Ranked by user rating, best first. Data from the
RAWG API, fetched 2026-09-16T22:11.
154 games
(of 1,131 in 2002)platform: game-boy-advance
Game Boy Advance 2002
Nintendo · 2001–2010 · 966 games all-time on RAWG · 154 of the year's 1,131 releases (14%)
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.
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 59
of the 154 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 this set's mean of 3.81 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 —
28 of these games have
one.
40
ranked (6+ votes)59
provisional (1–5 votes)55
never rated2,249 votes counted3.81 mean of ranked
Ordered by a weighted score, not the raw
mean: each game's own average is shrunk toward
this set's mean of 3.81 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.
1Metroid Fusion17 Nov 2002 · Nintendo · Game Boy Advance4.28 4.37 raw201MC 92
14Mega Man Zero26 Apr 2002 · Inti Creates · Game Boy Advance3.88 3.82 raw28MC 82
15FIFA Football 200325 Oct 2002 · Electronic Arts Canada, Exient Entertainment · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.88 4.05 raw22—
16LEGO Soccer Mania18 Jun 2002 · Silicon Dreams · PC, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance3.88 ~4.75 raw4—
17Duke Nukem Advance12 Aug 2002 · 3D Realms, Torus Games · Game Boy Advance3.87 ~3.33 raw3MC 81
32Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards4 Jul 2002 · Konami Digital Entertainment · Game Boy Advance3.82 3.91 raw11—
33Drome Racers20 Nov 2002 · small, Möbius Entertainment, Attention to Detail, LEGO Interactive · PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.82 ~4.00 raw5—
54Stuntman23 Jun 2002 · Ubisoft Reflections, Reflections Interactive, Velez & Dubail · PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance3.80 3.80 raw10—
55James Bond 007: NightFire19 Nov 2002 · Aspyr Media, Gearbox Software, Eurocom, JV Games · PC, macOS, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.80 3.76 raw94MC 78
60Driver 2 Advance4 Oct 2002 · Sennari Interactive · Game Boy Advance3.79 ~3.00 raw1—
61Hugo: The Evil Mirror1 Jan 2002 · Interactive Television Entertainment, ITE Media · PC, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color3.78 3.72 raw18—
62Antz Extreme Racing26 Jul 2002 · Magic Pockets, Supersonic Software · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance3.77 ~3.00 raw2—
69NHL Hitz 200316 Sep 2002 · Electronic Arts Black Box, Exient Entertainment, Black Box Games · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.75 3.33 raw6—
70Aggressive Inline28 May 2002 · Full Fat, Underground Development, Z-Axis Games · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.75 3.33 raw6—
71American Idol23 Dec 2002 · Rockstar Leeds, Knowledge Adventure, Möbius Entertainment, Hothouse Creations · PC, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance3.75 ~1.00 raw1—
83Madden NFL 200312 Aug 2002 · Electronic Arts Tiburon, Budcat Creations · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.74 ~2.00 raw2—
84Treasure Planet31 Oct 2002 · Bizarre Creations · Game Boy Advance3.74 ~3.67 raw3MC 68
86Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer21 Aug 2002 · Beenox, HotGen · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Classic Macintosh3.73 ~3.00 raw5—
87ZooCube5 May 2002 · Graphic State, PuzzleKings · PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.69 ~2.67 raw3MC 67
88Dead to Rights3 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 Advance3.67 3.47 raw36—
89Tomb Raider: The Prophecy12 Nov 2002 · Core Design, Ubi Soft Milan · Game Boy Advance3.65 2.83 raw6MC 66
93Minority Report: Everybody Runs12 Nov 2002 · Treyarch, Torus Games · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.57 4.17 raw6MC 50
94Ice Age19 Apr 2002 · Behaviour Interactive, Artificial Mind and Movement · Game Boy Advance3.54 ~4.67 raw3MC 47
95Turok: Evolution26 Aug 2002 · Acclaim Studios Austin, RFX Interactive, Super Happy Fun Fun · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.53 3.09 raw32—
96Castleween29 Nov 2002 · Magic Pockets, DreamCatcher Interactive, Kalisto Entertainment · PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.53 ~3.50 raw2MC 50
97Salt Lake 200218 Jan 2002 · Attention to Detail, DC Studios · PC, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance3.47 ~3.00 raw1MC 46