1UP.com has this cool feature on videogames emulators by Nich Maragos, titled “Afterlife“, which is an interesting read if you’re into video games.

What looks like a game system, plays like a game system, and yet isn’t a game system? The answer is an emulator, which is a means to make one piece of consumer electronics behave like another. Whether they’re hardware add-ons or clever pieces of coding, emulators have been a part of videogames almost as long as the medium itself — but they’re decidedly the black sheep of the gaming family, for a variety of legal and ethical reasons. (More…)

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In case you really need to show off this summer, you will need to get a DS or a PSP. The Game Boy Micro, the new Nintendo 2-inch color LCD screen compact console which supports the Game Boy Advance (GBA) cartridges, is announced to launch this fall. On the other hand, this is good news because that leaves you just enough time to go and buy yourself some sexy tight pockets jeans…

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Also in the Joystiq article is the introduction of yet another portable and yet another “mini”, joined together in the Game Boy Micro. Nintendo say it’s designed for “image-conscious folks who love video games, the ones who want the look of their system to be as cool as the games they play on it”. The Micro is about the size of an iPod Mini, i.e. 4 inches wide by 2 inches tall, and 0.7 inches deep. It weighs a mere 2.8 ounces, and features a 2″ backlit LCD screen. The GameBoy Micro has a built in rechargeable lithium-ion battery and expected to offer a choice of many colors and designs. Nintendo also said the GameBoy Micro has the same processing power and plays the same games as the GameBoy Advance SP.