With its N-Gage wireless gaming platform, Nokia throws down a challenge to Nintendo's Game Boy.

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And while Nokia and Tapwave may be setting themselves up for the handheld gaming battle of the year, both will still have to contend with Nintendo 's Game Boy devices, which have been around in some form or another since the late 1980s.

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In 2003, Nintendo released the completely redesigned Game Boy Advance SP which, most importantly, added a front-lit screen, attempting rectifying the one major problem people had with the original GBA. Recently, Nintendo released yet another GBA varient, the Game Boy Micro, with a small and sleek design aimed in large part at an older, iPod-totting audience.

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Whereas the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS were met with universal success, the Nintendo 3DS is currently sitting on store shelves, waiting to be purchased.

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Given that Game Boy games are written to a fixed resolution, Nintendo has not had that luxury with its Game Boy Micro.

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When you think about it, the last two generations of handheld gaming (chiefly Nintendo DS and starting with Game Boy Advance) got flooded with more casual gamers than any of its predecessors, like Game Boy and Game Boy Color.

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Game Boy Advance and Nintendo 64 games are scheduled to be added in the future.

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With the launch of the Xbox in Japan, Microsoft will be taking on Sony's bestselling PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's hand-held Game Boy and its bigger GameCube, in their home markets.

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Nintendo introduced its first major revision to the Game Boy in 1998 with the Game Boy Color, which, not surprisingly, offered a color screen, case, and better graphics capabilities while still being backward compatible with the enormous library of Game Boy titles.

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