The weighted base prevents pedals from slipping around. This product comes with a one-year manufacturer's warranty. Now you can experience a new level of realism in Gran Turismo 3 andother PlayStation 2 driving games that support Logitech Force Feedback. Feel the road, car handling, bumps, walls, and crashes like never before. PRODUCT FEATURES: Feel the racing experience with realistic force feedback effects; Stay in control with the precision-engineered wheel and rubber hand grips; Easily control car functions, change views, and navigate menus with convenient button and D-Pad placement; Accelerate and brake with realistic pedals mounted on a weighted base; Change gears quickly with two wheel-mounted paddle shifters.

What's not being replaced, however, is the wide selection of Game Boy games. Since the Game Boy Advance system is backward compatible, it will play its own line of colorful games-like such launch titles as Super Mario Advance, F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, Army Men Advance, High Heat Major League Baseball 2002, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2-as well as all the monochrome and color games that have already been released for the previous Game Boy systems (nearly 500 of them in total). Players can view the older games in their smaller, originally square dimensions or, with the touch of the shoulder button, expand the game to fit the GBA's larger screen. We tried enlarging the screen on a Game Boy Color edition of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and found that Mr. Hawk was much easier to see. When you first pick up the system, you'll wonder how they got it to be so incredibly lightweight. At a little less than 5 ounces and a little larger than a deck of playing cards, the system easily fits into a shirt pocket without any sag. The GBA's wider shape fits better into a wider range of hands. The former design too often pushed the left and right thumb knuckles together during game play. The new layout should be comfortable for all ages, and the center screen orientation makes it easy to see. Game Boy Color owners will find the GBA's larger screen somewhat darker than they're used to, but that's because the screen is outfitted with antiglare technology. Like the old Game Boy Color, the color LCD is not backlit, so you need pretty good light to play by. Unlike that system, though, you won't be craning your neck and tilting the unit to see around the hot-spot reflection of the light bulb in your screen. But you'll also notice the graphics. Sporting what's basically a redesigned SNES technology, you'll see things on the GBA that the big consoles do, such as scaling (making objects larger or smaller) and rotation effects-technological advances that will affect the look of everything from crossing a finish line to throwing a touchdown pass to crawling through a dungeon. Some might argue that Nintendo could have tried to put even more power into this Game Boy Advance. After all, the 32-bit video game had its heyday more than five years ago. Perhaps, but after handling this new handheld, we're inclined to think that Nintendo wisely struck a balance between size, price, and power consumption. And considering how well the old 8-bit system weathered the decade's technological storms, we think the Game Boy Advance is here to stay, and we're glad. -Porter B. Hall Unit Specifications CPU: 32-bit RISC CPU with embedded memory Screen: 2. 9-inch reflective TFT color LCD Display Size: 1. 6 x 2. 4 inches (40. 8 mm x 61. 2 mm) Resolution: 38,000 pixels in a widescreen aspect ratio (10,000 per square inch) Colors: 512 simultaneous colors from a palette of 32,768 Size: 3. 2 x 5. 6 x 1 inches (82 mm x 144. 5 mm x 24. 5 mm) Weight: Approximately 5 ounces (140 g) Power Supply: 2 AA alkaline batteries Battery Life: Approximately 15 hours continuous play.