Game Releases · 2002

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18 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: game-boy-advance genre: adventure

Game Boy Advance 2002

Nintendo · 2001–2010 · 966 games all-time on RAWG

Game Boy Advance is Nintendo’s third major portable game console and a successor to the company’s famous Game Boy and Game Boy Color consoles. It has much more powerful hardware than its predecessors, different design and two more buttons on the side of the device. The GBA hardware is comparable to that of SNES and majority of the games on the system featured 2D sprite-based graphics reminiscent to that of 16-bit consoles. The console had two revisions: Game Boy Advance SP in 2003 and Game Boy Micro in 2005. SP is a more lightweight version of the system that had improved backlit display and clamshell design. The Game Boy micro is a much smaller version of GBA with the size comparable to that of the NES controller. All of the Game Boy Advance revision except for Game Boy Mini were backward compatible with most of the Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. The most successful games on the system were the titles in the Pokémon series. Some other well-known game series that had successful titles on the system include Metroid, Kingdom Hearts, Super Mario, PAC-Man and Kirby among others.

Releases in 2002
18
Release window
2 Apr 2002 → 17 Dec 2002
Busiest month
October 2002 5
Avg user rating
3.83of 5, 7 ranked, 6 provisional
Top Metacritic
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 91

Why some games have no rating

RAWG publishes an average score only once a game has collected 6 or more user votes. Below that it returns 0.0 — while still returning the full vote breakdown. So a game nobody has ever rated and a game with five “exceptional” votes arrive looking identical.

Those suppressed scores are recomputed from the breakdown, which recovers 6 of the 18 games here that would otherwise read as unrated. The rest have no votes at all — mostly obscure, regional or unported titles. That is a real absence, not a gap in the fetch: there is nothing to retrieve.

Everything with a vote ranks in one table, because the order is weighted rather than a raw mean: a score is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 (too few ranked games here to take a local one) in proportion to how thin its evidence is, so a two-vote 5.0 settles near the middle instead of on top. Metacritic joins at half that weight where it exists — 5 of these games have one.

7 ranked (6+ votes) 6 provisional (1–5 votes) 5 never rated 842 votes counted 3.83 mean of ranked
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Ranked 13 games with at least one vote

Ordered by a weighted score, not the raw mean: each game's own average is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 in proportion to how few votes it rests on, and Metacritic is folded in at half that weight where it exists. A 6-vote 4.67 therefore ranks below a 2,100-vote 4.45 — the raw figure is shown under each score, and sorting by raw score ignores the weighting entirely.

Bars show how the votes split — Exceptional, Recommended, Meh, Skip. A ~ on the raw figure marks a score recomputed from a breakdown RAWG suppresses.

1 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Justice for All 22 Oct 2002 · Capcom Production Studio 4 · PC, iOS, Android, Nintendo DS, Wii, Game Boy Advance 4.24 4.41 raw 183 MC 76
2 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 17 Nov 2002 · Ubisoft, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Shanghai, Gameloft, Ubisoft Annecy · PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Classic Macintosh 4.16 4.18 raw 497 MC 91
3 Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak 3 May 2002 · Nintendo, Pax Softnica · Game Boy Advance 3.89 4.50 raw 8 —
4 The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords 2 Dec 2002 · Capcom, Nintendo · Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance 3.83 3.89 raw 37 —
5 Croket! - Yume no Banker Survival! 17 Oct 2002 · Konami Computer Entertainment Japan · Game Boy Advance 3.82 ~5.00 raw 1 —
6 Rocket Power: Beach Bandits 20 Sep 2002 · Halfbrick, Evolution Games · PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.80 ~4.00 raw 2 —
7 Driver 2 Advance 4 Oct 2002 · Sennari Interactive · Game Boy Advance 3.78 ~3.00 raw 1 —
8 Zapper 1 Oct 2002 · Blitz Games · PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.75 ~3.25 raw 4 —
9 The Mummy (GBA/GBC) 20 Nov 2002 · Konami Computer Entertainment Nagoya · Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color 3.74 ~1.00 raw 1 —
10 Treasure Planet 31 Oct 2002 · Bizarre Creations · Game Boy Advance 3.73 ~3.67 raw 3 MC 68
11 Dead to Rights 3 Jun 2002 · Bandai Namco Entertainment, NAMCO, Torus Games, The Bitmap Brothers, Namco USA, Namco Hometek · PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.66 3.47 raw 36 —
12 Tomb Raider: The Prophecy 12 Nov 2002 · Core Design, Ubi Soft Milan · Game Boy Advance 3.64 2.83 raw 6 MC 66
13 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 25 Sep 2002 · WXP Games, Surreal Software, The Whole Experience · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance 3.57 3.51 raw 63 MC 59

Never rated 5 games · no votes on RAWG

No user has rated these, so there is no score to show or recover. Ordered by release date, newest first.