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The creation of the Game Boy Color was ultimately an admission that that iteration of the console had gone as far as it could go. In 2001, Nintendo released the Game Boy Advance, effectively a portable Game Boy-compatible SNES. (Compare with humorous intent to the first Portable War's massive casualty — Sega's Nomad, which played the original Genesis cartridges, doing away with porting/repurchasing games. Another instance of Sega's console curse — good ideas, horrific timing.)
 
The GBA was built upon an idea that would have been seen as terrible if it hadn't worked out: theUpdatedRereleasethe [[Updated Rerelease]], more so than any other console before it. If the GBA was essentially a portable SNES, so the logic goes, then there was a generation of children who had never played those games, and another that had would be willing to pay for nostalgia. With a launch line-up that included versions of ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', ''[[F-Zero]]'', ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]'', and a 2D ''Castlevania'', with ''[[Mario Kart]]'', ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]]'', ''Kirby'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'' soon to follow, a wave of players both old and new gave the device a warm reception. SNES developers found it easy to port their games, and even the best new franchises on the handheld (like ''[[Wario Ware]]'', ''[[Mario vs. Donkey Kong]]'' and ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'') had a good dose of gaming nostalgia behind them.
 
The GBA was followed up two years later with the improved SP model, which had a smaller size and a clamshell style flip-up screen with sidelight. Later they released the Micro, which was smaller and hipper (at the cost of backward compatibility) and an updated SP, both with true backlighting.
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But for all intents and purposes, the GBA was virtually unchallenged in the portable market for five years.
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===The Big One (Seventh Gen)===
* '''Sides''': ''[[Nintendo DS|Nintendo DS/DS Lite/DSi]]'' vs. ''[[PlayStation Portable]]'' (aka PSP)/''PSP-Go'' vs. ''Game Park GP2X'' vs. ''iPod touch'' / ''iPhone'' / ''iPad''.
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