Thought I'd spill the GBA talk out into its own own thread. I dug mine out recently as I heard the hosts of the IGN voice chat podcast discussing it, and specially this top 25 below.
I love my GBA SP as it was a random present from my mum at Xmas around 03 or 04 it must have been. As had reached the stage where neither me or my bro really had any idea what we wanted as were both early 20s. I remember she'd got him Sim City with his but can't remember what game came with mine.
Loads there I never played and then when I've been at shows or about retroshops I had started to notice some great games dirt cheap. Grabbed Tony Hawk 2 for 3 quid with a nice box for example. And recently spotted that there was a ton of Sega related titles I just completely missed at the time.
What are everyone else's fav games?
I'm loving that Wario Ware: Twisted is at #1 in that list, it's a fantastic toybox and clearly a very successful test bed for much of the play mechanics which became the Wii.
Other than that I love Advance Wars 1&2, Zelda Minish Cap, F-Zero, Mario Kart, Sega Arcade Gallery (for Outrun), Mario&Luigi, and various Marios. Co-op Doom is also worth a play.
Oh, if you are interested, Medal of Honour Underground is memorable for being one of the worst games I have ever played.
ETA: Kuru Kururin is awesome too.
BTW if anyone wants to try out some GBA games in browser: http://www.gbafun.com/
Most of what I'd pick is already in that list. I particularly enjoyed Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Metroid Zero Mission, Mario Kart Super Circuit and Minish Cap. My wife spent months addicted to Friends of Mineral Town, and the remakes of Yoshi's Island and Link to the Past.
We even managed a few sessions of the GameCube version of Four Swords with a full complement of players, GBAs and link cables, which was absolutely ridiculous but such fun. I always thought Nintendo would revisit that two-screen Zelda concept with the Wii U but it never happened.
Ironic that Wario Ware Twisted never actually got released in this country, of course.
The Zone of the Ender's GBA game is actually pretty good
GameCube Four Swords is still one of my favourite multiplayer experiences.
I know they've got a whole Disney-esque "control the flow" thing going on, but I'd kill for a GBA virtual console on the Switch.
I found mine in a cupboard a couple of years ago, and I'd forgotten just how dark the screen was. I thought it was broken until I remembered I used to have to play in front of a desk lamp.
If you haven't had to buy one of those awful unofficial bendy lamp things that plugged into the charging port, you haven't lived.
Well, maybe.
The bendy lamps were rubbish. I had a screen cover which you could fold up and would then turn into a lamp. It was rubbish too. The SP was incredible in comparison.
Didn't we play GBA 4 Swords at chez Bloodaxe and get horribly stuck?
Yeah, but we got through six glorious levels before we got stuck.
It's a great game solo too.
