Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
It's time for 11 facts about the Game Boy Advance that You Maybe Didn't Know! Or maybe you did, it's all good, right? Join me for a look into the GBA's life and times, the system it MIGHT have been if released in the mid 90s and find out some zany accessories that were available for it! For best results view at 1080p60fps.
Very special thanks to Gerry from BehindTheCode here on YouTube for allowing me to use some of his footage of the Intelligent Systems CGB-AGB devkit! Find his original video here: youtube.com/watch?v=pHe2o2p_6AY
All GBA and SNES footage was recorded directly by me.
GameCube footage is clipped from public events or official trailers and used as fair use.
Follow me on bluesky: @inglebard.bsky.social
Relevant Links and citations:
GBA development info: retrobreak.co.uk/the-game-boy-advance-story-development-history
GBA Heart Monitor:
(1) distractify.com/trending/2017/09/21/lSlMc/med-device-gameboy
(2) theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/21/16339122/ecg-powered-game-boy-advance
(3) hackaday.com/2017/09/24/game-boy-advance-hiding-in-a-medical-device
GBA Dev Kits:
(1) retroreversing.com/game-boy-advance-development-kit
Sales numbers
(1) = nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html
(2) = vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance
(3) = gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/246545/gameboy-total-lt-sales-breakdown/1
pricecharting.com
Some GBA Technical Info: copetti.org/writings/consoles/game-boy-advance
Picture: GBA motherboard:
By gekkio (Joonas Javanainen) - gbhwdb.gekkio.fi/consoles/agb/AJ10005957.html, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=148899027
Picture: Acorn Archimedes
By PaulVernon1974 - Own work, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25081192
Picture: BBC Micro
By BBC_Micro.jpeg: Stuart Bradyderivative work: Ubcule (talk) - BBC_Micro.jpeg, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11672213
11 Facts About the SNES that You Maybe Didn't Know: youtu.be/wKSK5ILI910
Gaming's Biggest Ripoffs part 2: youtu.be/ojky-rumPDE
Amiga Arcade Ports: Namco: youtu.be/BQ1U-PRf1xs
Did they STEAL that Game Music part 2: youtu.be/cOOxFCR4QKU
#gameboyadvance #gba #retrogaming #portablegaming #nintendo #gamecube #arm #soc #32bit #handheld #videogames #gameboy #castlevania #ariaofsorrow #harmonyofdissonance #circleofthemoon #fzero #retrogames #classicgaming #classicgames #pocketable #pocketgaming
It's time for 11 facts about the Game Boy Advance that You Maybe Didn't Know! Or maybe you did, it's all good, right? Join me for a look into the GBA's life and times, the system it MIGHT have been if released in the mid 90s and find out some zany accessories that were available for it! For best results view at 1080p60fps.
Very special thanks to Gerry from BehindTheCode here on YouTube for allowing me to use some of his footage of the Intelligent Systems CGB-AGB devkit! Find his original video here: youtube.com/watch?v=pHe2o2p_6AY
All GBA and SNES footage was recorded directly by me.
GameCube footage is clipped from public events or official trailers and used as fair use.
Follow me on bluesky: @inglebard.bsky.social
Relevant Links and citations:
GBA development info: retrobreak.co.uk/the-game-boy-advance-story-development-history
GBA Heart Monitor:
(1) distractify.com/trending/2017/09/21/lSlMc/med-device-gameboy
(2) theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/21/16339122/ecg-powered-game-boy-advance
(3) hackaday.com/2017/09/24/game-boy-advance-hiding-in-a-medical-device
GBA Dev Kits:
(1) retroreversing.com/game-boy-advance-development-kit
Sales numbers
(1) = nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html
(2) = vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance
(3) = gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/246545/gameboy-total-lt-sales-breakdown/1
pricecharting.com
Some GBA Technical Info: copetti.org/writings/consoles/game-boy-advance
Picture: GBA motherboard:
By gekkio (Joonas Javanainen) - gbhwdb.gekkio.fi/consoles/agb/AJ10005957.html, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=148899027
Picture: Acorn Archimedes
By PaulVernon1974 - Own work, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25081192
Picture: BBC Micro
By BBC_Micro.jpeg: Stuart Bradyderivative work: Ubcule (talk) - BBC_Micro.jpeg, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11672213
11 Facts About the SNES that You Maybe Didn't Know: youtu.be/wKSK5ILI910
Gaming's Biggest Ripoffs part 2: youtu.be/ojky-rumPDE
Amiga Arcade Ports: Namco: youtu.be/BQ1U-PRf1xs
Did they STEAL that Game Music part 2: youtu.be/cOOxFCR4QKU
#gameboyadvance #gba #retrogaming #portablegaming #nintendo #gamecube #arm #soc #32bit #handheld #videogames #gameboy #castlevania #ariaofsorrow #harmonyofdissonance #circleofthemoon #fzero #retrogames #classicgaming #classicgames #pocketable #pocketgaming
