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Interests Zone => ♖ ∙ Video Games => Topic started by: Riqo on August 26, 2023 @122.69
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Favorite GBA games! Personally, I really haven't played many of them .. When I was little, my sister got a Gameboy from my dad and, as the youngest sibling of course, I took it and spent tons more time on it then she did! Only 2 games came with it, Pokemon Pinball and Warioland 4. Pokemon Pinball was um ... LAME! However .. Warioland 4 was and still remains my favorite GBA game!!!!! It's incredibly fun, the visuals are cool, and the music is AWESOME! Wario himself is also very lovable; when you leave the game alone for too long he brings out some weights or a jump rope for a quick workout while you are gone :ok: I also really adore his sound effects, they're so fun! Even after I had not played it for years, when I revisited it, I remembered the secret locations and bonus point rooms (nearly) perfectly! That just shows how much I loved to replay it when I was younger :grin:!! Oh, and also the princess had such a lovely design!!!
Here's one of the songs from the game so you can get a glimpse at how lovely the OST is .. :ok:
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I never actually had a gba, however when I started emulating it quickly became one of my favorites.
I originally just wanted to play pokemon but found a few other favorites instead.
Legend of zelda- the minish cap- is the first zelda game I played, and might be the only one. I think it's cute and it has a warm place in my heart. but I don't really have the frame to compare it to others.
Wario Ware Inc.- was an easy late favorite since I already loved Wario Ware twisted for the wii, I just think wario ware games are really fun, I love me a good collection of mini games.
And the best for last, Rhythm Heaven Silver/ Rhythm Tengoku- if you ask me is the best gba games and my favorite rhythm game in general, I know people love other entries in the series more but this one is the best one for me. I love the music and the visuals and the gameplay. it just has so much charm.
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def mario kart super circuit, at least for now
my first gba game was cars, not joking, for my ds lite
never bought any other gba games until a couple of months ago when i bought a japanese crystal pink gba with mario kart super circuit. its the only game i have and i really like it. im gonna buy a flashcart soon so my opinion might change lol :ha:
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Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow!! It's a lot of fun and I really love the Tactical Soul System, which has become something of a staple in the series in one form or another.
Sadly I think that the soundtrack is a bit lackluster, especially for a Castlevania game, but that's just the hardware limitations of the GBA, I guess.
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I have a few favourites.
Urbz - Sims in the City - The console versions weren't very good, but tha GBA port is a bit of a hidden gem. It's like an isometric RPG with objectives to meet and houses to decorate with whatever you can find. There's also a DS port which is the GBA version with an extra minigame, but it also crashes a lot.
Robot Wars Extreme Destruction - One of the few games I've played on GBA that is entirely 3D. The graphics have aged badly, but for the time and system, this was amazing! It plays pretty well, too, all things considered!
(Almost) every Tony Hawk game - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 to Underground 2 on the Game Boy Advance sort of went through it's own evolution in terms of story and gameplay and even if you've played the console/PC versions, it's definitely worth playing the GBA versions. They were very creative with how they ported the games to the system, with 2D isometric backgrounds with a 3D skater.
The controls are weird at first, but you quickly get used to them.
American Sk8land was also on GBA but I've heard it was garbage. Downhill Jam is also on GBA, and was fully 3D. Impressive, but it's pretty boring.
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Urbz - Sims in the City[/b] - The console versions weren't very good, but tha GBA port is a bit of a hidden gem. It's like an isometric RPG with objectives to meet and houses to decorate with whatever you can find. There's also a DS port which is the GBA version with an extra minigame, but it also crashes a lot.
How could I forgot about Urbz!! absolutely a hidden gem, I love that game.
There is also The Sims Bustin' Out which came out before Urbz and in a way is a prequel. same kind of gameplay.
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There is also The Sims Bustin' Out which came out before Urbz and in a way is a prequel. same kind of gameplay.
I've heard about that. Still to play it.
There's also an N-Gage version, and oddly, those are typically cheaper than the GBA games, so I guess I'll pick it up for either.
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I just recently started emulating some GBA and fell in love with the english patch for rhythm tengoku!!!
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I loved the GBA Fire Emblem games as a child. They were some of the first story-driven games I had ever played, and I was completely enraptured. Calling them "formative experiences" would probably be exaggerating a little, but my friends and I still quote scenes like this to this day.
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- the legend of zelda: the minish cap - my 2nd favorite zelda game, it's so cute! i used to emulate this on my first smart phone, need to replay it sometime.
- super mario world: super mario advance 2 - besides mario 64, this was the mario game i played the most in my childhood. it's a port of super mario world from the snes
- mary-kate and ashley's girls night out - i played this a ton as a kid, my favorite of what few mk&a games i had. it was kinda like dance dance revolution
- nicktoons freeze frame frenzy - also heavily played as a kid. this game also introduced me to invader zim lol. you go around taking photos of weird stuff in the different nicktoons worlds.
i also played the sims 2 gba ports, the harry potter games, and some movie tie in ones like the lilo and stitch game. but these 4 are the ones i remember playing the most.
sadly, i didn't play any of the pokemon games on the gba otherwise i'd include them. at the time, the only game i played was pokemon yellow and i didn't get back into the games until omega ruby on the 3ds.
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I never owned a GBA when I was younger, so nothing on there is really nostalgic to me or something I can remember enjoying previously, but just recently I began a playthrough of Mother 3 using the fan translation of course. Even though I am only 4 chapters in, it's something I would recommend to anyone looking for a good story game on the GBA.
If I had to pick something else it probably would be Pokemon Emerald.
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I don't own a GBA, either, I used to play on my phone with an emulator. My favorite so far is Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. Love the art, the music, and I like switching the castle.
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I don't own a GBA, either, I used to play on my phone with an emulator. My favorite so far is Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. Love the art, the music, and I like switching the castle.
Finally, another HoD soundtrack enjoyer!! :grin: :grin: Everyone always acts like it's the Devil's Music, but I think there are some genuinely good songs on there (Chapel in the Sky is my personal favorite)
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And the best for last, Rhythm Heaven Silver/ Rhythm Tengoku- if you ask me is the best gba games and my favorite rhythm game in general, I know people love other entries in the series more but this one is the best one for me. I love the music and the visuals and the gameplay. it just has so much charm.
As someone who started playing the newer editions I have to agree that I think Rhythm Tengoku is the best in the series, I quite like the one on wii too but thats about it.. I actually tried to play the 3DS megamix and i got so frustrated by the paragraphs of dialogue in the beginning of the game that I just gave up :ok:
I like how straight-forward Rhythm Tengoku is.. I dont.. I dont need Rhythm Heaven Lore, thanks.
Other than that my favorite game I liked to play when I was little was Hello Kitty Party Pals, just, hear me out okay? It has so many fun mini games and in turn you rack up rewards to host parties for yourself and friends.. There is a really fun pancake flipping game involved too, and an AMAZING soundtrack (had found out recently it's produced by the same guy for the katamari OSTs)
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I never owned a GBA when I was younger, so nothing on there is really nostalgic to me or something I can remember enjoying previously, but just recently I began a playthrough of Mother 3 using the fan translation of course. Even though I am only 4 chapters in, it's something I would recommend to anyone looking for a good story game on the GBA.
If I had to pick something else it probably would be Pokemon Emerald.
I second Mother 3! I also never owned a gameboy, I was started on the DSi. But a few years ago I emulated and beat Mother 3 and it is one of the most incredible and heartfelt games I have ever played, with such an interesting storyline, and one of the best game OSTs known to man.
Regrettably, I haven't played many GBA games at all... perhaps I should! I never knew there was a Rhythm Heaven game for GBA--with the DS one being one of my all-time favorite games, I really want to try Rhythm Tengoku now! :ozwomp:
I've only played a little bit of it, but I also really like Metroid Fusion. Super cool idea, and Metroid games always have killer music and visuals--maybe this is my sign to pick it up again?
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The GBA is one of my favourite handhelds!
Best games in my opinion:
- Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
- Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak
- Mother 3 (fake cartridge with the english fan translation on it tee hee)
- Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
- Spyro Orange
- Pokémon Leaf Green/Fire Red
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
- Dogz/Catz :ok:
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i never grew up with the gba or many gba games, despite starting out with a ds lite, so i didn't get into the gba scene until quite a while later! i still haven't played too many games, but for now i think my favorites would have to be sonic advance, super mario advance 2 (aka yoshi's island lol), kirby nightmare in dreamland, and klonoa empire of dreams :0 i haven't properly played pokémon emerald yet but i loved oras, so i bet that game will be up there with the others once i do play it haha
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I was SO obsessed with YU-GI-OH: The Sacred Cards!
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It not only let you put your own name in the game, but it was easy enough for little me to feel cool by putting random strong cards in my deck! The gameplay is kinda confusing and they don't really tell you what you need to do to progress the story. But I was just addicted to the grind of just wiping out all the NPCs and characters and getting their cards. And I felt so cool just having the three god cards by the end! I wish Yu-Gi-Oh made more games that catered to the older fans, but don't have annoying micro-transactions or game passes
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Personally, I loved the pokemon games, I replayed Pokemon Emerald over and over again. And I loved the Shaman King series for it too, I don't think I beat either of the two games but they were cool, kind of platformer-metroidvania like.
I also used to like some sort of Lord of The Rings strategic game, but I don't remember much of it now, so it might be nostalgia speaking.
And while not my favorites, Advance Wars, Fire Emblem and Mother 3 deserve some honorable mentions ≽^•⩊•^≼
i never grew up with the gba or many gba games, despite starting out with a ds lite, so i didn't get into the gba scene until quite a while later! i still haven't played too many games, but for now i think my favorites would have to be sonic advance, super mario advance 2 (aka yoshi's island lol), kirby nightmare in dreamland, and klonoa empire of dreams :0 i haven't properly played pokémon emerald yet but i loved oras, so i bet that game will be up there with the others once i do play it haha
I didn't even hear about Klonoa game for GBA before, that's really cool to know! I will check that one out, there is something charming about this series for me.
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Oof, I put many many MANY hours on the GBA emulator. So much that now I want to buy a purple GBA, because that was the color of the emulator's icon haha
Pokemon Ruby will forever be my favorite. I played Emerald eventually and loved the battle frontier and stuff, but Ruby was my first pokemon and my first GBA game, so it's near and dear to my heart. To this day, it still feels like home. I have a save file still and a couple times a year I open it just to walk around, listen to the soundtrack, defeat some mons, etc. There's no stronger nostalgia for me than the one I feel towards that game.
My favorite pokemon spin off for the GBA isn't mystery dungeon (I never liked the controls on this console) but pokemon pinball: ruby & sapphire. Absolute BANGER of a game that should've gotten a sequel for each new generation. Arcade games rot my brain (affectionate) and I love it a lot. At the beginning of the year I took a trip with almost no signal and downloaded it on my phone to pass the time. I'm still addicted to it lol
There's also many games that I didn't get to complete but I still loved! Wario ware minigame mania, The legend of zelda minish cap, final fantasy tactics, kingdom hearts chain of memories.
It's a console that I want to eventually come back to and tackle my backlog like, hardcore. There were way too many iconic games on it.
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Top 3:
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
Red Rescue Team
Mother 3!
I could go on and on about how much I love Mother 3 its such an important game for me.
Other GBA games I love:
Nightmare in Dream Land
Sonic Battle
Pokemon Emerald
Digimon Battle Spirit
Probably some more Im forgetting about
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ive never had a gba unfortunately but i still was able to play some gba games for myself! my top favorite gba game has to be pokemon mystery dungeon: red rescue team! i was so obsessed with it as a kid, that i almost finished the game! but my save file was deleted and i never played again until recently </3 even now, its such a lovely game. i really like the real time battles and getting to play as a pokemon!
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my second favorite is rhythm tengoku. not to brag or anything, but i've got a superb in every rhythm game B]
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The GBA was my first-ever handheld console. I was gifted the same one I have (and still use today!) on Christmas Day of 2003, so I've had that thing for almost 20 whole years. :")
My favourite GBA games would have to be the following, in no particular order:
* Wario Land 4
* WarioWare: Twisted!
* Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
* Mario vs. Donkey Kong
* The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
* Blender Bros.
* ChuChu Rocket!
* Drill Dozer
* Densetsu no Starfy (all three games released for the GBA)
* Kuru Kuru Kururin
* Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Kaznapped!
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the GBA is my favorite gaming console!!! my favorite game on it would definitely have to be the legend of zelda: the minish cap (which is also my favorite game in the LOZ series in general) but i also really enjoyed pokémon ruby/sapphire/emerald and red rescue team! i'm more of an "original game" person than i am "remake game" person, but firered/leafgreen were pretty good games as well. the gba soundfont is my absolute favorite as well, there was a special crunchy kick to the bass that you just couldn't get on the DS and whatnot. :loved: :loved:
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The obvious good games: Any Pokemon, Fire Emblem, Warioware, Hamtaro
My personal favorite: Summon Night: Swordcraft Story was my favorite game in high school and I highly recommend it to anyone. (I own both 1 and 2, but I didn't finish 2...) It's a spin off to the main series that wasn't brought overseas so you don't need to know anything about Summon Night for it. I stopped my replay several years ago but it was just as fun as I remember it.
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oh man the GBA was such a banger little handheld, i had an gba sp in silver lol. i love Pokemon and Minish Cap like most ppl but the fist game i ever got on it was a Spongebob 2 in 1 cart with Supersponge and Revenge of the Flying Dutchman. they were pretty okay little games, my dad always played the levels i couldn't beat lol (i was very young haha) .
the two i really loved were Drill Dozer and also Sonic Battle though!
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I'm smiling seeing some love for the minish cap here! It's also my favorite GBA game! I could go on for hours about how much I love it but the TLDR of it is that it's got such charming pixel art, has very clever and fun mechanics and has a really nice game length. Not too long but not too short, with plenty of extra stuff to do after you've beaten the game (kinstones fusions!) The director, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, also directed BOTW and TOTK (among other zelda games) and we alllmost got the minish in BOTW.
I also have many fond memories of playing mario kart super circuit with my siblings on long car rides when we were kids.
ruby version and superstar saga are also favorites of mine. The battle theme of the latter lives rent free in my head and I'm totally ok with that :^D I'm no too fond of the remakes for either of these games though. I feel as though they lost their charm with the overhauls to the original art styles. (I believed they fixed the Wendy fight in the superstar saga remake though, which is great!)
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for me, its got to be hamtaro ham-ham heartbreak! hamtaro had a real charm to it, that i still cant help but love even years later. its nice to see it on this thread so many times!
i can still visualize the haunted mansion area and the theme park area to this day :unite:
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for me, its got to be hamtaro ham-ham heartbreak! hamtaro had a real charm to it, that i still cant help but love even years later. its nice to see it on this thread so many times!
i can still visualize the haunted mansion area and the theme park area to this day :unite:
Oh my gosh, I can't believe I forgot to mention this gem of a game in my reply! I absolutely agree that it still holds up well to this day! I remember spending hours in the little dance mini game thing.
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Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero Mission are my absolute favorites on the Gameboy Advance! I'm also fond of Wario Land 4, that one's also plenty fun.
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I never had a GBA, but if you like the handheld and search good games for it:
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Seriously, this is damn, damn good.
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Sonic Advance 3! The music is fantastic, the animation is breathtaking, the detail on the sprites is impeccable, the music is killer and it all comes together to make a game so much better and stronger than the sum of its parts.(https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/Sonic%20Advance%203.jpg)
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There are so many that I could pick, such as Pokémon Sapphire and Leaf Green.
But the most underrated game in my opinion was a side-scroller based on a TV show Ace Lightning
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For my birthday my girlfriend got me a GBA SP since my DS Lite's gba slot doesn't work anymore. I have a flashcart my uncle gave me that's full of GBA games I haven't played yet... Out of the ones I have played though, I am a huge Pokemon and Castlevania fan so of course Emerald, and Aria of Sorrow and Harmony of Dissonance are on my list :P
I'll have to peek through this thread for some more recs now that I can play GBA games again!!
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Yoshi's Island is my all time fave :') i love it so much, and played it SO much in and out of the car as a kid XD i had to use one of those lamps you can attach sometimes, but def worth it XD
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The music is embedded in my brain forever :dive:
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A post about the GBA?? How lovely!
I ABSOLUTELY adore the Megaman Battle Network series! The first one is a little rough, but the rest of the series is amazingly fun! Especially if you like games like Final Fantasy Tactics or Golden Sun (Both have GBA games as well and both I recommend).
If you enjoy YuGiOh, then The Eternal Duelists Soul is great if you want to relieve the old school ruleset and cards!
That's all I have to add!
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It's been a while since I've played any GBA games (I'm more of a GBC type myself) but WarioWare and Kuru Kuru Kururin! Though thanks to this thread, I really want to try Hello Kitty Party Pals.
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screams in kirby nightmare in dreamland
Played this to death and love it so much.
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Honestly the three Fire Emblem GBA games are goated through and through, but in my unbiased opinion, I really think The Sacred Stones is the best of the three. However, my favorite is The Binding Blade, which I'm very biased about.
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my favourite GBAs are Superstar Saga and Metroid Zero Mission and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Speaking of Final Fantasy, the GBA ports of 5 and 6 are still pretty definitive. I guess the recent Pixel Remasters are too, with the wealth of options. But the GBA versions of the Final Fantasy games have bonus dungeons missing in the Pixel Remasters. There's enough differences that hard core fans can flame war over which is definitive, and I'm Team GBA.
(Final Fantasy 4? 4 DS is the definitive one for me, but the GBA one is pretty good.)
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GBA version of Rayman 3 was pretty good
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The GBA was my very first handheld system of my own and the first game I got for it was Sonic Advance. I loved that system dearly and have lots of memories of taking it with my all kinds of places, much to the dismay of my folks who worked very hard to get me out of the house, away from video games.
Other games I loved:
-Megaman Battle Network
-Golden Sun
-Metroid Fusion
-Fire Emblem
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hmm, my top 3 are probably
- mother 3
- pokemon emerald
- kingdom hearts chain of memories
granted i played them all on my DS (barring mother as it wasn't availabe TwT), my sister still used her gba sp :ok:
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My first Pokemon game was Pokemon Leaf Green, and then I played Emerald right after (both emulated) and really liked both! But I do prefer Emerald, I think. They're both such cool games with really great worldbuilding, especially Emerald, and amazing stories as well.