Nintendo: GBA Ambassador games out this year

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UPDATE: Nintendo UK has told Eurogamer the GBA Ambassador games will launch this year. More details will be revealed very soon.

ORIGINAL STORY: The ten free GameBoy Advance games promised to 3DS early adopters have been delayed until 2012, an official Nintendo website says.

The games, part of Nintendo's Ambassador Programme, will be available "from next year", according to the Nintendo Spain website.

The 3DS Ambassador scheme rewards early adopters who bought the 3DS before Nintendo's massive price-drop. Nintendo has already spoiled members with 10 free NES games - including Super Mario Bros. and the original Legend of Zelda.

10 free Game Boy Advance games, including Metroid Fusion, Super Mario Advance 3, Mario Kart Advance, Wario Ware and Mario vs. Donkey Kong, were promised to arrive by the end of the year.

Eurogamer has asked Nintendo UK for comment.

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J0rdan_KZ #1 6 months ago

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Ranger_Ryu #2 6 months ago

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this year........but they don't have a date yet..........er do they know it's december today?
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Heitzu #3 6 months ago

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I reckon it's tied to the system update in someway, personally.
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MattEdWithCheese #4 6 months ago

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@Ranger_Ryu The rumour is that they'll launch on the same day as the new 3DS firmware (Which may or may not be the 8th)
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andywilkie35 #5 6 months ago

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Fuck yes
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TeaFiend #6 6 months ago

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Is this like Windows telling me it will take eight minutes for something to copy and it either taking about five or ten? It is never eight minutes, only eight Microsoft minutes.
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roz123 #7 6 months ago

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Good news

Edited by roz123 at 01/12/11 @ 10:34
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StolenGlory #8 6 months ago

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*Looks at the calendar*

Well, they haven't exactly got fucking long have they?
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wizlon #9 6 months ago

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Mario Kart Super Circuit, hell yeah...

/looks at Mario Kart 7 on desk

Oh, never mind. Metroid Fusion, hell yeah...
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Whitster #10 6 months ago

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peteb #11 6 months ago

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Schmoke-n-a-pancake #12 6 months ago

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These were promised six months ago. It's ridiculously poor form if we don't get them by the end of the year.
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abigsmurf #13 6 months ago

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Minish Cap please!
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Ror1984 #14 6 months ago

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I'm really looking forward to Metroid Fusion, especially as I just finished Other M a couple of days ago \o/ Make it happen Nintendo!
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BigDannyH #15 6 months ago

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I'd played most of the NES ones and wasn't too bothered about replaying them. The GBA ones are much more exciting.

Was Yoshi's Island on the list too?
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Mister-Wario #16 6 months ago

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I'm probably going to end up getting a lot of these for my DS Lite ;l.
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varsas #17 6 months ago

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@BigDannyH Yoshi's Island is Super Mario Advance 3.
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javvyman #18 6 months ago

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Please Please let it be Minish Cap or ALTTP.
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Toothball #19 6 months ago

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Well, they're cutting it fine to say the least.
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Mr.Spo #20 6 months ago

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Christmas Eve would do for me. I like presents.
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Pocketgrandpa #21 6 months ago

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I'm busy in 3D land. Blitzed through the first levels and now got to go back and get star coins so I can progress past world 5.
As you can tell, I'm not very good at Mario games.
Or games generally actually. I'm finding Uncharted 3 enormously frustrating on normal level.
Maybe the old brain's packing up.
That's all off topic but it's good to share.
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repeater #22 6 months ago

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@Ranger_Ryu: Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
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GamesConnoisseur #23 6 months ago

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10 free Game Boy Advance games, including Metroid Fusion, Super Mario Advance 3, Mario Kart Advance, Wario Ware and Mario vs. Donkey Kong, were promised to arrive by the end of the year.

That's only five listed, Fusion, Super Mario, Mario Kart already got me salivating!! So what's the treat in the other five titles?!

My 3DS gonna not been busier than ever since launch!

What with recent releases, tomorrow plus in between doing Tales of Abyss 3DS...
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andromeda #24 6 months ago

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Fusion was just brilliant, as was Zero Mission and an original GBA with backlight was the best model to play them on
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Pocketgrandpa #25 6 months ago

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@andromeda from memory the original GBA didn't have a backlight, did it? I remember sitting under a lamp to play Donkey Kong Country. It was a bit of an omission on Nintendo's part. The SP was nice but I liked the shape or the original better.
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FenderMaster #26 6 months ago

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I was tempted to buy a pre price drop 3DS just to get this offer... Then I realised theres no need, I already have half of these games for my GBA sp, then I realised I can also play these games on my PSP!
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Floppy #27 6 months ago

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@Pocketgrandpa. Indeed.you are correct about the original GBA not having a backlight. There was a 3rd party backlight (technically a frontlight) mod you could buy.

Then Nintendo released the GBA SP.

Edited by Floppy at 01/12/11 @ 16:02
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Tomnd #28 6 months ago

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Will arrive this year.. this financial year ending in April.
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Jorendo #29 6 months ago

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It's funny how they call it "A reward for early adopters". No its not. Its a weak compensation for the price drop and that the 3ds we bought soon has a second tumbstick so we the fools....early adopters have to either buy a ugly extension to click on your 3ds and there for making it less portable, or buy a new 3ds.

I already own most of the GBA titels so what benefit do i have from getting them? And the nintendo games...Mario and zelda where fun but the rest was disapointing and why nes games when the SNES had the most epic RPG's made. Had us given those. Those games you invested 40+ hours in instead of a the few it takes to complete the nes games.

And had us given more games, if only for us to choose from. Why not say "Here guys is a list of 50 - 100 GBA games, you can pick 10 out of them enjoy!". THen you could atleast choose the games you didn't had already and feel less screwd cause you didn't get shit you didn't already had.
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Hamhock #30 6 months ago

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GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WeaponXv1 #31 6 months ago

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@Jorendo.

They don't have to give you anything, so I'll take the offer. Saves me carrying a bunch of consoles around.
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Code_R #32 6 months ago

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Why would a few roms get delayed?
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tossum #33 6 months ago

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The third party GBA backlight was called Afterburner. And apparently it was a bitch to fit without getting air bubbles.
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