Good Games Stuck On GBA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Stuck on what to play or what to buy? Join TVGS and they list and discuss ten of the most enjoyable games on the GBA that are unfortunately stuck on the handheld console. Many lesser known games released for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance so let us know your top 10 overlooked hidden gems and best games stuck on the handheld console down below!
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Honestly, you could prob make a whole video on Atlus' published GBA games, at least their RPGs.
Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution is finally up for pre-order!
may i suggest, mario& luigi superstar saga?
Summon Knight is so underrated and its actually one of the best games ever in gba
I’ll second that. It’s a shame it didn’t get the recognition it deserved when it released!
Absolutely loved the whole series
Swordcraft Story**
Summon Knight is the parent franchise
@@zotanica eh semantics. we all know what i am talking about.
@@thatvideogamesshow I played the DS release, and I would say that 1 and 2 is still better.
The GBA was a great system for every kind of gamer. I would play Rebelstar for RTS; Final Fantasy, Summon Knight, Mario And Luigi or Golden Sun for RPGs; Wario Land 4, Pokemon Pinball, Wario Ware Twisted, Castlevania Aria Of Sorrow for action and some times Megaman Zero or Metroid. Yet there are so many I couldn't get to play.
This list.
Astro boy GBA is so good that even the console versions are just a 2.5D version of the GBA game. Such an amazing game.
so, the console games are worth checking out?
@@drewdman10 ehh not really. It’s the same game and I honestly think the pixelated style looks better
@@blakeanderson5011 ok thanks, thought I'd check as I love the GBA game and was interested in a 2.5d version but not if they're inferior. Thanks for saving me some time!
I'll look but really doubt it's the same at all. It wasn't made by Treasure like the GBA game, right?@@blakeanderson5011
Ninja Five-O is such a badass game! Been playing that on my Analogue Pocket, and loving it. Lady Sia is another that always interested me, and Astro Boy I've heard nothing but great things about. Awesome episode as always man!
It's such a great action platformed. Would love to see it make its way to the Switch!
ninja five-o will have a rerelease soon
IGN confirmed that Ninja Five-O is coming back this year.
Boktai is still one of my favorite game series to this day. Always glad to see it get a mention! Boktai 2 is my personal favorite in the series, but 1 and 3 are also good times.
Sadly, DS removes the solar sensor so Lunar Knight becomes a shooting game rather than retains the charm of their prequels.
@@tatinh9885 Lunar Knights is still a good game, but you're right. It just doesn't feel the same without the stealth, solar sensor, and the pile driver.
Actually, if they replaced the space shooter segments with the pile driver fights again, it would've improved the gameplay substantially.
Though the sensor wasn’t there, I found that using the GBA slot and putting either Boktai and Boktai 2, it’d help in restoring your HP and Energy in the same way as the original games. Sadly, Shinbok (Boktai 3) is locked to being Japan only, but I heard it charged up the Trance Gauge. I always played Lunar Knights with the games inside because I replayed Boktai and it’s sequel. Especially with the challenge modes being very fun but also really hard.
Lunar Knights also had that kind of post-game challenge mode as well, and my goodness it not easy. Especially with dealing with the wind mechanics that are in each of the games. Even if you changed the terrain, it wouldn’t do anything for you because even at 0.4 wind speed is enough to move your character almost off the ledge.
Agreed, Boktai 1 and 2 are soo fucking good.
@@deliaseymour5578 You can very easily patch boktai 3 into English with a fan translation patch, and you can also patch the games to be able to control the intensity of the solar sensor within the game.
Glad to see Tactics Ogre getting some much deserved recognition
One of the best games on the system!
I thought Tactics Ogre was remastered for modern consoles?
@@jackskelington19 The remastered one has the subtitle 'Let Us Cling Together'. The GBA entry is called 'The Knight of Lodis' and remains exclusive to the handheld. Both games are part of the Ogre Battle series.
it felt like the knights of lodis had more freedom than let us cling together with the characters when in battle
If you like tactics ogre I recommend
Final fantasy tactics. Same art style & combat with few differences.
Is anyone else sad that we probably won’t get anymore handhelds like the GBA? I don’t mean piracy handhelds that just plays old games, but by a big manufacturer that has thousands of developers for.
I love 2d games, and a form factor that fits in your pocket. Now the Switch and probably switch 2 are too big to bring with you. I really am upset that this era in gaming may really be over
Its nice to see Boktai get a mention. Fantastic gba trilogy, it's zelda with vampires, much like medabots I have no idea how is not more beloved
that Tekken 2 music in your intro *chef's kiss
such a good tune!
my favorite platformer in GBA is the metroidvania style Shaman King Game.. it's just so perfect
Astro Boy Omega Factor is easily top 3 on the system. Superb gameplay, great story, and the english release is a greater challenge than the original japanese version
What a truly outstanding list. Thank you. Astro Boy is one of my all time favorite GBA games. I highly recommend it. I will definitely be tracking down the other gems you have mentioned. Again, thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Love how you used the dragon seeds (ps1) battle music!
I love these videos. It's a trip down memory lane. I still have most of these titles. I remember trying to use the inovative solar panel in Boktai but in the sun you couldn't see the screen at all! Very aggravating. I ended up seling that one though i think i still have the manga. Thanks for the nostalgic trip!
I've been playing GBA and ds (among others) on an LG phone with a 5g snapdragon and a razer kishi controller and it's awesome, you can just flat out control things like solar level, bit cheaty but still.
True Story: I bought a copy of Summon Night Swordcraft Story 2 when it was still like 50ish dollars several years ago. It got to my state and then got lost in the mail. I never got it (seller refunded me cuz they were good) and now the price is ridiculous T-T
That sucks big time I woulda been pissed
That sucks. I got mine from a closing store during covid for $9. Already played it on VBA for years but having the real thing feels awesome
Good list for sure. Advance Guardian Heroes is another one I would add to this list.
You mentioned astro boy so excellent video
Mother 3 has one of the best stories of any game ive ever played.
I’ll second that!
How does it differ from earthbound on the SNES? I started playing that a while ago and keep meaning to get back to it
@@TimelordUK it's a sequel. Sort of. The story from Earthbound does matter to Mother 3 so I recommend finishing EB first
Mother 3's gameplay is very similar to EB's with the addition of a rhythm-based timed hit feature in battle
thematically, Mother 3's gonna hit you with a gutpunch of emotions at times
@@TimelordUK the story is very loosely connected to that of mother 2/earthbound, but you can play it without having played EB before and still have an amazing time
@@ChibiKamiyou don’t have to play earthbound to play mother 3. They are loosely connected
The Boktai series is fire i have 1, 2 and 3 on my wii with the Soler Sensor hack i love that game
Kinda surprised that Boktai got such a glowing review as I know for a fact that There isn't enough sunlight in Wales to charge the damn gun!!! I know!! I bought the game and tried!!!
Game freak should make more games like drill dozer. Because of your video, I started playing it a few months ago and im so close to finishing it now. Thank you for showing me this unique game.
Pokémon contests were in Ruby and Sapphire. Raising the beauty stat of Feebas is the only way to get Milotic.
Ruby and Sapphire contest were amazing
I miss summon knight sword craft story 1 and 2 sooooo much!!!! I just bought them again the other day to replay, such a hidden gem on the GBA
We need the Sonic Advance Trilogy to get on switch, ps5, xbox, or hell just put it on steam. Those games doesn't deserve to be forgotten, but to be remembered. The sprite work are amazing, on the 30th anniversary team sonic racing you even get to see a bunch of sprites which just shows how much they cared while making the games.
There's some sort of legal issue for SEGA and thq out of all companies. Some bulshit.🤷🏻♂️
They are free... the only price is the internet it costs to Google and download it
that’s a weird way to say we need a remaster of Sonic Battle, but I do agree with you.
Thanks for the video. I saw some new gems here. One that I adored from the GBA is Natsume's Car Battler Joe. I'd love to play that again, and hopefully we'll get it on the Switch expansion pack.
Mother 3 is one of the best games ever made. But I'm glad you gave a shoutout to Summon Knight Swordcraft Story 2. Both of the first 2 Summon Knight GBA games are great, but the second one is a big improvement. I'm sad that we will probably never get to see the third game in English.
Klonoa and Boktai mentioned. 1000/10 video!
What a great intro! Short, straight to the point, and immediately jumps right into the content!👌🔥
Cheers Ray!
7:15 I love the Guardian Heroes song playing at the same time that another Treasure game is playing. Brilliant! Good job! One of the BEST VIDEO GAMES COMPANY EVER: Treasure!!
I love how just days ago you posted this with Ninja Five O and now it’s on other consoles lol
You just unlocked a memory:
3am awake wishing I could sleep because I have to work a double black friday shift at Circuit City. Can't sleep because I can't put down Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis.
It was a terrible day. I still remember it as the most tired I've been until I had kids.
Happy to own and have played all of these. Amazing games for sure.
Metabots metabee version also deserve a spot on this list for being one of the GBA gems
I'd put Rokusho version up there as well - together, they're a set of dual-versions that actually feel like distinct games despite having the same campaign. Thanks to a lot of the parts and medals unique to each game, Metabee focuses much more building on teams supporting shooting-type Medabots, while Rokusho focuses much more emphasis on melee-type Medabots. What results is one game where you can play a more balanced and slower-paced team (Metabee) or a high-risk high-reward team (Rokusho) due to the team options available to you and the game mechanics involving the different combat styles.
Finally people who remember Metabots.
I saw the title and immediately thought of Summon Knight and thank God it's there! Truly an underrated game.
Lady Sia is a game I had forgotten about. As someone who was stuck between playing Pokemon or Final Fantasy, it was the one that made me want to play more platforming games because it's finally not a Megaman. That was honestly all I remember about why I chose it, but the art style and story got me hooked until school started and I forgot about it.
I would add to the list Dragon ball advance (my favorite DB game EVER), gt advance 3 and steel empire.
Dragon ball advance is something else. That game is basic but it's execution is beyond! I got 2 copies because the vs mode is fun as FUCK!
Glad to see other DB Advance enjoyers
Good list! Another great Japanese exclusive GBA game is Tomato Adventure, a charming RPG from the developers of Mario & Luigi, AlphaDream. Considering that AlphaDream went bankrupt a few years ago, it's probably going to be stuck on the GBA forever.
Yea, so many ppl like tomato adventure only you liked the comment 🤡
Glad to see another gba vid! I've seen all your others. Some great games
More to come!
I know I say this every time, but the GBA is one of my favorite gaming systems of all time. Playing video games during the 6th generation was such fun. Great choices on the games too.
Omg I remember playing lady sia as a child I forgot the name of the game all these years. So glad to see it again. I never really made it very far when I last played it but It will always hold a place in my heart.
Such a great little game!
One things for sure, the gba sprite artwork is unmatched
So true
Astro Boy is a underrated Classic! So good that showed it to my kids!
Excellent video! Thanks you! I like Drilldozer a lot.
Mother 3 blew my away. Fav JRPG of all time, and I grew up loving the famous FF titles.
I knew after starting with Drill Dozer that this video would be a banger
Thank you for manifesting a Ninja Five-O port for modern consoles!
I love the crude saturday morning cartoon art style of Lady Sia 🙂
Wii homebrew music in the background lol
Drill Dozer and Solar Boy Django deserve to have its own huge series
7:14 I think you made a typo, It's Astro Boy Omega Factor, not Omega Force.
The real draw for me in tactics ogre is the Emblem system. That’s what makes it so addictive and stand out in the genre
Ninja Five-O is getting a re-release on a GBA cart (and possibly a digital release later) courtesy of Limited Run games
I remember one time long ago when I saw Drill Dozer on a store's shelf for just $5, and for whatever dumb reason, I didn't decide to buy it, but I really wish I had. At least I have experienced some of the other games mentioned here, such as Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, both Summon Night: Swordcraft Story games, and Pokémon Emerald. I'll definitely want to keep a lookout for some of the other games featured in this video, if I should happen to stumble upon them at a tag sale or something.
Or u could downloa don ur iPhone
What the hell is this channel, why i not know it soonner, love ur videoooooooo
Thank you!
Pokemon Emerald is my favorite game and one of my favorite games on the GBA so far.
I'm looking for a gba (not sure if it was gba, I forgot what emulator we were using in the laptop because it was like 10 or more years already) game that have a devil/dracula as a final boss, before encountering the boss, the boss would be stealing or manipulating one of your member which is a girl and then you went to the boss to defeat the boss and to get your member as well. The game was sort of a tactics type similar to a Final Fantasy II from the 90s. Another scene I remember is that, on your journey, you would be helping a giant bird that that would become your transportation from land to the top of mountain or something, and for the bird to transport you, you will enter a cage (bird cage). These are the scenes that I vividly remember, I hope you can help me guys. Thank you!
Thr first game in this video made me think of the astro boy gba game , and i was thinking about how much I used to love it. But I was expecting it to be on this list 😂 I still have it and now I wanna play it
Well done quite a few beautiful and unique games
Was that music from GLORY OF HERACLES!? OMFG!!! I love that game!!! 💜😍😍💜
mario tennis-power tour … that game was just great. i wish they made a remake with a longer story
hi i like the games u pick on ur consoles lists it helped me ALOT remember old games i used to come across in my old days thanks also i wana ask if u got any plans to make Arcade/Mame Games lists that would be great
I wouldn't say Emerald is stuck on the GBA considering the 3DS remakes of Ruby & Sapphire
Mother 3 is an absolute masterpiece everyone should play at least once....and I refuse to give up hope that Nintendo will give us an official localization one day. And it's nice to see Drill Dozer as well. Love that this video is bookended with 2 of my favorite 1st party GBA games.
small note...the d in Django is silent. It's not duh-jango it's jango. like Jango Fett. ( sorry, just a bit of OCD )
a few suggestions for future parts:
Tomato Adventure
Magical Vacation
Rhythm Tengoku
Densetsu no Stafy 1-3
Gunstar Super Heroes
Advance Guardian Heroes
Sigma Star Saga
Sword of Mana ( IMO the best version of the first Mana game, being a remake of Final Fantasy Adventure )
i've always been fond rpg models from the gba. like the legacy of goku and megaman battle network series.
If you like tactics ogre I recommend
Final fantasy tactics on gba. Same art style & combat with few differences.
Excellent video!
Suggestion: below the name of the game it would be good to put the name of the developer and publisher, and next to the name of the game, the year of its release.
Summon night swordcraft story 2, I've played this game, one of my favorite GBA games besides Final Fantasy tactics advance.
Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis is pretty damn GOATed. Owe it to yourself to check out.
If they remaster Sword of Mana for PlayStation I will def cop!!!
I just started playing gba games on my oled steam deck. Wow they look great. Nintendo dropped the ball on its gba games on switch big time
I really enjoyed this!!!
Gonna have to disagree with you on Lady Sia. Played it and beat it, but it was mid at best. Also, it was a GBA game with load screens.
I would include Rhythm Tengoku and WarioWare Twisted.
Great games. Some of their mini games have been remastered in Rhythm Tengoku The Best + (Mega Mix) and WarioWare Gold
Lady Sia seriously looks like a pitch to Nintendo to make a sidescrolling platformer a la Zelda 2 and have it star Zelda, and Nintendo declined...but the developers forged ahead and made their own original title instead
Luckily you can pirate and emulate all GBA games on just about any device. Games are only "stuck" when we let Nintendo tell us how to play games.
Thanks for the great video!
I'd like to add the shining soul series. Great dungeon crawlers especially the sequel. I got 3 copies of 2 to play with others.
I think some of these like Drill Dozer have a chance to be remade on the next Nintendo console, it's never too late
I hope so. What a great game!
This is a really good list
At first look, Lady Sia looks like Aladdin on the SNES and Genesis.
Like the ds the gba was just such an awesome system with memorable games. Lady sia for example just runs and looks so smooth. If only we had gotten sword craft story 3 😩
i saw the title of the video and was like "oh i can only think of drill dozer"
The biggest issue with Boktai is the Solar Sensor feature makes the game impossible to properly emulate
Love your videos! But Ninja Five-O is being rereleased by Limited Run games in 2024...
Ninja Five O looks cool, I think I might pick it up. 🤯🙄🤣
MAAAAAN just download it . The price is HIGH for Ninja five 0. I was just lucky to find it brand new when it was released.
Ninjga Five-O will have a rerelease soon
@@maurokuczala6180 really? Where? I didn’t think anyone was rereleased GBA games. I’ll definitely pick it up even if it’s a port.
@@Sleepysnorlax1 Tomorrow (february 21) at ign fan fest game trailer showcase
Ninja five-0 just got announced for modern platforms last week
Rumble feature built in the cartridge, wow just wow, we don't have the same creativity anymore
Is this limited to non virtual console offerings?
I'm just wondering why Legacy of Goku 2 and DB Advanced Adventure aren't in this video. Absolute gems.
Earthbound is Mother 2 in Japan if I'm not mistaken
Yes
Seems like Ninja Five-O was just released on Switch, PS4 and PS5 :) One of them is now unstuck !
I had the luck to enjoy playing Lady Sia back in my childhood! Where is Golden Sun tho?!
You can play it on the Switch online service now.
Tactics Ogre TKoL overworld music is so good, I have the mp3 on my phone 👍
I hear Wario Ware Twisted is really fun and possibly the best Wario Ware game period! Dying to try it!
It definitely is. You won't be disappointed
It's so good. I love wario ware on gamecube too
DIY is the best IMO
I wish the Sonic Advance trilogy to get a re-release on modern consoles. Like the Nintendo Switch.
Pokemon Emerald seems like a stretch for being stuck on GBA when we got Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire on 3DS.
I say this in full understanding that I would totally buy it again should it release on Switch, or some successor console.
Also, such a shame that so many of these games are crazy expensive if you want to play on original hardware.
Viva emulation and the heroes of homebrew!
Emerald is much better than ORAS. Those shitty remakes should never be considered a substitution for it
@cherrybloodflavor Hey that's your opinion, and you're entitled to it. Differences are what make the world a fun place to live in.
The battle frontier is probably the big reason. It was like where the real game starts kind of thing
@@thirdsupernova potential pokefandom suicide here, but I never bothered with it myself
@@stormwalker8495 Uh.... What?
Shoenan's jump? Or something like that? Is great. Just found it
Wait, so youre telling me Pokemon Emerald and Firered/Leafgreen werent ported to the PSP and Android phones in the late 2000s?
Summon Knight but no mention of Tales of Phantasia? It’s inspiration? Laaame lmao
Ninja 5-0 is finally getting a port for modern consoles!