The official Nintendo magazine has listed their ten favourite Gameboy Advance games ahead of the Virtual Console release on Wii U. The Virtual Console officially arrives on Wii U sometime in the Spring and will initially include Nintendo Entertainment System games, and a variety of games from the Super Nintendo. Gameboy Advance games will hopefully follow shortly after release.
10. Mario Kart Super Circuit
9. Golden Sun : The lost Age
8: Wario Ware inc
7: LOZ : Minish Cap
6: Mario And Luigi : Superstar Saga
5: Pokemon Emerald
4: Metroid Fusion
3: Super Mario Advance 2
2: LOZ: A Link To The Past
1: Advance Wars
Thanks, Nintedward
advance wars?! psht, NO. Metroid Fusion is #1!!!
Advance wars is arguably the best GBA game . I put it up there with Minish Cap and Fusion , but Minish cap is my personal favorite. The most beautiful sprite work ever in a game.
This list gets me excited for some GBA games on Wiiu , as I sold a lot of mine when I was a kid and only have 6 left….
LOLZ, man, ya heard? Superstar Saga was da bomb! man,ya heard? the real street sh*t.
That bomb shit, y’all nigg*s gone all day! to ride in yo’ sh*t with! man, ya heard?
Fire emblems is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better
Hey, Busta Rhymes, rap for me will ya?
Hell yeah!!! I love that game.
did you know that minish cap was made by capcom, dun dun ddddduuuuunnn!!!!!!!!
I can’t stand the GBA Mario Kart
Me too, and its my favourite franchise of all time.
read man -_-‘
You read it .
He did, Mario Kart is his favourite franchise but he dislikes Super Curcuit.
Why not? For its time it was great especially since it had all the super Nintendo courses
is the GBA virtual console going to release on 3DS in the future?
no, it’s going to be for the Wii U
Advance wars being number 1 and Fire Emblem being absent leaves a bad after taste.
Inb4 Shitstorm
It’s a decent but opinionated list. Advance wars was an amazing game.
My list
1.onimusha tactics
2.final fantasy tactics advance
3.rebel star tactical command.
4.metroid(both versions)
5.megaman zero series.
6.castlevania series
7.ogre battle.
8.final fantasy 3(6)
9.river city ramson
10.wario land 4
And a honorable mention to those above which will make my list my top 20.
I forgot golden sun, shinning souls and banjo kazooie where also amazing.
Yeah , Nice list . A more Niche less mainstream list but an awesome one none the less!
Final fantasy tactics was da bomb!
TACTICS ADDDVANCEEEEE…sooo great wannanother sequel .-.
whats ogre battle?
Is like final fantasy tactics but whit a bit less fantasy setting.
Who cares about this list, anyway? These are just unmanly kiddy games.
~THE REAL Bill~
Go back to your unmanly emo hole bill. Just admit you can’t clear world 1-1 fail of a troll.
Bill i like what you did to your hair in the beuty sallon.
@Nintenlord: *beauty salon.Fixed that for you ^.^
~Teh real Faltzar~
Thanks :)
No problem mate :D
“I care about this list. These are manly games.
~THE REAL Bill~” – Bill
Metroid is as manly as it gets.
I don’t like this list. Two remakes in the top three makes me think the GBA was a shitty platform, and I know it wasn’t.
I honestly agree. When I think back. There aren’t as many original games on the system. Mainly ports and remakes. Only sonic advance series Mario n Luigi n megaman zero n battle network comes to mind.
I’d love to see an Advance Wars game brand new on the Wii U or 3Ds!
I totally agree. Or FFTactics. The gamepad would make them even more amazing
Wait are GBA games coming to Wii U virtual console? If they do, i want pokemon! Imagine pokemon games on that screen. :O
I doubt they will bring Pokemon to the gba vc. They haven’t even brought any to the 3ds. Maybe they just don’t feel the need to bring them since you can’t battle online or they just want us to play the ds versions and x and y in the future.
Pokemon r/s/e is the best in my opinion…
Pokemon games are probably the best thing that comes out on Nintendo handhelds, In fact I only buy nintendo handhelds for pokemon. That’s all I need, same deal with Halo for xbox lol. And yes R/S/E were the best GBA games in my opinion too.
Glad to see Advance Wars get some recognition. It’s starting to look like one of those franchises that gets a handful of games and then forgotten about.
ummmmmm WHERE THE HELL IS METROID ZERO MISSION!!!!!!
NONONONONO!!!!!
We do NOT want GBA games on the Wii U, they belong on the 3DS
WHY OH WHY is Nintendo so stupid!!!
I think that every virtual console game should be available on both consoles, not just on one, that’s stupid.
Meh, another reason not to buy the Wii U
I think they will come too is just that the wiiu needed the anouncement.
I kind of feel the way you do, old handheld games SHOULD beome back around to handhelds, 3DS deserves GBA games and you are right, the virtual console should be unified so games can be bought on both, maybe up to N64 on 3DS though as gamecube would be to much to emulate. Andlikely your sd card would be full fast. But wouldn’t gba games on Wii U make you WANT one? If pokemon emerald came to wii U, I might consider getting one, because that just sounds so awesome to me! But you are right those GBA virtual console games HAVE to come to 3DS, its more than capable.
Metroiod!
My top five are Minish cap, Mario & Luigi, mario world 2, alttp, and nightmare in dreamland. Three remakes were my top games.
you can already play your gba games! just use vba gx in wii mode!!! :)
No boktai? Thats sad.
Those games on the list are great but my personal favourite gba games are boktai and mmbn3 and 6. That is just my opinion though.
Whoa, I did not know Golden Sun was that popular. All the GBA owners I have talked to usually play Zelda or Pokemon instead.
its beacuase super fanboys only play nintendo made games oh capcom made minish cap dun dun ddduuuuuunnnnn!!!!!
Really? They put ALTTP number 2? I don’t think a port should even be listed.
I don’t like this list. 2 ports of games (that have probably made the top 10 of the list of their other console) in the top 3? No thanks. In my honest opinion ports don’t deserve to be on a top 10 list of best games for X console. If I were to alter only that, I would have replaced those 2 with boktai and MMBN3.
I can’t wait for Advanced Wars to be rereleased on Virtual Console! It was such a fun game, and such beautiful Sprites
Plus, people this is a list of “FAVORITES” not “THE BEST GAMES EVER” and in an age of emulation of course it seems lame, but when games were rereleased back then it was a much bigger deal!
*sigh* Kirby’s Amazing Mirror gets no love -_-
I would say MOTHER 3 belongs here, but then I remembered that it was never released outside of Japan.
suprised, im not, fuck you nintendo, gamestop made a deal with nintendo do bring over xenoblade, thats sad, if nintendo did what they pulled in the wii generation there better off dead, and i like nintendo
I honestly think that Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is a Top 10 worthy gba game. Just my opinion.
the list looks ok even though i never had a gb advance :P
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25 is barely enough to do the SNES justice, there are other awesome games on there that could make the list more than some of the titles you had on there, games like Pilotwings, Sim City, ActRaiser 1+2, Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma, Lufia 1+2, Demon’s Crest, Secret of Evermore, Skyblazer, The Firemen, Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Stunt Race FX, Breath of Fire 1+2, Dragon View, Zombies ate my neighbors, Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, Killer Instinct, Lost Vikings 1+2, Shadowrun… So many good memories.
Games on SNES I couldn’t live without! – almost every single capcom game, from the Disney ones to Marvel universe titles, but my favorite is Demon’s crest, – Kirby all stars and dreamland 3, – DK 3 over 2 anyday, – Goemon series, – Go Go ackman series, Gundam endless duel, – Tiny toons ADV, – phantom 2040, – Valken, – metal warriors of course, – wild guns, – mikami, – king of demons. There’s a lot more including titles that I prefer to play on SNES other than árcade or genesis.