About Us Forum Standard Thinking Reviews Reader Reviews Hype List Other Unique Thinking Daily Debate Affilates Game of the Month Other Thinking IGN Gamespot Tendo Box Planet Gamecube Finally, at chinese school on August 6th, I arrived at Chinese School early and spotted one kid sitting next to a wall, and holding a brand new Arctic GBA in his hands. In the game was a GB game which I couldn't tell. The kid seemed pretty happy, and I had to get to class so I didn't ask him much. Since my last article, I have done a lot and looked for some other things. This time I looked for videogame dealers on the street, and looked in restaraunts for people to play GBA. Find out in the rest of the review: I found a videogame retailer near my school. The way they do business is really quite interesting. The front of the store is covered with games, systems, and other things to do with Videogames. There are 2 big posters of Diablo 2 along with Anime scenes, and the complete list of Pokemon. Also filling the rest of the window are Counter Strike boxes along with PSX and DC systems. The GBA has it's own little spot with GT Advance being the lone game. The first thing I noticed when I entered was that it was really small. Therefore, there were barely any games being displayed besides a few GBA games at the front desk. I decided to stare at them since there was nothing else to do. Another person came in soon enough and asked for a game catalogue. This surprised me at first, since there is nothing like this in the US. I looked along with him, and the catalogue had the complete list of games they were selling along with a few screenshots of each game. Pretty neat. The prices were only average so I left with empty hands. However, not all road shops are done like this. As later on I went to some bigger shops that had all the games on display including running systems like in the US. The prices are generally a bit higher than the Nova Center since there is less competition. I have onced again looked into why GBA and other systems are not doing quite as well in Taiwan as they are in the US. On Sunday morning, my cousin and I went along with a couple of his friends to play Basketball. There were an abundant amount of people, so we had to play Round Robin Tournaments. While we were waiting, my cousin told me I should've brought my GBA. I said a simple "Oh well" and is friend commented that he had gotten a GBC last year and regretted it since the GBA came out this year. My cousin followed up with "Go get a PS2 or XBox!" followed up by his friend's "Who Cares, the PC is the best system out there!" This just proves that PC is more popular in Taiwan than most consoles. |