Great list for one of my favourite systems - the GBA. What are your pics?

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• DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Excluding ports, my favourites are:

  Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

  Golden Sun series

  Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak

  Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue

  Mega Man Battle Network series

  Pokemon series

  Sonic Advance series

  Sword of Mana

  Summon Night: Swordcraft Story series

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  • Roundcat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I always wanted to try the Summon Knight games, but never seen a copy out in the wild. I mostly remember it from write ups in Nintendo Power and word of mouth from the gaiaonline forums. Apparently the game was pretty gay for a game released in the early 2000s (at least if you played as the female protag)

    I definitely enjoyed Sword of Mana, though it definitely felt unpolished compared to what Square was putting out in those days. I just remember the OST hitting pretty hard, and me holding the GBA up to my ear to jam to the songs.

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    • DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know what it means for a game to be “gay”. I played as the girl for both Summon Knight games and they seemed normal to me. There weren’t any dating systems or anything like that.

      Dawn of Mana on PS2 had a higher quality version of “Endless Battlefield” from Sword of Mana. The GBA sound chip really held it back but the music was still very good.

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• Roundcat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Warioland 4 is amazing, and definitely one of Nintendo's greatest achievement. I didn't appreciate the weirdness as much as a kid, but going back to it, I simply love how off the wall it goes, and how it is halfway a Mario platformer and halfway a sonic game due to you having to rush back through the stages. If you have ever played Pizza Tower, this is the game that inspired it.

  Speaking a Wario, the Warioware games were some of my favorite pick up and play titles. There is just so much to do, even after you finish the short campaign. The DS one is by far the best one though.

  Dragon Ball Z Legacy of Goku 2 and Buu's Fury are some of the best Dragon Ball games period, and are pretty decent RPGs in their own right as well. I more or less experienced the entire story of Dragonball Z through those games, and they do a fairly decent job of retelling the events (Aside from the first Legacy of Goku game, which is garbage.) If nothing else, give the music a listen. Not only are their some good remixes of the American DBZ soundtrack, but a lot of original songs that are masterpieces.

  I may add more if I think of any

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• phi1997@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not mentioned here yet:

  Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero Mission

  Mega Man Zero series

  The Legend of Zelda The Minish Cap

  Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones

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• rayman30@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Super Mario Advance 1,2,3 and 4

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had tons of GBA games but the one I remember most fondly is Link’s Awakening DX.

  Second would be uh… Damn, I forgot the name of it! It was that Hideo Kojima game with a solar panel in the cart because it used sunlight as a gimmick. It was the closest thing to a MGS game there was on GameBoy at the time, and I loved it. Didn’t care for the gimmick tho. You couldn’t actually see the screen if you were in direct sunlight which the sensor needed (unlike my damn calculator, using a lamp didn’t work).

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• resketreke@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I'm surprised at the lack of Drill Dozer. Seriously, give it a try.

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• herriott101@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mario Kart was by far the best. The ability to play coop with only one of you having the game is something all game companies should do.

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• DarkLead@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mother 3

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  • 2tone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So amazing

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  • Roundcat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agreed. Really touching game that is a mix of light hearted joy, melancholy, and dread. Like it's one of those games that lures you in with the promise of a good time, and then smacks you across the face and makes you experience every possible emotion you are capable of. Then you walk away thankful for the experience.

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mario kart super circuit

  Fire emblem

  Golden sun

  Metroid fusion

  Pokemon

  Those games were my pillars for long time. Incredible complete environments decently challenging without treating you like a baby and great history made them gems to be treasured for a long time

  I still enjoy Mario kart, fire emblem and Metroid thanks to the switch thing that let’s you play games.

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• haych@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sonic Advance 1&2&3 The Sims Bustin’ Out Robot Wars

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• UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ll always remember two games I loved playing on my tribal GBA SP. Advance Wars and a game I forget the name of right now.

  The cartridge had a UV sensor for detecting daylight. It was all about defeating vampires. So in playing it outside during the day, you could recharge your weapon with real sunlight. But at night the game was too tough as the vampires had the advantage.

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  • Frogster8@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “I’ll always remember” “I forget the name of right now”

    Classic.

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    • UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I realised when I read it back but I thought it was fairly humorous. I can visualise the game just not it’s name ok! 😆

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  • 2tone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Boktai - en.wikipedia.org/…/Boktai:_The_Sun_Is_in_Your_Han…

    By the very Hideo Kojima

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• kratoz29@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, I think nobody has mentioned DBZ Supersonic Warriors yet, I think it was awesome, I also liked the beat them up of the TMNT 2003.

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