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The Game Boy Advance is a handheld game console made by Nintendo that allows people to play video games on a portable device. It was an important part of Nintendo's gaming history and helped establish handheld gaming as a major part of the video game industry.
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Key facts
- Also known as
- CN : iQue Game Boy Advance
- Developer
- Nintendo Research & Engineering
- Manufacturer
- Nintendo
- Product family
- Game Boy
- Type
- Handheld game console
- Generation
- Sixth
- Released
- March 21, 2001 JP : March 21, 2001 NA : June 11, 2001 PAL : June 22, 2001
- Introductory price
- US$99.99 (equivalent to $180 in 2025)
- Units sold
- 81.51 million
- Media
- Game Boy Game Pak Game Boy Color Game Pak Game Boy Advance Game Pak
- System on a chip
- Nintendo CPU AGB
- Cpu
- ARM7TDMI @ 16.8 MHz, Sharp SM83 @ 4.2 / 8.4 MHz
Article
The Game Boy Advance (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console, manufactured by Nintendo, which was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, and to international markets that June. It was later released in mainland China in 2004, under the name iQue Game Boy Advance. Compared to the Game Boy Color it succeeded, the console offered a significantly more powerful ARM7 processor and improved graphics, while retaining backward compatibility with games initially developed for its predecessor.
The GBA is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles, competing against Nokia's N-Gage and Bandai's Japan-only WonderSwan. The original model was followed in 2003 by the Game Boy Advance SP, a redesigned model with a frontlit screen and clamshell form factor. A newer revision of the SP with a backlit screen was released in 2005. A miniaturized redesign, the Game Boy Micro, was released in September 2005.