Best GBA Games: Top 25 Game Boy Advance Titles
Nintendo's recipe for handheld success was a simple but proven formula by the time that the Game Boy Advance hit the market in the early-2000s. By mixing an impressive amount of mobile power into an attractive frame and then seasoning it with a constant stream of quality titles, the end result was bound to be a winner with fans. More than 1,500 games were released in total for the system, but if you could only pick 25 of them for your personal Nintendo handheld hall of fame, the titles below would be worth considering for entry. We've listed our picks for the best GBA games in alphabetical order.
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As a successor to the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color, the Game Boy Advance stuck to the script of its predecessors, but it wasn't afraid to add a few new ideas to the mix as well. It was able to link up with the GameCube for some fascinating asynchronous gaming experiences and its hardware was a notable step up from anything else on the market at the time, especially after the SP fixed some annoyances from its predecessor. The Game Boy Advance SP is our pick for the best handheld game console ever made. More importantly though, the Game Boy Advance had a killer selection of first and third-party games, with the likes of Capcom, Konami, and Square throwing their support behind the ergonomically-excellent console.
Anyone who believed that strategy games could only function on PC with a mouse-and-keyboard setup had clearly never played Nintendo's superb Advance Wars series. Turn-based tactical gameplay of a more accessible breed, Advance Wars treated the entire world as a battlefront as various armies went to war. It was a deceptively easy game to get into, but beneath the cute visuals and simple numbers,
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