The Gameboy Advance Is A Nearly Perfect Handheld

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I love my Gameboy Advance. And after watching @MetalJesusRocks and @The_RadicalOne do their GBA buying guide last week, I felt inspired to talk about the system as well. I show off different ways you can play GBA games, share some of my hardware that I own, and chat about some of my favorite games for the console.

What games are your favorites? Which game would you add to your GBA collection if you had the chance?

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[heatherfryling]

I adore Minish Cap. Thanks for the callout!

[retrobeliever]

The best Game Boy made! Feels fantastic and an amazing library!!! Also my favorite to mod back in the day. You picked some amazing titles in here (no surprise) great vid my friend! I’m playing catch up 😉❤️🎮

[jessragan]

As a hobbyist programmer, I know the Game Boy Advance both inside and out, and I love that little machine to pieces. It's the first handheld game system with muscle, featuring scaling, rotation, tons of color, tons of sprites, and even polygons when pushed to its limits. You can even emulate older systems on this thing!

[gashmcnash]

The Mary Kate and Ashley comment at the Episode 3 point got me thinking of a beat em up with them in 😂

[anhramainyu]

Bought the AGB one with IPS screen today and it feels awesome to play it.
We never had that GameBoy culture here in Russia and you just somehow emanated it through your video. I watched several videos about GBA but no one was so "homie" like this one. Glad to find this channel.

[jessragan]

By the way, Car Battler Joe is a sequel to Vatlva (Car Battler Jim) on the Sega Saturn. It's a completely different game there, a top down car combat title with a different weapon assigned to each of the controller's six face buttons.

[MLeleven]

Always enjoy your videos, but i consciously hit the like button at 17:45 😂😂😂

[stevecraigretrogames]

What a fantastic video brother! Great information and a list of wonderful games as well! I might just have to do a GBA buyers guide if my own now. You’ve inspired me! Awesome content as always my friend!

[ColdSteelKid]

Great video! Would love to see you discuss more consoles like this.

I am actually in the middle of my first play through of Final Fantasy I using the GBA cart you mentioned. Really enjoying it. As much as I love the GBA SP I have recently switched over to the Analogue Pocket.

Favorite GBA games not mentioned in your video are Mario vs. Donkey Kong, Metroid Zero Mission and Metroid Fusion.

[erickavery]

I finally started playing Fantastic 4 that I picked up as SEGE and I can confirm this game is great. It ranks up there with astroboy for me.

If I could add a game back it would be the Medabots RPG...I cant remember which it is but its great and its very expensive.

[samanthaazira]

I use to own rocky pocky and becky for gba which is crazy expensive now... i wish i had that

[bradtout-ypmg]

Minish cap is an amazing Zelda game. One of my favorites.

[moandaindesigns]

So the Fave game is Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance, and my Fave way to play is with the 100% modded GBA I got at SEGE 2023. Miss you man. Hope to see you again soon.

[ortega]

Recently picked up an analogue pocket so this solicitors giving me some great ideas😊

[khreativa]

The amount of great platformers/side-scrolling games on the GBA is astounding. Maybe the perfect 2D console.

[mymusic]

I like the GBA, so many great games on it. That GBA SP looks really cool too, , that style is cool with the flip and Homage to the original NES controller 👍

[voteDC]

I love the GBA and I've spent more hours than I care to admit watching the GBA Video carts. Yet I don't often play on the system itself and do emulate the games more often.

Part of it is that I don't want to risk damaging the hardware by fitting a better screen. The main part though I admit is that save states have spoilt me. I love being able to play and just save when I want to, it's being able to just go back to a favourite moment in a game or go back to a decision and see what happens if I make a different choice (often not much).

[RussLyman]

Looks like I have a ton of new games to play on gba.
Yes please mod that NES GBA with the AG 101 screen
I play on an original gba with a AG 101 screen. I like how it’s a bit wider to hold

[GenerationPixel]

It's a stunning little machine. I've been pondering adding a GBA (most likely an SP) fir a while. I've used my DS lite for GBA games for a while, but only have a Game Cube Gameboy Player for GB games, whitch is great, but they really should be played handheld. I really should just pull the trigger on an SP.
You really need to stop influencing me 😂