having recently acquired a new handheld device i have been reminded of just how vast the gameboy advance library was. I've been having a lot o fun revisiting the favorites of my young adulthood, like swordcraft story and golden sun, and began wondering what kind of games subetans spent the turn of the millennium playing on the go.

for bonus points, what kind of gba did you primarily play on?

oh this is a REAL good thread 👀

honestly most of the games i remember playing on gba are pokemon games BUT!!!! the following 2 hold a dear place in my heart:

i played them both A TON (though i got stuck on the first one and only completed it in the last few years LOL)

oh, man, the hamtaro games(both on GBA and GBC) were surprisingly good. like, way more substance as what are basically mascot puzzle adventure games than you would ever expect from the source material. I've been playing ham-ham heartbreak a little bit since i got this handheld as well, tbh. quite fun.

I've ever really been into yu-gi-oh that much, tho. might have to give some of the games a try!

i've never played the gbc one, just the gba one :0 god though i know right??? hamham heartbreak was FANTASTIC, and honestly i'm going to Legally Acquire it as well soon too!!!

i remember LOVING the one i linked though i have no idea if it holds up lol

i also had one of the spyro gba games though i was godawful at it haha

Mine three favorite GBA games have been:

Tetris Worlds - Best portable version IMO.

Pokémon pinball Ruby & Sapphire

And Monster Trucks - Tho graphically poor, it had good physics. The DS port sucked.

Mine favorite model is the original style in Glacier Blue, mine still play Tetris on the second example. Which mine friend gave as payment for helping in his Lamborghini project.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance! I had hundreds of hours on this game, and I had the cobalt blue GBA SP. I really wish they would add FFTA to the nintendo switch online subscription.

I have been enjoying revisiting Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap and the newly added Golden Sun games on my Switch.

SORRY FOR POSTING AGAIN i remembered another game!!!

i played this game soooooo many times through. was i good at it? no : )

OMG ham-ham heartbreak is my FAVORITE! I also had some genuine difficulty and in a world without easy-peasy googling as a child that was even harder. Couldn't always find a forum that had all the answers like I can now lol. I loved the ham-ham games too! The costumes were super cute!

I also played Kirby nightmare in dream land non-stop, and it had the BEST minigames ever IMO.