The GBA was a truly great system. I still bring my Micro with me in case I need to get in some King of Fighters EX2. Minish Cap is one of my favorite Zelda games. My all-time favorite strategy games are on the GBA, as well - Advance Wars (the first one) and Zone of the Enders: Fist of Mars were both fantastic.

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I still have my blue GBA SP. I use it typically to bring to work so I can play it in the lab when it's boring, or at lunch, since it's more portable and convenient to hide in a pocket than the DS.

For games, usually I carry around one of the Fire Emblems, or Tales of Phantasia.

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A memory I have of my GBA, oddly enough, is not one related to gaming. I remember dismantling my original GBA and installing the afterburner frontlight kit. Man that thing was great. $30 and I could play all my GBA games in the darkest of dark rooms. It was an epic moment. The SP was barely a twinkle in Nintendo's eye at that point, prior to that one could never play a GBA game (or just a GB game) without a direct light source, or at least one of those ridiculous worm light thingies that didn't work very well. I never got an SP or a micro after that. Since I had a lighting device built into my GBA, I didn't see the point.

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I have all three versions of the console (GBA, GBA SP, GB Micro) and I love all of them. Even though the screen brightness isn't perfect, the GBA SP is probably my favourite. I have many fond memories of playing it whilste lying on my bed with my head resting against the propped-up pillow. It was so comfortable and relaxing.

I always thought it was a bit of a shame that much of Nintendo's output on it were just ports of old SNES games. Even though they are amazing, I would have preferred more new games. I think my favourite original GBA game is actually Wario Ware Inc. It was so fresh and so much fun, pure genius. Strange really, considering my current feelings on minigame compilations. But back then they weren't saturating Nintendo's consoles.

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I still have my silver GBA SP, like the one displayed on the post. I do like it better than my DS lite to play GBA games. I still walk through Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission sometimes. I SO wish Nintendo would make a 2D Metroid title for the DS...

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Traded it in as soon as the DS came out and never looked back.

...Nah, actually, that's wrong—I do kinda miss the less mushy GBA d-pad.

Kept all my games. Actually, I've more than doubled my GBA game count since upgrading.

Funny story, though. I bought a silver SP close to launch because I wanted a GBA, but found the color really typical and boring. Several years later, I went to college and met a rather subdued friend who complained about his blue SP being a little too loud and fancy-looking.

(Guess what happened.)

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My wife got me a black GBA SP because she was tired of me constantly borrowing her pink original GBA. I loved the SP. The size and clamshell case were a great idea. It could fit in my pocket and come with me to work. It was so much better designed than the old clunky GameBoys.

Unfortunately, barely a year after that point, the DS came out and replaced my SP.

Now you all are making me want to dig my GBA out of my drawer and pick it back up, and probably toss in my copy of Alien Hominid, or my as-of-yet-unopened copy of Final Fantasy VI.

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I used to play my GBmicro in breaks at work, which was teaching a bunch of kids how to play cello. One day another teacher walked in on me at it and said he hoped it was mine, and not one I had confiscated from one of the kids. Pity I never thought of that before I bought it, I could have saved myself a few bucks.

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well, the games I played the most and enjoyed were probably:

Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
Warioware (both)
Payback
GTA Advance (not sooo much tough, liked payback better)
Sims bustin out
Urbz sims in the city

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I bought an SP and a handful of old SNES games to help me waste time on the bus (For some reason, I can't read or write on a moving bus. Probably something to do with me being huge and bus seats being tiny.....).

I sold my SP, though, and got a DS. I loved the SP, but the DS can handle all of my GBA needs.

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I had 'em all. Started out with the GB. Then upgraded to the GBA. Then I got the SP. My favorite game was probably Pokemon or Spyro. I played those games all the time. I traded in my SP for a DS fatty, along with all my GBA games. *shrugs* Gotta' move with the times, I suppose.

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I still have every GBA I ever owned. My path was Glacier GBA -> NES Edition GBA SP -> Famicom Edition Micro (although the Micro was just a novelty purchase. I ended up actually liking it, though.) I credit the GBA with introducing me to the wider world of handheld gaming, as my GBC collection consisted of nothing but Pokemon games.

The GBA was, of course, home to some of my favorite games. Coming to mind are Minish Cap, Metroid Fusion, and my second-favorite game of all time, Fire Emblem. It really turned me on to SRPGs, yet, having since played many, I've never enjoyed one as much as FE.

The GBA wasn't without its disappointments, though. Nintendo seemed content to churn out updated remakes of its first-party titles, giving us four Super Mario Advances but never one actually made for the system (Mario vs. Donkey Kong and Mario and Luigi don't count.) Three Donkey Kong Countries but no new DK, and one of the two Metroid games was an updated remake. Quality third-party releases were scarce, with Square-Enix and Atlus giving good, albeit sporadic support to the GBA. I honestly never understood why the GBA kept such a sterling reputation while the Gamecube was mercilessly mocked--the space between quality releases was fairly even.

But yes, good times for the most part, and I feel that the Game Boy legacy is in good hands with the DS. Funny thing was, as a GBA loyalist, I absolutely hated the DS when it was first announced and denounced it as a useless gimmick cobbled together to be a thorn in the PSP's side. Nintendo had trained me a little too well to accept the GBA as the standard in handheld design. Of course, that's all different now.

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The Golden Sun series was definitely my favorite thing to play. Who'd have guessed.

I still have my crimson SP, but the video no longer works.

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I still use my GBA Micro during my commute everyday because it fits well in one hand. I actually don't usually play games on it though.
For years I've been using the GBA Movie Player to listen to music while reading ebooks during my commute.

That little wonder has saved the lives of many-a-slob I'm crammed onto the 7 train with. If it wasn't for the GBAMP, I would've started stabbing those dbags a long time ago.

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I have the original GBA & three Micros..
I still love to play the micro in work as its smaller than many phones and can easily be kept out of sight.
When things come to a crashing halt due to poor planning by those who claim to know better my work micros save my sanity of hours of waiting on the dockside (usually in the rain).
Long like the GBA (even if it is with old titles).
The reason for 3 micros is that they're really cheap and I can then share.

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Still love my GBA, I had the clear purple original first but I had to trade it in eventually when I had no money to buy my brother a birthday present. Thankfully, I'd gotten a black SP from my older brother before I did this but I still feel nostalgia whenever I see one. I still use my GBA so I can play GBC games. I also just bought FFV for it but I've not gotten through much since I got FFIV on DS a week later.

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I bought a white GBA with my hard earned part timer wages back in college, and mostly played Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper during commutes and tried ending Metroid Fusion at home. Apart from that I tried to hook my friends to the GBA with Wario Ware, Inc., but unfortunately I left my GBA in my apartment during holidays and it mysteriously vanished. Sniff.

Got me a Black DS though, and a Pink DS for my girlfriend. Loved the 2D stuff on the Game Boy Advance, I did.

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