. The style pretty much died out during the late '90s and early 2000s, and wouldn’t really return until online marketplaces and indie games rose to prominence int he late 2000s and early 2010s, but in the meantime the GBA kept a lot of genres alive.

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      1 year ago

      Huh, this didn’t happen to me, using Firefox Beta in Android with Ublock origin addon (and AdAway in Android).

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    Got to be a toss up between the OG GBA, which could play original GameBoy games as well as GBA games, or perhaps the OG DS which could play 2DS and GBA games (although I don’t think original GameBoy worked).

    Or the Switch, which lets you play a full sized console Zelda game on the toilet.

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      Same for me. If we’re counting in backwards compatibility, I was always a GBA guy for the fact it could play the entire Game Boy library.

      As I’ve gotten older though, I’ve been gravitating more to the DS for the combination of DS and GBA.

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        I am fixing up a pile of dead DSi XL’s and let me tell you, those things are a joy to play on for my aging eyes and massive hands. They’re hell to get parts for (the battery cover, and the OEM type stylus with a softer nib rather than the cheap solid one piece plastic replacements, are basically unobtainium). But my preferred format for anything NDS/DSiware.