That's a lot of 'my yeah I played Golden Sun several times through, but the first hour of each playthrough was just holding a + b in general, that at least made the text go 'automatically' if I remember correctly (or maybe only in the second game). (just because, again, personally, I played these a lot because I had nothing else to play games on than Game Boys).īut hey, it has Drill Dozer, Wario Ware Twisted, Minish Cap (obviously), Advance Wars, Yoshi's Island, FF Tactics, Mario & Luigi, Golden Sun. Personally, I'd call any best of GBA list incomplete without Boktai, Broken Sword, Rogue Spear, and maybe some of the technically 'impressive' or simple '3D' games like Ecks vs Sever 2, Doom 2, Duke Nukem, Kill.Switch, Payback, Driver 2.

Great list I'd say, most of the ones I enjoyed most are in there, and the ones I expected but never played or didn't really enjoy that much also. Even GBA games in our database that are bubbling under the top 50 can elbow their way in if they get sufficient love from your lovely selves! Those User Ratings are tabulated in real-time and form the ranked list below - it's entirely possible to change the order, even after publication. You could happily transition to the new portable (and ditch the worm light if you never picked up an SP or a Micro) without losing access to the huge library of Game Boy Advance titles.Īnd what a library it is! Much like many of our Best Games and Series rankings, in order to find out definitively the top 50 Game Boy Advance games ever we asked Nintendo Life readers to score for their favourite GBA titles out of 10. One of the cleverest things about the DS, though, was the GBA slot in the bottom of the original and Lite models. Nintendo's first true successor to the original Game Boy line (the Game Boys Pocket and Color notwithstanding), the GBA in all its forms - original horizontal console, clamshell SP model, and ludicrously small (and sexy) Micro - would be the company's final handheld to carry the Game Boy branding the experimental Nintendo DS came along in the mid-2000s and swiftly ate the GBA's lunch.

The Game Boy Advance celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Japanese debut on 21st March 2021.

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