Nintendo Game Boy Advance

A livelier take on Nintendo Game Boy Advance

The Nintendo Game Boy Advance sits in that sweet spot where a handheld feels compact, but the library keeps going long after you have tucked it away. Our catalog has 938 games for it, spanning releases from 2001 to 2011. That means you can wander from early system staples to later oddities, with plenty of familiar names along the way. It is the sort of handheld catalog that invites a quick look, then quietly steals your evening.

What the Game Boy Advance is

The Game Boy Advance is Nintendo's handheld follow-up to the Game Boy Color, built around stronger hardware and improved graphics while still keeping backward compatibility with older Game Boy games. It first arrived in Japan on March 21, 2001, with other regions following in June. Nintendo later released the Game Boy Advance SP in 2003, then a backlit SP revision in 2005, and the smaller Game Boy Micro also arrived in September 2005.

By June 2010, the Game Boy Advance series had sold 81.51 million units worldwide, and sales ended by 2010 after more than nine years. In our catalog, that long life shows up clearly, because the platform kept attracting games across many years and styles. Some systems age gracefully. This one also brought a surprisingly busy shelf with it.

Where to start in our catalog

If you want a sensible first step, begin with Advance Wars, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, 007: NightFire, Ace Combat Advance, and Activision Anthology. Those names give you a useful spread, strategy, action, flying, and a retro collection for when you feel like visiting the past on purpose. You can also head straight to Advance Guardian Heroes, A Sound of Thunder, and Action Man: Robot Atak if you want something with a little more friction and noise.

The catalog also includes curiosities that sound like they were named during a very late meeting, such as 2 Games In 1 Double Value!: Monster Trucks / Quad Desert Fury and ¡Mucha Lucha!: Mascaritas of the Lost Code. Behind the variety, the busiest developers here include Konami, Vicarious Visions, Digital Eclipse Software, Inc., Natsume, and Torus Games. If you like following studio names as much as game names, there is plenty to trace.

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