Best of the Gameboy Advance Library

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Hey guys, same as my other thread but with the Gameboy Advance instead. I never owned a DS or any Gameboy released after advance so thats why I picked this slightly outdated handheld in comparison and contrast to my PSP thread.

The Gameboy Advance had some real gems on it in my opinion so its age is irrelevant to me. The Gameboy Color made me a gamer really with Zelda and Pokemon but the Gameboy Advance hammered gaming in my skull. My favorite games from this handheld are Advance Wars I & II, Breath of Fire I & II, Golden Sun I & II, Metroid Fusion, Super Mario Advance 1-4, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, etc. I had a SNES growing up but never played the original Breath of Fire ports and the Gameboy Advance ports are awesome and I loved Golden Sun. I was more of a mobile gamer as a child and after playing Golden Sun observing its graphics I remember thinking when I was 11-12 that my Gameboy was a super computer lol.

Anyway, what are some Gameboy Advance titles you guys enjoy?

I agree, GBA has some awesome games.
You've named many of the best in my opinion, I have most of them.
Let's see what else there is *picks up box of games*...

Final Fantasy Advance (Port of the SNES games, I have 5 and 6)
Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword/Sacred Stones (Some people say they are too easy; I like them though)
Zelda Minish Cap (Which you probably know, but thought I'd mention it regardless)
Wario Ware Inc.
Megaman Battle Network (Personal choice, some people may dislike it; I have 4, 5, 6)
Wario Land 4
Mario Party Advance
F-Zero GP Legend (Personal choice)

Surprisingly I haven't played many of those titles, someone is going ebay shopping lol

Never got in Final Fantasy but I am trying to get more into it lately.



Never played it, I thought Fire Emblem was Japan only?



This is one of the few Zelda titles I have never played, you right I had heard of it but I have never played it.



Wario was awesome, though I don't think I have heard of Wario Ware.



Never got into Megaman outside of the Megaman X series on SNES.



Didn't know they had one for the Gameboy Advance, thxs for the tip.



Never played this either but if its anything like F-Zero: Maximum Velocity than I am down for it.

Advance Wars is the one that comes to mind for me.

For whatever reason, while I had a GBA, I didnt end up with that many games for it... I dont recall why, though I do know that at the time my "financial" situation was very, very different (in that I couldnt just go buy random things whenever I happened to feel like it).

It was the original Gameboy that I had a ton of stuff for, and that I have the most fondness for.

Though I do know the GBA has a very good library, or so I constantly hear anyway.

Nope.


GP Legend is the sequel.

zero mission is a bit on the short side but otherwise amazing from what i played of it. definitive version of samus' first expedition.

I never won the original or zero mission, is zero mission shorter than the original or the same length?

I'd heard that it's alot longer.

The first game totally lacks a certain large section of Zero Mission and is a very short game in general.

zero mission has quite a few more bosses, and has an entirely new section and some new areas to explore as zero suit samus after your ship crashes. this is after defeating mother brain.

I don't have time to post in this thread right now, my list would be huge.

Definitely check out Ninja Cop, though. I think it was called Ninja Five-O in the US?

Will be pretty expensive to play games like that or Mother 3 without a flash cart, though.

On the other hand, Zero Mission's map is quite a bit smaller, and you won't spend nearly as much time exploring.

Also Zero Mission has hard mode!

Metroid Zero Mission
Metroid Fusion
The Lord of the Rings The Third Age
The Hobbit

I really like

Tetris Worlds (still play)
Board Game Classics
Mario Party Advance

Pokemon R S E LF FR
F-zero GP, Maximum velocity
I know there are more but those were the ones to come to mind without checking my actual games.

and a MAP!

i got earthworm jim 2 for the GBA from my cousin but having trouble getting it to actually play. both by GBA and DS have trouble 'detecting' it and last time i played it, it...crashed.

I'm gonna be honest, even though I had a GBA as a kid, I didn't really dig far into its library partly because I jumped on the bandwagon too early and got one of the original models with an impossibly dark screen, instead of waiting a couple years and getting an SP like everyone else. That said, I did enjoy Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword (that's its full name translated from the original Japanese), as well as Metroid Fusion. I also enjoyed the GBA port of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past despite its flaws, since it was a portable version of one of my favorite games in the series. When my mother got her GameBoy Player later on, it was awesome since I could finally see my games, and being able to play my games on there and continue their save files while I was on the move was pretty cool too.

Getting into emulation later on, I discovered a few other gems, including a port of Max Payne which never ceases to amaze me with its faithfulness to the original PC game, and Ninja Five-O which is basically the love child of Sega's Shinobi games and Bionic Commando.

The GBA definitely had some good games, but glancing over a list of titles released for it, it also seems to have TONS of licensed crap based on films I have long forgotten about. Sad, because I think it deserved better than that. Nintendo killing it off early in favor of the DS probably didn't help either. :X