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 16million units worldwide. 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 12million units combined. Pokémon Emerald, an enhanced version of Ruby and Sapphire, is third with sales of more than 7million units. The top five is rounded out by Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, each of which sold over 5.5million units.
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 39million combined units) and Super Mario (16.69million combined units).
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Game Developer(s) Publisher(s) Release date Sales Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Game Freak 16,220,000 Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Game Freak 12,000,000 Pokémon Emerald Game Freak 6,800,000 Mario Kart: Super Circuit Intelligent Systems Nintendo 5,910,000 Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 Nintendo R&D2 Nintendo 5,690,000 Super Mario Advance Nintendo R&D2 Nintendo 5,570,000 Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 † Nintendo R&D2 Nintendo 5,430,000 Namco Museum Mass Media Games Namco 2,960,000 Pac-Man Collection Mass Media Games Namco 2,940,000 Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 Nintendo R&D2 Nintendo 2,830,000 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Nintendo 2,820,000 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team Chunsoft 2,360,000 Classic NES Series: Super Mario Bros. Nintendo EAD Nintendo 2,270,000 Wario Land 4 Nintendo R&D1 Nintendo 2,200,000 Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga AlphaDream Nintendo 2,150,000 Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land HAL Laboratory Nintendo 2,100,000 Finding Nemo Vicarious Visions THQ 1,840,000 Donkey Kong Country Rare Nintendo 1,820,000 The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap Flagship Nintendo 1,760,000 Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul Konami Konami 1,710,534 Frogger's Adventures: Temple of the Frog Konami Software Shanghai Konami 1,700,000 Golden Sun Camelot Software Planning Nintendo 1,650,000 Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Square 1,621,000 Metroid Fusion Nintendo R&D1 Nintendo 1,600,000 Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories Square Enix 1,542,000 Sonic Advance 1,515,000 Kirby & the Amazing Mirror Nintendo 1,470,000 Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel Konami Konami 1,460,000 Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku Webfoot Technologies Infogrames 1,400,000 Mario vs. Donkey Kong Nintendo Software Technology Nintendo 1,370,000 Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire Jupiter 1,370,000 The Incredibles Helixe THQ 1,366,000 Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun and Blue Moon Capcom Production Studio 2 Capcom 1,350,000 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Eurocom Electronic Arts 1,200,000 Disney Princess Art Co., Ltd THQ 1,170,000 Golden Sun: The Lost Age Camelot Software Planning Nintendo 1,120,000 WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames! Nintendo R&D1 Nintendo 1,100,000 F-Zero: Maximum Velocity NDcube Nintendo 1,050,000 Sonic Advance 2 1,016,541 Spyro: Season of Ice Digital Eclipse Universal Interactive Studios 1,000,000
See also List of best-selling Nintendo video games
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External links Nintendo official website