The GBA was a life saver because 2D games disappeared almost entirely from home consoles starting this gen (outside of fighters). Fortunately, the GBA kept them alive.

@alexanderrahl482

6 жыл бұрын

Octopath traveller, Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Slain: Back from Hell, many more on Nintendo Switch.

@goldenraven2046

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they are back now thanks to indies. But I'm talking about the PS2, GCN, and Xbox, which have a very limited selection of original 2D games (though the PS2 had a ton of compilations and 2D fighters).

@alexanderrahl482

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry the way I read your original comment I thought you were referencing the current gen.

@mythplays8338

5 жыл бұрын

goldenraven20 Old memories

@Autotrope

Жыл бұрын

The neo geo pocket colour (and its expensive counterpart the neo geo) also fulfilled this role, after PS1, Saturn and Jaguar had embraced 3d in a big way these had gorgeous 2d graphics and GBA kind of continued this

I thought it would be helpful to make a list of all the games mentioned in the video. Super Mario Advance Rayman Advance Sonic Advance Counter Punch Mario Golf Gunstar Future Heroes Mega Man Zero Mario Kart Legend of Zelda A Link To The Past Final Fantasy 6 Alien Hominid Castlevania Circle of the Moon Bubble Bobble Kuru Kuru Kururin Super Mario Advance 2 Advance Guardian Heroes Pokemon Emerald Advance War Metroid Fusion Wario Land 4 Astro Boy Golden Sun WarioWare Inc Sonic Advance 2 Pokemon Pinball F-Zero Maximum Velocity Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance Fire Emblem Advance Wars 2 Mario Tennis Sword of Mana Klonoa Mega Man Zero 2 Super Mario Advance 3 Metal Slug Advance Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen Metroid Zero Mission Mario vs Donkey Kong WarioWare Twisted Legend of Zelda Minish Cap Sonic Advance 3 Fire Emblem Sacred Stones Castlevania Aria of Sorrow Golden Sun The Lost Age Super Mario Advance 4 Mega Man Zero 3 Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga Final Fantasy 4 Mother 3

@solgoodguy1356

6 жыл бұрын

*_Not all heroes wear capes._*

@deemac3470

6 жыл бұрын

I miss pokemon on the gba. I quit pokemon when it switched to ds. Still waiting for the switch game to get me back into it.

@akou12

6 жыл бұрын

Then what's the damn point of the video?

@guywithglasses5309

6 жыл бұрын

Really Nightmare in Dreamland over Amazing Mirror? That has to be a mistake

@1UpJohn

6 жыл бұрын

@@guywithglasses5309 He said Nightmare in Dreamland and I actually like that one better than the Amazing Mirror.

My pregnant wife [who is currently on bed rest] has a goal before baby arrives: Beat Final Fantasy VI on the GBA before her water breaks.... No joke!

@denvernaicker8250

6 жыл бұрын

how many more months or days are left?

@stevesmith1496

6 жыл бұрын

She can do it!!

@joeyparkhill8751

6 жыл бұрын

Denver Naicker She is 8.5 months with our 2nd child

@sodokami6347

6 жыл бұрын

Joey Parkhill no protection

@Grim-oc9fw

6 жыл бұрын

PathEtic ! ! So many more impressive and important things to do and think about ! You are both little children in your mentality , the baby should be ripped and taken from you when it is born and given to real adults to raise ! Shame on you and yours !

literally the only gba list that even mentions Mother3

@command3rlucas294

5 жыл бұрын

That’s literally what I thought too! I only really came here for Mother 3.

@HammyHavoc

4 жыл бұрын

@Brendan Lewis Imagine gatekeeping the enjoyment of a children's game console in KZread comments.

I see Mother 3 on a GBA List, I hit like!

**Sees Mother 3** Delicious Finally some good F-ing GBA list

@wanded

4 жыл бұрын

Yet no Kingdom hearts or Riviera

The Mega man Zero games are some of my all time favorite games, so I'm really glad that you gave it a little attention.

Metroid Fusion is incredible, and holds up well today. Thank you for including it :-D

i agree about the wall jump being difficult to do on metroid, it really grinds my gears to see people do it so easily on the walkthroughs. nice list. greetings from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Drill dozer and boktai 3 definitely deserve a mention - they both do cool things with custom cartridges, but are really charming unique games in their own right too with some clever mechanics. Sigma star saga (RPG, but the battles are shmups), Cima: the enemy (an RTS RPG?!), and yggdra union are also pretty interesting, although the latter starts at deceptively tough before rapidly cranking up to hard as balls difficult.

Thank you for making this video man. It showed me the games that I forgot the names of that I used to play as a child. Great vid

Another great video Top Hat Gamer. A very informative and very entertaining watch, great listing for a fantastic system 👍

More content for later this evening! Excellent!

A great selection from a true connaisseur! Really enjoyed this video.

Great list! Good to see some love for Mega Man Zero, I really love Zero series. What do you think of Megaman Battle Network? I personally love it.

with this quality of contents you really should have 10x your subscribers! Thanks for this great video!

The Game Boy Advance is still one of my favorite systems!! Great video!

I know I'm late but... That thumbnail is amazing

Great video, i do feel i miss out on a few games. Street fighter alpha 3, a great port of the psx game with a huge roster. Few cuts were made to fit the gba but still amazing. Ninja cop, or ninja five - o in some regions. Amazing platformer with tight controls. Crash bandicoot xs. Small version of the beloved game that feels like a full version! Super puzzle fighter 2 turbo: very fun and challenging puzzler. Bruce Lee: nice action platformer with a good variety of moves and great controls

Good show Top Hat love the list. Yeaaaaahh!!!

Nicely done mate! Very informative as usual! 👍🏻

I bought an Anbernic rg531p last week and I am doing a research on which roms to download. Advance Wars is one of my favorites!

I love the thumbnail. I wish i could see the rest of Lyn. Fire Emblem on the GBA was my first ever Fire Emblem game

I love the GBA. It is my favourite handheld for a reason. I just wish I could afford some of the games you mentioned.

@charbelyounes7611

6 жыл бұрын

just use emulators

@emmaishida4386

6 жыл бұрын

I have emulators, I have a GBA, DS, SNES, Sega one and PSX. I just like having the physical carts too.

@akou12

6 жыл бұрын

What DS emulator you use? I've yet to find one that doesn't run like crap

@emmaishida4386

6 жыл бұрын

I just use DESumE.

@emmaishida4386

5 жыл бұрын

On my laptop.

Nice Lynn artwork in the thumbnail 7w7

Great video. I’ve seen 16 out of that list I’d like to get hold of ☺️👍

One that I always enjoyed was Dragon Ball Z supersonic fighters. It was always good for a quick fight on the go, and did a good job of getting DBZ combat right on a handheld.

Man I spent soooo many hours as a kid playing TLOZ A Link to the Past 4swords edition…literally the only Zelda game I’ve 100% including the 4 swords part which you had to do to 100% the in game and get your very last item…this vid brings back quite a bit of nostalgia!!

Now look at this. I get a GBA player and daddy hat man releases this video, nice.

I used to play gba games so much as a kid- I’m 25 now and I’ve started buying them again and I can’t wait to get a custom ips console

The back-lit GBA SP AGS-101 could easily be crowned the greatest handheld system of all time, if we're judging handhelds solely on what they can natively run.(IE Soft-modded PSP doesn't apply here). It runs the already impressive Game Boy Advance library, the Game Boy Color library, and even colorizes Game Boy games. Some of my favorites for the system not already talked about in your video include Doom, Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku II, Gadget Racers, Batman Begins, Splinter Cell, Iridion 3D, Duke Nukem Advance and Double Dragon Advance.

@1stfloorguy59

5 жыл бұрын

101 screen inside gba frame is the best for me

@MakingGainz

2 жыл бұрын

I watched this list to see if Legacy of Goku 2 appeared.

@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo

Жыл бұрын

@@MakingGainz dragon ball advanced adventure and Super Sonic fighter are way better games.

Suprised to see a Donkey Kong Country game missing from this list, especially with the use of Sticker Brush Symphony from 2! Good list all the same :)

Good list, lots of good sidescrolling and rpgs on that system, I remember playing Golden Sun on my clamshell GBA when I was at college The GBA and DS easily had the best libraries, only the SNES was finer

Watching this now to get a personal liking for a future collection of GBA games for the Pocket Analogue

I couldn't imagine making a top 50 GBA game list.. soooooo many good games on the GBA and picking the top 20-30 would be crazy hard. Love GBA. Best handled system to date. I have close to 80 CIB games and around 30 loose carts.

@liamconverse8950

Жыл бұрын

A lot of bad ones too

@absoluteclownworld

Жыл бұрын

@liamconverse8950 yeah also a lot of bad games for GB, GBC, DS, 3DS, Atari ( all systems ), NES and other systems as well lol.

I think Mega Man Zero 2 was the best in the series. The story hits its peak there, and I liked the balance between the levels and enemies the most. And of course, I had just way too much fun with the chain rod. I think the first KZread video I ever made was one showing off the chain rod.

I love the GBA, it has such a great library of games and overall, it's one of my favourite systems ever, along with SNES and 3DS.

Fantastic video

Great list man! I think I missed far too many good GBA games but considering getting into collecting for it!

@ArtistMarkFlynn

6 жыл бұрын

got a gba just no games!

@stevesmith1496

6 жыл бұрын

Jack Of All Hell yeah! Great game!

I like the video very much if you could for future and I know you do good job can you have the list of games titles on the screen when they get announced great video

I wish he would have added the titles of the game on the screen when showing their game play footage, that way I would have been able to screen shot the games that I was interested in picking up...👌🏼💯✔

You are cool man. I hope we're neighbors and enjoy playing gba. I'm still playing games on that console.

Sonic had a few additional great entries on the GBA, and I think you only mentioned Sonic Advance. I especially liked Sonic Advance 3 and Sonic Battle. Final Fantasy also had its Tactics game port in GBA. It was different than the other games; whether it was great is a matter of taste.

Coolness, beautiful 16-bit pixel art. God bless.

Love the Megaman battle network series, I feel like I’m the only one that plays them since I’ve never seen it mentioned in articles or videos. Lol.

Finally! Someone recognizes the Mega Man Zero games for the gems they are. I was surprised you left out 4 though, its personally my favorite in the series. Great vid

Shining Force Ressurection of The Dark dragon. Grew up playing the original on a Sega Arcade Disk for our home computer. When I found out they had remade it on the GBA I instantly got it. A great Tactical RPG game. Also the Legacy of Goku Games + Buu's Fury was lit back in the day.

Feels like you played this one EXTREMELY safe

Legend of starfy series is probably worth a mention. Definitely worth a play if you've never experienced them. Theyre the gba hidden gem equivelent that ristar is to the megadrive. They never got a western release but arent text heavy enough to hinder gameplay although youll probably be missing out on the story. Deffo worth a look

The three *CT Special Forces* games are my GBA top picks. They are very like *Metal Slug* only with more variety.

Oof hard one. I guess the castlevania and metroid games. Oh and that diablo like game. Baldurs gate you have to try that one top cat gaming man. Its a little rusty these days but still a diablo like game on an handheld inc loot and different characters YES PLEASE

I would recommend would be The Sims: Bustin' Out GBA, I got it as a gift when I was younger because I was such a big fan of the pc version. Its sort of a free-roam RPG with a lot of aspects from the original game, has nice music, cool old school sims atmosphere. It was one of the last games I remember getting for the system and I played it a lot for the few years I owned it.

@diarykeeper

4 жыл бұрын

This. Even my Switch and 3DS spoiled younger post 2000 era brother loves it for its quirky humor.

Superb, definitive list! Subscribed because of this vid.

@TopHatGamingManChannel

5 жыл бұрын

2 weeks ago I released another video on 50 great GBA games, this time more obscure ones if you care to check it out.

@MrMattyG

5 жыл бұрын

@@TopHatGamingManChannel Thank you, will do! :)

Very good list. You were missing Breath of Fire 1 and 2. If it was there I might have missed it.

I think that Rhythm Tengoku deserves a spot on that list, it's a classic!

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and 3 are great games for GBA. I played them for hours. There are so many great GBA games that haven't been included here. I definitely will have to own a copy of that GBA Sonic game someday.

That thumbnail is EXTRA THICC

@JaKL1999

6 жыл бұрын

What's the game?

@NotAFakeName1

6 жыл бұрын

@@JaKL1999 fire emblem 7

@_FiFo_

5 жыл бұрын

I could use the original. For uh, research.

@TheAvalanchilator

5 жыл бұрын

It looks nothing like the actual lyn tho.....just some weird deviant art fantasy.

@joyeuse8524

5 жыл бұрын

She's 15 you pervs!

final fantasy tactics is fabulous if you've never played it. Some of the most charming illustrations and music of any game I've played on any console. Surprisingly good story as well. Used to swap between that, fire emblem, metroid fusion, and castlevania.

@greenyenergy

Жыл бұрын

Surprised he didn't mention FFTA it's in my top 5 GBA games.

You could make a top 100 list and you'd still be missing somebody's favourite GBA game, the system is just THAT good! Here are some games I think are great and worth mentioning which aren't on your list (in no particular order): Iridion II, the Densetsu no Stafy series, Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival, King of Fighters EX 2, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Final Fight One, Double Dragon Advance, River City Ransom EX, Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure, the Donkey Kong Country series, Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch - Pichi Pichitto Live Start, Puyo Pop, Puyo Pop Fever, Mario Pinball Land, Summon Night Swordcraft Story 1 and 2, Avatar the Legend of Aang, Crash Bandicoot XS, Crash 2 N-Tranced, Doom 1 and 2, Gradius Galaxies, R-Type 3, Phalanx, Steel Empire, Top Gear Rally, F-Zero Climax, Konami Krazy Racers, Monkey Ball Jr, Smashing Drive, Rhythm Tengoku, Sega Arcade Gallery, Game & Watch Gallery 4, Super Star Shooter Advance (I know it's a homebrew game, but it's still great), Super Ghouls and Ghosts, the Ninja Turtles games, and I'm sure somebody else could still mention even more great GBA games that aren't in either of our lists...

@stevesmith1496

6 жыл бұрын

Michirin9801 Yup, the system has a ton of great game! I'm in the minority of preferring the feel of the original version in my hands, but the SP definitely makes that screen a lot easier to see!

@Champion2D

6 жыл бұрын

Yes to all of this. I'd also add Shaman King 1 and 2 (Castlevania clones developed by konami) Godzilla Domination and Ninja Cop.

@personavisceration371

6 жыл бұрын

...and Pinball of the Dead, Goemon, Sega Arcade Gallery, SD Gundam, Lufia, Shining Soul, Boktai, Doom, CT Special Forces, Megaman and Bass, Shining Force, Pocky and Rocky, Onimusha Tactics, FF Tactics Advance, and so many more it's ridiculous.

@Michirin9801

6 жыл бұрын

Although I've already mentioned Doom and Sega Arcade Gallery, taking the games you and I mentioned and adding them to the ones in the video, you already get more than 100 games! My point is thus proven...

@solidust573

6 жыл бұрын

Champion 2D Rob Thank you! _Shaman King_ fell below my radar.

Castlevania was great. Different card combinations gave you different powers there were so many cards too

Super Mario world music brings me back every time.

Every top blah is so fantasy flooded. No sports, no shoot em ups. Like the tf? Baseball advance is still my fav. Legendary fielding and smooth and rewarding hitting. Mario golf is another great one.

It's criminal that I haven't seen Pokemon Mystery dungeon red/blue rescue team on any of these lists so far!

I loved the GBA, but man oh man how I have ALWAYS wished they just added two more buttons!

FFTA - one of my favorite, has unic judge and cards sistem, that make it very different from FFT I first played AW 2, cool game but AW 1 has one bonus that force me play this too - expression of the faces of generals. Circle of the moon is one of greatest castelvania series. Warrior, mage, rogue paths...

I think megaman battle network series need some love

@finnhaverkamp

5 жыл бұрын

I'm going to play it for the first time. I've narrowed it down to 2 or 3. Which do you recommend?

@operativevtwosixteen1734

5 жыл бұрын

If I were you I would play all 6 in order

@aguythatlikesrice8075

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry but megaman zero series for gba is superior

@wesleyhudson9560

4 жыл бұрын

@@finnhaverkamp 3 out of the set you mentioned. My personal favorite will always be 6. Also, note that 5 was a double release for the DS. The music and graphics were updated for the DS release. There is also voice acting.

@wanded

4 жыл бұрын

@@finnhaverkamp Play all 6 in order

gba was the manafestation of good 2-d gaming, never get bored of with that thing even without pokemon. Everything is so easy to pick up and play, and it resembles that in its design. Love that handheld to death.

I grew up with gba, I still have a July 2004 nintendo power magazine through 2005 from when i was 11 years old. Pokemon leaf green and fire red and emerald came out, the DS was coming that next holiday season and my neighbors had the cool flippy little SP with the convenient as hell back light, so for me the nostaligia is way up there...I still really only think there's like 20 good games lol. With that said, he missed out on GT Advance 3. An awesome over the top view racing game.

I just started making my own cases for gameboy advance using ds cases. They look glorious.

thats a rely good top well done well well done

I'm still surprised neither Summon night swordcraft story 1 or 2 made this list. Great story, and a unique battle style for an rpg.

@nintendbro3275

Жыл бұрын

I have to second that! Such great games with great visuals, story, music, mechanics.. all around mint 👌

Good video but you need to put the title of the game on the screen somewhere for a moment. Would be a of great use to use. Thanks.

I’d put Advance Wars 2 in my top handheld games of all-time too! In fact, it’d be up there in my favourites list full stop.

@TopHatGamingManChannel

6 жыл бұрын

onaretrotip I only intended to sink 5 minutes into gameplay capture of each game for this list. I lost an hour to Advance Wars 2 lol

@onaretrotip

6 жыл бұрын

Ha, that does not surprise me. I've been playing it again recently... almost every night for months!

@TopHatGamingManChannel

6 жыл бұрын

onaretrotip Congrats on the channel growth by the way, well deserved! You will be in the 100k sub club in know time.

@onaretrotip

6 жыл бұрын

Ah, thank you very much!

@williamkoscielniak820

5 жыл бұрын

Advance Wars 2 is my favorite GBA game and the one I've played the most by a country mile. It's one of the most addicting games I've ever played.

I would've enjoyed seeing Final Fantasy V on your list. It really was Advanced, with features unavailable in the Playstation version, like four new job classes to switch between and new dungeons to try your hand at. Also, the story was very campy and enjoyably silly.

5:35 I really wish they didn't make him scream when he uses his sword

I think you've done a great disservice to the world by not talking about the humorous and dynamic world of Final Fantasy 5. It's story doesn't take itself to seriously, but it's fun gameplay and unique leveling system made for a highly customizable experience that shouldn't be missed!

9:21 Thank you so much for your opinion :3 For me, Ruby and Sapphire were indeed depressing due to this link cable nonsense... And as you said a HUGE step down from Gen 2. I always thought, I was the only one who had that opinion..

i dig that you like metroid fusion so much, but damn i just cant wrap my head around liking it more than super metroid.

I enjoyed Pokémon mystery dungeon red rescue team as well as Lufia, Final fantasy 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6, Breath of fire 2, hamtaro ham ham heartbreak, Summon night swordcraft story 2, as well as some of the others mentioned on your list like Mario and Luigi and the Golden Sun games and mother 3. I also had fun with dragon Ball legacy of goku 1 and 2 games and yuyu Hakusho spirit detective game.

mother 3 was my favorite as well

Yoshi's Universal Gravitation on GBA also used motion controls THGM

Actually THGM Warioware Twusted isn't the only GBA title to have motion controls, there's a Yoshi game (Yoshi Tupsy Turvy I believe is called) also had motion control, and in before there was a Kirby game on the GBC.

@Kate-lr6yv

5 жыл бұрын

Great you mentioned that.

Golden sun has the best 3D and 2d Art there’s no 3D objects but the backgrounds and World looked amazing

Super Robot Taisen Original Generation 1 & 2. that series was my childhood.

I picked up my GBA from your favourite shop, CEX, for £25. It's a great little console. On the lookout for more quality games.

@houseoftheted637

6 жыл бұрын

Jack Of All £25 not a bad deal. Everywhere else was at least £10 more 😎

I find myself missing the mindless games that are enjoyable. Such as old Mario sonic etc. I have found myself revisiting the GBA entries alot recently.

My favorites are Mother 3, Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga, and Pokemon Emerald.

Loved this system. It's like a portable SNES.

@joelchrono

5 жыл бұрын

But without Chrono trigger :c

@nooshr_

5 жыл бұрын

And its twice as strong!

Great video. But man, you should add text on video about tittle the game, it should help to someone if they want to search that game. It would be more great.

That Final Fantasy 6 port is AWESOME!

I still play my gba weekly and yet I still get that nostalgic glow everytime I go back to it. Recently completed Wario Land 4 for the first time and I'm glad to see it up on the list!

If you get Super Mario Bros Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 on the Wii U Virtual Console, it has the bonus e-reader card stages! Fun fact!

GBA title games cost around $50 to $80+ during those days. They are worth buying.

I needed a vid like this. Don't work yourself to burnout though, sir.

Wish I still had my GBA, gave it away to my niece after I noticed she was taking to gaming. I think the 3ds or more so the new 3ds would be capable of running gba games and I wish they would have included some of those games in the eshop

This GBA SP needs a serious shell replacement! It is good to see that it has been trully loved :-)

Yes! Mother 3!

My gba had some kinda technical issue when I was a kid and once I stopped using it I didn't do a great job of keeping my games in order. Shame really, maybe I'll search my parents house and round them all up into one place again. In the meantime though I can play any games im nostalgic for and games I missed with virtual boy

The first video i saw of Tophat.

GBA FOREVER! By the way, hey, THGM? Are you familiar with a KZreadr named Sega Lord X? If not, check out his channel. He is a HUGE Sega historian and he covers anything Sega-related on his channel.