Game Boy Advance



"Gaming 24:7."

The third and final entry in the Game Boy family introduced much greater graphical capabilities and two extra buttons. It was a huge success, and served as a haven for 2D gaming in a time when the whole industry had gone crazy for polygons.

Annoyingly, the first model still didn't have a backlit screen. The second one, the SP, introduced that feature, as well as a rechargeable battery. It's also small and foldable, making it easier to carry around. The later revision of the SP, the AS-101 model, has a brighter screen, but it's quite rare. And some feel that the SP is damn uncomfy on the hands. There are third-party grip attachments you can use to hold it without your fingers going numb. Or you can do a screen replacement / backlight mod on the original model.

The Game Boy Advance is backwards compatible with all games for the original Game Boy and the Game Boy Color (with only two exceptions, Chee-Chai Alien and Pocket Music for GBC). The GBA Micro lacks the ports for backwards compatibility, but you can still run the games from the older systems from a flash cart.

Its successor, the Nintendo DS (and the DS Lite), is backwards compatible with Game Boy Advance games, but not the older systems. Its later revisions, DSi and DSi XL, are not backwards compatible with anything from the Game Boy family at all.

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Includes games released in North America and Europe. Japanese-only games go on their own page.

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