Good choice for programming?

[SHA-1]

I have wanted to learn Assembly for a long time and I finally have time.
I was thinking of buying the original Game boy off of ebay and learning assembly on that.

I was going to make chiptunes with it but because I need to buy a programmable cartridge I thought I might as well learn some assembly on it too.

But I'm not sure if the Game boy is a good platform to start programming in assembly.
So as the title says is this a good choice for programming?

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[m0skit0]

Even if this is a very late answer... One word: RISC. RISC processors are ideal to learn with, for example Motorola 68000 or MIPS IV. I personally learned assembly with the 68000 and it was straight and easy. I suggest you not to learn Z80 (Game Boy's CPU IIRC) assembly since it's 8 bits (if not 4...), lacks a lot of hardware features and this is VERY outdated.

Good luck!

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[Serinda]

There's also a very good and complete free book: The Art of Assembly Language Programming.
It's very nice, It explains a lot of stuff.

[SHA-1]

Could you give links to tutorials/books where I can learn the MIPS IV. Thanks in advance (BTW, Wikipedia says the Motorola 68000 is a CISC).

[m0skit0]

http://chortle.ccsu.edu/AssemblyTutorial/index.html

Yeah, Wikipedia says M68000 is CISC, so it must be. My mistake.