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List of best-selling Game Boy Advance video games
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This is a list of video games for the Game Boy Advance video game console that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. The best-selling games on the Game Boy Advance are Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. First released in Japan on November 21, 2002, they went on to sell over 16million units worldwide. Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, enhanced remakes of the original Pokémon Red, Green and Blue games, are the second-best-selling games on the platform with sales in excess of 12million units combined. Pokémon Emerald, an enhanced version of Ruby and Sapphire, is third with sales of more than 7million units. The top five is rounded out by Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, each of which sold over 5.5million units.
There are a total of 40 Game Boy Advance games on this list which are confirmed to have sold or shipped at least one million units. Of these, eleven were developed internally by Nintendo development divisions. Other developers with the most million-selling games include Game Freak with three games, and HAL Laboratory and Flagship, with two games each. Of the 40 games on this list, 25 were published in one or more regions by Nintendo. Other publishers with multiple million-selling games include The Pokémon Company with five games, THQ with three games, and Konami and Namco with two games each. The most popular franchises on Game Boy Advance include Pokémon (over 39million combined units) and Super Mario (16.69million combined units).
List
| † | Game was bundled with Game Boy Advance consoles during its lifetime |
|---|
| Game | Developer(s) | Publisher(s) | Release date | Sales | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire | Game Freak | 16,220,000 | |||
| Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen | Game Freak | 12,000,000 | |||
| Pokémon Emerald | Game Freak | 7,060,000 | |||
| Mario Kart: Super Circuit | Intelligent Systems | Nintendo | 5,910,000 | ||
| Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 | Nintendo R&D2 | Nintendo | 5,690,000 | ||
| Super Mario Advance | Nintendo R&D2 | Nintendo | 5,570,000 | ||
| Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 † | Nintendo R&D2 | Nintendo | 5,430,000 | ||
| Namco Museum | Mass Media Games | Namco | 2,960,000 | ||
| Pac-Man Collection | Mass Media Games | Namco | 2,940,000 | ||
| Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 | Nintendo R&D2 | Nintendo | 2,830,000 | ||
| The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past | Nintendo | 2,820,000 | |||
| Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team | Chunsoft | 2,360,000 | |||
| Classic NES Series: Super Mario Bros. | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | 2,270,000 | ||
| Wario Land 4 | Nintendo R&D1 | Nintendo | 2,200,000 | ||
| Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga | AlphaDream | Nintendo | 2,150,000 | ||
| Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land | HAL Laboratory | Nintendo | 2,100,000 | ||
| Finding Nemo | Vicarious Visions | THQ | 1,840,000 | ||
| Donkey Kong Country | Rare | Nintendo | 1,820,000 | ||
| The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap | Flagship | Nintendo | 1,760,000 | ||
| Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul | Konami | Konami | 1,710,534 | ||
| Frogger's Adventures: Temple of the Frog | Konami Software Shanghai | Konami | 1,700,000 | ||
| Golden Sun | Camelot Software Planning | Nintendo | 1,650,000 | ||
| Final Fantasy Tactics Advance | Square | 1,621,000 | |||
| Metroid Fusion | Nintendo R&D1 | Nintendo | 1,600,000 | ||
| Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories | Square Enix | 1,542,000 | |||
| Sonic Advance | 1,515,000 | ||||
| Kirby & the Amazing Mirror | Nintendo | 1,470,000 | |||
| Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel | Konami | Konami | 1,460,000 | ||
| Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku | Webfoot Technologies | Infogrames | 1,400,000 | ||
| Mario vs. Donkey Kong | Nintendo Software Technology | Nintendo | 1,370,000 | ||
| Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire | Jupiter | 1,370,000 | |||
| The Incredibles | Helixe | THQ | 1,366,000 | ||
| Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun and Blue Moon | Capcom Production Studio 2 | Capcom | 1,350,000 | ||
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Eurocom | Electronic Arts | 1,200,000 | ||
| Disney Princess | Art Co., Ltd | THQ | 1,170,000 | ||
| Golden Sun: The Lost Age | Camelot Software Planning | Nintendo | 1,120,000 | ||
| WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames! | Nintendo R&D1 | Nintendo | 1,100,000 | ||
| F-Zero: Maximum Velocity | NDcube | Nintendo | 1,050,000 | ||
| Sonic Advance 2 | 1,016,541 | ||||
| Spyro: Season of Ice | Digital Eclipse | Universal Interactive Studios | 1,000,000 |
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