Is The Game Boy Advance Worth Playing Today!? - History, Review & Retrospective - THGM
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A man in a Top Hat with a Moustache reviews rare video games in his massive collection. Appreciate the finer things in life. The Top Hat Gaming Man is currently traveling around the globe, playing the best games for the handheld around the world. The Best games are like fine wines and only get better with age. Today Top Hat Gaming Man looks at the Game Boy Advance and discusses if it is worth playing today.
The GBA and GameCube era was such a great time for gaming for me, I had a huge group of gaming friends and the games coming out were party oriented or just damn great fun.
Shaneoid Same here bro! Excellent era for me as well! Right next to the Gameboy Color & Nintendo 64 & Sega Dreamcast era too
Pixar The Great where did the I hate you come from?
Pixar The Great ...ok
Pixar The Great I guess I don't.
Diane Norman he’s probably some 6 year old who is trying to be edgy
Is the GBA worth playing today?
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: undoubtedly, unquestionably, most assuredly certainly.
Still today my GBA SP is with my 3ds my Favorit Handheld I carried every day with me.
@@grafvinestarry Still got mine and I just replaced the battery ($10) recently too. It's running like how it back when I first got it.
no idea why it's even a question.
> Can't charge it and connect your headphones at the same time
Looks like Apple ain't all that revolutionary, am I right?
You can charge the game boy advance. It has the charger and battery for it. I have the set
The original GameBoy Advance was the preetiest portable gaming device ever... GBA SP was good because of the backlight, but the original was so better looking and much more ergonomycal.
Dickjoke Dandy Dear god, finally someone who actually shares the same opinion as me!
thousands of people share the same opinion. It was also frontlit, the backlit version was later introduced and is now rather rare
Had mine and a few games stolen by my god sister's friend back when I lived with them for a while. No way to prove it. Just have my Graphite SP now, but hoping to get a back-lit version sometime as well. This is my third favorite gaming platform of all time after the NES and SNES. Anyway, yes, the original ones were awesome. Would have been killer to have had a back-lit version of those.
Yeah, they even came with a standard headphone jack builtin. Too bad they didn't make those with a backlight.
Debatable I prefered the SP aesthetically.
5:30 stock up on Durexes? Do you often power your handhelds with condoms Top Hat? :D
Larry Bundy Jr
... (Oh my god he actually did make that mistake)!
Mistake? Don't you mean trap?
Actually WatchMojo has just released a video about the Top 10 Oddest to Power a Portable Console...
Condoms was number 6.
And Buzzfeed have also published a full twenty minute video entitled "You're not a 90s kid if you don't remember powering handhelds using contraception!"
Just *came* to say that too. Watch Mojo have said "Trojans can be used to power your GBA when you're out and about."
Larry Bundy Jr he meant duracells
The GBA might be the best handheld ever, especially the SP and Micro. That library alone...worth playing no matter what generation
Cant include the sp success with the failed micro
@@dorothyzbornak6324 Micro better anyways
The Micro failed because it was rather dumb of Nintendo to put it out at a price and time when the DS was just 50 dollars more.
I still like the original GBA best. SP may be better, but the design of original GBA wins and I do care about design.
Rafał Dydkiem Machał I personally love the design of the sp
Holy shit, Wario Ware was basically all about Wario releasing tiny, low-effort games because he was greedy, right? What if there was a new Wario Ware game that was all about cramming in micro-transactions and partitioning game content off into DLC?
@ 5:24 - I think he meant “Duracell”, and not “Durex” Hahaha 😂
Fusion, Zero Mission, Mother 3, Aria of Sorrow, Harmony of Dissonance, Drill Dozer, Superstar Saga...classic system 👌
I LOVE the GBA, it's my favourite handheld~♥
It was like a handheld Super Nintendo on-steroids!
love this channel, I'm glad I'm here before it blows up and gets massive. YEAHHHH!!!!!
'Allo 'Allo, I must commend you on your content, my dear. It's quite refreshing in the games world. I myself try hard to stay away totally from games content on my own new channel, as it's a deep pool, but you've found your spot, and I tip my porkpie to you! Keep up the grand work, it's the dogs bollocks!
Loved the GBA at launch, but it was so hard to see ambient room light wasn't enough. You needed to be directly under a lamp or "Worm Light", but then you were dodging a the reflection of the light itself.
It wasn't until after I installed an AfterBurner frontlight mod that I really started enjoying the GBA on a whole other level.
+Top Hat Gaming Man
You should definitely check 'Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure' for the DS. Main character is like older version of you :).
I actually find the micro more comfortable to play for long periods of time than the SP. The SP's buttons are more cramped together.
I love the micro. Has the best image out of all of em, crisper than the 101 with more brightness settings too
"It would take a long time to get bored of the Game Boy Advance." LOL what an understatement!
I completely agree w/ you about GBA and about Advance Wars! I'm always surprised not to hear you mention Final Fantasy Tactics, though. Fucking amazing game!
I'm sorry for repeating myself, but I love your intro. It always makes me laugh so hard xD
Very interesting review, thank you :)
Is the Game Boy Advance worth playing today? Well, of course! The GBA and GBA SP were both backwards-compatible with Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games. I would avoid the Game Boy Micro because it plays GBA games only. In my honest opinion, the GBA Micro killed the GBA line for being so tiny. The Micro was the size of a small cell phone.
Dustin Nunn the Gba and original ds were the best Nintendo handhelds to me the 3ds comes in 3rd for me.
The Gba is excellent, love that thing. Golden Sun + Lost Age, F-Zero Max Velocity, 2 classic Metroids, 2 classic Advance Wars ,2 classic Fire emblems, Dbz Supersonic warriors, Pokemon, Sonic Advance trilogy, Superstar saga etc. I'm still collecting for the ds and 3ds though, there's alot of quality stuff there too.
no Dustin Nunn the DS killed the gameboy line
was thinking about getting a gba for a couple of games and wanted to know if there were any other good games so i looked for a vid on it and found this one. i think you deserve more subscribers honestly
the GBA was one of those consoles during Nintendo's "Prime" era where they were hitting it out of the park....mostly.
Poor Gamecube though
Yeah, it had a handle that is the only reason I need to buy it because I'm sick and tired of constantly dropping my consoles because there was no handle.
While I don't necessary agree with the Sonic Advance titles being better than the MegaDrive ones (I love nostalgia after all), I fully agree with your opinion about the GBA in general.
This thing is just amazing with its huuuuuuuge library of games and features for the time.
Too bad you didn't mention things like the ability to play multiplayer with ONE cartridge only or the amazing GameCube link cable that could also be used for games such as the Sonic Advance/Adventure titles or Wario Ware or Zelda.
Easily the best GameBoy Nintendo brought out until this date with the 3DSXL being possibly the only thing that could hold up (if you exclude the original for its cult factor).
MegaManNeo i loved the sonic advance series for the gba games especially for its time.
Nothing wrong with that, the first game is also one of my favs.
sonic advance is as good as its genesis trilogy
The reason Fire Emblem survived is simple: Smash bros. If Advanced Wars had a Smash rep, it probably would've survived in some capacity.
Game Boy Advance still has a special place in my heart. I agree with you. Many moments of my life are colored by the excitement of playing with Gameboy advance. Great game collection, with eye-catching graphics, and very fun to enjoy, even now!
Great video. The GBA is still my favorite handheld console. I feel another gba kick starting up me!
You didn't talk about the AGS 101 SP with a "Brighter Backlit Screen", they are hard to find non-modded, but it's an essential upgrade either way!
Is it rare to have an original of those model?
The GBA SP is a sexy, sexy beast. And in my opinion the best handheld console ever. It doesn't have a silly over-complicated gimmick or overpriced proprietary storage, like certain other, more recent handhelds. Hell of a strong library too, and not just because of the backwards compatibility. It even has several games in my favorite genre, FPS. And most of them are actually good! There's even a decent port of Doom for the GBA, for crying out loud!
Andrew Vrba I still prefer holding a GBA over the SP I guess due to my big hands. It just feels better
Top Hat Gaming Man
There was an original Mario game on the Gameboy Advance which wasn't a remake.The new Mario game on the Gameboy Advance was Mario Vs Donkey Kong. It was the sequel to Donkey Kong 1994.
Firsttet Lasttet That's a really fun game, but I think he refered to a main series game and not spin-offs like Mário Kart Super Circuit, Mário And Luigi Superstar Saga, Wario Ware and others
Yeah but saying Mario vs Donkey Kong isn't a proper Mario game is like saying Donkey Kong 1981 isn't a proper Mario game and that's the game that started the whole series. Mario vs Donkey Kong is a Mario platformer game, so is Donkey Kong 1994.
Sure Mario vs Donkey Kong may not be in the same style as Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World but its still a Mario platformer game.
Its like saying The Legend of Zelda A Link Between Worlds is not a proper Zelda game because it isn't in the same style as Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask
Also Super Mario Bros 3 on the Gameboy Advance has 38 extra levels. That's more levels than in Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 2, Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2. So in a way Super Mario Bros 3 (GBA) is like a new Mario platforming game. Its kind of like Super Mario Bros 3's version of the Lost Levels but most levels are completely brand new. So thinking about it, you could call this Super Mario Bros 3: The Lost Levels instead of a Super Mario Bros 4
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I've been playing my Game Boy Advance games lately again. I used to play the old Game Boy games when the original clunky Game Boy started in 1989, but sort of phased out of the handheld devices during the 1990's (never got to experience the Game Boy Color era), just sticking with the main consoles like the NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube and the PlayStation(s) 1, 2, and 3. In recent years, been chasing used GBA devices & GB, GBC, GBA games. Have a GB Pocket, GBA and the GBA SP (backlit version of the SP model AGS-101). Why Nintendo never made the older GB devices have backlit until the latter model GBA SP in 2005 was surprising.
The GBA, GBC, N64 and GameCube era was such a good time for me. I have been playing my Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance lately again. I used to play the original Game Boy games when the old Game Boy started in '89, but sort became popular in the 90's (I also got an experience the Game Boy Color), and I sticked with the main consoles like the NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, the PlayStations 1, 2, & 3, and the Xbox. In the years, been digging up and finding accessories and devices for the GB, GBC and GBA games, like the Game Genie, Super Game Boy, WideBoy-64, and the Game Boy Player. I still own my Game Boy Advance since 2001. I don't have the GB Play It Loud!, GB Pocket and the GBA SP(s) yet, but I will get soon one day in the future (along with the repurchasing of the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color).
I love your intros to these videos.
Wait, you didnt like Ruby and Sapphire? wow....... harsh
Vinicius MRF most people who played red blue and gold silver previously didn't like ruby and sapphire when they came out.
Thats weird, they were always great classics to me...
Vinicius MRF at the time since there was no way getting previous Pokemon from gen 1 and 2 it felt really empty. Plus by that time people who played Pokemon 5 years ago from gen 1 at 10 were already 15 or older and proubly grew up out of it.
Sure if these were your FIRST pokemon games like they were to a whole lot of people. Personally I don't they're bad but they're far from the best as some people nostalgically make them seem.
I played red blue gold silver and emerald gen 2 is the best for my opinion but gen 3 is not that bad
The Micro was fully backlit and wasn't backwards-compatible. But it did have a headphone jack, internal battery, plenty of great games and MINISH CAP!!!!!!! MINISH CAP MINISH CAP... I AM GETTING NOSTALGIC
With a ez Flash Card you can play Gameboy Games on the Gameboy Micro but you have a clock issue bei Pokemon Silver, Gold and Crystal.
Minsh Cap is a masterpiece!!!!
I love the GBA! It is my favourite handheld. There is another version of it that has an even brighter backlight that can be changed. The only problem with the GBA is that it didn't last very long. It only lasted about 5 years and was overtaken by the DS.
Also the GBC GBA adaptor is expensive as heck to find complete with disc.
I need to pick one of these up again, despite having a 3ds. I really loved the strategy games on the system with a special shout out to Super Robot Wars J as the best one on the system.
The GBA is (a huge portion of) my CHILDHOOD. Used to play Rayman Advance, Tang Tang, Crash Bandicoot, G&W Gallery 4, and MarioKart: SC.
This was my first games system ever so it holds a lot of value to me.
Sir i own 3 GBAs (white, black and purple), 2 GBA SPs (flame red and zelda edition) and GBA Micros ( silver and blue) and the micro is by far the best of the lot with its crystal clear pin sharp screen and lovely metal case.
agree this guy is an idiot
The GBA had some fantastic games for sure :D
Golden Sun The Lost Age masterace!
Europe missed out on the greatest GBA version of all. The SP AGS-101. Same console as the SP but with an amazing fully backlight screen that puts the original DS's screen to shame. That screen alone is the reason why the 101 is worth twice as much as the 001 on Ebay. It's the true final form of the GBA.
5:30 Did anyone else notice this lovely man say Durex instead of, presumably, Duracell?
I was 7 years old, soon to have a birthday in 2001, I had no clue about the GameCube until it had already came out, but I was excited about the GameBoy Advance and couldn't want to get one for my birthday, I drooled over the free adverts Walmart handed out, especially at the page about Mario Kart Super Circuit.
You serve up strong opinions whilst wearing a top hat and I like it.
Forgiving the lack of a headphone jack, IMO the GBA SP is the best handheld gaming system in history. The library of games available is immense and the quality and features are excellent. With the upgrades made available by modern technology, the system is truly amazing. Sure the sound chip isn’t as good as the SNES sound chip and the screen light isn’t as bright as you’d like, but it was awesome for the technology of the time. Excellent upgrades to the sound, screen, and battery life are available today.
I'm going to save you all time from having to watch future videos on a similar topic. Every popular retro gaming console is still worth playing today!
You forgot about the gameboy advance sp remake with the back light in 2005 that came out 2 months before the game boy micro. Also you needed to add that remake into your video before 13:15 in your video.
Link or show me that because I've never heard of that at all
LEHGORIA The GBA SP with backlight is called AGS-101. With an adapter cable you can put the screen in the old GBA. I did that with mine.
oh ok I see
Your intro continuously makes me chuckle every time I see it. Haha!
Is the branch from Fawlty Towers? XD I loved the AGS-001 you could use it at the beach and also in the dark.
I went from my gameboy in the 80s to the DS. I was still playing the lovely green screened beast when the GBA was released. I actually just bought my first GBA advance title this year! (Dragon quest caravan heart English hack and Japanese cib to put the cart in)
Very interesting and informative video. Thanks
Fun fact: Mario Kart Super Circuit was not developed by Nintendo. It was developed by Intelligent Systems. Hence why it's a good game.
I still remember declining the offer of a gba for my bday in 01 in favour of the gbc. I didn't mind. There was still enough for a 16 year old with no real income at the time to track down. But I bought a gba in 03, then the nes sp in 04. What a great few years they were
Probably the GB Advance Library includes everythiing gaming needs.
In 50 years children still will play the games from it.
I love the original GBA, and I was given one as a Christmas gift by my mother that year in 2001 as I was going threw a rough time at work, and she wanted to cheer me up :-), and I can remember going threw a lot of lighting solutions for it lol, and I later got the GBA SP on launch day, and even though it was front lighted, and I played it like crazy I over all did not like it as much as it made my hands cramp up after a few hours of playing, but I had a 3rd party Mad Catz Adapter that let me charge, and play my SP at the same time but it was not a perfect solution as it had a loose fit, and I later found an adapter for the SP that came with Wireless headphones that would also let you charge at the same time, and when you where not using the headphones with the SP you could listen to the built in FM radio. :-) Also have 2 Gameboy players which I love, and if anyone needs a GBA player here in North America without the boot disc shoot me a UA-cam inbox message, and we can work out a fair price, as it's only taking up space in the closet in my home office. :-)
I love GB Advance~ i still play my modded backlit GBA Original
The problem is that people stopped caring about the quality of games this generation. It's all about power and how many games their are. You could say it actually started during N64 vs PS1 but at least the N64 was successful. The GameCube wasn't, it only beat the Dreamcast, yet more people are going back to GameCube than PS2 or Xbox, just like how more people play N64 today than PS1. When the console war of the current generation happens, the ones with the most power will win, yet in the future more people will remember the console that actually was fun to play.
(The GBA did well because it was the only really good handheld there was.)
@TopHatGamingMan given the GBA backwards compatibility of the Nintendo DS Lite, what would you propose as the best way to play GBA games on the go? (currently playing Dawn of Souls GBA on Nintendo Ds Lite)
The GBA Micro is awesome!
I have big hands, but have no problem playing it.
Great videos! Thoroughly enjoying your channel! Good work!
Well the reason that nintendo does not release hardware for you to be able to play your retro games on is that they are selling them digitally for the virtual console so that you will once again buy the same game from them.
I managed to pick one of these up at a yard sale for 50 cents a few months back. It needs a new shell, but works like a champ!
Ur channel is great. Thanks for the content
There's a massive surge of small handheld emulator gaming systems, with screens the same size as the GBA. Game Boys have amazing games made for a small screen so can look better than modern games shrunken down to the small size. Especially after an IPS screen upgrade.
Top Hat Gaming Man's Remains Found Sitting Upright In A Chair In His House Playing Tetris For Sega Genesis (The Unlicensed Rom !! )
A shame you didn't get a single e-Reader card over there. If Nintendo had released them all everywhere, you probably would've been satisfied there.
I feel like the "is it worth playing" question is kind of pointless. Play it if you enjoy it? If you like it, then it's worth it.
It's more just his opinion on whether they are worth playing today or not.
As i have nearly finished my original collection, i may start collecting the Game Boy Advance. I have never played on one as the years it was for sale were kind of a blur :-0, and have never got around to getting one since.
My only worry is that every other game i see seems to be a fake! I think i will get a 101 back lit modded version as it suits my needs best. Looking forward to discovering new great games to play!
Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald were amazing. If you want gen 1 pokemon just get FireRed or LeafGreen to trade over.
GBA is the best handheld gaming console ever made, you sir just made me relive my childhood, you and I share the same exact feelings about this gaming console and its affect on 2D gaming, truly best GBA review I have yet seen, thank you so much!
The GBA needed a low pass audio filter BADLY! That's the one thing I still dislike about it is the tinny/treblely sounding music and sound effects.
The Gameboy Advance SP is still a top tier gaming device...👌🏼💯✔
another great vid as always looking forward to the next one
I brought a custom GBA SP on eBay yesterday, the device looks stunning. It has a pearl white shell with black buttons and is an AGS 101 model.
Hello chums, can someone please tell me the name of the song that begins at the 14:00 min mark? Thank you.
I am watching europian version of Cinemassacre.
Ura Nium more like Gaming Historian
Wait... you can actually use ear/headphones on the GBA SP through a add-on device !!!??? Didn't know that, thank you for letting us know. I'm off to eBay after this video 😀
The more you know, right?
Can you evensee the screen? It doesn't have a backlight. I'm not talking abt the sp version btw.
There is an accessory that was made by Intec that allows one to plug in standard headphones along with a charger.
Without starting the video, Yes the Gameboy Advance is worth playing today. Specially the SP. It's small enough to fit in your pocket and with a library of over 1000 games including Final Fantasy IV, V, VI and other RPG's great shoot em ups like Advanced Guardian Heroes, and Classic Ports like Mario World and Even Megaman Games like the Zero series which got 4 releases on the console, it has something for everyone to enjoy. I even carry it around with me today to play Classic RPG's and the battery lasts more than 8 hours.
Such a shame you didn't talk more about Metroid: Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission and Minish Cap. And how can you not mention Game Freak's little-known gem Drill Dozer? Those games were amazing and still some of the best looking pixel art games to this day. Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga was also pretty great (it dragged on for too long though). I also heard that the GBA has some pretty great 2D Tony Hawk Pro Skater games, but I've never played them myself.
soulripper31 I bekive those where isometric. But close enough.
Didn't advance wars become battalion wars on GameCube and wii? They're pretty different but I like the battalion war series.
Battalion Wars was going to be called "Advance Wars: Under Fire". Since it didn't really had an relation with the Advance Wars series (well Advance Wars 1 & 2 at the time), it's title was changed to Battalion Wars. Battalion Wars later on got a sequel on the Wii.
I never knew it was backwards compatible with the original gameboy that’s awesome.
Gameboy Micro screen, albeit small, had a stellar screen for it's time and one of the first LCD screens that I saw that used screen technology more in line with what we actually see in devices today.
I just wished that Nintendo would go back to some of the great titles that was released on this system. However to their credit there have been a small batch of GBA titles on the Virtual Console on the Wii U. Now... if only they'd get on with it and bring out the VC to Switch.
I loved the game boy advance it was my go to gaming platform when i was a kid im glad i had this i played all the classic mario games on it without this system i would never be watching your videos.
great video, keep it up!
I just like to point out that you didn't mention the 2005 Backlit Model (AGS-101) that was commonly referred to as the GBA SP 2. It would be the definitive way to play every gb/gbc/gba games. The screen was just about the same of a DS lite in terms of quality. Maybe you should add it to the video or put a note in it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance_SP#Backlit_Model_.28AGS-101.29
A 3DS/DS player for a TV or monitor would be amazing. They could do it fairly easily as a stand alone device not needing to connect to a Switch. I'm pretty sure they could add a port to a 3DS XL allow you to plug it into a TV anyway, they must just not want to do it.
Also I prefer the Age of Empires games on DS to the Advance Wars series and have never played the Fire Emblems, what a weirdo.
CAMZAB Nintendo is not doing it cause they will lose money not having people rebuy games again from the virtual console.
I remember when I broke my gba sp in April 2022. I literally almost quit video games before I replaced it with an agb model two months later.
I say yes, dear sir! I love the GBA! Loved it ever since I was in primary school.
The development name for the Game Boy Advance was also referred as “Project Atlantis”.
Project Atlantis was actually a different handheld. I have covered that story on this channel too.
Top Hat Gaming Man whoops. Didn’t mean to unintentionally be WatchMojo.
My all time favourite handheld system by far, and definitely in my top 5 favourite consoles of all time. Still play my GBA SP every now and then, despite loving my Vita and 3DS. Great console!
I still love Gameboy Advance. I'm still playing the awesome WWE WrestleMania X8 , Britney's Dance Beat, And The Legend Of Zelda : A Link To The Past awesome port of the SNES classic. I had gotten mine for X-Mas of 2001 I was 16 . I also love DOOM and DOOM II on the Gameboy Advance.
Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, Megaman Battle Network 3 Sonic advance 2+3 and a few others were the highlights for me owning a GBA.
if you dislike a pokémon generation, you aren’t a true pokemon fan
I still play GBA games on my DS lite
U think getting a gba sp is worth getting new today as well as these gba games new since a lot are expensive? i had the original gba but sadly never the sp but do want to play a lot of them and experience them on the system but not if i need to pay riduculous prices
I want a Gameboy Advance. I'm planning on buying one. I wonder if they are still on sale.
BEST INTRO
top hat gaming man probably lost his virginity in 2003, went home and played his gba sp. at this point he was like this is the best year ever.
12:52 - That's a remarkably Sega-esque advert.
Do you have any videos of you in the ring TH??