Unofficial Game Boy week continues on Infendo!
Amid the final Wii drought and lack of deep 3DS games at the moment, I’ve been having a blast revisiting the Game Boy Advance’s library, most of which I assume many of us never played, particularly the latter years as both DS and Wii were already in full swing. That said, here are some high-scoring games you may have missed, and can pick up cheap on the second-hand market:Â
- Final Fantasy VI Advance
- Castlevania Double Pack
- Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
- Racing Gears Advance
- River City Ransom EX
- Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
- Drill Dozer
- Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town
- Metal Slug Advance
- Baseball Advance
- Ninja Five-O
- Spyro: Eternal Night
- TMNT
- Yggdra Union
- Scurge: Hive (Metroid knock-off)
- Summon Night 2
- Mario Tennis Power Tour
- Tales of Phantasia
- Gunstar Super Heroes
- Mega Man Zero 4
- One Piece
- Rebelstar: Tactical Command
- Riviera: The Promised Land
- Warioware: Twisted (Just in case)
- The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (I’m amazed by the number of people who haven’t played this tier-1 Zelda experience)
Did I miss any?
Drill Dozer was such a good game, and I'm glad to see it listed here! It's really sad how no one has really played (or bought it).
Looks like Game Freak will just be kept slaving over pokemon for the forseeable future…
THANK YOU for including Drill Dozer! So under-appreciated!
I'll third the inclusion of Drill Dozer. Excellent game, tons of fun, certainly needs an HD treatment like we saw with Warioland Shake-It.
Yggdra Union was a really good game. Anyone who likes Fire Emblem and Advance Wars will love Yggdra Union.
Nice list. For me, I missed a ton on the GBA as I only had 4 games on it. Wasn't really into portable gaming until the DS Lite.
You have Fire Emblem twice on there. Unless "Sacred Stones" and "The Sacred Stones" are two separate games….
Mario vs donkey kong!!
No advance wars either?!
Wade Hixton's Counter-Punch
An outstanding, personality-filled Punch-Out clone featuring great character art and perfect gameplay. Best portable Punchout style game to date.
I was almost shocked to see Minish Cap so low actually. Have people really not played it? The game is absolutely tier 1 for every reason – art, music, game play, bosses, charm, replay value.
I havent played too many of these titles. but i do play a lot of GBA w my son. We recently purchased an unopened game cube for 29.99 :-), and slapped my old game boy player on there. I still have a lot of GB and GBA games and even with the 3ds and wii, these games are just plain old FUN.
Rhythm Tengoku! Its a Japanese only game but is the one that started the franchaise. So much better than the DS on it hurts. Even has a drum simulator mini-game. Hunt it down now – you will not regret it!
Also, +1 for Mario vs Donkey Kong and you really can't go wrong with any of the Mario Advance titles – classics one and all.
Oh yeah, Mario Golf too – that game is great
These games are all awesome; I've said it before, and I shall say it again.
Golden Sun.
always wanted to play Ninja 5-0, but never seen it in a store… and it costs almost $40 used on amazon! ($200 new!)
No Final Fantasy Tactics Advance? I still have not played that one.
So Scurge: Hive is also a DS game? Does anyone know what the differences are?
@Josh
A map on the other screen. That's about it since the game is the same, no additions whatsoever.
No Wario Land 4 or Mario Kart Super Circuit?
I've been revisiting GBA games too (and GC for that matter) with the lack of new Wii and 3DS offerings. I'm about halfway through Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones at the moment, flicking between the GBA Micro, DS Phat and GB Player on the Cube. Such a great game!
Also want to put in a vote for Kurukuru Kururin that usually lives in the GBA slot of my old DS as a game which I'm always happy to pick up and play a bit of whenever I've got time to fill in. Simple concept but great fun and devilishly hard in parts.
Fire emblem was great.
#20 should be the whole series in general 😀
I love Lunar Legend:)
I am so sad that you didn't include my two favorite GBA games, Sonic Battle and Mega Man Battle Network 2. Sonic Battle was especially awesome because what other GBA fighting game is there?