Do you have a Game Boy Advance? Good, keep it. GameStop sure doesn’t want it. The chain has confirmed that it is getting ready to stop carrying and accepting Nintendo’s last entry in the Game Boy handheld line. If you absolutely need to get rid of yours, then you do have a little time.

The official cutoff date for accepting Game Boy Advance items, both the games and the systems, is April 2, 2011…

ChuChu Rocket! is making a comeback. Well, again, since I guess there was that Game Boy Advance port in 2001. But that was nine years ago, so the point is still valid. ChuChu Rocket! and ChuChu Rocket! HD will get iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners obsessed with saving little white and blue mice all over again.

The ChuChus (mice) are constantly being chased by KapuKapus (cats)…

The original Game Boy has a special place in all of our hearts, but haven’t you ever wished you could have that old Game Boy with more advanced technology. Modder CRTdrone did, and he set out to do just that with a Game Boy mod that placed the inner workings of a Game Boy Advance SP inside of a Game Boy casing.

The image at the right shows the final product. It has been configured to work perfectly in its new casing, and the modded product also features a rechargeable battery. CRTdrone even confirms in the comments that the GBA L and R buttons have been added and are on the sides of the system, but just do not show in the picture. The modified GBA SP is capable of playing all Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games…

Get ready for a blast of nostalgia, as Capcom’s announced it will be releasing the Mega Man Zero Collection outside of Japan. This new DS game was recently announced in Japan as a compilation of all four Mega Man Zero Game Boy Advance games, and now Capcom has confirmed it will be released stateside as well. We’ll get to play it, or for some people replay it, sometime in Summer, 2010.

As mentioned earlier, Mega Man Zero Collection contains four previously released Mega Man Zero games in one DS cartridge. So if you missed getting them the first time around, or have a DSi, you could be playing them for the first time. Mega Man Zero originally came out on the GBA in September, 2002. Mega Man Zero 2 was released a year later in October, 2003, and a year after that Mega Man Zero 3 was released September, 2004. The final Mega Man Zero game, Mega Man Zero 4, came out October, 2005.

The price for the Mega Man Zero Collection hasn’t been announced yet…

If you’re without a Wii, it also means you’re without Virtual Console, one of the few means of playing classic video games you may not be able to play anymore. Fortunately, websites exist online where you can subscribe to get access to these games and play via your computer, and one of them is Console Classix. In fact, Console Classix has just experienced a site relaunch, which has not only made playing classic games with them easier, but has added to the number of systems the site supports.

There are two ways to play at Console Classix. You can create a free account which allows you to play the Atari 2600, ColecoVision and NES games available on the site. So even if you go free, you’ll have access to hundreds of games. Or, you can pay for a full account, either $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year, and you’ll be able to play all of the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, Genesis, Nintendo, Sega Master System and Super Nintendo games available on the site. So far, over 3,000 games are available and you can check out the site’s library before you subscribe.

The only catch is, only Windows PCs can take advantage of Console Classix’s program…

A few years ago, Play-Asia had a massive sale on Game Boy Advance games. I decided to use it as an opportunity to pick up the first entry in the Starfy series, Densetsu no Stafi. While shopping, another game also caught my eye. It was bright and colorful RPG designed with children in mind, so I knew it wouldn’t be too taxing when it came to kanji. Plus, it was $4.90. I bought it on a whim. Little did I know how much I would enjoy Tomato Adventure, that impulse purchase.

DeMille hates tomatoes. In most places, this is no big deal, but when you live in a land called the Ketchup Kingdom, it kind of makes you a pariah. DeMille and all the other tomato haters have been banished to a single village called Kobora. The only way to escape is to embrace tomatoes and a tomato-loving lifestyle…

Many people get caught up with the region-free DS and PSP games, but often forget that Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games are region-free as well. Since the DS is backwards compatible with GBA games, that means a whole extra library of import games is available.

I decided this week to take a look back at one of my favorite GBA import games, Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 2. If you’ve heard of the PSP game Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology, Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 2 might seem familiar to you. Like the PSP game, it’s a means of combining characters from many Tales of games into one with a new, original storyline…

Even if you think you know nothing about bit Generations, those who have played the recent Art Style games through WiiWare have already been introduced to the series. Nintendo has taken inspiration from those earlier games and retooled/recycled them as Art Style WiiWare and DSiWare games.

The original bit Generations games were released only in Japan in 2006 for the Game Boy Advance, and sadly never made it to North America. To make things worse, because they were released at the end of the GBA’s life cycle, some of the games are now quite difficult to find.

If you do manage to find one, it may be worth picking up. The GBA was region free, so there’s no need to worry about region protection. Also, the games didn’t have massive amounts of text, and didn’t require knowledge of the Japanese language to play…

Those of us with an original DS or DS lite have probably been focusing solely on DS games lately. It’s understandable. It seems like there’s are at least five new, great games released for the DS each month.

But the GBA slot deserves some appreciation as well. After all, the Game Boy Advance also had a fantastic run with many memorable titles released. It doesn’t seem right to leave the slot empty all the time.

So to honor the GBA, and perhaps make the DSi owners a bit envious, Gamertell is looking back at some game series with multiple Game Boy Advance entries that are a perfect fit for on the go play, and maybe even give DS games a run for their money…

As the DSi’s Japanese release date of November 1, 2008, draws near, Nintendo has decided to release a trailer which details the system’s functions. The trailer features an announcer describing the Nintendo DSi’s various features and comparing its size to the original DS Lite. While I think that the DSi’s new features will impress players who desire to see Nintendo follow Sony’s lead of adding ‘additional features,’ it will seem out of place for gamers who expect the system to maintain Nintendo’s ‘games-first’ mentality.

Click through to view the trailer…