Game Boy Advance (GBA)


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Nintendo's next generation Game Boy. The Game Boy Advance brought us 3D capable graphics, more buttons, better sound, longer games, and eventually a backlit screen and rechargeable battery with the GBA SP, and then Micro.

The GBA also gave us backward compatibility with the original Game Boy Games, and Game Boy Color games, bring the library of games it could play to hundreds the day it was released.

The GBA shot onto the scene in 2001 and has been a best seller ever since.
Pretty much every week for years it sells more units than the other video game systems.

When Nintendo unveiled the GBA a few years ago, some people thought it wouldn't do well and was a pathetic attempt to get some quick cash.
They were wrong, as the SP improved much upon the original, and gave gamers what they have been asking for for since the original Game Boy in 1991, a backlit screen. As well as a rechargeable battery, which was wanted for a few years.

Then in 2005 the Micro hit the scenes. It isn't supposed to replace the SP, but be an alternative, it's smaller and easily customizable with different face plates. Some may want a SP, some a Micro.

One things for sure, the GBA has has a mega-effect on the gaming industry.