E-Reader plays its hand News
GameBoy Advance News by Tom Bramwell
Source - IGN
If you thought that Nintendo's E-Reader device sounded a bit childish, prepare to revise your opinion. E-Reader plugs into GameBoy Advance and reads data from an embedded data strip in cheap trading cards, but it wasn't until recently that Nintendo confirmed the sorts of things which will appear on these cards. Due out on September 16th in the US priced $39.99 including one card, E-Reader will play host to a number of things, including a series of NES E-Cards. Sold in packs of five (priced $4.95), the cards will include the likes of Donkey Kong Jr., Balloon Fight, Pinball, Tennis and Excitebike according to IGN. Other E-Cards will feature Game & Watch titles, Pokemon The Card Game software and an Animal Crossing E-Card which can talk to the forthcoming GameCube release via the GBA-Cube linkup cable.
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I think it is cool that there are some interesting new ideas coming through. This card reading/cheap games thing, Sony's slightly mental webcam input interface (tried it at GameOn - bit clunky but very addictive), console/handheld links, managed internet gaming...
Not that they will all work or be successful but it's a nice counterpoint to the bitter taste of endless crappy formulaic copycat FPS's or MMOLRPG's etc.. |
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Sonics_Idiot_Brother
09/08/02 @ 13:27
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Dont know why, but this reminds me of the awful barcode battler from the early 90s.
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"Dont know why, but this reminds me of the awful barcode battler from the early 90s."
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Japanese kids invading supermarkets & scanning everything in sight. Some obscure brand of instant noodles became a brand leader overnight when they discovered its bar code gave you some super-robot or something. |
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Sonics_Idiot_Brother
09/08/02 @ 13:44
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http://www.jagaroth.freeserve.co.uk/articles/barcode/
Oh dear... |
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i wonder if you can just print off the barcodes rather than spending £5 on a pack of 4, and some games require you to swipe all 4 cards in before you can play which could get annoying.
The article above dosent state if its a barcode or magnetic stripe. I doubt it will be a barcode, to easy to copy as you suggested. And checking IGN its not a barcode. |
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sickpuppysoftware
12/08/02 @ 21:09
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Every day my piss-take idea of Bagatelle Advance comes closer to reality.
*Goes off to start writing Super Shove Ha'penny Advance |
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