Tour Nintendo.co.jp's bit Generations site

13 Comments by Christopher Grant Jul 3rd 2006 5:55PM
Filed under: Portable, Retro

The good news: the website for Nintendo's retro, budget bit Generations (née Digistylish) series has gone live, featuring mini-pages for each of the three games contained in the series 1 package, Dotstream, Boundish, and Dialhex. The bad news: it's in Japanese. What we can extract from the site: the series 1 package, which includes the aforementioned three titles, will launch on July 13th in Japan for 2000 ¥ (about $17); the series 2 package, which includes Coloris, Digidrive, Orbital, and Soundvoyager, launches two weeks later for the same price.

More good news: we've embeddded a trailer after the break, so if you're unable (or unwilling) to navigate the Japanese page, keep reading to get a glimpse of some GBA-goodness.

[Via 4cr]

Tags: Bit Generations, BitGenerations, Game Boy Advance, GameBoyAdvance, GBA, Touch Generations, TouchGenerations

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Kylara: Jul 3rd 2006; 6:08PM

Entertaining, but $15 entertaining? Mm..

Ritz: Jul 3rd 2006; 6:23PM

Kylara, just wait for reviews on these ;)

Greg2k: Jul 3rd 2006; 6:51PM

I guess I won't sell my Micro, then?

Conn: Jul 3rd 2006; 6:54PM

They're sold seperately, not together, you know.

Matt Q: Jul 3rd 2006; 6:59PM

well these certainly look interesting.

Razlo: Jul 3rd 2006; 7:07PM

Look like Wario Ware reject games. I hope they play more fun than they look.

idioteraser: Jul 3rd 2006; 7:14PM

Are you sure they are sold indivudualy and not in a series package? It would be quite economical to do a series package. The games are dirt cheap to design and it would make them sell a lot better if they ever bring them to the US.

Josh: Jul 3rd 2006; 7:28PM

At that price point, they'd probably be $10 over here, but I doubt them ever being released over here. I can't see NoA investing any more into the GBA, regardless of what NCL does.

In any case, can we call this the Touch! Generations of the GBA? (At least in concept -- not exactly in execution)

Ryan: Jul 3rd 2006; 9:00PM

it seems like they're being sold individually - at least importers are listing them individually (best price i found was 25 for each game at ncsx).

rudimentalist: Jul 4th 2006; 2:53PM

I'm sure The Designers Republic would approve (the guys who did the design for the Wipeout games) www.thedesignersrepublic.com

How do they look like "Wario Ware rejects"? Looks more like Lumines (at GBA resolution of course) and not some anime chick sniffing snot back into her nose. Second, I'm sure they will play as AWESOME as they look. You jerks must be the reason I had to import Rez, because all you want to look at is 64 million shades of brown goblin ass in Oblivion.

rockintom99: Jul 4th 2006; 3:48PM

That actually sounds pretty cool. If they packaged 3-4 of those (mini)games into a cart, I would probably get it. Maybe my gba slot in my DS would finally get some use :P

toxicape: Jul 5th 2006; 12:52AM

I for one will be picking this game up as fast as I can, via import if necessary.

I'm with rudimentalist on this one. We can thank all the graphics nerds and jocks for a 600 dollar PS3 and the inevitable lame sequels to madden, gta, halo, ect. New systems same song and dance.
Nintendo is my last stand for videogames. If the Wii fails then I wipe my hands of videogames...leaving it to the Xbox live pre-teens and MTV groupies

Steve: Jul 5th 2006; 1:07AM

I don't know what that was, but it was pleasing to my senses.

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