Nintendo e-Reader

The Nintendo e - Reader is a peripheral for the Game Boy Advance, which was released on 17 September 2002 in the United States. This is a kind of card reader, with a point code, similar to a bar code of special e -cards can be read. The Nintendo e - Reader is thereby inserted into the module slot and link port of the Game Boy Advance.

The device is equipped with a private link port, so you can continue to use the Link feature to connect the Game Boy Advance, for example, with the Nintendo GameCube. In this way, if necessary contents of the e-Cards in GameCube games use if this function is supported by the game. It also has an internal, non-volatile memory to store contents of the e -cards or tools for the device.

There are various types of e -cards. There are, for example, sets of cards with which you get old NES games such as Donkey Kong or Balloon Fight, reading the code points. In addition, Nintendo released special Pokémon trading cards for the Nintendo e - Reader. By reading the codes on these cards to give mini-games with each belonging to the card or the card Pokémon. For the GameCube game Animal Crossing four e -card series have been published, we received over the points in the game code, among other gifts.

The device was not released in Europe.