Custom Super Mario Advance boxart slipcovers.

[Xander]

The GBA's heyday lasted only about four years, but during that time, the GBA got a pretty awesome library of games. Plus, it's nice that you can usually get GBA games without breaking the bank.

It's pretty remarkable just how many great games were made in that short period of time.

Yeah GBA seems underrated. Zero Mission and Minish Cap are great entries.

As far as mainline franchises go, those were very good entries. The thing that the GBA also did very effectively was introduce japanese-only franchises to the west. The Wars series and the Fire Emblem series in particular were really excellent on the GBA. If I had to choose to only have the games from a single developer, it would probably be Intelligent Systems, which makes both series (as well as Mario Kart: Super Circuit and WarioWare Twisted).

Me.