Also to be released is a Gameboy Advance Micro version, allowing owners of Nintendo's new microscopic wonder to also farm away to their heart's content.

Harvest Moon: More Friends Of Mineral Town brings a feminine touch to the classic agricultural hybrid series. Playing this time as a female character, the object is to take a run-down farm and through hard work, shape it into a thriving economic machine with the help of Mineral Town's inhabitants.

However, it's not all back-breaking labour. Amongst the population of Mineral Town are several handsome male suitors, one of which the player's central character must find time to romance and marry in between working the land and managing a delightfully charming menagerie of livestock.

Harvest Moon: More Friends Of Mineral Town will be released by Rising Star Games in October 2005.