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Pikachu is shown on a screen of Nintendo Co.'s Game Boy Advance as Pokemon movie is played with Advance Movie from Tokyo-based am3 in Tokyo Friday, July 23, 2004. With its less-than-perfect visual quality, Advance Movie won't ever compete with real video-players. The outlines of pictures are jagged, the way they used to look on old game machines. But at 3,200 yen (US$29), it's affordable. Advance Movie uses a rewritable 32-megabyte SmartMedia memory cards to play half-hour long animation. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Chiaki Tsukumo)