Gameboy Advance Recommendations

[joeybastard]

I really like the Game & Watch Gallery carts too. Fun little games that are easy to learn and good to pass the time. Right now I only have G&WG 4 but it's pretty cool. The longer you play, the more games you can unlock. I'm not sure how many are there are total yet because I haven't unlocked them all. I loved the original Game &Watch as a kid so these are a fun nostaglia trip for me.

[carolsheba]

Wolfensein 3d. Good game.

[Ze_ro]

And once you try some commercial games, head over to gamegizmo.com or one of the other places that sells RAM cartridges for the GBA (sort of like the 2600 in a Flash project due to be released soon) so you can get in on the cool homebrew scene that's grown up around the GBA

 

Speaking of this... I saw a device for sale the other day called the "Game Downloader". It was marked down to $10, but from the looks of the games on the back, I wasn't completely convinced that I should buy it. I found a review for the thing, and it wasn't very good (1/5). It's only a 96K flash cart, so I wouldn't expect to be able to load emulators onto it, but if I could use it to make quick little pong games and such, that would definitely be worth $10. Has anyone tried this thing?

 

--Zero

[raindog]

There are a number of devices that use the GBA's remote boot thingy (that lets you play some games multiplayer with only one guy having a cartridge) to let you upload little games that fit into the GBA's RAM. I've never seen any for $10 though. I'd think it'd mainly be useful for writing homebrew games, especially for those of us with more of a retro bent.

 

But my Flash Advance Extreme 256Mbit and Game Wallet (that lets you put games on dirt cheap Smartmedia cards and upload them to the FA cart with no PC involved) arrived today and I expect that'll be my choice of development tool, personally, assuming it actually works.

[NE146]

I really like the Game & Watch Gallery carts too.  Fun little games that are easy to learn and good to pass the time.  Right now  I only have G&WG 4 but it's pretty cool.  The longer you play, the more games you can unlock.  I'm not sure how many are there are total yet because I haven't unlocked them all.  I loved the original Game &Watch as a kid so these are a fun nostaglia trip for me.

 

You can eventually unlock all the 9 games in the museum bringing the total amount of games to TWENTY. However the museum games are playable in classic mode only (i.e. no "modern" version). They do play full screen however. I had originally thought they played in their tiny "museum" view...but thankfully they don't.

 

The museum games are:

 

Zelda

Lifeboat

Safebuster

Climber

Bombsweeper

Parachute

Mario's Bomb's Away

Tropical Fish

Manhole

[someguy]

I love Advance Wars. It reminds me of the old PC-DOS game 'Empire', but with pretty graphics and fancier gameplay mechanics.

[joeybastard]

You can eventually unlock all the 9 games in the museum bringing the total amount of games to TWENTY. However the museum games are playable in classic mode only (i.e. no "modern" version). They do play full screen however. I had originally thought they played in their tiny "museum" view...but thankfully they don't.  

 

The museum games are:

 

Zelda

Lifeboat

Safebuster

Climber

Bombsweeper

Parachute

Mario's Bomb's Away

Tropical Fish

Manhole

 

There seems to be unlockable modern games too. Right now I have a fully playable modern game named Chef that wasn't there before I got a certain number of stars. Conversely to the "museum" games, there is no classic version.

[Gabriel]

I love Advance Wars.  It reminds me of the old PC-DOS game 'Empire', but with pretty graphics and fancier gameplay mechanics.

 

I used to love Empire. I used to play that as often as I could on the Apple IIc. Planes wouldn't run out of fuel as long as you didn't use them, so I'd build giant lines across the screen of fighter jets spaced 2 squares apart to detect enemies approaching.