The Online Era
1998–2005- Game Boy Advance · 4
The story
Sega’s Dreamcast (1998) came with a modem built in, but Sega left the console business in 2001. Sony’s PlayStation 2 (2000) played DVDs too and became one of the best-selling consoles of all time. Microsoft’s Xbox (2001) arrived with Halo, and Xbox Live (2002) took console games online. Nintendo answered with the GameCube.
On the PC, The Sims (2000), Steam (2003) and World of Warcraft (2004) changed how games were sold and played, and in South Korea Counter-Strike and StarCraft became spectator sports. Grand Theft Auto III (2001) opened up a whole city.
In pockets, the Game Boy Advance (2001) carried 16-bit-style games into the new century, until the Nintendo DS and the PSP arrived in 2004.
The games at this station are new. Homebrew developers still write for these machines today, and every game here is shared by its author under an open licence.
- Generation
- Sixth
- Game Boy Advance CPU
- ARM7TDMI, 16.78 MHz
- Game Boy Advance screen
- 240 × 160, 32,768 colours
- Online
- Modems, then broadband