Tag Archives: Game Boy Advance

Sword of Mana, Game Boy Advance

Sword of Mana on the Game Boy Advance is an enhanced remake of the first Seiken Densetsu game, which was released as Final Fantasy Adventure on the original black and white Game Boy in English-speaking territories. It was developed by Square Enix and Brownie Brown and was first released as “Shinyaku: Seiken Densetsu” in Japan in 2003.

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Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival, Game Boy Advance

This exclusive Game Boy Advance remake of Street Fighter II Turbo was first released by Capcom in 2001, and it is arguably the best fighting game on the system.

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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, Game Boy Advance

Also known as “Ecks vs. Sever II: Ballistic” in Europe, this is the second video game based on the 2002 film, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, directed by Wych Kaosayananda and starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. The first game – Ecks vs. Sever – came out in 2001 and is one of the better first-person shooters on the Game Boy Advance. This game was developed by Crawfish Interactive and published by BAM! Entertainment in 2002.

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Ecks vs. Sever, Game Boy Advance

Ecks vs. Sever is a first-person shooter based on an early draft of the script of the 2002 film, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, starring Antonio Banderas (as Jeremiah Ecks), and Lucy Liu (as Sever), and was released before the film had even begun production (which is very unusual). The game was developed by Crawfish Interactive and published by BAM! Entertainment in 2001. A second Ecks vs. Sever game, called Ballistic, was released in 2002.

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Greg Hastings’ Tournament Paintball MAX’D, Game Boy Advance

Greg Hastings’ Tournament Paintball MAX’D is a cross between a first-person shooter, and a sports game, in which you participate in paintball tournaments to become the paintball champion of… the world? The school playground? I’m not entirely sure…

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Medal of Honor: Underground, Game Boy Advance

Adapted from the PlayStation original (published in 2000 by EA Games), the GBA version of Medal of Honor: Underground was developed by Rebellion and published by Destination Software in 2002. It is a first-person shooter, set during The Second World War.

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Wolfenstein 3D, Game Boy Advance

The Game Boy Advance version of id Software‘s Wolfenstein 3D was programmed by Mike Danylchuk for Stalker Entertainment, and published by BAM! Entertainment in 2002. And it is a very good port of the classic first-person shooter.

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Dark Arena, Game Boy Advance

Developed by Graphic State and published by Majesco/THQ in 2002, Dark Arena is a first-person shooter set in a futuristic environment where you are the only survivor of a team sent in to neutralise a bunch of Genetically-Engineered Organisms (GEOs) inside a top secret training facility.

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Back Track, Game Boy Advance

When I first played Back Track, my instincts screamed at me that this was a terrible game. The graphics are messy; the enemies look awful; the explosions have a really bad horizontal raster-style visual effect; health packs are called “Band-Aids“; the weapons are unimpressive; the draw distance is masked with a solid black shadow, which is disconcerting; the environments appear flat, empty and uninteresting, and the premise of the game – to rescue kidnapped humans from inside tubes – doesn’t seem very exciting. BUT… I persisted with it and found Back Track to actually be quite absorbing and challenging, when I eventually got into it.

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James Bond 007: Nightfire, Game Boy Advance

James Bond 007: Nightfire on the Game Boy Advance was developed by JV Games and published by Electronic Arts in 2003 (in North America), and 2004 (in Europe). It is a single-player only first-person shooter, in which you play as the fictional British spy, James Bond.

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