Imagine if all of these brochure videos ended up being foreshadowing for a "Nintendo Brochures - Scott The Woz" video that somehow lasts for over an hour and a half
Scott you unlocked a core memory when you mentioned the 2004 ice storm, my brothers and I all got the DS and we were crowding around the space heater sending pictochats,
"Grampa Scott, will you tell us a story?" "Sure thing kiddo" *busts out black paper* "So Nintendo supported the Donkey Konga with more games than they supported the Wii U Microphone"
The DS definitely didn't catch on until the DS Lite came around. That's when they really started focusing towards the casual market. I forget the original model of the DS even exists sometimes lol.
It's the opposite for me. I had the original model since 2005 when I was a little kid and never touched the Lite. The thing I remember the most is being blown away by Super Mario 64 DS.
My friend had the original DS and I was blown away by its 2 screens and the games at the time so I had begged my mom to buy me one so after a few months had passed, we went to target and saw that the box said DS Lite. I thought that was the DS’s official name so I didn’t think anything of it until I opened the box in my car and noticed the GBA game I had on hand wasn’t fully hidden. Not that I minded though as I was able to fit the actual thing in my pocket
Scott: you can always tell who the Cartoon Network kids were, they were the weird kids with snot dripping out their nose. Me, a former CN kid with chronic congestion: how dare you
34:54 the reason some GBA games are weirdly bright is because they were designed with the original Gameboy Advance in mind, since the screen was dark and not very colorful. It's the same reason why all the Super Mario Advance games are weirdly bright and saturated.
Some late GBC games could also check the console they were running on and add enhancements to the game. Usually it was changing the color pallete to a brighter one due to the GBA's screen.
That's actually really fascinating, I never knew that. It makes so much sense for the games looking so bright rather than being an artistic choice. It really is a shame the original model didn't have a backlit screen because I prefer that model's form factor way more than the SP's
I've always had this feeling that the DS belonged to 2006 rather than 2004. You just put everything I always thought into words. In 2004, the GBA was still getting a bunch of new games (by not only being popular, but also fairly new) and the DS's library wasn't that big. I feel like it was a "system in development". Other than that, the DS Lite (which is the version most of us associate with the console) only came out in 2007.
I'm a bit older, i remember when the DS came out and I love the phat one so much, is so comfortable and I remember being super excited because it felt so futuristic. The fact that you could play Mario 64 on a handheld and it had two screens and the speakers sound soo good. Idk it was the first system I bought with my own money when I was 14.
I will say, for someone who has designed a lot of catalogs similar to this layout - that Sponge Bob thing was probably a last minute addition before it went to print and they didn't have a screen grab so they took whatever they had. I'm guessing they picked that because it looked generic enough and could pass as a "cut scene". It's what I would have done honestly.
18:07 THIS I love how frantic the first run of Pikmin is. The emperor Bulblax is flipping terrifying when the player only has a day left. Then replaying and almost cutting the time in half as the player gets more familiar with each area is just tons of fun imo.
If memory serves, GBA Video is the reason I got a GBA SP (My first game system). We went on a lot of road trips, and my mom bought portable DVD players to give me something to do on the trip. After I think the third one fell of my lap and broke, she bought me a GBA SP and some video cartridges, since it was definitely more durable than the cheap DVD players. Sure, my selection was a lot more limited, but as a kid I was perfectly content watching Krusty Krab Pizza over and over again.
10:40 I totally agree, I love the switch’s portability but the hype around dedicated handhelds, the feeling you get from playing them, and all the weird ports and exclusives are gone with the switch
Thank you for making stuff like this. It's the exact type of random stuff about games that I love to learn about. Both Scott the Woz and Scotts Stash are really good channels. Keep it up!
20:28 “I’ve played the most of the paper Mario games that people hate including super paper Mario” That was a good game but I feel like the gameplay got people mixed on it
Due to it being the first Paper Mario game I ever played and being so huge into platformers at the time, Super Paper Mario is definitely one of my favorite Mario games period. But I totally get why some would hate it.
2004 was the gaming. That year was so loaded with great games. Some of whcih are still amazing or considered the best today. A year that will never happen again.
God, I used to, scratch that, still love catalogs and brochures. Even as a kid, I loved to keep the cardboard back from the action figures I would get to see what other toys were available and I loved when they had little character info on them. I would even cut out the little pictures of the Star Wars ships and just play with those. I remember one Christmas my parents made a stocking for the stuffed Pikachu that was basically my teddy bear (that I slept with until an embarassingly late age. I still have it in my closet) and they just filled it with all of the flyers and brochures and catalogs that the stores gave out while they were Christmas shopping. I was almost as excited for that stuff as I was for my actual gifts. The ads for the translucent color N64s blew my little mind. I really love seeing Scott gush about this stuff. From one Scott to another: Neato black paper, bud
Virtua Quest was a really neat 3D fighting/beat-em-up/RPG where you could basically built your own moveset by fighting dudes. Never finished it, but I did enjoy my time with it.
The original DS is forgotten. I got a DS lite and didnt even know the original model existed till years later. I didnt know a single person who had an OG model DS. It really hit its stride with the Lite.
I love how Nintendo didn’t use a screenshot from the SpongeBob movie for the “more GameCube titles on the way” page. They just used a screenshot from Pickles instead
I came by just to state the fact that I can't believe the DS launched the year I started kindergarten. I don't remember anyone talking about that system until I was in middle school, which by that point, the 3DS was right around the corner (2009/2010)
9:29 I love how riled up scott is getting about his audience thinking he'd sit on the toilet naked with a gameboy and judge him for it. Dude's talking about a piece of paper from almost 20 years ago. Do we seem like the judgemental type, Mr. Wozniak?
I feel the same honestly I literally don't remember the ds existing until the ds lite came out and I never saw an original ds in the wild but every kid I knew had a ds lite
I don't know if I just wasn't sentient enough yet, but I swear until the DS Lite came out it was like a soft launch.. Only a few people I knew even knew of the DS and I only knew of one person that had one. A couple months after the Lite came out, everybody had one.
Odama was supposed to use the DK Bongos in a scrapped multiplayer mode. I’m pretty sure there is video of it at a conference here on TH-cam. Shame it wasn’t in the final game :(
29:33 Yes there's a game called Virtua Quest, and it was my childhood game at the time. I never beat it until the pandemic, but I'd recommend it for a blue border video.
25:21 So the weird thing with WWE games back in the 6th generation is that either THQ, WWE, or Yukes decided to have 3 separate brands prior to SmackDown Vs Raw 2007. PlayStation had SmackDown licensed games, Xbox had Raw licensed games, and Gamecube had other WWE licensing such as WrestleMania X8, XIX, and the Day of Reckoning series. SVR07 was the first title since WWF Attitude to have the same branding multiplatform (at least, to my knowledge).
I only ever had the original DS and I believe I got it in early 2005. I was blown away by it as a little kid. I still think the Lite looks less cool to this day too.
I gotta make a comment on Urbz: Sims in the City. I LOVED that game. I don’t know what it was, but my brother and cousins all loved it. We all played that game over and over. Def played it the most out of any of those early titles. good times. Hearing the soundtrack takes me right back
Watching this reminds me of grabbing my NDS (Original clamshell) light blue with a copy of Nintendogs bundle. It was such a great console until the damned hinge snapped, it was so fragile.
hey Scott! fan here. as someone who grew up on wrestling it is immensely funny to see you stumble over saying survivor series but I see why you would be confused. survivor series is an annual pay per view special for wwe, the game simply was named after it. it is not indicative of a series of games but rather it just stole it's name because it was the only way to sell a wwe game on Gameboy 😅
2:33 A Game Boy Advance slot with no wired or wireless capabilities, no less. Meaning you could only play them as singleplayer experiences. No trading in Pokemon. On one hand you could argue that's part of what makes it "not a replacement". On the other, it shows they didn't care about the GBA at that point and wanted to move on. The GBA backwards compatibility was to convince people to get a DS, since they would be able to keep playing their GBA catalogue.
![[TH] VCT Masters Shanghai Playoffs DAY 3 // FNC vs FUT | EDG vs PRX](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pw2T5v0ogDI/mqdefault.jpg)
There’s nothing better then listening to Scott talk about a black piece of paper for an hour
hey, its actually multiple pieces of paper together
Except maybe an L button video
there is some white though
Yep
Well it’s 53:04 liar!!!
The “Only for GameCube” tag on Resident Evil 4 has aged BRILLIANTLY.
Rewatching this right after the remake got announced. It continues.
What I've learned about Scott: he's a hand-talker.
you learned it just now? XD
@@digitalgamer457 I really hadn't watched much from the Stash, and really didn't notice it in his normal videos.
And owes me Dino Nuggies
Scotty Kilmer is his grandfather who he's named after
@@thejet4672 *rev up your engines*
Scott’s about to document the history of Nintendo Brochures before the Library of Congress
now imagine him with a sock puppet
as he should
"Ive been collecting black pieces of paper lately"
- Scott the "Owns every port of Madden 08"Woz
Don't you mean 'The Guy Who Owns Sonic Jam'?
Scott “owns every North American Wii U game ever published” Wozniak
You forgot his middle name. His full name being:
Scott Will Eventually Play The First Megaman "Owns every port of Madden 08" Wozniak
heh heh.
"latley".
-Scott the “Has played Wii Chess” Woz
The perfect gift for the holiday of 2004 👍
I really thought it was the real Scott
Scott owes me Dino Nuggies
@@MichaelVickers2007 Nope I am just his Intros sorry about that.
@@ScottTheWozIntros oh no it’s fine I thought it was funny seeing Scott comment on his other channel
@@MichaelVickers2007 Well it's Scott's Intros Commenting on Scott's Stash so I don't really see a difference.
Imagine if all of these brochure videos ended up being foreshadowing for a "Nintendo Brochures - Scott The Woz" video that somehow lasts for over an hour and a half
I think “gaming brochures” could be a possibility for a video.
250th episode baby
I still want the l stick video
Shush mr mooni
youve planted the seed in my head now
scott's carpet looks like rice and beans.
I hate rice and beans, witch sucks because i live in brazil
@@chocolixo im so sorry
I thought it looked more like maggots
@@jackh3570 cursed
Looks like dirty rice. And also maggots. I can see that
Scott you unlocked a core memory when you mentioned the 2004 ice storm, my brothers and I all got the DS and we were crowding around the space heater sending pictochats,
We now have a recording of Scott saying “Dreamworks Shark Tale.”
Koma?
When?
@@FranciscoRodriguez-iq9cb 29:15
we also have a recording of him saying “among us”
He talked about it in his 2-in-1 games video
"Grampa Scott, will you tell us a story?"
"Sure thing kiddo"
*busts out black paper*
"So Nintendo supported the Donkey Konga with more games than they supported the Wii U Microphone"
Scott learns what 2004 was.
Wasn't he born around then?
@@roopaloooop Lmao what- no, he's 24, so '97.
@@roopaloooop so he’s 17 to you?
@@roopaloooop non
i didnt exist before today
The DS definitely didn't catch on until the DS Lite came around. That's when they really started focusing towards the casual market. I forget the original model of the DS even exists sometimes lol.
It's the opposite for me. I had the original model since 2005 when I was a little kid and never touched the Lite. The thing I remember the most is being blown away by Super Mario 64 DS.
The original DS is really hard to find. I liked how it looked too.
when I was a kid I had the lite and one time I met a kid with an original DS and its mere existence baffled me
My friend had the original DS and I was blown away by its 2 screens and the games at the time so I had begged my mom to buy me one so after a few months had passed, we went to target and saw that the box said DS Lite. I thought that was the DS’s official name so I didn’t think anything of it until I opened the box in my car and noticed the GBA game I had on hand wasn’t fully hidden. Not that I minded though as I was able to fit the actual thing in my pocket
I prefer the original model and it's D-pad because it's easier to snake in Mario Kart DS than on DS Lite.
Man, the name "Super Mario 64 by 4" would have been such a cute and original name!
It probably wouldn’t have sold as well.
@@jackn.1120 it had the whole “super mario 64” title in it, so i think wouldve still been huge
I could listen to Scott for hours.
You will.
You already have listened for him for hours, combine your watch time of his videos.
So could your mom
Scott: you can always tell who the Cartoon Network kids were, they were the weird kids with snot dripping out their nose.
Me, a former CN kid with chronic congestion: how dare you
Better than the Nick kids who shit their pants
this is just reminding me how much I miss game instruction manuals. Not having a single one for any of my switch games is a real bummer
some indie games still have them! my physical copies of stardew valley and undertale both came with beautiful mini manuals/art books
34:54 the reason some GBA games are weirdly bright is because they were designed with the original Gameboy Advance in mind, since the screen was dark and not very colorful. It's the same reason why all the Super Mario Advance games are weirdly bright and saturated.
4 isn't saturated as much since the sp was out at that point
Some late GBC games could also check the console they were running on and add enhancements to the game. Usually it was changing the color pallete to a brighter one due to the GBA's screen.
That's actually really fascinating, I never knew that. It makes so much sense for the games looking so bright rather than being an artistic choice. It really is a shame the original model didn't have a backlit screen because I prefer that model's form factor way more than the SP's
Scott's never finished Donkey Kong Jungle Beat? No wonder he's still a virgin.
Any day Scott mentions Rhythm Heaven is a good day.
My favorite part is how Scott has to like clarify over and over he was clothed
DKC games on the advance were super bright so you could see them when playing on the non-backlit GBAs
Can’t see the game you’re playing? Make the games themselves brighter dammit
Scott, it’s okay to admit you played you DS on the toilet as a kid, we all did that.
I always and still think playing handheld games or using your phone on the toilet is unhygienic.
Play the 3ds in a sink
@@DE23 ok?
Actually I owned a PSP.
Unlike you plebeians.
@@N94able you ain’t lived until you played borderlands 2 on the vita, on the toilet
I've always had this feeling that the DS belonged to 2006 rather than 2004. You just put everything I always thought into words.
In 2004, the GBA was still getting a bunch of new games (by not only being popular, but also fairly new) and the DS's library wasn't that big. I feel like it was a "system in development". Other than that, the DS Lite (which is the version most of us associate with the console) only came out in 2007.
So true. I've seen a ton of DS Lites, and a few of the various other models, but I've never seen an OG fat DS, not even in a used game store
I'm a bit older, i remember when the DS came out and I love the phat one so much, is so comfortable and I remember being super excited because it felt so futuristic. The fact that you could play Mario 64 on a handheld and it had two screens and the speakers sound soo good. Idk it was the first system I bought with my own money when I was 14.
So yeah it felt like a powerful system, futuristic and cool. I fell for the marketing
I will say, for someone who has designed a lot of catalogs similar to this layout - that Sponge Bob thing was probably a last minute addition before it went to print and they didn't have a screen grab so they took whatever they had. I'm guessing they picked that because it looked generic enough and could pass as a "cut scene". It's what I would have done honestly.
18:07
THIS
I love how frantic the first run of Pikmin is. The emperor Bulblax is flipping terrifying when the player only has a day left. Then replaying and almost cutting the time in half as the player gets more familiar with each area is just tons of fun imo.
scott has escaped the blue border
If memory serves, GBA Video is the reason I got a GBA SP (My first game system). We went on a lot of road trips, and my mom bought portable DVD players to give me something to do on the trip. After I think the third one fell of my lap and broke, she bought me a GBA SP and some video cartridges, since it was definitely more durable than the cheap DVD players. Sure, my selection was a lot more limited, but as a kid I was perfectly content watching Krusty Krab Pizza over and over again.
10:40 I totally agree, I love the switch’s portability but the hype around dedicated handhelds, the feeling you get from playing them, and all the weird ports and exclusives are gone with the switch
"Scott has never had a controversy"
Scott: You can tell who's a Cartoon Network kid from the snot dripping out of their nose
this is my like 5th Scott The Woz & Stash phase were i watch everything and i love it and never want it to stop.
Thank you for making stuff like this. It's the exact type of random stuff about games that I love to learn about. Both Scott the Woz and Scotts Stash are really good channels. Keep it up!
"BUU'S FURRY?!"
I dunno, is he?
The fact that we are farther away from the DS now, then it was to the Sega Genesis really puts things into perspective
Thinking about the DS as Full retro made me feel so old!
I could listen to Scott talk about a cardboard box for an hour and I'd still be entertained
Prime 2 is actually very beloved by most metroid fans, it just gets overshadowed by its predecessor, understandably.
Ahhh yes, another hour-long Scott ramble to fall asleep to. Good night!
20:28 “I’ve played the most of the paper Mario games that people hate including super paper Mario”
That was a good game but I feel like the gameplay got people mixed on it
When I was little I wanted it because I thought Mario as paper was cool and the 2D and 3D flip gimmick
Yeah the gameplay of SPM was mixed to a lot of people. Heck for me I liked it less than Sticker Star's gameplay lol.
Due to it being the first Paper Mario game I ever played and being so huge into platformers at the time, Super Paper Mario is definitely one of my favorite Mario games period. But I totally get why some would hate it.
SPM is the only Paper Mario game where you get to play as both Peach and Bowser so honestly it's top-tier
While the gameplay is mixed, at least the characters and story were bangers. Dimentio & Count Bleck were such good characters
9:06 oddly enough my biggest SM64DS memory is me sitting in the family room with my brother and cousins while they were watching Napoleon dynamite
Best movie
"Vote for Pedro!"
That's a 2004 sentence
@@chopsmccartney6786 Vote for me and all your wildest dreams will come true
My biggest memory of the game is of me and my friend looking at the manual after church and wondering if waluigi was in the game
Sitting in the bathroom with the water running while playing SMB64 DS. How wasteful. Starving children in Africa could've eaten that game.
Oof, when Scott said how old the DS was, that kinda hurt. How can it have been 17 years already?
Scott's deep pile beige carpet is to the Scott's Stash channel as the Blue Border is to Scott to Woz.
I wonder if any kid was like: I don’t want a DS it can’t use the link cable so it sucks.
the thing I ask myself is, why didn't they just simulate a link cable over wireless? shouldn't be too hard, right?
In two years the ds will legally be a adult
I was just thinking “man I wish I had another Scott’s Stash to put on as background noise” and all of a sudden this notification came through
yo same tbh
2004 was the gaming. That year was so loaded with great games. Some of whcih are still amazing or considered the best today. A year that will never happen again.
God, I used to, scratch that, still love catalogs and brochures. Even as a kid, I loved to keep the cardboard back from the action figures I would get to see what other toys were available and I loved when they had little character info on them. I would even cut out the little pictures of the Star Wars ships and just play with those.
I remember one Christmas my parents made a stocking for the stuffed Pikachu that was basically my teddy bear (that I slept with until an embarassingly late age. I still have it in my closet) and they just filled it with all of the flyers and brochures and catalogs that the stores gave out while they were Christmas shopping. I was almost as excited for that stuff as I was for my actual gifts. The ads for the translucent color N64s blew my little mind.
I really love seeing Scott gush about this stuff. From one Scott to another:
Neato black paper, bud
Thank you Scott for this gift! May you continue to fill us with glee
Love when he fills me up!
I would eat paper to be this guy
I’m going to be honest I don’t remember The context of why I commented this
did you eat it?
these videos seriously saved me in 2020. gave me something to look forward to, something niche that both a creator I loved and myself are into.
My favorite part of the SpongeBob movie game was definitely the part where you could watch low quality versions of the actual episodes.
These video where you go through old game console catalogs are my fav!
Virtua Quest was a really neat 3D fighting/beat-em-up/RPG where you could basically built your own moveset by fighting dudes. Never finished it, but I did enjoy my time with it.
+1 for the the perfect background music to accompany such a video.
What game is it from? I can't for the life of me remember
This is a blast from the past. I remember combing over this thing on the school bus that year all that winter
The original DS is forgotten. I got a DS lite and didnt even know the original model existed till years later. I didnt know a single person who had an OG model DS. It really hit its stride with the Lite.
I love these videos it’s like Scott just gets to geek out and talk instead of reading a long script and we get to geek out watching as well lol
The GBA-DS-DS Lite era was such a weird, but FUN time! Love it! Amazing, hilarious job, as always! Your one-liners at the end always slay me! X'D
I remember picking this brochure up at a store in the USA. Thanks for bringing back tons of memories!
Yes I love these. Keep them coming!
I love how Nintendo didn’t use a screenshot from the SpongeBob movie for the “more GameCube titles on the way” page.
They just used a screenshot from Pickles instead
I came by just to state the fact that I can't believe the DS launched the year I started kindergarten.
I don't remember anyone talking about that system until I was in middle school, which by that point, the 3DS was right around the corner (2009/2010)
9:29 I love how riled up scott is getting about his audience thinking he'd sit on the toilet naked with a gameboy and judge him for it. Dude's talking about a piece of paper from almost 20 years ago. Do we seem like the judgemental type, Mr. Wozniak?
At least he reminded us to stop the shower 😅
This videos are really entertaining pls continue them
“It feels like the DS came out in 2006”
Yeah, that’s when the lite came out
As a Badass Ninja who was a Cartoon Network Kid growing up, GFY
I feel the same honestly
I literally don't remember the ds existing until the ds lite came out and I never saw an original ds in the wild but every kid I knew had a ds lite
Thank you for reminding me how much Nintendo was into the color silver during the 2000s
I don't know if I just wasn't sentient enough yet, but I swear until the DS Lite came out it was like a soft launch.. Only a few people I knew even knew of the DS and I only knew of one person that had one. A couple months after the Lite came out, everybody had one.
I really like these, even though they are long I still watch almost all of it lol
More games support the DK Bongos than support the DJ Hero turntable.
The last Nintendo holiday brochure I wasn't alive for
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Odama was supposed to use the DK Bongos in a scrapped multiplayer mode. I’m pretty sure there is video of it at a conference here on TH-cam. Shame it wasn’t in the final game :(
I've made a playlist of all of these type of videos Scott made and I play it on repeat as ambient noise at all times
29:33
Yes there's a game called Virtua Quest, and it was my childhood game at the time. I never beat it until the pandemic, but I'd recommend it for a blue border video.
25:21 So the weird thing with WWE games back in the 6th generation is that either THQ, WWE, or Yukes decided to have 3 separate brands prior to SmackDown Vs Raw 2007. PlayStation had SmackDown licensed games, Xbox had Raw licensed games, and Gamecube had other WWE licensing such as WrestleMania X8, XIX, and the Day of Reckoning series. SVR07 was the first title since WWF Attitude to have the same branding multiplatform (at least, to my knowledge).
I remember the original Nintendo DS site having a really nice airy vibe to it and the motto at the top of the page being "Touching is Good".
HOUR LONG BROCHURE VIDEO LETS GO
I only ever had the original DS and I believe I got it in early 2005. I was blown away by it as a little kid. I still think the Lite looks less cool to this day too.
Scitt counting on his fingers is the highlight of my day
Ah yes, "Scitt"
Finally! Someone who understands the issue with 64 DS!
The melee trophy theme music in the background really adds to the nostalgic feel
fun fact: gameloft made a microtransaction infested gta ripoff
Prime 2 is a blast, honestly. Hard but a hidden gem, imo, multiplayer aside.
Also I love seeing these booklets again!
you talking about old nintendo promotional pamphlets for like an hour is one of my favorite things ever thank you for making these videos
I gotta make a comment on Urbz: Sims in the City. I LOVED that game. I don’t know what it was, but my brother and cousins all loved it. We all played that game over and over. Def played it the most out of any of those early titles. good times. Hearing the soundtrack takes me right back
Watching this reminds me of grabbing my NDS (Original clamshell) light blue with a copy of Nintendogs bundle. It was such a great console until the damned hinge snapped, it was so fragile.
This is the one I was waiting for
Great now when people ask how old I am I can say " Nintendo Ds " And on my resume I can finally identify as retro
Is that profile pic from Game Grumps?
If you have 2 older Brothers you could also be a "3rd pillar" for your family
@@BrendanJSmith idk i just looked up badass toad and this came up
@@MushroomLad19 why did you look up badass Toad?
@@BrendanJSmith cause he's a mushroom and I'd thought hes be a good profile pic the badass part was just out of curiosity to see what would come up
Nostalgia is such a great thing!
I played this video on the side when I went to bed last night, and it was the perfect way to peacefully drift into sleep.
hey Scott! fan here. as someone who grew up on wrestling it is immensely funny to see you stumble over saying survivor series but I see why you would be confused.
survivor series is an annual pay per view special for wwe, the game simply was named after it. it is not indicative of a series of games but rather it just stole it's name because it was the only way to sell a wwe game on Gameboy 😅
I could sit and listen to Scott talk about anything even a piece of paper
2006 was a great year for Nintendo
I can’t wait for Scott’s E3 2021 video
I've always wanted Metroid Prime 1/2 for the gamecube but the german version required 60Hz TV which none of my friends or me had at that time
I am going to watch someone read through a DS brochure for an hour, and no one is going to stop me
its like a podcast
with a video to go along with
2:33 A Game Boy Advance slot with no wired or wireless capabilities, no less. Meaning you could only play them as singleplayer experiences. No trading in Pokemon.
On one hand you could argue that's part of what makes it "not a replacement". On the other, it shows they didn't care about the GBA at that point and wanted to move on. The GBA backwards compatibility was to convince people to get a DS, since they would be able to keep playing their GBA catalogue.
Proud owner of Metroid Prime Pinball here. It's ok.