Gba Games reviews from Reddit

Summary

We analyzed 327 Reddit reviews across 17 subreddits and 42 posts to rank the best Gba Games brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/GameboyAdvance, r/SBCGaming, r/Gameboy, r/gba, r/Roms. Top-rated brands include Nintendo (4.9/5), Konami (4.5/5), Capcom (4.7/5).

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Reviews327
Subreddits17
Posts42
Brands47
Products87
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#1

Nintendo

4.9
(195)
"The Paper Mario series is good too. It brings a nice touch of fun, with fun characters and great punchlines."
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"Mother 3."
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"Mother 3."
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"Pokemon Emerald, Fire Red/Leaf Green."
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"Yoshi's Island."
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"There's also Mother 3 and Golden Sun which are apparently both incredible."
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"Mother 3 - the amazing fan translation - is one of the best games I've ever played on the GBA or anything."
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"Warioware Inc technically meets that criteria. Best one of the series, no gimmicks just challenge."
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"Seconding Advance Wars. It's a really solid strategy game that works great portable because you can knock out a level and get back to life."
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"Metroid Fusi"
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#2

Konami

4.5
(17)
"Castlevania Aria of Sorrow, Circle of the Moon, Drill Dozer, Astro Boy: Omega Factor, Metroid Fusion, Metroid Zero Mission, Ogre Battle: The Knight of Lodis, WarioWare, Ninja Five-O, Double Dragon Advance, Kuru Kuru Kururin, Klonoa: Empire of Dreams, Minish Cap, Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Wario Land 4"
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"The castlevania series has a story, amazing music, great graphics but a real copy is expensive."
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"Boktai 1-3 is classic Metal Gear sneaking and action but with vampires and the undead."
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"Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow."
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"All the Castlevania games (but especially CotM and Aria)"
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"Ever tried Boktai: the sun is in your hand?"
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"Castlevania Circle of the Moon"
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"Castlevania Aria of Sorrow"
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"Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance"
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"Konami Krazy Racers"
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#3

Capcom

4.7
(9)
"Mega Man Battle Network series."
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"Battle Network is absolutely amazing, it has one of the most innovative combat systems out of all video games ever created."
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"Megaman Battle Network series. Think of turn-based card game where before each turn you choose the cards and when turn starts you move around in a grid-like territory of your own and use the cards to defeat enemy."
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"Mega Man Zero games, PKMN games, Mario & Luigi Super Saga, Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission"
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"Megaman Zero series is really fun."
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"Megaman Battle Network games were a blast and easy to learn."
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"I suggest Tekken Advance, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Revival, Sonic Advance, Astro Boy, Megaman Z, basically genres that are better than your favorite."
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"The Megaman Battle Network series."
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"The Mega Man Battle Network series is pretty good."
#4

Need for Speed

4.0
(9)
"Need for Speed: Underground 1&2, Most Wanted and maybe Carbon."
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"Need for Speed: Underground 1&2, Most Wanted and maybe Carbon."
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"Need for Speed: Underground 1&2, Most Wanted and maybe Carbon."
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"Nees for Speed Carbon: Own the City"
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"NFS underground 1"
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"I like Need for speed mostwanted."
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"NFS Underground 1, it looks like shit but plays very well (at least for GBA standards)"
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"Need for Speed Underground 2"
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"Need for Speed Underground 2"
#5

V-Rally

5.0
(6)
"V-Rally 3"
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"V-Rally 3 is an incredible game. Lots of fun, and technically hugely impressive."
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"+1 for V-Rally"
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"V-rally, awesome game and have a good First person mode"
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"I second V-Rally 3, being able to switch from 3rd person to first person with the steering wheel and stuff, heck that wins on its own"
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"GT Advance 3, V-Rally 3"
#6

Anbernic

5.0
(6)
"If you're only going to play GBA then rg34xx for sure. GBA scales terribly with 640x480."
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"You can Get thé Best budget gba with rg34xx."
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"Rg34xx if you want maximum nostalgia with one of the best screens for GBA."
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"I'd recommend the 351p for many reasons: - the volume wheel is super practical and quick - it has stereo speakers (unlike the Powkiddy) - the screen is already quite big for GBA games IMO, considering the games are very low res and the original GBA had only 2.9", vs 3.5 - it is very pocketable - EmulationStation is perfect for navigating and managing a big library, I’ve personally downloaded the"
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"I came to recommend the same thing. Giant screen, so great for if he has vision issues. The GBA looks awesome on it. And with custom firmware it will be very easy to navigate."
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"351p is the way to go. Another good reason for an elderly user is that you can set it to kiosk or kids mode in Amberelec."
#7

F-Zero

4.3
(7)
"Climax is goated. english patch allowed me to play it via emulators, but the switch JP version is great too!"
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"F-Zero Climax my beloved ♥"
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"F-Zero Climax"
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"F-Zero: GP Legend"
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"F-Zero: Maximum Velocity"
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"F -Zero: GP Legend, F-Zero: Climax"
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"F-Zero Maximum Velocity"
#8

GT Advance

4.0
(5)
"GT Advance 3 looks pretty good and conveniently is also one of the best GBA racing games with real cars"
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"Also the GT Advance series is also great! Particularly GTAdvance 3"
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"The GT advance games are fun. It may take a moment to get used to the physics/handling."
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"GT Advance is fun, the lack of save feature not so much."
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"GT Advance 3, V-Rally 3"
#9

Harry Potter

4.5
(4)
"That prisoner of askaban was one of my favorite games growing up it’s actually really good"
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"Absolutely love the Prisoner of Azkaban gba game!"
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"Chamber of Secrets on GBC and Prisoner of Azkaban on GBA are both turn based RPGs and they're pretty decent."
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"Mainly just Chamber and Prisoner, though. They're decent little RPGs."
#10

Dragon Ball

4.0
(4)
"The Legacy of Goku games I remember really liking. Metroid Fusion I loved. Zelda Minish Cap & A Link To The Past / Four Swords. Pokémon Fire Red."
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"I love the various dragon ball games everyone recommended"
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"All the Dragonball games"
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"The Legacy of Goku games and Buu's Fury are pretty cool."
#11

Bandai

4.3
(3)
"Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure Megaman Zero series Advance Wars I and II Mother 3 Tactics Ogre Fire Emblem Yggdra Union"
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"Dragonball Advance Adventure. Short but sweet."
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"Dragon Ball: Advance Adventures and Spider-Man 2 go pretty hard."
#12

TMNT

4.3
(3)
"TMNT is so good."
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"All three TMNT games"
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"Have you played the 2007 TMNT GBA game? Another great throwback beat em up."
#13

Lego

4.3
(3)
"I really enjoyed Lego Star Wars (the first 3 movies)."
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"Lego Drome Racers"
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"Lego Drome Racers"
#14

Shrek

4.0
(3)
"Lilo and Stitch, Shrek Hassle at the Castle has a fun art style and is a pretty fun platformer."
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"Having fun with Shrek Hasle to the Castle"
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"Shrek 2 was a weirdly good GBA game"
#15

Top Gear

4.0
(3)
"Top Gear Rally, Cars Mater-National and Monster Truck Madness."
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"Top Gear Rally is great!"
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"Top Gear GT Championship was my favorite"
#16

Star Wars

5.0
(2)
"Star wars revenge of the sith is an excellent best em up"
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"Second Revenge of the Sith. Excellent game."
#17

Camelot Software Planning

5.0
(2)
"Megaman and golden sun for sure."
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"There's also Mother 3 and Golden Sun which are apparently both incredible."
#18

Fan Game

5.0
(2)
"Pokemon unbound."
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"GBA has the best ( unofficial) pokemon game i have ever played."
#19

Golden Sun

5.0
(2)
"Golden Sun"
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"If you’ve never played it then definitely get golden sun."
#20

Advance Wars

5.0
(2)
"Advance wars"
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"Advance Wars"
#21

Analogue

5.0
(2)
"GBA: analogue pocket, GBA AGS-101 or a modded original GBA"
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"GB/GBC games - Analogue Pocket"
#22

Trimui

5.0
(2)
"Been loving my TrimUI Brick for GBA. Got MinUI running on it and it’s the best."
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"Very pocketable, decent power and great screen, the best I've seen in budget devices."
#23

Fire Emblem

5.0
(2)
"If you want turn based GBA games you have to play the three GBA Fire Emblem games. Both Sacred Stones and Blazing Blade are good entry points."
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"Fire emblem and fire emblem sacred stones (either or both they both are good and stand alone)"
#24

Banpresto

5.0
(2)
"Super robot wars is an amazing series."
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"Super Robot Wars! OG1 and 2 are in English."
#25

Sega

4.5
(2)
"Sonic Advance 1"
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"I also recommend Sonic advance games."
#26

Treasure

4.5
(2)
"Gunstar super heroes!"
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"Some faves that I don’t think have been mentioned."
#27

Final Fantasy

4.5
(2)
"I’ve been playing a lot of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. If you like that kind of tactical turn based game, it’s actually a long game worthy of sinking your teeth into"
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"My favourite GBA Game is/was Final Fantasy Tactics Advance."
#28

One Piece

4.0
(2)
"One Piece GBA."
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"Lots of good stuff already mentioned, but the One Piece GBA game is quite fun."
#29

Astro Boy

4.0
(2)
"Astroboy ❤️"
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"Astro Boy is something special"
#30

Barnyard

4.0
(2)
"The Barnyard : follows the film’s storyline, but also adds a lot of very entretaining minigames."
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"Barnyard!!"
#31

Tokyo Xtreme Racer

4.0
(2)
"So the first ones I’d put up are Tokyo Xtreme Racer Advance, Need for Speed: Underground 1&2, Most Wanted and maybe Carbon."
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"I also want to get my hands on Toyko Extreme Racer, for nostalgia."
#32

RG

3.5
(2)
"Is the original GBA shape; rg34xxSP is GBA SP shaped."
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"There's like a GBA clone called the RG34XX too."
#33

Gadget Racers

3.0
(2)
"Gadget Racers"
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"Gadget Racers"
#34

Natsume

4.0
(1)
"Medabots: Metabee/Rokusho (Medarot 2 Core)."
#35

Crash Nitro Kart

4.0
(1)
"Unpopular opinion: I enjoyed Crash Nitro Kart for the gba."
#36

Grimace's Birthday

4.0
(1)
"Grimmaces Birthday (GBC) Doesnt get better than mcdonalds advertisment in video game form, but its actually good."
#37

Madagascar

4.0
(1)
"Madagascar : platform, really entretaining."
#38

Totally Spies

4.0
(1)
"Totally Spies"
#39

Teen Titans

4.0
(1)
"Teen Titans"
#40

Burnout

4.0
(1)
"Other than Mario Kart, I’d say Burnout"
#41

Tweety & the Magic Gems

4.0
(1)
"Tweety & the Magic Gems (Kemco, 2001) A really fun boardgame"
#42

Advance Guardian Hero

4.0
(1)
"Advance guardian hero and star wars revenge the sith are underrated gba games."
#43

Asterix

4.0
(1)
"I think Asterix XXL is pretty neat, it's a 3D platformer on the GBA."
#44

Garfield

3.0
(1)
"It’s pretty repetitive gameplay but i had a good time with Garfield and his Nine Lives. solid licensed platformer"
#45

The Dukes of Hazzard

3.0
(1)
"It's for gameboy color but gba is backwards compatible anyway the game is The Dukes of hazzard racing for home"
#46

The Nightmare Before Christmas

3.0
(1)
"The Nightmare Before Christmas on GBA is a decent metroidvania."
#47

SEGA

3.0
(1)
"Actually, both SEGA Rally and Crazy Taxi are not bad."

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