Army Men: Operation Green was published in 2001 by 3DO as an entry in the Army Men series for the Game Boy Advance. The record describes single-player action seen from the side, the format that suited the handheld best in its first years and demanded no camera control at all.

The whole franchise rests on one idea: the heroes are plastic toy soldiers, the cheap green figures out of a bag, and the battlefield is an ordinary house or garden scaled to their size. That drives both the humour and the level design, since the obstacle is not a trench but a step, a puddle or a piece of furniture. The enemy is the same figure in a different colour.

Around the turn of the millennium 3DO was publishing this series at a remarkable rate and spreading it across every platform available. Handheld versions were not shrunken ports of the big instalments but separate games built around what the hardware could do, and quality varied considerably from one to the next.

The Game Boy Advance was new in 2001 and still assembling its repertoire. Alongside conversions of older titles it attracted exactly this kind of original action game, betting on short missions and control immediately readable with two buttons. Everyone was still testing what a colour handheld could actually carry.

Attached to the OldGame.cz record are the release year, the publisher's name and images from the game.