Game Boy Advance in General (GBA) Reviews

Back in the early 2000s, this was one of my favourite consoles. I remember having played with classic Gameboys and their colour counterparts but never quite liking them. Even though they were both a huge step forward in the handheld gaming industry I never quite felt that I was really getting into the game much. But then this ...  Read the complete review

In these credit crunch times the GBA really comes into its own as a fun, portable console. Long since replaced by the DS, the price of the GBA has been slashed from around £90 a few years ago to about £30 for a brand new boxed item. Second hand consoles are even cheaper, and usually in pretty good condition. The ...  Read the complete review

Ah... the Game Boy Advance - now there's a blast from the past. To be honest, before I read a review on one of these around twenty minutes ago, I had forgotten that it was a product which I actually owned. After the original Game Boy took the world of video-gaming by storm due its portability, it wasn't until 2001 that ...  Read the complete review

It was last Christmas that I was given a GameBoy Advance (GBA)? It was a total surprise, I had wanted one for ages ? but certainly didn?t expect to actually get one! I ripped the packaging off? tossed the instruction manual aside? placed the batteries in? plugged in the game I had been given. (Oh yes, I got a game too!) ...  Read the complete review

a good game - Advantages: Portable are small, compact, and lightweight! - Disadvantages: Expensive, well compared to its rivals.

Nintendo have brought out a few of these handhelds over the years. Firstly there was the original Gameboy which was white and the games were in black and white. Then came out the colour Gameboy. The Gameboy Advance is either the third or fourth one they have brought out. Am not sure which though. When buying the Gameboy Advance ...  Read the complete review

Portable gaming has been taken to a new level thanks to this little feller. Small and light with a wide range of title available, but that's not all this baby can do! The gameboy advance is one mean console. Its 32-bit display provides excellent graphics for on when you're on the move and its wide range of features makes ...  Read the complete review

The game boy advance is the most advanced hand held game system to date, it is very eye catching, with a bigger screen, more colors and boulder graphics. Although the previous game systems, the game boy and the game boy color were fantastic. I just had to have this new more advanced game system to ease my curiosity. I ...  Read the complete review

I bought this for my seven year old son to keep him amused on long car journeys back to Scotland. I'd never looked at a Gameboy before, so I wasn't sure what to expect on graphics or playability. I bought him a second-hand Rayman game to try out, and then proceeded to worry I was going to have to surgically remove it from his ...  Read the complete review

The latest handheld offering from nintendo. It still has a long way to go to replact the game boy. - Advantages: Portable - Disadvantages: Size

I had been missing the fun spirit of Nintendo games I grew up on like Zelda and Super Mario Bros so I figured I'd buy this little system to recapture that spirit. The prospect of a 32 bit full color hand held was awesome. Its affordable price (under $100USD) made it a no-brainer. After playing "Advance Wars" ...  Read the complete review

The game boy was one of the most exciting and, still is, one of the most popular consoles ever. It may not of had the colour of the sega game gear but what really kept players hooked was its playability. Super mario for the Game Boy alone kept me on my little portable freind until the ultra-life battries had gone dead and my finger were ...  Read the complete review

My first Game Boy was a Game Boy Colour, and when it came out everyone said "Wow! It's a Game Boy! And it's in Colour!". So did I in fact, and I bought it. I was really impressed with Nintendo had managed to produce - a portable version of the original NES console. But it had something missing from it... it just ...  Read the complete review

They say good things come in small packages and thats exactly what you get with the Game Boy Advance (GBA). This is the new handheld games machine by giants Nintendo. It follows on from the Game Boy and the colour Game Boy. The GBA is the worlds first 32bit handheld console and has some excellent games already in its collection. ...  Read the complete review

I got a game boy advance as my old game boy died and it?s really handy for train journeys and for sitting in the car while my wife goes shopping. I thought it was going to be just the same a game boy colour but with a larger screen but I was wrong. It?s got an excitant screen, just like a mini TV screen The resolution is ...  Read the complete review

Nintendo are at it again. Not content with the world conquering Gameboy there are now releasing their latest hand held the Gameboy Advance. The originals main reason for fighting off the competition was that it outlasted them in the battery department. The closest competition at the time was the Sega game gear which failed miserably even ...  Read the complete review

The gaming industry has never been bigger. With Sony slashing the price of their Playstation 2, Nintendo and Microsoft both releasing mega-consoles in the new year it seems as if only 128-bit graphics are good enough. Simply untrue my fellow dooyoo members, as the Game Boy Advance from Nintendo proves. It's capable of ...  Read the complete review

We got this on the day of release and were really excited but we were dissapointed. One of the initial problems you come across is the extremely reflective screen that is very hard to play games with. The problems seem to lie with either the screen or the colours within the games. You would have expected Nintendo to have done ...  Read the complete review

Well firstly please accept my apologies for that title; I just cannot get that tune out of my head. I thought by maybe getting it down on paper (well the electronic alternative) I may get rid. Although do I really want to? It’s a good tune, strange, but still good. Anyway, “starsailor” may feature in a later opinion. ...  Read the complete review

After the Gameboy Colour came out a couple of years back I knew it would be the start of something fresh for the gaming world... or at least the handheld part of it. As the colour developed I knew the graphics would too and that slowly they would become as good as the REAL consoles. The graphics on this are mega and at 32-bit- who could ...  Read the complete review