The Game Boy Advance brought 32-bit, Super Nintendo-class power to your pocket. A great library of platformers, RPGs and remakes — Metroid Fusion, Advance Wars, Mario.
- Maker: Nintendo
- Since: 2001
- Play via: EmulatorJS
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info onlyAdvance Wars2001Game Boy Advance
info onlyAdvance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising2003Game Boy AdvanceADVANCEWARS AWRC00info onlyADVANCEWARS AWRC00Game Boy Advance
info onlyAdventure of Tokyo Disney Sea2001Game Boy Advance


info onlyAlien Hominid2004Game Boy Advance
info onlyAlienators: Evolution Continues2001Game Boy Advance
info onlyAll Grown Up!: Express Yourself2004Game Boy Advance
info onlyAmerican Bass Challenge2001Game Boy Advance
info onlyAn American Tail: Fievel's Gold Rush2003Game Boy Advance

info onlyArmy Men Advance2001Game Boy Advance
info onlyArmy Men: Operation Green2001Game Boy Advance
info onlyAround the World in 80 Days2004Game Boy Advance

info onlyAstro Boy: Omega Factor2003Game Boy Advance
info onlyAtomic Betty2005Game Boy Advance



info onlyBack Track2001Game Boy AdvanceBackyard Baseball (Game Boy Advance)info onlyBackyard Baseball (Game Boy Advance)2002Game Boy AdvanceBackyard Football 2007info onlyBackyard Football 20072006Game Boy Advance
info onlyBackyard Skateboarding2004Game Boy Advance
info onlyBaldur's Gate: Dark Alliance2004Game Boy Advanceballisticecksvsseverinfo onlyballisticecksvssever2002Game Boy Advance
info onlyBanjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge2003Game Boy Advance


info onlyBatman: Rise of Sin Tzu2003Game Boy AdvanceThe Game Boy Advance launched in Japan in March 2001 and worldwide that June. It was a genuine generational jump: a 32-bit ARM7TDMI core at 16.78 MHz, a 240x160 screen capable of 32,768 colours, and hardware rotation and scaling on two background layers. Nintendo also kept a second, older processor on the die purely to run Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges, so the machine was fully backwards compatible from day one. The original model's flaw was the screen: it had no light source at all, and you needed a bright room or a clip-on lamp. The Game Boy Advance SP fixed that with a front light in 2003, and a later SP revision added a proper backlight. Across all models the platform sold about 81 million units.
The last great 2D console
Because the GBA arrived just as home consoles went fully 3D, it became the place where 2D craft carried on. Nintendo's own output was strong — Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Zero Mission, Wario Land 4, The Minish Cap, Mario Kart: Super Circuit and the deliberately strange WarioWare. The handheld also became a home for tactics and role-playing: Advance Wars and Fire Emblem brought turn-based strategy to a Western audience for the first time, while Golden Sun, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga filled out the RPG shelf. Konami's Castlevania trilogy — Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow — is often held up as the best run of games on the system.
Playing GBA games in your browser
The emulator runs inside the web page, so nothing is downloaded or installed. As with the other Nintendo handhelds, though, this library is still commercially active: of the 713 GBA entries in our catalogue, only a small number are playable directly, one of them being the GBA conversion of Doom II. The remaining pages are reference profiles that link to official stores where a game is still sold.