List of best-selling Game Boy Advance video games
This is a list of best-selling Game Boy Advance video games. The two best-selling games of all time are Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, first released in Japan on November 21, 2002, and which went on to sell over 16 million units worldwide. Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, enhanced remakes of the original Pokémon Red, Green and Blue games, are the second-best-selling titles on the platform with sales in excess of 12 million copies. Pokémon Emerald, the enhanced version of Ruby and Sapphire, is third with sales of more than 7 million units. The top five is rounded out by ' and ', each of which sold over 5.5 million units.
A total of 39 Game Boy Advance games sold one million units or more. Of those, eleven titles were developed by internal Nintendo development divisions. Aside from these, the developers with the most million-selling titles include Game Freak, HAL Laboratory, Intelligent Systems and Flagship. Nintendo published 31 of these 39 games. Other publishers with multiple million-selling entries include The Pokémon Company, THQ, Konami and Namco. The most popular franchises on Game Boy Advance are Pokémon and Super Mario.
Video games
Title | Developer | Publisher | Release date | Sales | Ref. | |
1 | Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire | Game Freak | The Pokémon Company | 16,220,000 | ||
2 | Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen | Game Freak | The Pokémon Company | 12,000,000 | ||
3 | Pokémon Emerald | Game Freak | The Pokémon Company | 7,060,000 | ||
4 | ' | Intelligent Systems | Nintendo | 5,910,000 | ||
5 | ' | Nintendo R&D2 | Nintendo | 5,690,000 | ||
6 | Super Mario Advance | Nintendo R&D2 | Nintendo | 5,570,000 | ||
7 | ' † | Nintendo R&D2 | Nintendo | 5,430,000 | ||
8 | Namco Museum | Mass Media Games | Namco | 2,960,000 | ||
9 | Pac-Man Collection | Mass Media Games | Namco | 2,940,000 | ||
10 | Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 | Nintendo R&D2 | Nintendo | 2,830,000 | ||
11 | ' | Nintendo EAD Flagship | Nintendo | 2,820,000 | ||
12 | ' | Chunsoft | The Pokémon Company | 2,360,000 | ||
13 | NES Classics Series: Super Mario Bros. | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | 2,270,000 | ||
14 | Wario Land 4 | Nintendo R&D1 | Nintendo | 2,200,000 | ||
15 | ' | AlphaDream | Nintendo | 2,150,000 | ||
16 | Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land | HAL Laboratory | Nintendo | 2,100,000 | ||
17 | Finding Nemo | Vicarious Visions | THQ | 1,840,000 | ||
18 | Donkey Kong Country | Rare | Nintendo | 1,820,000 | ||
19 | ' | Flagship | Nintendo | 1,760,000 | ||
20 | Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul | Konami | Konami | 1,700,000 | ||
21 | Golden Sun | Camelot Software Planning | Nintendo | 1,650,000 | ||
22 | Final Fantasy Tactics Advance | Square | Nintendo Square | 1,621,000 | ||
23 | Metroid Fusion | Nintendo R&D1 | Nintendo | 1,600,000 | ||
24 | ' | Jupiter Square Enix | Square Enix Disney Interactive Studios | 1,542,000 | ||
25 | Sonic Advance | Sonic Team Dimps | Sega THQ | 1,515,000 | ||
26 | Kirby & the Amazing Mirror | HAL Laboratory Flagship | Nintendo | 1,470,000 | ||
27 | ' | Webfoot Technologies | Infogrames | 1,400,000 | ||
28 | ' | Jupiter | The Pokémon Company | 1,370,000 | ||
29 | Mario vs. Donkey Kong | Nintendo Software Technology | Nintendo | 1,370,000 | ||
30 | Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun and Blue Moon | Capcom | Capcom | 1,350,000 | ||
31 | ' | Konami | Konami | 1,310,000 | ||
32 | ' | Digital Eclipse | Universal Interactive | 1,900,000 | ||
33 | The Incredibles | Helixe | THQ | 1,396,000 | ||
34 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Eurocom Developments | Electronic Arts | 1,200,000 | ||
35 | Disney Princess | Vicarious Visions | THQ | 1,170,000 | ||
36 | ' | Camelot Software Planning | Nintendo | 1,120,000 | ||
37 | ' | Nintendo R&D1 | Nintendo | 1,100,000 | ||
38 | ' | NDcube | Nintendo | 1,050,000 | ||
39 | ' | Nintendo R&D1 Intelligent Systems | Nintendo | 1,000,000 |