20 May
2004
20 May
'04
11:18 a.m.
Nintendo seems
to base their handhelds on their previous generation
handhelds. The original GameBoy was, mostly, a NES with a black-and-white
screen. The GBA is, mostly, a SNES.
I dunno if I'd go this far, especially w/r/t the processor and video:
obviously the video pipelines and coppers are radically different, and the
NES is a 6502 variant (N2A03) versus the Z80 of the GB, and the SNES is a
65816. There are some conceptual similarities between the GB and the NES,
and the GBA and the SNES, but I'm not sure if I'd call them architecturally
similar as well.