1. Golden Sun
Pokemon Firered
Metroid Fusion

Posted at 9:13AM on Jun 6th 2007 by Pete Bones

2. Final Fantasy: Tactics Advance is an awesome game.

Posted at 9:19AM on Jun 6th 2007 by Spencer

3. The GBA has an excellent library with games, both old and new, that offer a lot of fun and challenge, and break up any DS dry spots that there may be.

Some of the newer GBA games I would reccoment for those who like good writting and lengthy gameplay (upwards to 50+ hours) for about 15-25$ are both Super Robot Taisen OG 1 and 2. The writting was surprisingly mature and the gameplay was addictive. However, the game is so long that it gets tedious by about chapter 42.

Another good game, albeit marred by some high difficulty at spots, is Yggdra Union. An interesting battle system with a lot of strategy involved. The instruction manual, however, is about 50, 60 pages long; there's a lot to know about what's going on. Also, when you lose a major character, it's game over, and you have to start the entire battle over again. The battle animations are detailed and cool, but pretty slow, so a battle that could be 30min with no animation, is made an hour by the battle cutscenes, which can't be turned off. Sometimes this game'll piss you off.

Classics like the first US fire emblem, and the Sacred Stones are great games with a good story (the first is better, and longer, I think). Mario and Luigi SUperstar saga was also very fun. If you can find Ogre Tactics (KNights of Lodis), that'd be an excellent purchace for it's story and FF Tactics gameplay.

My borther really loved all the FF remakes for the GBA including the 1&2 (dawn of souls?), 5, and 6 FF remakes.

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon is one of the best games for the GBA and is well worth the 14, 15 dollar pricetag I picked it up for on Amazon. Metroid Fusion also has a good story and an excellent look to it.

Among these, I think these would give anyone more than enough to do for a long time. It's still hard to put the ol' GBA to rest, since it's been an incredible machine.

Posted at 9:21AM on Jun 6th 2007 by TESM

4. Castlevania Double Pack... it's got more whip action than an SM site and way better music.

Posted at 9:24AM on Jun 6th 2007 by chessmaster

5. •Mazes Of Fate
•WarioLand 4
•Drome Racers
•Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones
•RebelStar: Tactical Command
•Sega's "Baseball Advance"

The last one is especially great, considering the DS hasn't ONE stateside Baseball title. I like this one better than even the PSP "The Show" MLB series. Great controls, great action.

Posted at 9:52AM on Jun 6th 2007 by Gee Lampa

6. FF6.

Am still playing it, still loving it, still wishing there were the FMV scenes from the PS version but the game itself is still splendid.

Posted at 10:08AM on Jun 6th 2007 by Ewa

7. Holy crap Astro Boy.

Posted at 10:56AM on Jun 6th 2007 by JC Fletcher

8. Any of the Castlevania titles, Astroboy, Gunstar Super Heroes, and Guardian Heroes Advance (yes, the last three of those are all Treasure titles, and they rock my socks off)

Posted at 11:35AM on Jun 6th 2007 by Jay

9. i gotta say Minish Cap. theres no doubt about it... ezlo is the coolest hat ive ever seen

Posted at 11:38AM on Jun 6th 2007 by zldaphreek

10. most of the above, and the best rally game yet on all nintendo handhelds:

v-rally 3

it even has an amazing cockpit view, where you can see the driver shift and the windshield burst.

Posted at 11:43AM on Jun 6th 2007 by Echtzeit

11. The two Mario Sports games- Golf and Tennis- are a lot of fun!

Posted at 11:50AM on Jun 6th 2007 by wishlish

12. Warioware: Twisted If it ever got FREAKING RELEASED over here!

Posted at 11:58AM on Jun 6th 2007 by Ethan Duffy

13. @12 Ethan Duffy:
a) Import
b) eBay

Posted at 12:25PM on Jun 6th 2007 by ConstyXIV

14. golden sun 1 &2
FFTA
pokemon ruby and leafgreen

Posted at 12:29PM on Jun 6th 2007 by Al Deezy

15. Awesome GBA Games:

Rebelstar: Tactical Alliance. Seriously, the makers of X-Com can't get any love in the 2000s? Come on guys, this game's like $10 now. Go pick up a copy. Please.

Summon Night 1 & 2: These are some of the funniest games I've ever played. Just look at the screenshots. The little girl talking about her dad being "WHIPPED!" always makes me chuckle. They're fun games, they were highly rated, and then everyone ignored them. Good job, people.

Super Robot Taisen Original Generation 1 & 2: More tactical goodness. I'd say this isn't as strategic as Rebelstar, but it's got big robots, and good writing, as well.

For a while, I was playing these games with my DS more than I was playing DS games. Show the love, people.

Posted at 1:04PM on Jun 6th 2007 by OhJustSomeRandomGuy

16. -Racing Gears Advance
-Rhythm Tengoku
-Metroid Fusion
-Mother 3
-Dotstream
-Astro Boy
-Final Fantasy V
-Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
-Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (or any others)

Posted at 1:23PM on Jun 6th 2007 by pigz0011

17. Definately Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and all the Megaman Battle Network games (except 4...)

Posted at 1:56PM on Jun 6th 2007 by Author X

18. I've been buying a lot of used GBA carts at the local stores because they're usually cheap (cheaper than DS games anyway). So far I've really enjoyed:

1) Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - my favorite game of ALL TIME people

2) Castlevania Double Pack - Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow on the same cart. The graphics aren't as great as the DS titles but they're still pretty good -- and soon you don't notice the difference.

3) Fire Emblem - another great game for strategy
fans

4) Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga - get it if you like M & L Partners in Time DS. Clean cute graphics, funny writing. The battles are easy though, not much challenge there.

5) FF IV and FF VI -- still need to buy FF V, might wait for the DS port now that we know they're coming out with IV for the DS, I expect V and VI will get the same treatment. These games are much better than FF III DS, I'm glad I played FF III first because otherwise I would've been disappointed in FF III.

6) Golden Sun -- I was bored at first but things start to pick up after you leave the village

7) Mega Man Battle Network - these game are ignored or knocked a lot, but I think they're fun (if a bit frustrating at times when you're trying to find one specific npc to finish a side quest). The battle system is a lot of fun, mainly because it's unlike anything else I've seen, and you can put a lot of thought and strategy into your battle chip folders. If you like RPGs then try one of these games, they should be super cheap in the used display case.

Posted at 4:13PM on Jun 6th 2007 by Kristi

19. Ahhh the GBA, my most favourite of consoles..... here are my
Golden Sun
Metroid Fusion
Advance Wars
Metal Slug Advance
Mario Golf
Wario Ware Twisted (pitty the euro gamer fool who don't import this, imported mine 18 mnths ago after waiting 9 mnths for the ever delayed UK release)
Sonic Advance
Yoshi's Island
Breath of Fire
It was such a beautiful machine (sniff)

Posted at 9:03AM on Jun 7th 2007 by david-strange-face

20. I just did a quick inventory of the GBA carts I kept from "the great DS purge" and I'm surprised to see that only a couple of them are original GBA titles and not ports of other games.

Warioware: Twisted
Zelda Minish Cap
Mario Golf Advance Tour

Posted at 10:34AM on Jun 7th 2007 by strider_mt2k