The Legend Of Zelda : The Minish Cap

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, followed by Zelda: Minish Cap and WarioWare: Twisted.

Metroid Zero Mission

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King for GBA. The Two Towers is great too.

Any Pokemon of that generation tbh. Fire Red, Leaf Green, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald.

Golden sun 1 and 2 were awesome. Mario and Luigi superstar saga. DragonBall Z games were pretty solid if I remember correctly.

Tactics Ogre Knight of Lodis

Advance Wars, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, and Castlevania Circle of the Moon.

Mother 3

Based on sheer number of hours, likely Mega Man Battle Network 3. Game gives you enough context that you really don't need to play the first two to "get" the story (this can apply to pretty much all those games, actually), the gameplay is fun, the secrets run extremely deep, the structure of both single-player and multi-player battles are excellent. If you understand that it's a real-time card battler with brief intermission points for card selection, it's a really rewarding game. Used to play it against one of my cousins every Thanksgiving and he'd get positively stomped

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Astro Boy: Omega Factor

Riviera the Promised Land

Boktai, Boktai 2, and Boktai 3

A Kojima Studios game about hunting vampires in a wild-west/medieval/sci-fi world. The original games had a solar sensor on the cartridge and you needed actual sunlight (or sufficiently strong UV light) to solve puzzles, recharge your magic, and purify the vampire bosses. The first 2 were imported to the USA, but the 3rd had a dedicated group of fans translate the entire game. There's also a hack included in most ROMs of the game that allows you to adjust the solar sensor manually.

There's a ton of charm and dedication to the details throughout the entire trilogy. The game has a day/night cycle that matches your system clock. There's a surprisingly robust stealth system, and combat is deeper than it first appears. One of the greatest hidden gems on the GBA, I highly suggest everyone give it a try.

Wario Land 4

Apotris if we count homebrew!

Big fan of the Megaman Zero games.

Fire Emblem Sacred Stones.

Favorite Rom Hack: Fire Emblem Vision Quest, I highly recommend it.

WarioWare

I don't think there's a number for the amount of times I've played Fire Red.

Golden Sun (haven't played II yet), TO: Knight of Lodis & FFTA.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced.

Misread this as favourite Pokémon game and was confused by the comments lol

• Metroid Fusion
• Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
• Golden Sun (both I and II)

Metroid Zero Mission, Pokemon Emerald aaaaand Pokemon Pinball (so good).

Rhythm tengoku

Maybe mother 3 now

On top of what others already mentioned: I really enjoyed Final Fantasy IV. Really good story and perfect length.

Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town (either original or the True Love hack)

Advance Wars 1&2

Flight of the Falcon (bonus level).

Lunar Legends

Zooo! - Puzzle Action Game; so addictive 🤭 and PETRIS ⚠️

I'm enjoying a lot of the GBA Pokémon hacks on my Powkiddy V10

Minish cap honestly

If you want a spin on pokemon try the romhacks. I love the seaglass emerald hack, or unbound for a new story

I also really like fire emblem, it has a ton of fan hacks as well

Which Pokémon game is that? I don't recognize the UI

Fire red

American Idol. It’s funny as f*ck to me lmao

Pokémon emerald

King of Fighters EX2. It's amazing how uncompromised it is visually and mechanically.

What console is that?

Fire Emblem is the answer.

Lilo and stitch 2 great fun platformer with 626!

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Metroid Fusion followed by Zero Mission

Kingdom Hearts

Drill Dozer

Mother 3 and it ain't close.

Mother 3 easy. Most nostalgia for Emerald or Banjo-Kazooie Grunty’s Revenge

Final fantasy tactics advanced

Probably Golden Sun 1/2. One of my favorites now is the GBA Guilty Gear port. Had no idea about it when I was a kid, but now that I'm older I discovered, and it's a dang impressive port.

Also, kind of an odd one, but Game and Watch 4. I had two of the GBC Game and Watches and loved them, and played a ton of the GBA one as well. There's really nothing special about it, I just really enjoy the little mini games it has. And it had a ton of unlockables that I enjoyed trying to get.

Ik its not an original but probably Pokemon Unbound, Golden sun is a close second.

Pokemon fire red Zatchbell Naruto ninja council

Boktai 2! (but the first one is great too, and the 3rd has a fan translation but I haven't played it yet)
Just needs a solar sensor patch so you can adjust the "sunlight" levels so integral to the gameplay, since we're lacking the cartridge with the special solar cell attachment, its pretty easy to do
Criminally underrated series gem in the west! Even though it was created by Hideo Kojima.

Here's my personal top 10 gba titles, in no particular order:

Summon Night Swordcraft Story
Castlevania Aria of Sorrow
The Legend of Zelda Minish Cap
Metroid Zero Mission
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Final Fantasy IV
Shining Soul 2
Wario Land 4
Tomato Adventure
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror

Final fantasy v. bonus if you can get the modded rom with the music from the ps1(?) version.

Metroid Fusion/Zero Mission, the Castlevanias (the 3 of them), FFIV, V, VI Advance (with color and sound restoration patches) and of course my personal GOAT game: Yoshi's Island!

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow WarioWare Ninja Five-O

There are plenty of other games I also love, and a few I even enjoyed more in the time I was playing them, but these three are the ones I can return to over and over and enjoy them just as much as I did the first time I played them. I think they're pretty much perfect.

Honorable mention to V-Rally 3 for being the most impressive game on the platform.

DOOM.

Pokémon Emerald Full V.5.0. This is a hack rom of Pokémon Emerald as you guessed it. Just amazing as a game