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

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

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

This is a really good list. Some of my favorites that weren't on here were:

• Astro Boy
• Car Battler Joe
• Dragon Ball Adventure
• Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku (Series)
• Gunstar Super Heroes
• Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland
• Megaman Battle Network (Series)
• Megaman Zero (Series)
• Naruto Ninja Council (1 & 2)
• Rebelstar: Tactical Command
• Star Wars Trilogy
• The Invincible Iron Man
• The Sims: Bustin' Out
• TMNT

There's def a lot of other great games, too. Those are just a few that come to mind. Pretty sure I remember the Crash and Spyro GBA games being pretty cool, too.

The GBA was a great system; my only complaint is they didn’t include X and Y buttons. Some games could have benefited from two more face buttons.

I haven’t seen the Advance Wars series brought up yet. Great strategy game.

Seriously? No Mother 3? No F-Zero games with three to choose from? No Boktai? And Summon Night Swordcraft Story didn’t make it either.

Plus, three Sonic Advance games, multiple Metroid and Zelda titles, but couldn’t spare a slot for Mega Man Battle Network anywhere?

At least it wasn’t full of Pokémon. Reads like a top 40 radio station set list, but for gaming.

Castlevania Aria of Sorrow and Mother 3 for me. Not just my two favorite GBA games, but two of my favorite games period.

Also a great time to mention how fkn great the GBA core on MiSTer is

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

Super Mario Advance 1,2,3 and 4

Mother 3

I can’t read the list due to an adblocker blocker when i have no adblocker

The internet sucks.

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.

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

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.

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).

Edit: Boktai! You mentioned it further down in the comments lol

Since they haven’t been mentioned yet, I’d like to recommend all three Klonoa games on the GBA. There’s Empire of Dreams and Dream Champ Tournament which are both platformers with some puzzle elements. The third game is Klonoa Heroes, which is an ARPG (making it totally different from anything else in the series). Do note that Heroes wasn’t released outside Japan, but there is a translation patch available.

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.

It's hard to choose, as I had a lot of them. I'd go with the Fire Emblem, Metroid, Castlevania, Zelda, Kirby, Golden Sun, Pokémon and Drill Dozer games. And many great ports like all the Mario games (specially Mario 3), Zelda alttp, Shining Force and the Final Fantasy games.

For my top 5 Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, Zelda Minish Cap and Castlevania Aria of Sorrow, Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga and Fire Emblem Sacred Stones come to mind (in no particular order)

Edit: I forgot Mother 3! To be fair I only played it on emulators, so maybe that's why.

Sonic Advance 1&2&3

The Sims Bustin' Out

Robot Wars

I'll always go to bat for Gunstar Super Heroes. It's a full on sequel to the Genesis game - hardly anyone seems to talk about it, which is a shame because it's incredible. Easily one of the best action games on GBA, if not the best. Absolutely deserves a spot in any top GBA list, right alongside Astro Boy Omega Factor.

Max Payne's gba port was really impressive. Check it out if you haven't already :)

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.

Nothing crazy much to add but the Kingdom Hearts game was really good, one of my favorite from the series.