Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Also known as GBA
- Manufacturer
- Nintendo
- Type
- Handheld
- Generation
- 6th generation
- Released (North America)
- Jun 11, 2001
- Released (Japan)
- Mar 21, 2001
- Released (Europe)
- Jun 22, 2001
- Launch price
- $99.99
- Discontinued
- 2010
- Units sold
- 81.51 million
About the Nintendo Game Boy Advance
The Game Boy Advance brought Super Nintendo-class games to a handheld and played the older Game Boy library too. The original 2001 model had no screen light, which the clamshell GBA SP fixed in 2003 with a frontlight (and later, in the AGS-101 model, a much better backlight). The tiny Game Boy Micro followed in 2005.
The library is deep: Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed and LeafGreen, Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission, Golden Sun, Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. Pokémon Emerald is one of the most valuable common carts in retro gaming and one of the most counterfeited.
Fakes are everywhere for popular GBA titles. Genuine carts have a stamped number on the front label and a Nintendo-marked board, and the label should not be glossy. The AGS-101 SP is the most sought-after model to play on.
Nintendo Game Boy Advance games by the numbers
Loose prices across 1,039 priced games
Most valuable Nintendo Game Boy Advance games
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Nintendo Game Boy Advance games by release year
By each game's original release year, so ports count under the year the game first came out.
Hardware specs
| CPU | ARM7DMI @ 16,78 MHz |
|---|---|
| Graphics | Custom 2D core |
| Memory | 32 KB + 96 KB VRAM Internal to the CPU, 256 KB WRAM Normal RAM |
| Sound | Nintendo Direct Sound (software sound mixing), GB/GBC 8-bit channels |
| Media | Game Boy Cartridge, Game Boy Advance Cartridge |
Models & revisions
Game Boy Advance SP
Game Boy Micro
Console family
More Nintendo consoles
Game values from PriceCharting market data. Hardware specs and revisions from IGDB.