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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Knotter8 on March 25, 2001, 12:36:11 PM

Title: Why is Indigo purple, Arctic white/grey and Glacier transparant purple? ( GBA )
Post by: Knotter8 on March 25, 2001, 12:36:11 PM

First, my own opinion : GBA looks cool, shapewise that is and I don\'t like the color purple.
Now Nintendo offers it\'s GBA in three color variations :
they name them Indigo, Arctic and Glacier.
Now take Indigo, that\'s not purple, it\'s deep blue with a little red in it that gives it a warm feeling. Still that\'s not
purple. Why does Nintendo call it Indigo ?
The Arctic GBA is white with the usual grey buttons. Okay. But if I were to choose I would change that matte white for shiny silver to give the \'Artic\' name the ambiance it deserves.
And then there\'s the Glacier GBA : transparant purple it is in fact. Now I\'ve been to Swiss and the Alpes many times and I have seen alot of real glaciers : they don\'t look like that. If Nintendo wants to have the color that way ok then, but don\'t call it glacier.
Glacier would be a lightblue transparant GBA that comes
closer to blue-green than blue-purple.
So in other words : You may have noticed I would like to have a GBA but I really don\'t like the color purple, nor a matte white GBA.
Now it appears that a limited Pokemon GBA edition has been made, hold on, don\'t judge it on the  word Pokemon... This one comes with a really cool metallic lightblue color.
Only a shame the GBA launches rather late here in Europe at a rather high price.

Knotter8

Title: Why is Indigo purple, Arctic white/grey and Glacier transparant purple? ( GBA )
Post by: nO-One on March 25, 2001, 01:00:14 PM

Show me pics,then I shall judge.

Title: Why is Indigo purple, Arctic white/grey and Glacier transparant purple? ( GBA )
Post by: Knotter8 on March 25, 2001, 01:19:27 PM

Here :

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gameboy.com%2Fimages%2Fpurplebig.jpg&hash=bc516b448c9d3e69ee61b13cb8851cf3dc6a379e)

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gameboy.com%2Fimages%2Fwhitebig.jpg&hash=b9090c4e10081192b628b1a4fd9894f91d32d8d8)

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gameboy.com%2Fimages%2Fbluebig.jpg&hash=cd544a05721f6f336491ccf45d3959814db3db02)

Knotter8 :)

Title: Why is Indigo purple, Arctic white/grey and Glacier transparant purple? ( GBA )
Post by: nO-One on March 25, 2001, 01:40:28 PM

The indigo is OK (Apple could sue they stole their indigo name ;))
The white one I don\'t like.
And the transparent one is OK to.I wouldn\'t say it looks like a glacier,I have seen real glaciers(I\'m from Iceland you see we have alot of glaciers)They aren\'t transparent,you can go into a pretty deep crack.Then it looks blueish but never transparent,the ice needs to be pure for that.
But the names are just catchfrases.

Title: Why is Indigo purple, Arctic white/grey and Glacier transparant purple? ( GBA )
Post by: Halberto on March 25, 2001, 01:58:46 PM

i could care less about that thing... I\'d rather have my Playstation 1

Title: Why is Indigo purple, Arctic white/grey and Glacier transparant purple? ( GBA )
Post by: Aaron on March 25, 2001, 06:12:17 PM

I should be getting mine in the mail any day now. I can\'t wait.

Title: Why is Indigo purple, Arctic white/grey and Glacier transparant purple? ( GBA )
Post by: Living-In-Clip on March 27, 2001, 06:44:10 PM

I should be also.
CastleVania and F-zero!
Yay!