Japanese company am3 has set up anime vending machines in 20 locations around the country in test program to sell content for its moderately succesful ‘Advance Movie’ peripheral for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance. Different from the Game Boy Advance Video cartridges available here, the Advance Movie uses a rewriteable Smart Media card, which consumers can fill up with movies that cost between 100 (~$1) and 400 yen(~$4), depending on their content (and presumably length). So far all the titles are anime, but there’s nothing stopping other types of programs to be sold. In fact, am3 is already planning to sell data for four other peripherals it sells; Advance Comic, for manga viewing; Advance Picture, for images; Advance Music, for durrrrr; and Advance Navi, for maps.
Why they can’t just have one peripheral that does all those things, I don’t know. Oh, and if any of our Japanese readers can snap a pic of the vending machines and send it to us, that’d be dandy.
Read – GBA movie vending machine to hit Japan [Gamespot]
Related
Gutting the Pocket Cinema Player for the Game Boy Advance [Gizmodo]
https://gizmodo.com/gutting-the-pocket-cinema-player-for-the-game-boy-advan-7889
