I now possess a transparent pink Gameboy Advance.

It’s a far step from the sleek black one with Kusanagi and Yagami clan symbols over which I’d been drooling for the past few months, but it’s a GBA nonetheless.

I have no games for it, but I’ve Oracle of Ages and a handful of original GB games which weren’t stolen years ago (including Gargoyle’s Quest!) — so I should be set for now. It’s interesting to note that the left and right triggers toggle — uh, sideways letterboxing, for older games. As with some widescreen TVs. Pressing the left trigger will cause the picture to be stretched to fill the entire GBA display. The right trigger will center it again.

But — if one likes 2D games (and anyone with a brane does), this looks like the best thing one can get at the moment short of a Neo-Geo. Also, given the amount of support Sega is putting behind the thing — well.

Yay! I have a living console again! Now that I do, watch Nintendo suddenly, miraculously, cease to exist. Just to annoy me.

Hey, maybe it’d do for me to get a PlayStation 2 after all, if this is the way the universe likes to work.