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As an older gen z, I remember dreaming of owning a gba sp. I never did. But when i turned 9 my dad graciously bought me a psp. My love for handhelds started there. As an adult i go back to gba games on my emulator device (Miyoo Mini +). I'm happy to play through games i dreamt of as a kid. Alhamdulilah
Scratch that title. I think ANYBODY should be playing GBA. Why? Because it's a classic and one of the best handheld systems ever made. I still play mine as I think its great. Classic system. Classic games. I am a part of this generation. GBA and the DS are the definition of classic. I still have mine.
As gen z born in 2001 I had GBA SP as a kid and it was the first console I owned. I didn't have many games for GBA but they were memorable, My favorite GBA games were Donkey Kong Country for GBA and Mario Pinball Land.
Im a gen z, on the younger half. When i was younger me and my younger brother found our GBA SP. It was my dad's, and it was this nice blue color. We have super mario advance and it was one of my favorite things. I dont know what ever happened to that GBA but i miss it. Around a year ago, my (now ex) gf for Hanukkah gave me the hello kitty GBA of my dreams and we found the Mario game of my childhood together. I love the GBA, mainly my hello kitty one. I am lending my friend my GBA to play to get them into gaming, with the same game i got into gaming as a kid.
Haven't even finished the video and already 2 things that stood out to me. 1) As a Gen Z that grew up on the GameBoy Advance SP, it makes me really sad to find out that there are actually other Gen Z that haven't even heard of a GameBoy much less played one, and 2) The under the blankets GameBoy sesh reinforces to me the notion that no experience is ever truly unique 😂 Anyways onto the video!
I had a flip gba that was yellow and had pikachu features and I’m gen z. I don’t remember much because I believe I lost it in a different country as a kid but I do remember playing robots the video game. The only real memories I have of it are on the plane ride.
One thing I should mention is that you can put custom firmware on a DSi and play game boy advance games on it that way. You just can't use cartridges with it lol. The DS lite might be better if you actually want to use physical cartridges
I just got Space Quest 1 and 2 AGI running on my case modded SP using a flash cart. A flash cart can be a great if you wanna play romhacks and fan translations, or indies like Goodboy Galaxy, etc. on actual gba hardware. Modded consoles are great. It's a pricey hobby, and can require some technical skill, but you can make a really nice ship of theseus. Being picky about oem carts on a modded sp is silly when you can drop 40 to 80 on an ezflash and migrate save files and roms easily. Just pop the sd into yer pc, back up or move files around, and pop it back into yer gameboy. It makes a good partner with pc emulation, just like an emulation console. (which is cheaper tbf, but there's just something nice about a real gba, modded to all get out, with a cart emulator.) Ezflash recently updated their firmware to include a forked gameboy/color emulator with a ton of bugfixes and even rumble for bespoke cart games like pokemon pinball if you have the pricier model. You used to have to side load a custom firmware to install it, but it's in the official firmware now. edit - Good shout for Sigma Star Saga. I always tell people about that game. It's totally unique with an oddly satisfying gameplay loop that's perfect for a handheld like GBA. The Doom source port romhack is also great. Gamecubes can run Swiss which can be much better than the GBA player for scaling GBA games to yer tv. There's multiple mods to embed it, or sd load from the expansion port, etc.
The Legend Of Zelda: Minish Cap, Castlevania Aria of Sorrow, Sonic Advance Games, Wario Land 4, Pokemon Gen 3 and Gen 1 Remake and a decent amount of other titles is simply the thing they should try out. No sh1tty multiplayer service games. No payments in game. Just you and a game to play. If someone is afraid of pixels, hopefully for them, such emulators as mGBA and VisualBoyAdvance provide a variety of great upscalers. The best thing about this is that it doesn't have a stick, so keyboard is absolutely fine, unlike 3D games where you much required to use 360 degrees, like N64. And it works on every potato. It's the games that do matter, but also accessibility. I'm a zoomer (2002 is a bliss but is considered to be GenZ) but never was a part of those fortnite or GTAV kids. My childhood started with flash games and DOS emulation simply because there was nothing else I can play. Sometimes, limitation can do miracles.
Gen Z here. While I love my GBA SP, I always prefered to OG GBA form factor. Edit: favorite games are Pokémon Emerald, Mega Man Battle Network, Namco Museum 50th Anniversary, and Metal Slug Advance
I played the gba, never homebrew. The incredibles, simpsons road rage, finding nemo, monsters inc, sonic advance 3, pokemon ruby and doom was my childhood.
Nintendo consoles were never too big on my country after the NES, and were a poor family, so I never had to the chance to own a GBA, so emulation was always a good part of my childhood's entertainment, mostly on phone, but on more recent years when we managed to get PCs I would emulate them there, as I also don't like not having buttons X3 But Mario & Luigi, and Fire Emblem Blazing Sword and Sacred Stones, they are one of the best parts of my childhood Of course, the Kirby games too, the absolute classic that's a Link to the Past, still regarded as many as the best Zelda game, the Minish Cap is also up there too, and even Sonic Battle and the Sonic Advance games. All games I still play to this day I used to just download packs of like a thousand games then I would spend weeks just testing the first 5 minutes of each game and if it didn't catch on that time I would delete them to narrow the list, and I discovered a bunch of obscure games that I still remember fondly even if I don't remember their names XD As you said, the GBA had already reached the peak of 2D gaming, even some of the best games on the DS, one of the best consoles ever, still used the same pixel style as the GBA because there wasn't much to improve anyway For those who like retro-looking games or just games with amazing pixel art, the GBA is a must try
7:38 Tomato Adventure is also on the Game Boy Color as Gimmick Land And yeah the music's far superior there than on the GBA, still both versions are great despite the GBC version being a small downgrade.
there's a bit of a discrepancy w/ your poll and what you go over in the video, you ask who played or owned an actual gba, not if they simply just played gba games like I never played or owned an actual NES, but through several methods over the years, I've played a huge portion of the best known NES games, but if I saw a poll saying "Have you owned and played an NES" I'd have to answer no
18:19 ElecMan.EXE's stage PTSD in the GBA original & Legacy Collection, NOT Operation Shooting Star on DS, that fixed ElecMan.EXE's stage Also Battle Network 5 is on the Nintendo DS with enhanced music and bonus features exclusive to that version, the only way to obtain BassCross in the GBA games is that, you needed to watch the NT Warrior Program of Light and Darkness Movie in Theaters, in Japan, so you can get your special BassCross E-Reader card, complicated and rare, on DS you can just put a copy of MMBN5 GBA on the bottom slot and there you go.
as a very late Gen Z (after 2006~before 2009, I don’t want to reveal my age accurately, it’s my privacy), and also a Taiwanese, it shows that I have a lot to do with popular European/American/Japanese console games Severely out of touch with culture on the contrary, PC gaming was a big part of my early experiences growing up(especially flash and steam, btw I knew about steam before my older brother), and my first gaming console It's wii(and it's also the taiwanese special offer version, which mean is japanese version but with some functions deleted), wii has been with us brothers for a long time, from 2011 to now, but since 2015 it has started to fade out of my life, I started to focus more purely on PC games (but starting in 2019, I gradually entered a state of dual parallel PC and console games), and my second game console was 3ds, basically, that 3ds only accompanied me from 2017 to 2019. The third one is switch, and that switch is from 2019 to now, and the fourth one is gba sp (newly customized), because I gradually discovered that I am interested in retro games(2D 16~32 bit to be precise, and 3D n64~ngc low polygon and nds, because the performance of nds seems to be between n64~ngc)after obviously liking it, I decided to get a game console that is very different from mine age in my growing up experience, except for my cousins (who also had a Wii), I had never seen anyone among my peers who had a game console, this directly illustrates the differences between taiwan and other countries such as the development of game console culture in europe/america/japan is largely absent, taiwan does not have a ban on game consoles like china, but however, because taiwanese teenagers/young people are have a big difference in games type they like than European/American/Japanese people(taiwanese people more liking PC online games), which has led to the slow development of the console game industry in taiwan(taiwan only in officially entered the game console market with the fifth generation n64, and then the from the sixth generation to the ninth generation, taiwan has gradually caught up with the gaming culture of europe, america/japan, excluding the fourth generation and previous generations, among them, we lack the wonder swan, PS1 and SEGA Saturn) what makes me different from others since I was a child is that I have browsed a large amount of non-taiwanese content on the Internet since 2014, on the contrary, most of it is european/american/japanese(especially european/american)and other foreign content. It made me begin to understand the game console culture in europe/america/japan, and it made me yearn for and envy foreigners, you guys have mature game consoles culture, but most taiwanese people only playing PC online games(they don’t even know what about steam, they basically only play korean agent online games, what a bunch of idiots!), but at least some small number of taiwanese use overseas purchasing agents and PTT(a taiwanese social networking site, basically an online forum for college students and young people)or Bahamut(a taiwanese game information website, equivalent to PC and console game news+player forum), but this at least ensures that there is still a small group of console game players in taiwan playing console games, but I've never used PTT or Bahamut because I never knew such sites existed, which means my knowledge of consoles is through personally browsing foreign sites and RUclips for non-taiwanese chinese content It came from the video, and yes, it was very tiring, but very worth it as a very late gen Z taiwanese, I have had the most ridiculous and sad experience in game culture. I love European/American/Japanese game culture but I am trapped in an environment full of bad Korean agents/local online games. The popularity of game consoles is basically are 35%
Flash cards is not the same as emulation. With a flash card you are still using GBA hardware to play the game, the only difference is that the GBA reads the game data from the flash card instead of the ROM chips on original Carts.
It's a cartridge emulator. It pretends to be a real gba cart to interface with real hardware. Makes it real easy to play romhacks and stuff on a real gba. Hardware emulation rather than software emulation. Like an fpga, but it's much cheaper to emulate a cartridge than the whole console. The gbc back compatibility is in software tho, unless you have a separate gbc flashcart.
In this video I talked about how great FPGA will be once it's affordable, and great news! Taki Udon has made an affordable home emulation console using FPGA: ruclips.net/video/shKwRz9MD-A/видео.html
I honestly don't think the GBA aged well. All the Mario games are just NES and SNES ports, and Mario Kart Super Circuit is EASILY the worst Mario Kart. The other franchises are pretty lacking as well. The only GBA games I would actually want to play I can think off the top my head is Pokemon Emerald, Pokemon FRLG, and Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga. Not to mention the original GBA screen looks like complete crap and the GBA sp is one of the worst feeling handhelds I have ever owned, also the battery lasted like 1 hour. Oof.
I definitely agree that none of the systems were ideal, they shouldn't have done the SP but instead given the gba original a backlight and rechargeable update. Maybe my opinion of the gba is so high because of the high amount of RPGs and I mostly play RPGs on it.
Gen z is 97 to 2012. The DS lite was the last DS system to have a gba slot, that was released 2006. I doubt most of you played videogames under 5. So only 97-00 would be the last to play gba via backwards compatibility. So 01 to 12 likely didn't play. That's still the majority of the gen z.
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As an older gen z, I remember dreaming of owning a gba sp. I never did. But when i turned 9 my dad graciously bought me a psp. My love for handhelds started there. As an adult i go back to gba games on my emulator device (Miyoo Mini +). I'm happy to play through games i dreamt of as a kid. Alhamdulilah
This was the gen z handheld, this was my childhood, this and gbc
Scratch that title. I think ANYBODY should be playing GBA. Why? Because it's a classic and one of the best handheld systems ever made. I still play mine as I think its great. Classic system. Classic games. I am a part of this generation. GBA and the DS are the definition of classic. I still have mine.
As gen z born in 2001 I had GBA SP as a kid and it was the first console I owned. I didn't have many games for GBA but they were memorable, My favorite GBA games were Donkey Kong Country for GBA and Mario Pinball Land.
Im a gen z, on the younger half. When i was younger me and my younger brother found our GBA SP. It was my dad's, and it was this nice blue color. We have super mario advance and it was one of my favorite things. I dont know what ever happened to that GBA but i miss it. Around a year ago, my (now ex) gf for Hanukkah gave me the hello kitty GBA of my dreams and we found the Mario game of my childhood together. I love the GBA, mainly my hello kitty one. I am lending my friend my GBA to play to get them into gaming, with the same game i got into gaming as a kid.
Omg thank you for mentioning Megaman Battle Network, advance wars, and Superstar saga, those are some of my favorite games
Haven't even finished the video and already 2 things that stood out to me. 1) As a Gen Z that grew up on the GameBoy Advance SP, it makes me really sad to find out that there are actually other Gen Z that haven't even heard of a GameBoy much less played one, and 2) The under the blankets GameBoy sesh reinforces to me the notion that no experience is ever truly unique 😂 Anyways onto the video!
I had a flip gba that was yellow and had pikachu features and I’m gen z. I don’t remember much because I believe I lost it in a different country as a kid but I do remember playing robots the video game. The only real memories I have of it are on the plane ride.
As a gen Z born in the 90’s we did play the game boy color, advanced, and SP
I know I'm getting old as fuck because people are nostalgic for things that passed me by.
just add one info, you can play gba on 3ds nativly with Open agb firm 3DS, is how i play
i was born the same year it released but i had a GBA as a kid and didnt get a DS until probably a few years after it came out
One thing I should mention is that you can put custom firmware on a DSi and play game boy advance games on it that way.
You just can't use cartridges with it lol. The DS lite might be better if you actually want to use physical cartridges
I just got Space Quest 1 and 2 AGI running on my case modded SP using a flash cart. A flash cart can be a great if you wanna play romhacks and fan translations, or indies like Goodboy Galaxy, etc. on actual gba hardware. Modded consoles are great. It's a pricey hobby, and can require some technical skill, but you can make a really nice ship of theseus. Being picky about oem carts on a modded sp is silly when you can drop 40 to 80 on an ezflash and migrate save files and roms easily. Just pop the sd into yer pc, back up or move files around, and pop it back into yer gameboy. It makes a good partner with pc emulation, just like an emulation console. (which is cheaper tbf, but there's just something nice about a real gba, modded to all get out, with a cart emulator.) Ezflash recently updated their firmware to include a forked gameboy/color emulator with a ton of bugfixes and even rumble for bespoke cart games like pokemon pinball if you have the pricier model. You used to have to side load a custom firmware to install it, but it's in the official firmware now.
edit - Good shout for Sigma Star Saga. I always tell people about that game. It's totally unique with an oddly satisfying gameplay loop that's perfect for a handheld like GBA. The Doom source port romhack is also great. Gamecubes can run Swiss which can be much better than the GBA player for scaling GBA games to yer tv. There's multiple mods to embed it, or sd load from the expansion port, etc.
The Legend Of Zelda: Minish Cap, Castlevania Aria of Sorrow, Sonic Advance Games, Wario Land 4, Pokemon Gen 3 and Gen 1 Remake and a decent amount of other titles is simply the thing they should try out. No sh1tty multiplayer service games. No payments in game. Just you and a game to play. If someone is afraid of pixels, hopefully for them, such emulators as mGBA and VisualBoyAdvance provide a variety of great upscalers. The best thing about this is that it doesn't have a stick, so keyboard is absolutely fine, unlike 3D games where you much required to use 360 degrees, like N64. And it works on every potato. It's the games that do matter, but also accessibility. I'm a zoomer (2002 is a bliss but is considered to be GenZ) but never was a part of those fortnite or GTAV kids. My childhood started with flash games and DOS emulation simply because there was nothing else I can play. Sometimes, limitation can do miracles.
Gen Z here. While I love my GBA SP, I always prefered to OG GBA form factor.
Edit: favorite games are Pokémon Emerald, Mega Man Battle Network, Namco Museum 50th Anniversary, and Metal Slug Advance
I played the gba, never homebrew. The incredibles, simpsons road rage, finding nemo, monsters inc, sonic advance 3, pokemon ruby and doom was my childhood.
Awesome video. I still have mine with the worm light lol.
so, fun fact: the final fantasy 4-6 remakes for gba? were called Finest Fantasy for Advance.
Whatt, im 24 and the GBA was my childhood
Nintendo consoles were never too big on my country after the NES, and were a poor family, so I never had to the chance to own a GBA, so emulation was always a good part of my childhood's entertainment, mostly on phone, but on more recent years when we managed to get PCs I would emulate them there, as I also don't like not having buttons X3
But Mario & Luigi, and Fire Emblem Blazing Sword and Sacred Stones, they are one of the best parts of my childhood
Of course, the Kirby games too, the absolute classic that's a Link to the Past, still regarded as many as the best Zelda game, the Minish Cap is also up there too, and even Sonic Battle and the Sonic Advance games. All games I still play to this day
I used to just download packs of like a thousand games then I would spend weeks just testing the first 5 minutes of each game and if it didn't catch on that time I would delete them to narrow the list, and I discovered a bunch of obscure games that I still remember fondly even if I don't remember their names XD
As you said, the GBA had already reached the peak of 2D gaming, even some of the best games on the DS, one of the best consoles ever, still used the same pixel style as the GBA because there wasn't much to improve anyway
For those who like retro-looking games or just games with amazing pixel art, the GBA is a must try
IndieAlpaca and Sera are both good
7:38 Tomato Adventure is also on the Game Boy Color as Gimmick Land
And yeah the music's far superior there than on the GBA, still both versions are great despite the GBC version being a small downgrade.
there's a bit of a discrepancy w/ your poll and what you go over in the video, you ask who played or owned an actual gba, not if they simply just played gba games
like I never played or owned an actual NES, but through several methods over the years, I've played a huge portion of the best known NES games, but if I saw a poll saying "Have you owned and played an NES" I'd have to answer no
@SerasThings ??? I'm not treating it like so? I'm mentioning it since it's literally at the start of your video
My b, hard to judge tone on the internet
18:19 ElecMan.EXE's stage PTSD in the GBA original & Legacy Collection, NOT Operation Shooting Star on DS, that fixed ElecMan.EXE's stage
Also Battle Network 5 is on the Nintendo DS with enhanced music and bonus features exclusive to that version, the only way to obtain BassCross in the GBA games is that, you needed to watch the NT Warrior Program of Light and Darkness Movie in Theaters, in Japan, so you can get your special BassCross E-Reader card, complicated and rare, on DS you can just put a copy of MMBN5 GBA on the bottom slot and there you go.
as a very late Gen Z (after 2006~before 2009, I don’t want to reveal my age accurately, it’s my privacy), and also a Taiwanese, it shows that I have a lot to do with popular European/American/Japanese console games Severely out of touch with culture
on the contrary, PC gaming was a big part of my early experiences growing up(especially flash and steam, btw I knew about steam before my older brother), and my first gaming console It's wii(and it's also the taiwanese special offer version, which mean is japanese version but with some functions deleted), wii has been with us brothers for a long time, from 2011 to now, but since 2015 it has started to fade out of my life, I started to focus more purely on PC games (but starting in 2019, I gradually entered a state of dual parallel PC and console games), and my second game console was 3ds, basically, that 3ds only accompanied me from 2017 to 2019. The third one is switch, and that switch is from 2019 to now, and the fourth one is gba sp (newly customized), because I gradually discovered that I am interested in retro games(2D 16~32 bit to be precise, and 3D n64~ngc low polygon and nds, because the performance of nds seems to be between n64~ngc)after obviously liking it, I decided to get a game console that is very different from mine age
in my growing up experience, except for my cousins (who also had a Wii), I had never seen anyone among my peers who had a game console, this directly illustrates the differences between taiwan and other countries such as the development of game console culture in europe/america/japan is largely absent, taiwan does not have a ban on game consoles like china, but however, because taiwanese teenagers/young people are have a big difference in games type they like than European/American/Japanese people(taiwanese people more liking PC online games), which has led to the slow development of the console game industry in taiwan(taiwan only in officially entered the game console market with the fifth generation n64, and then the from the sixth generation to the ninth generation, taiwan has gradually caught up with the gaming culture of europe, america/japan, excluding the fourth generation and previous generations, among them, we lack the wonder swan, PS1 and SEGA Saturn)
what makes me different from others since I was a child is that I have browsed a large amount of non-taiwanese content on the Internet since 2014, on the contrary, most of it is european/american/japanese(especially european/american)and other foreign content. It made me begin to understand the game console culture in europe/america/japan, and it made me yearn for and envy foreigners, you guys have mature game consoles culture, but most taiwanese people only playing PC online games(they don’t even know what about steam, they basically only play korean agent online games, what a bunch of idiots!), but at least some small number of taiwanese use overseas purchasing agents and PTT(a taiwanese social networking site, basically an online forum for college students and young people)or Bahamut(a taiwanese game information website, equivalent to PC and console game news+player forum), but this at least ensures that there is still a small group of console game players in taiwan playing console games, but I've never used PTT or Bahamut because I never knew such sites existed, which means my knowledge of consoles is through personally browsing foreign sites and RUclips for non-taiwanese chinese content It came from the video, and yes, it was very tiring, but very worth it
as a very late gen Z taiwanese, I have had the most ridiculous and sad experience in game culture. I love European/American/Japanese game culture but I am trapped in an environment full of bad Korean agents/local online games. The popularity of game consoles is basically are 35%
Very interesting read, this would be a good thing for you to make a video about.
@@SerasThings Considering only things I can do is drawing and not make videos, this was a Impossible idea...
I’m seventeen years old but I like to play gba games
Powkiddy v10 best bang for the buck gba retro handheld console
Banger video
Flash cards is not the same as emulation. With a flash card you are still using GBA hardware to play the game, the only difference is that the GBA reads the game data from the flash card instead of the ROM chips on original Carts.
Thank you for informing me.
It's a cartridge emulator. It pretends to be a real gba cart to interface with real hardware. Makes it real easy to play romhacks and stuff on a real gba. Hardware emulation rather than software emulation. Like an fpga, but it's much cheaper to emulate a cartridge than the whole console. The gbc back compatibility is in software tho, unless you have a separate gbc flashcart.
May I recommend the PS1? Some really great games like secret of mana and many other hidden rpg gems.
In this video I talked about how great FPGA will be once it's affordable, and great news! Taki Udon has made an affordable home emulation console using FPGA: ruclips.net/video/shKwRz9MD-A/видео.html
Taki has a few things in the pipeline, a horizontal fpga handheld is apparently in the works
@@Fco_Arana Thanks for letting me know, I hope the handheld also has hdmi out.
Wait I thought Gameboy advanced was a Gen Z thing??? I’m 22 maybe I’m just old
It is for the oldest 1/4 of gen z, the majority were too young.
@ If you were born between the years of 1997-2002 you may qualify for a senior discount 😂
I honestly don't think the GBA aged well. All the Mario games are just NES and SNES ports, and Mario Kart Super Circuit is EASILY the worst Mario Kart. The other franchises are pretty lacking as well. The only GBA games I would actually want to play I can think off the top my head is Pokemon Emerald, Pokemon FRLG, and Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga. Not to mention the original GBA screen looks like complete crap and the GBA sp is one of the worst feeling handhelds I have ever owned, also the battery lasted like 1 hour. Oof.
I definitely agree that none of the systems were ideal, they shouldn't have done the SP but instead given the gba original a backlight and rechargeable update. Maybe my opinion of the gba is so high because of the high amount of RPGs and I mostly play RPGs on it.
Gen Z were already playing GBA. Hell, the DS has a GBA slot, this is better aimed at gen Alpha
first half of gen z played gba, second half it gets far more unlikely, especially w/o an older sibling or something
Gen z is 97 to 2012. The DS lite was the last DS system to have a gba slot, that was released 2006. I doubt most of you played videogames under 5. So only 97-00 would be the last to play gba via backwards compatibility. So 01 to 12 likely didn't play. That's still the majority of the gen z.
I've been thoroughly told and am mistaking my own myopic lens as a shared generational experience. Give them the goods.
Bro is so hard don't put on the fastforward while playing 😢
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