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 16 million units worldwide.^[1] 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 12 million units combined.^[1] Pokémon Emerald, an enhanced version of Ruby and Sapphire, is third with sales of more than 7 million units.^[2] The top five is rounded out by Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, each of which sold over 5.5 million units.^[3]

Game Boy Advance

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 39 million combined units) and Super Mario (16.69 million combined units).

List

Key

†	Game was bundled with Game Boy Advance consoles during its lifetime

Game	Developer(s)[a]	Publisher(s)[a]	Release date[b]	Sales	Ref.
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire	Game Freak	The Pokémon Company Nintendo	November 21, 2002	16,220,000	[1]
Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen	Game Freak	The Pokémon Company Nintendo	January 24, 2004	12,000,000	[1]
Pokémon Emerald	Game Freak	The Pokémon Company Nintendo	September 16, 2004	7,060,000	[4]
Mario Kart: Super Circuit	Intelligent Systems	Nintendo	July 21, 2001	5,910,000	[5]
Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2	Nintendo R&D2	Nintendo	December 14, 2001	5,690,000	[3]
Super Mario Advance	Nintendo R&D2	Nintendo	March 21, 2001	5,570,000	[6]
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 †	Nintendo R&D2	Nintendo	July 11, 2003	5,430,000	[6]
Namco Museum	Mass Media Games	Namco	June 11, 2001	2,960,000	[7]
Pac-Man Collection	Mass Media Games	Namco	July 12, 2001	2,940,000	[8]
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3	Nintendo R&D2	Nintendo	September 23, 2002	2,830,000	[6]
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past	Nintendo EAD Flagship	Nintendo	December 2, 2002	2,820,000	[6]
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team	Chunsoft	The Pokémon Company Nintendo	November 17, 2005	2,360,000	[6]
NES Classics Series: Super Mario Bros.	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo	February 14, 2004	2,270,000	[6]
Wario Land 4	Nintendo R&D1	Nintendo	August 21, 2001	2,200,000	[6]
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga	AlphaDream	Nintendo	November 17, 2003	2,150,000	[6]
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land	HAL Laboratory	Nintendo	October 25, 2002	2,100,000	[6]
Finding Nemo	Vicarious Visions	THQ	May 10, 2003	1,840,000	[7][9][10]
Donkey Kong Country	Rare	Nintendo	June 6, 2003	1,820,000	[6]
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap	Flagship	Nintendo	November 4, 2004	1,760,000	[6]
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul	Konami	Konami	July 5, 2001	1,710,534	[c]
Golden Sun	Camelot Software Planning	Nintendo	August 1, 2001	1,650,000	[6]
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance	Square	JP: Square WW: Nintendo	February 14, 2003	1,621,000	[6][9]
Metroid Fusion	Nintendo R&D1	Nintendo	November 17, 2002	1,600,000	[6]
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories	Square Enix Jupiter	Square Enix	November 11, 2004	1,542,000	[7][9]
Sonic Advance	Dimps Sonic Team	JP: Sega NA: THQ EU: Infogrames	December 20, 2001	1,515,000	[7][9][13]
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror	HAL Laboratory Flagship[d]	Nintendo	April 15, 2004	1,470,000	[6]
Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel	Konami	Konami	April 15, 2003	1,460,000	[14]
Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku	Webfoot Technologies	Infogrames	May 14, 2002	1,400,000	[7]
Mario vs. Donkey Kong	Nintendo Software Technology	Nintendo	May 24, 2004	1,370,000	[6]
Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire	Jupiter	The Pokémon Company Nintendo	August 1, 2003	1,370,000	[6]
The Incredibles	Helixe	THQ	November 1, 2004	1,366,000	[7][9][10]
Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun and Blue Moon	Capcom Production Studio 2	Capcom	December 14, 2003	1,350,000	[15]
Frogger's Adventures: Temple of the Frog	Konami Software Shanghai	Konami	November 23, 2001	1,310,000	[7]
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Eurocom	Electronic Arts	November 5, 2002	1,200,000	[7][13]
Disney Princess	Art Co., Ltd	THQ	April 2, 2003	1,170,000	[7][13]
Golden Sun: The Lost Age	Camelot Software Planning	Nintendo	June 28, 2002	1,120,000	[6]
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames!	Nintendo R&D1	Nintendo	March 21, 2003	1,100,000	[6]
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity	NDcube	Nintendo	March 21, 2001	1,050,000	[6]
Sonic Advance 2	Dimps Sonic Team	JP: Sega NA: THQ EU: Infogrames	December 19, 2002	1,016,541	[6]
Spyro: Season of Ice	Digital Eclipse	Universal Interactive Studios	October 29, 2001	1,000,000	[12]

Notes

1. Only developers and publishers for the original release of each game are listed.
2. Only the initial release date on this platform is listed.
3. 410,534 in Japan.^[11] 1.3 million in the United States.^[12]
4. Kirby & the Amazing Mirror features additional development by Dimps.