On August 21, 2000, IGN showed off images of a GBA development kit running a demonstrational port of Yoshi's Story, and on August 22, pre-production images of the GBA were revealed in an issue of Famitsu magazine in Japan.

Simultaneously, Nintendo announced a partnership with Konami to form Mobile 21, a development studio that would focus on creating technology for the GBA to interact with the GameCube, Nintendo's home console which was also in development at the time under the name 'Dolphin'.

Nintendo teased that the handheld would first be released in Japan in August 2000, with the North American and European launch dates slated for the end of the same year. On September 1, 1999, Nintendo officially announced the Game Boy Advance, revealing details about the system's specifications including online connectivity through a cellular device and an improved model of the Game Boy Camera. News of a successor to the Game Boy Color (GBC) first emerged at the Nintendo Space World trade show in late August 1999, where it was reported that two new handheld systems were in development: an improved version of the GBC with wireless online connectivity, codenamed the Advanced Game Boy (AGB), and a brand-new 32-bit system set for release the following year. It was designed by the French designer Gwénaël Nicolas and his Tokyo-based design studio Curiosity Inc. Its successor, the Nintendo DS, was released in November 2004 and is backward compatible with Game Boy Advance software.Ĭontrary to the Game Boy and Game Boy color, which have the 'portrait' form factor (designed by Gunpei Yokoi), the Game Boy Advance was designed in a 'landscape' form factor, putting the buttons to the sides of the device instead of below the screen. A miniaturized redesign, the Game Boy Micro, was released in September 2005.Īs of June 2010, 81.51 million units of the Game Boy Advance series have been sold worldwide. A newer revision of the SP with a backlit screen was released in 2005. The original model was followed in 2003 by the Game Boy Advance SP, a redesigned model with a frontlit screen and clamshell form factor. The GBA is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles.

It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, in the PAL region on June 22, 2001, and in mainland China as iQue Game Boy Advance on June 8, 2004. The Game Boy Advance ( GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color.

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