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The Game Boy Advance (also called GBA) is a handheld system. It is only one of the Game Boys in the Game Boy family. It hosts the Mario Game, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, the first handheld Mario Kart game. Unlike the later handheld consoles which have 4 main buttons, it has only two; A and B (there is no X and Y). The GBA, SP, and Micro were discontinued in December 2009, with system sales ending on May 15, 2010, ending the classic 21-year Game Boy line.[8]

Features[]

The GBA features a 2.9-inch screen with a resolution of 240x160 pixels. The Game Boy Advance weighs around 5 oz and is 0.96 inches tall, 5.69 inches tall, and 4.9 inches wide.

It features the A, B, Select, and Start buttons, with a D-Pad.

The original GBA and SP models are fully backwards compatible with the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color games, but the Micro only plays GBA games.

The GBA was released with 6 colors, which are Arctic, Black, Orange, Fuchsia, Glacier (translucent blue/purple), and Indigo, but a few years after the Game Boy Advance's release, there were multiple more variations and colors of it, including Red, Clear Orange/Black, Platinum, White, and Gold.

Mario Kart games released on the GBA[]

Trivia![]

  • The GBA is the 6th Game Boy out of the 8 different Game Boys made by Nintendo. The two after it are the Game Boy Advance SP in 2003 and Game Boy Micro in 2005.
  • Unlike the previous models, the Micro does not play GB and GBC games, but still plays GBA games.
  • Like the Micro, the original DS and DS Lite are backwards compatible with only GBA games. However, the DSi, DSi XL, and all models of the 3DS family removed this support, though GB and GBC games can be played on the 3DS Virtual Console.
  • Strangely, the Micro was released nearly a year after the original DS.

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