Free GB Player with GC

Nintendo today announced they will throw in a new freebie with the purchase of a GameCube: a brand new Game Boy Player.

Nintendo today announced they will throw in a new freebie with the purchase of a GameCube: a brand new Game Boy Player.

Using the GB Player, the GameCube is capable of playing over 1200 Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance games (and of course the 300 GameCube games).

For a limited time, Nintendo will include the Game Boy Player for the regular price of the Nintendo GameCube system. This offer will be available at retail on June 23 for an MSRP of $149.99 in the United States, and on June 20 for EUR199.99 in Europe.

"This offer builds on the incredible momentum generated by our Game Boy? Advance line, which has already sold 35 million systems worldwide," says Peter MacDougall, executive vice president, sales and marketing, Nintendo of America. "Once we saw the enthusiastic reception given to the debut of Game Boy Player here on the show floor at the E3 trade show, it was an easy decision to move ahead with our plans to combine these two products."

The Game Boy Player is less than an inch thick, which can be connected to the bottom of your GameCube. By simply inserting Game Boy cartridges into a slot in the Game Boy Player, consumers can use their Nintendo GameCube controller for direct action on the TV screen.

Since the Gameboy Advance games are very popular at the moment (Pokon Ruby/Sapphire, Metroid Fusion, The legend of Zelda, etc), Nintendo believes the Game Boy Player will be a direct hit. And with another 120 GBA games coming this year (including the new Super Mario Advance 4, Advance Wars 2 and Metroid: Zero Mission, I'm sure it will.

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