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product_id: 1679384
title: "Nintendo Game Boy Advance - Indigo"
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# 32-bit RISC CPU - 17x faster gameplay 2.9-inch TFT color LCD - 50% bigger screen 15-hour battery life on 2 AA batteries Nintendo Game Boy Advance - Indigo

**Brand:** nintendo
**Price:** $U12705
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎮 Level up your nostalgia with the Game Boy Advance – where classic meets cutting-edge!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Nintendo Game Boy Advance - Indigo by nintendo
- **How much does it cost?** $U12705 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- nintendo enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted nintendo brand quality
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## Key Features

- • **Next-Level Control:** Enhanced gameplay with new L & R buttons for more dynamic and precise moves.
- • **Power-Packed Performance:** Experience lightning-fast 32-bit processing that leaves older handhelds in the dust.
- • **Vivid, Immersive Display:** Dive into games with a 50% larger, full-color screen that makes every pixel pop.
- • **Compact & Portable Design:** Sleek, lightweight, and pocket-friendly—carry your entire gaming world wherever you go.
- • **Extended Playtime Freedom:** Game on the go with up to 15 hours of uninterrupted fun powered by just two AA batteries.

## Overview

The Nintendo Game Boy Advance Indigo revolutionizes portable gaming with a powerful 32-bit CPU, a vibrant 2.9-inch color screen 50% larger than its predecessor, and up to 15 hours of battery life on just two AA batteries. Featuring new L & R shoulder buttons for enhanced control and backward compatibility with nearly 500 classic Game Boy titles, this compact, lightweight console delivers a seamless blend of retro charm and advanced gameplay technology.

## Description

Product Description Not only can you coordinate you GBA with your hair color (it comes in arctic, glacier, indigo and fuchsia) but you can be king of game mountain. Portable gaming entered a new era when the Game Boy Advance was released. This is not your older brother's Game Boy; the Advance has some powerful new enhancements. The screen is bigger, better to see 32-bit graphics. In fact, it delivers a sharper picture than some current TV-based consoles. You'll also see 10 times more colors than the Game Boy Color can display. The Game Boy Advance runs 17 times faster than its predecessor, allowing a range of game features such as scaling, rotating and transparency effects. New left and right buttons give you-and game designers-more options. desertcart.com The Game Boy platform (which includes the original unit, the Game Boy Pocket, and the Game Boy Color) came to market when most video game consoles had a life expectancy of just a few years. More than a decade later, the system is still going strong. How did the Game Boy successfully compete--and in some cases bury--an onslaught of faster, more powerful handheld and home console systems? Let us count the ways: affordability, a huge library of games that consistently made the most of the hardware's limitations, smart power management that extended battery life, and uncluttered controls. But perhaps it was the system's ultraportable design that allowed devotees to play video games around their schedule, making it the must-have system for kids and adults alike. Now the Game Boy Advance (or GBA as people are already calling it) comes to us with power that would have been unthinkable back in the day. The portable's 32-bit RISC CPU runs circles around the former's 8-bit workhorse, allowing it to process program instructions much faster. What that means to everyday gamers is more intricate visuals, more simultaneous movement on the screen, and better sound. In fact, the often-annoying beeps and boops of old-school Game Boy titles are being replaced with digitized stereo sound. The extra processing muscle also means you can even network up to four Game Boy Advance units together, via the communication cable, for multiplayer fun off of one shared cartridge. Only two Game Boy Color units could link together, and each unit had to have its own copy of the game. What's not being replaced, however, is the wide selection of Game Boy games. Because the Game Boy Advance system is backward-compatible, it will play its own line of colorful games--including such launch titles as Super Mario Advance, F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, Army Men Advance, High Heat Major League Baseball 2002, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2--as well as all of the monochrome and color games that have already been released for the previous Game Boy systems (nearly 500 in total). Players can view the older games in their smaller, originally square dimensions, or, with the touch of the shoulder button, expand the game to fit the GBA's larger screen. We tried enlarging the screen on a Game Boy Color edition of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and found that Mr. Hawk was much easier to see. When you first pick up the system, you'll be amazed at how lightweight it is. At fewer than 5 ounces and a little larger than a deck of playing cards, the system easily fits into a shirt pocket without any sag. The GBA's wider shape fits better into a wider range of hands. The former design too often pushed the left and right thumb knuckles together during gameplay. The new layout should be comfortable for all ages, and the center screen orientation makes it easy to see. Game Boy Color owners will find the GBA's larger screen somewhat darker than they're used to, but that's because the screen is outfitted with antiglare technology. Like the old Game Boy Color, the color LCD is not backlit, so you need pretty good light to play by. Unlike that system, though, you won't be craning your neck and tilting the unit to see around the hot-spot reflection of the light bulb in your screen. But you'll also notice the graphics. Sporting what's basically a redesigned SNES technology, you'll see things on the GBA that the big consoles do, such as scaling (making objects larger or smaller) and rotation effects--technological advances that will affect the look of everything from crossing a finish line to throwing a touchdown pass to crawling through a dungeon. Some might argue that Nintendo could have tried to put even more power into this Game Boy Advance. After all, the 32-bit video game had its heyday more than five years ago. Perhaps, but after handling this new handheld, we're inclined to think that Nintendo wisely struck a balance between size, price, and power consumption. And considering how well the old 8-bit system weathered the decade's technological storms, we think the Game Boy Advance is here to stay, and we're glad. --Porter B. HallUnit SpecificationsCPU: 32-bit RISC CPU with embedded memoryScreen: 2.9-inch reflective TFT color LCD Display Size: 1.6 by 2.4 inches (40.8 by 61.2 mm)Resolution: 38,000 pixels in a wide-screen aspect ratio (10,000 per square inch)Colors: 512 simultaneous colors from a palette of 32,768Size: 3.2 by 5.6 by 1 inch (82 by 144.5 by 24.5 mm)Weight: Approximately 5 ounces (140 grams)Power Supply: 2 AA alkaline batteriesBattery Life: Approximately 15 hours continuous play

Review: No issues whatsoever - I saw a lot of bad reviews here with screen scratches, smelled like trash etc. so I thought I’d share my experience, the condition of the one I got is pretty Much immaculate, extremely clean and spotless beside very small wear on the stickers on the back, but the screen looks brand new, no scratches or scrapes on the shell either. The screen brightness is much darker than what I remember but I think that is normal. Great experience
Review: Great Vintage System - Bought this console from a reputable seller - bought from them before and was shipped promptly. The original outer shell was kept in a fairly decent condition; I actually gutted it, installed an IPS screen and put it into a brand new GBA aftermarket shell. Works wonderfully! The inside components/motherboard look pretty pristine - whoever owned this system prior clearly took good care of it. Highly recommended; this console with an IPS screen is the best way to play your classic GB/GBA games :)

## Features

- It features a more powerful processor than any previous portable system, for faster, smoother gameplay
- The high-resolution, full color screen makes the game jump out at you -- 50% bigger than Game Boy Color
- Two new buttons, L & R, bring you more control & game options
- Extended battery life lets you play for up to 15 hours on a pair of AA batteries
- Compact Game Paks let you store your game progress & are smaller then Game Boy Color Paks

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B00005B8G3 |
| Batteries | 3 AA batteries required. |
| Best Sellers Rank | #35,239 in Video Games ( See Top 100 in Video Games ) #41 in Game Boy Advance Consoles |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (844) |
| Date First Available | October 2, 2001 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | Yes |
| Item Weight | 2.12 ounces |
| Item model number | AGB-001 |
| Manufacturer | Nintendo |
| Product Dimensions | 6.5 x 5.5 x 2 inches; 2.12 ounces |
| Rated | Everyone |
| Release date | June 21, 2001 |
| Type of item | Console |

## Images

![Nintendo Game Boy Advance - Indigo - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91rHLnOwrhL.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: how good is it**
A: The gameboy is pretty good and mine still works just fine after all this time.

**Q: Can the gameboy advance & the gameboy advanece sp play each others games or cartridges?**
A: The Gameboy Advance & Gameboy Advance SP can both play all generations of Gameboy games (Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance games).

**Q: Hi,  is their is a batteries charge include or only use a batteries.**
A: You cannot charge the Game Boy Advance.  You just put in new batteries.  There is the Game Boy Advance SP which is rechargeable (and has a light).

**Q: I have a strange question. do you know what plastic the gba is made out of?**
A: I couldn't tell you what exactly the plastic is, but it is a very thick and sturdy plastic. It takes a big drop for scratches to show up too.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ No issues whatsoever
*by A***R on January 27, 2022*

I saw a lot of bad reviews here with screen scratches, smelled like trash etc. so I thought I’d share my experience, the condition of the one I got is pretty Much immaculate, extremely clean and spotless beside very small wear on the stickers on the back, but the screen looks brand new, no scratches or scrapes on the shell either. The screen brightness is much darker than what I remember but I think that is normal. Great experience

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Vintage System
*by C***K on September 5, 2020*

Bought this console from a reputable seller - bought from them before and was shipped promptly. The original outer shell was kept in a fairly decent condition; I actually gutted it, installed an IPS screen and put it into a brand new GBA aftermarket shell. Works wonderfully! The inside components/motherboard look pretty pristine - whoever owned this system prior clearly took good care of it. Highly recommended; this console with an IPS screen is the best way to play your classic GB/GBA games :)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Came Earlier than what I expected and it works flawlessly
*by R***N on June 16, 2013*

i bought this game boy advance for my little sister and boy does she love it, she really likes the color and she thinks its a new product even though it didn't come with a battery cover. I actually got this 4 days before the estimated shipping I was amazed and it was really cool, all of my games work on it even my game boy color ones, like I said its flawless and I would recomend it to anyone who likes games

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