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3 unusual facts about Game Boy Advance


A Sound of Thunder

A Game Boy Advance video game based on the film was also released.

Ancient UNIX

So far there has been no widespread use of the code, but it can be used on emulator systems, and Version 5 Unix has been made to run on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance using the SIMH PDP-11 emulator.

LarryBoy and the Bad Apple

LarryBoy and the Bad Apple has also been released as a video game on the PS2 and Game Boy Advance platforms, (ever since the LarryBoy and the Bad Apple movie is the first to be only released and available on DVD and never on VHS).


Ambassador Magma

Ambassador Magma makes a cameo appearance in the 2004 Astro Boy: Omega Factor game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, along with a number of other characters created by Osamu Tezuka.

Big X

Big X makes a cameo appearance in the Astro Boy: Omega Factor game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance released in 2004, along with many other characters also created by Osamu Tezuka.

Discography of the Ace Attorney series

Gyakuten Saiban 3 Original Soundtrack is a soundtrack album featuring music from the Game Boy Advance version of the video game Gyakuten Saiban 3 (known internationally as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations), composed and arranged by Noriyuki Iwadare.

Dropzone

It is available for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (titled 'Super Dropzone' on all packaging, but only 'Dropzone' on the title screen), Game Boy Advance and PlayStation.

Fei Long

The English localization of the original arcade game pays tribute to Bruce Lee by having Fei Long state "there could never be another legend like the great one and his son", a reference to Bruce Lee and his son Brandon, who died shortly before the release of the game, although these references were removed in the revised localization of the Game Boy Advance version of the game.

Game backup device

Recently flash cartridges, especially on the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS platforms, only support the latter function; they cannot be used for backing up ROM data.

Gamestation

The chain mainly focused on the sixth & seventh generation of consoles: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, as well as the PC and previous generations of consoles (such as PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and Game Boy Advance).

GBAtemp

GBAtemp is an international video gaming community centered around a discussion forum focusing on Nintendo and other handheld devices and consoles, such as the Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, and Wii.

High School Musical: Livin' the Dream

High School Musical : Livin' The Dream is a video game based on the 2006 and 2007 television movies High School Musical and High School Musical 2 available for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance.

Hugo: The Evil Mirror

Hugo: The Evil Mirror (Danish: Hugo: Det Afskyelige Spejl) is a video game in the Hugo franchise developed by ITE Media for the PC, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color and mobile phones.

Media Create

Every Friday (Japan Standard Time), the official Japanese website is updated with the top fifty selling video games of the previous week, as well as hardware sales figures for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite, Wii, PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Micro, Xbox, and Xbox 360.

NO$GBA

NO$GBA (pronounced "no cash GBA") is a free Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance emulator for Microsoft Windows & DOS.

Osamu Tezuka's Star System

He stars as the title character in his own manga as a thief (à la Lupin III), and even star as the English cyborg private detective Sherlock Homespun (sometimes written Sherlock Holmespan) in the 1980 Astro Boy Anime and in the Game Boy Advance game Astro Boy: Omega Factor.

Parallax scrolling

Some platforms (e.g., Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Nintendo DS) provide a horizontal blank interrupt for automatically setting the registers independently of the rest of the program.

Racing Gears Advance

Racing Gears Advance is a combat racing game for the Game Boy Advance system released in 2004 and includes licensed vehicles from GM, Dodge, Mitsubishi and Lotus Cars.

Rolento

Rolento and his "Industrial Area" stage were not included in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System port of Final Fight, nor in its re-release Final Fight Guy, but were included in later ports of the game, such as the Sega CD and Game Boy Advance versions (if the player confronts Rolento as "Alpha Cody" in the GBA version, Cody will joke about Rolento's omission in the SNES version).

Shaun Murray

Shaun Murray is a four-time World champion wakeboarder, and the main character featured in Activision's video game "Wakeboarding Unleashed" (Working title Shaun Murray's Pro Wakeboarder) in 2002, which was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Game Boy Advance.

Ultra Machine

The Ultra Machine appears in both WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ for the Game Boy Advance and WarioWare: Smooth Moves for the Wii, as a boss fight in the former and a regular microgame in the latter.

UTV Ignition Entertainment

Currently focused on the production of games for the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS, the company has so far only produced a selection of budget titles for the Game Boy Advance: Pool Paradise from Awesome Studios as well as the Nintendo DS game Zoo Keeper.


see also

Backtrack

Back Track, a 1998 first-person shooter for the Game Boy Advance

Four Swords

A Multi-player addition to the Game Boy Advance port The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords in 2002 and later released as a standalone title for the DSiware service in 2011 as The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition

Game Boy Advance Video

These videos are playable using the Game Boy Advance system's screen and sound hardware.

Glory Days

Super Army War, a Game Boy Advance game titled Glory Days: The Essence of War in Europe

VDE

Visteon Dockable Entertainment, a portable DVD player with Game Boy Advance slot

Vibrating structure gyroscope

The Nintendo Game Boy Advance game WarioWare: Twisted! uses a piezoelectric gyroscope to detect rotational movement.