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50 free Game Boy Advance trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Game Boy Advance put a 32-bit console in a pocket in 2001 and went on to host some of the best-reviewed portable games ever made. Critics still rank its library highly: Metacritic's list of the best GBA games is crowded with Zelda, Metroid, Pokémon and Castlevania entries, alongside strategy and role-playing series that reached Western players for the first time. This quiz covers the games at the top of those rankings, the stories and characters inside them, the studios that made them, the console's redesigns and quirks, and the unusual cartridges and accessories that only this system got. Questions run from easy openers to deep cuts on how the hardware came about. It is written for anyone who owned the handheld, plays its library today through re-releases, or wants to test what they know about the best GBA games before choosing the next one to play.
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Q 01Metacritic's highest-rated GBA game pairs the multiplayer Four Swords with a port of which Zelda adventure?
A Link to the Past
A Link to the Past reached GBA eleven years after its Super Nintendo debut. Finishing both games on the cartridge opens a bonus dungeon inside the main quest.
Q 02Players of Boktai, a vampire-hunting GBA game, had to recharge their in-game weapon using what?
Sunlight
Sunlight hit a sensor built into the cartridge, so players had to step outdoors by day to load the Solar Gun. Vampires in the game cannot stand daylight either.
Q 03Which courtroom drama series began as a Japan-only GBA game before a translated port made it a worldwide hit?
Ace Attorney
Ace Attorney was first planned for the Game Boy Color until its team saw the newer handheld's screen. All three original games debuted on GBA in Japan before any was translated.
Q 04Which DreamWorks animated film was squeezed onto a single GBA Video cartridge alongside Shark Tale?
Shrek
Shrek shared its cartridge with Shark Tale, and fitting two full films meant shrinking the picture to a letterbox band across the GBA's already small screen.
Q 05Which pair of Pokémon games, set in the Hoenn region, became the best-selling titles on the GBA?
Ruby and Sapphire
Ruby and Sapphire sold over 16 million copies, yet that was a step down for the series: the original Red and Blue had sold nearly twice as many.
Q 06A blood-testing GBA add-on launched in Australia rewarded children with game points for managing which condition?
Diabetes
Diabetes means regular blood tests, so the Glucoboy paid out points for each one and a bonus when the reading fell within a target range. The points unlocked extra games.
Q 07Which athlete's licensed game ties a Zelda port for the highest GBA score on Metacritic?
Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 reached GBA as a separate version made by Vicarious Visions, a studio that became known for shrinking the skateboarding series onto handhelds.
Q 08Which strategy series first reached the West on GBA after Marth and Roy won fans in Super Smash Bros. Melee?
Fire Emblem
Fire Emblem had stayed in Japan for six entries because of doubts that a hard, text-heavy tactics game would sell abroad. Its GBA success sent nearly every later entry overseas.
Q 09Which rival handheld tried to lure GBA players by doubling as a phone, earning the nickname "taco phone"?
N-Gage
N-Gage owners had to hold the device edge-on against the cheek to make a call, hence the taco jokes. In its first weeks on sale in the United States, the GBA outsold it 100 to 1.
Q 10Which classic was remade as the fourth and best-reviewed entry in Nintendo's series of Advance remakes for GBA?
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. 3 returned with extra levels loaded from scannable cards, though half of the card sets were only ever sold in Japan.
Q 11In single-cartridge multiplayer on Mario Kart: Super Circuit, every player races as a recoloured version of whom?
Yoshi
Yoshi, in a different colour for each racer, was the only driver the handhelds could share from one cartridge, and the borrowed game offered just four tracks.
Q 12Which GBA strategy game had its Japanese and European releases delayed after the September 11 attacks?
Advance Wars
Advance Wars reached American shops on September 10, 2001, one day before the attacks. Europe waited until 2002, and Japan until a 2004 compilation.
Q 13In Metroid Fusion, which enemy stalks Samus through the space station while she is too weak to fight back?
SA-X
SA-X is a parasite mimicking Samus at her full strength, so the weakened player has to run and hide from it for most of the game.
Q 21The Game Boy Player add-on screwed onto the underside of which home console to put GBA games on a television?
GameCube
GameCube owners got real handheld hardware inside the add-on rather than an emulator, so older Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges ran on the TV as well.
Q 22Which GBA accessory scanned paper cards printed with dot codes to load classic NES games and bonus levels?
The e-Reader
The e-Reader relied on a barcode technology licensed from Olympus. It sold far better in Japan: it was pulled from North America for lack of popularity and never reached Europe.
Q 23Which feature, found on every earlier Game Boy, did Nintendo remove from the Game Boy Advance SP?
A headphone jack
Q 14In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, what does the witch Cackletta steal from Princess Peach?
Her voice
Her voice is replaced with explosives that drop from her speech balloon whenever she talks, which sends the brothers off to the Beanbean Kingdom to get it back.
Q 15Which Castlevania game swaps the usual medieval setting for a solar eclipse in the year 2035?
Aria of Sorrow
Aria of Sorrow follows teenager Soma Cruz, who absorbs the powers of the monsters he defeats. Despite the future date, he still fights mostly with swords, axes and spears.
Q 16Which GBA role-playing series by Camelot has Isaac and his friends solving puzzles with a magic called Psynergy?
Golden Sun
Golden Sun lets its spells work outside battle too: the whirlwind that hurts enemies can also blow away overgrown leaves blocking a path.
Q 17Which outside company, rather than Nintendo's own teams, developed The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap?
Capcom
Capcom had started the game after finishing two earlier handheld Zelda titles, but paused it to build the Four Swords multiplayer mode for another Zelda cartridge.
Q 18Which Square role-playing classic, ported in 2006, was the last GBA game that Nintendo published?
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VI reached GBA with a fresh English translation and four new summoned creatures, and it sits in the system's top ten on Metacritic.
Q 19Metroid: Zero Mission, a remake of the 1986 original, adds a stealth chapter in which Samus has lost what?
Her Power Suit
Her Power Suit is destroyed after the old game's final boss, leaving her only a weak pistol that briefly stuns enemies. The new chapter introduced the blue Zero Suit.
Q 20Which successor to the GBA kept a second cartridge slot so that owners could keep playing their old games?
The DS
The DS also let owners use GBA cartridges to unlock bonus content in newer games. The slot sat beneath the touch screen and was dropped from the later DSi redesign.
A headphone jack gave way to an adapter that plugged into the charging port, so owners could not charge the console and wear headphones at the same time.
Q 24Nintendo pitched the tiny Game Boy Micro as a fashion accessory thanks to which customisable feature?
Swappable faceplates
Swappable faceplates let owners restyle the console in seconds, but the Micro was overshadowed by newer hardware and sold only about 2.4 million units.
Q 25The GBA became the UK's fastest-selling console in 2001 by beating the launch-week record of which rival machine?
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2 had held the British record since its launch seven months earlier. American buyers were just as keen: half a million GBAs sold there in the first week.
Q 26What did the AGS-101 revision of the Game Boy Advance SP, released in 2005, add to the console?
A backlit screen
A backlit screen arrived more than two years after the SP's launch, and the light switch now toggled between two brightness levels instead of simply on and off.
Q 27Which codename did Nintendo give its shelved 1990s colour handheld, whose processor plans resurfaced in the GBA?
Project Atlantis
Project Atlantis was shelved by 1997 because its team was unhappy with the result. Its colour screen went into the Game Boy Color, and its 32-bit ambitions waited for the GBA.
Q 28Which company's processor architecture runs GBA games, while a second Sharp core handles older Game Boy cartridges?
ARM
ARM designed the 32-bit core that runs GBA software, built to squeeze performance from little power, which suited a handheld running on two AA cells.
Q 29When an original Game Boy game runs on a GBA, pressing which controls stretches the picture across the wider screen?
L and R
L and R, the two shoulder buttons, switch an old game between its original proportions and a stretched full-screen view.
Q 30Which hero is sliced into four differently coloured copies of himself at the start of The Amazing Mirror?
Kirby
Kirby is cut into four by Dark Meta Knight, which set up the first four-player co-op in his series. An in-game cell phone calls the other three to help.