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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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The 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.

FAQ

What is the best GBA game?
The usual candidates are <a href="/en/metroid-fusion">Metroid Fusion</a>, <a href="/en/castlevania-aria-of-sorrow">Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow</a> and <a href="/en/advance-wars">Advance Wars</a>. If you want the one that best shows what the hardware could do with 2D, <a href="/en/wario-land-4">Wario Land 4</a> is a good pick.
Did the Game Boy Advance really have no screen light?
Correct — the original 2001 model had a reflective LCD with no illumination, so it depended entirely on ambient light. Nintendo added a front light with the Game Boy Advance SP in 2003 and a true backlight in a later SP revision. It was the single most common complaint about the launch hardware.
Why are most GBA games not playable here?
Because their publishers still sell them. Nintendo and others continue to distribute much of the GBA catalogue through re-releases and subscription services, so we show a reference profile and a link to the official store rather than hosting the game. Only a small number of titles are playable directly in the browser.

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