My hands down favorite GBA game is Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. It's not even close. I have 250+ hours across those three games, and that's only counting my NTSC physical copies and not emulators or ROM hacks. In fact, I am so stuck on the third generation that I purified a Shadow Pokemon from Pokemon Colosseum and earned the max possible ribbons on my Flygon, Jinn. He currently has 67 ribbons and has been vacationing in Pokemon White for a long while.

So far, I haven't played any GBA games that I think are truly miserable and not worth a couple bucks or a half hour of my time. Nevermind, I just remembered that Medal of Honor Underground exists. At least my game can't possibly be the ugliest shooter on GBA!

Most people would say that the GBA Video cartridges haven't aged well, or that they're not even games at all! I disagree on both counts, insisting that their nuclear-blasted visuals and rusty garbage truck audio is what makes them classic history pieces.

I have been fascinated with the potential of first person shooters since I first learned that Doom made it to the system, and my love for the abominable concept has only grown deeper the more I come to understand just how much this shouldn't have happened on the hardware.

Ice Nine - Ecks vs Sever - Duke Nukem Advance - 007: Nightfire

pmprog wrote:

I played Pokemon Blue back on the DMG, and I really like the Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald monsters, but I've yet to put any serious time into playing them though.

If you're interested, I can trade you some eggs or starter Pokemon, or the Shiny Zigzagoon that is distributed with select Gamecube demo discs. All genuine, of course.

sasha wrote:

The Sims games on the GBA are fascinating to me from a game-design standpoint. I know some videos have been done on them. I owned Bustin' Out as a kid and played it a lot. I would have loved to see a more sandbox-y Sims game on the system, but there's probably some reason I'm not considering as to why they didn't ever go that route.

I loved how big and detailed the sprites are. I never owned either of them when I was young, but I ended up buying The Urbz a few years ago just because of how much I liked them.

e9zyI39w3 wrote:

I am so stuck on the third generation that I purified a Shadow Pokemon from Pokemon Colosseum and earned the max possible ribbons on my Flygon, Jinn. He currently has 67 ribbons and has been vacationing in Pokemon White for a long while.

I have a few purified Pokemon that have travelled from Colosseum and XD to Pokemon Home. I never bothered to get ribbons on them, though. 😅