Nintendo are copying b@stards...


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i know their is another topic on this but its pretty dead so..

look at this very early prototype of the gp32..

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Now look at the gba sp..

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they are (apart from the buttons) very similar , the same size, approximatly the same weight.

*spooky x-files music*

the truth is out there......
 
On the plus side, thank god Gamepark didn't stick with that design! It reminds me of ye olde Hot Dog color scheme from Windows 3.x! Also the angle thing looks...bad. I suppose it's comfortable, but it messes with your mind. Just look at where the Lynx's ability to flip screen for left handed people got it. I'm left handed, and that mode was horrible!

Nintendo's design partly comes from Game & Watch design, though. It does look like it's influenced a lot from that prototype, though...and that GPi thing also looks a lot similar.
 
Gamepark is an ex-division of nintendo so, maybe they decided to use another design because, that design probably existed when they were part of nintendo.
 
Granted, I may be wrong, but I've been with the GP32 for over a year now and never heard a statement like that. (Nintendo having any association with GamePark).

Care to back it up with some facts?
 
well I could give a fu*k about Nintendo - who cares???

The gp32 is an excellent machine made by some people?? - who cares about labels ?? and who cares about gamepark being a part of Nintendo - after all the GP32 is exists -?
 
I agree. GP32 and GBA aren't compeditors, and aren't supposed to be. Maybe one day they will be, THEN I will give a damn. But I'll be on the GP32 side of things anyway :)
 
My god, I never even noticed that! (plus I didn't know about the ex-division of nintendo thing either, and i've been following this thing from day one....)

That is EERILY similar.
 
Well, I'm not sure about the ex division thing either but if Gamepark was an exdivision of Nitendo then Nitendo made the BIG FS*king mistake #2...#1 was the drop of the Super Famicon Disk system now known as the Sony PSX and now the Ps2 which is causing Nitendo to go out of buisiness...But if this is true then the GP32 might have been the next generation GBA aka the GPASP, but eh..dropped project...Too bad the GP32 isn't being sold by sony..if it was then Gamepark would have so much more marketing power aka get the word of the GP32 out to everyone thus selling millions of GP32's. Shame the Gp32 is being run by a little known Korean Company with average to less than average quality control... ;)
 
bannanapie posted on Mar 9 2003 said:
Too bad the GP32 isn't being sold by sony..if it was then Gamepark would have so much more marketing power aka get the word of the GP32 out to everyone thus selling millions of GP32's. Shame the Gp32 is being run by a little known Korean Company with average to less than average quality control... ;)
...and it would not be opensource nor working with smartmedia but some wierd proprietary cartridge :D

megagp would not be on the way either :D
 
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