Graphically, V-Rally 3 is undoubtedly the best-looking game on the system. Those perceived limitations didn’t stop some developers from pushing the limits of what the handheld was capable of, though, as evidenced by the V-Rally 3 team managing to cram fully polygonal cars into the GBA. The GBA, however, was obviously built with 2D pixel games in mind.
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The GBA was released at a time when the vast majority of console games were going full 3D. Sadly, it was canceled due to a lack of funding. Lady Sia was fairly well received at the time of its release, and a sequel was even planned in 2003.
Yes, this is the second game on the list to feature a playable Bigfoot, but we promise it’s the last. The gameplay is also surprisingly deep and utilizes combos, magic attacks, and even the ability to shape shift into a sasquatch during boss fights. Its big, bright graphics were a perfect fit for the GBA’s small screen. The first thing you’ll probably notice about Lady Sia is that it looks great. Most of the platformers on the GBA were either fantastic SNES ports or dreadful licensed fare, but a few original titles do stand out. It’s weird and short, but always hilarious, and it’s unfortunately become increasingly obscure since its release. More importantly, finding a boombox starts a dancing freak out that clears the screen of enemies, and “missions” take the form of minigames inspired by titles like Toobin’ and Root Beer Tapper. Most of the time, the game plays like the first two Grand Theft Auto games with even more chances to punch random pedestrians. You play from a top-down perspective as the titular Yeti who is looking for his mate in a small city. Urban Yeti! is the type of weird, charming experience that typically only finds a cult audience on PCs nowadays. So, if you were an ambitious young developer with a goofy idea and a dream, your best bet for making it happen was to put it on Nintendo’s handheld. Steam wasn’t a thing yet, and cell phones could barely run Snake. Keep in mind that in the early 2000s, developing games for the GBA was much cheaper than making a console game. Dig a little deeper into it and you’ll find that the GBA was also home to some truly excellent hidden gems that are still worth checking out 20 years later. The GBA is still fondly remembered for its excellent ports of games like Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and for helping launch new franchises like Mega Man Zero and Golden Sun, but its library was much more than just those major titles.
Yet, GBA games continued to be released all the way into 2008. Pressured by the upcoming release of the Sony PSP, Nintendo released the GBA’s successor, the Nintendo DS, less than four years after the launch of the GBA. The addition of shoulder buttons, full 32-bit color graphics, and eventually even built-in backlighting with the 2003 release of the Game Boy Advance SP were all lauded as welcome innovations and improvements. Sadly, the GBA’s time in the sun was remarkably short. In fact, many features we now take for granted in portables like the Switch can be traced back to the GBA.
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After more than a decade of the Game Boy’s handheld dominance, though, gamers eagerly awaited the next evolution in portable gaming. When the Game Boy Advance hit shelves in Japan on March 21, 2001, Nintendo was still riding the incredible success of the original Game Boy.
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