Excluding ports, my favourites are:

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Golden Sun series

Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak

Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue

Mega Man Battle Network series

Pokemon series

Sonic Advance series

Sword of Mana

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story series

This is a really good list. Some of my favorites that weren’t on here were:

• Astro Boy
• Car Battler Joe
• Dragon Ball Adventure
• Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku (Series)
• Gunstar Super Heroes
• Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland
• Megaman Battle Network (Series)
• Megaman Zero (Series)
• Naruto Ninja Council (1 & 2)
• Rebelstar: Tactical Command
• Star Wars Trilogy
• The Invincible Iron Man
• The Sims: Bustin’ Out
• TMNT

There’s def a lot of other great games, too. Those are just a few that come to mind. Pretty sure I remember the Crash and Spyro GBA games being pretty cool, too.

Castlevania Aria of Sorrow and Mother 3 for me. Not just my two favorite GBA games, but two of my favorite games period.

Also a great time to mention how fkn great the GBA core on MiSTer is

The GBA was a great system; my only complaint is they didn’t include X and Y buttons. Some games could have benefited from two more face buttons.

I haven’t seen the Advance Wars series brought up yet. Great strategy game.

Not mentioned here yet:

Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero Mission

Mega Man Zero series

The Legend of Zelda The Minish Cap

Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones

Seriously? No Mother 3? No F-Zero games with three to choose from? No Boktai? And Summon Night Swordcraft Story didn’t make it either.

Plus, three Sonic Advance games, multiple Metroid and Zelda titles, but couldn’t spare a slot for Mega Man Battle Network anywhere?

At least it wasn’t full of Pokémon. Reads like a top 40 radio station set list, but for gaming.

I can’t read the list due to an adblocker blocker when i have no adblocker

The internet sucks.

Mother 3

Super Mario Advance 1,2,3 and 4

Mario Kart was by far the best. The ability to play coop with only one of you having the game is something all game companies should do.

I’m surprised at the lack of Drill Dozer. Seriously, give it a try.

I had tons of GBA games but the one I remember most fondly is Link’s Awakening DX.

Second would be uh… Damn, I forgot the name of it! It was that Hideo Kojima game with a solar panel in the cart because it used sunlight as a gimmick. It was the closest thing to a MGS game there was on GameBoy at the time, and I loved it. Didn’t care for the gimmick tho. You couldn’t actually see the screen if you were in direct sunlight which the sensor needed (unlike my damn calculator, using a lamp didn’t work).

Edit: Boktai! You mentioned it further down in the comments lol

Max Payne’s gba port was really impressive. Check it out if you haven’t already :)

I’ll always go to bat for Gunstar Super Heroes. It’s a full on sequel to the Genesis game - hardly anyone seems to talk about it, which is a shame because it’s incredible. Easily one of the best action games on GBA, if not the best. Absolutely deserves a spot in any top GBA list, right alongside Astro Boy Omega Factor.

Since they haven’t been mentioned yet, I’d like to recommend all three Klonoa games on the GBA. There’s Empire of Dreams and Dream Champ Tournament which are both platformers with some puzzle elements. The third game is Klonoa Heroes, which is an ARPG (making it totally different from anything else in the series). Do note that Heroes wasn’t released outside Japan, but there is a translation patch available.