Seems like Nintendo's Game Boy Advance is becoming more than just a gaming console. First, a Personal Organizer was released that turns your GBA into a PDA of sorts. Add-ons are also available to allow you to listen to the radio on it. With flash cartridges, you can even load emulators on them and play classic NES games. Then Nintendo starts to offer movies, or rather episodes of cartoons, on GBA carts.
Of course, an innovative company called AM3 has done a one-up on that and released a Game Boy Advance Movie Adapter which plugs into the GBA cartridge slot and allows the system to interface with 32MB flash memory cards that are about as thin as a credit card. Now, this same company has launched a service in Japan that allows you to download movie content via a vending machine.
The download service centers on a small vending machine called the "Advance Gasha-Pon." This machine is meant to be placed in storefronts and has input slots for coins and flash memory cards. By inserting three 100 yen coins (totaling around $2.70) and a flash memory card, users of the service will be able to download one of the eight cartoons contained within the machine.
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AM3 hopes to have non-movie content available for download via the Advance Gasha-Pon machines. Ideas such as Advance Comic (downloadable comics), Advance Picture (downloadable pictures), Advance Navi (downloadable maps) and Advance Music (downloadable music) have been mentioned as some of the services that can be expected in the future.
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