Recently found my GBA

sharkboy1200

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Super excited to find it, still has Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories in it. Missing the battery case though, but works fine without it. There are cheap battery cases for purchase though. Been looking into getting games for it. Found that the channel Minimme has been especially helpful in looking at certain genres of GBA games and what is the most graphically impressive games available. Lots of the games can be pricey based on it's rarity and quality. I tried to find Asteix & Obelix XXL which is a fully playable 3D platformer on the GBA, but it's nowhere to be found. If anybody knows where I can find it, let me know.

It's pretty exciting because as a kid, I never actually had too many game boy games, and the quality could some times be hit or miss. I'm surprised by how many FPS games I've found. Doom 1 & 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem Advance, Ecks vs Sever, and Dark Arena all look like they'd be fun to play on the go. Some are pretty pricey, I found Ballistics: Ecks vs Sever to be the cheapest find so far, without going over $20, shipping included, but Gamestop has Wolfenstein 3D pretty cheap compared to amazon as well.

GBA ports of Max Payne and Driv3r also caught my eye. They seem to play very well and keep much of the feeling from their console counterparts. Max Payne is isometric but maintains it's directional bullet time mechanics well and Driv3r is a fully 3d open world. You can even get in and out of cars like the actual game. Pretty impressive stuff. I know that many attempted all kinds of tricks, including adding hardware into the actual game cartridges.

I'll only be getting one or two games out the gate, I never finished that Kingdom Hearts game. Stuck on a bossfight with Axe, but I'll be looking to have a nice little library of games to take with me on trips or family gatherings when I'm just sort of hanging out and browsing on my phone anyway.
 
I enjoyed my GBA. Off the top of my head I loved the Final Fantasy Tactics game. I also remember playing Zelda LTTP on it. Plus a good Mario golf game that was good.
 
Holy s***, beat Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories on my GBA. Took me 15 years, but I can finally cross it off the list!

Also got original Game Boy Tetris and GBA Max Payne in the mail. Tetris is an all time classic, and Max Payne plays surprisingly well as a demake.
 
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Gotten hooked on Max Payne. Isometric Max Payne works surprisingly well, so I'm surprised that the GBA game was never ported to any consoles or PC. There's something fun about jumping into a level and shooting up monsters on a GBA. Wish I got this game years ago.
 
Got Driv3r for the GBA. It's a weird, but oddly fun game. I got in in mint box wrapping too! Game is super weird though. Like, the graphics curl around the screen because apparently the 3D world is constantly moving around the player. Kind of like how the express ship from Futurama has the universe move around it. It's kind of up my alley. One thing I've learned about myself is that I'm into the weirdest s***.