Must Have GBA Fighting Games

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Ай бұрын

The GBA received an incredible range of fighting games, from Tekken to street fighter and lesser known hits like Blackbelt Challenge. But finding the best ones to play can be tough. Here are ten of the best must have fighting games for the Gameboy Advance, let me know your choices on the GBA down below!
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@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Looking for more Gameboy Advance recommendations? Here’s my GBA video playlist - tinyurl.com/gba-videos

@viridionwaves Ай бұрын

I've seen every video in this series. Great vids!

@user-zh2gl6ko1q Ай бұрын

Apologies for off topic...what the hell is the title.music theme from.....it sounds like music from one of the tekken games. Cheers

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Tekken 2 intro song 🙂

@RyonMugen Ай бұрын

Now this is an interesting episode! GBA had some strange fighting games. Developers really made use of what they had

@linkthehero8431 Ай бұрын

Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance and Tekken Advance are the most impressive to me as they use the GBA equivalent of Mode 7 to actually make 3D fighting games. Hell, the GBA version of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance was actually the version that got the highest ratings, something extremely rare for portable games at the time.

@Khoobus Ай бұрын

@linkthehero8431 it's truly impressive!

@watcherman222 Ай бұрын

Technical limitations really made developers creative.

@MattiaSangiorgi 27 күн бұрын

Interesting fighting games, but if you were a fighting games fan and wanted a portable experience back then, your best bet was the Neo Geo Pocket Colour with its great library of SNK fighting games.

@gerardohuitron8724 Ай бұрын

Estos títulos son muy interesantes debido a que durante el periodo en que estuvo a la venta el GameBoy Advance los juegos de peleas pasaron por una severa crisis que dio lugar a que los salones recreativos (Arcades) cerraran masivamente por el incremento sostenido en el consumo de consolas tales como la PS2, la XBOX y el GameCube; tan es así que grandes compañías dedicadas a los juegos de peleas cayeron en banca rota como SNK. Así que solo puedo decir que este canal me encanta por sus recomendaciones. Por otro lado, no puedo pasar la oportunidad de honrar la memoria del gran “Andy Hug”🇨🇭quien fue campeón del K-1 World Grand Prix Championship en 1996 💐

@gabrielsyme4550 23 күн бұрын

Gracias por compartir

@Junier-Hussein Ай бұрын

Great video as ever 💎 My favourite fighting game on the GBA - Recca no Honoo: Flame of Recca My favourite fighting game on the DS - Windy X Windam

@aidansearle5023 Ай бұрын

Nobody asked?

@gabrielsyme4550 23 күн бұрын

@@aidansearle5023 chill

@thatvideogamesshow 23 күн бұрын

Never heard of the DS one, will have to check it out!

@Junier-Hussein 23 күн бұрын

@@thatvideogamesshow Cool little game based on a anime series, the reviewers absolutely destroyed it lol but I love it, like most fighting games on the DS the controls are poor but I still like the game 🙂

@omegaweapon116 Ай бұрын

Man, Alpha 3 and KOF looked good on GBA

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Really good versions for sure!

@Greg_Games Ай бұрын

Really good games. I remember read the EGM magazine about KOF.

@user-kk5tf6il9y Ай бұрын

sfa3 is amazing

@Christian-rn1ur Ай бұрын

Not a GBA game but can be played on one - check out Power Quest for the gameboy. Exclusive fighter that plays very smoothly, there's even been some tournaments held on it - just a genuinely solid little fighter.

@RyonMugen Ай бұрын

@Christian-rn1ur power quest is by far one of the best hand held fighting games I've ever played! It's impressive on all fronts

@gapster77 Ай бұрын

Good to know 👌🏻

@kameronkautzman1965 Ай бұрын

I had PowerQuest as a kid. I got it because I loved Gundam and I think it was like 10 bucks. I played the hell out of it and nobody ever talks about it. The story is really good too. Probably my favorite GBC game.

@ChrisMeadows1992 Ай бұрын

Yes! This is exactly the kind of obscure, niche-ass video I love to see from this channel!

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

More to come!

@AlteredCarbons Ай бұрын

i just picked up a Trimui Smart Pro for GBA/SNES/PSX games. so finding nice rpgs and fighting games from this channel has been so helpful

@josephchandrasegaran276 Ай бұрын

Thanks for putting out the video. I recently picked up Tekken for GBA recently and my friend thought I was joking when I told him about it. Once he saw the game he was in for a surprise.

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Haha it's insane they even got it up and running!

@carlintaylor3229 Ай бұрын

Super sonic warriors was cool remember my brother got the sequel on the original Nintendo Ds our dad took him to pick it up the day it came out on the Ds

@leighdappa Ай бұрын

❗️ABSOLUTELY AGREE with SFA3. It was my favourite game in the PS1 so was obviously going to buy it on GBA.

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

It's crazy how well the port turned out!

@Zero_Tester Ай бұрын

Nice,i loved that Rave on GBA(you can even change their battle message) Also other like Sonic Battle in GBA was severly underrated

@KeijiMaeda86 Ай бұрын

I've played half of these games. This is how I rank them: 1. Flame of Recca 2. Dual Blades 3. KOF EX2 4. Street Fighter Alpha 3 5. DBZ supersonic warriors Flame of recca is JP only but the menus and story paths are simple enough you don't need to know any. Dual Blades is great as well. I never played rave master but it looks like it would be 3rd if I did. The thing that makes these better than kof, sf, etc is that they're fighting games uniquely made for the GBA. The others are still ports trying Frankenstein the controls into the 4 buttons of a gba and come off a bit clunky.

@kylestyle5693 Ай бұрын

Being a huge fighting game fan, and never owning a GBA, this was like a huge hidden gems video. Loved it!

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Glad you found some new games!

@darren591 Ай бұрын

I got an RGB30 recently and am so impressed with the GBA catalogue. So many excellent games, I had no idea.

@Kurlija Ай бұрын

Ahh, Supersonic Warriors was my childhood, I just installed it on my 3DS recently. Guess I'll add a few more to the collection, great list!

@Tasuke Ай бұрын

DBZ Supersonic Warriors was a lot of fun! It's probably one of my favorite DBZ games!

@knuclear200x Ай бұрын

Rave Master and Flame of Recca were my jams. One's a Smash Bros clone, and the other's just something that needed a game already

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Awesome little fighters, so much fun to play!

@S_Hyde Ай бұрын

Had no idea there was a Flame of Recca game, the manga is great. These reminded me of those medabots games too.

@MSGSlayer1 Ай бұрын

I clicked on this video to see which games I've played and/or own (I've played the hell out of SFA3 when I first bought it). I'm interested in K-1 2 as it looks it was exclusively made for the GBA. I always find something new on your lists.

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

I'm happy the videos have helped you out! =)

@GameCubeGalaxy Ай бұрын

So many fighting games I wasn’t even aware of, and loved learning about several of these. MK Deadly Alliance (and Tournament Edition) are surprisingly really good…especially after the horrific MK Advance lmao! Gundam Seed Destiny looks badass! Also, still can’t believe I missed out on Tekken Advance…I need to change that lol. Great episode as always man!

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

For sure give Tekken a go. It’s a really solid version of the game!

@kfour9 Ай бұрын

.... no SSF2T Revival? Criminal

@Kousaburo Ай бұрын

You guys work fast and produce some top tier content.

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

I’m just one guy, but thank you all the same! 😅

@Kousaburo Ай бұрын

@@thatvideogamesshow What!? Wow.

@ryandavid1277 Ай бұрын

Your recommendations are always great.

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

@mekman4 Ай бұрын

Great Stuff, as always!

@goranisacson2502 Ай бұрын

Respect to Crawfish Interactive, the guys who poured all they had into comverting Street Fighter Alpha 3 but because they had taken on so many different conversion jobs and underestimated what a massive job SFA3 would be, they missed their promised release date which was a requirement for the studio to receive the royalties-based extra money that they had been banking on to keep themselves going. Unfortunately SFA3 became not just the best, but also the last game they ever released.

@GroovyFlacko 25 күн бұрын

Rave master’s manga is incredibly underrated.

@nebwachamp Ай бұрын

The GBA is my favorite system. I grew up nes and snes so the gba was the best of all that then some.

@fubadas Ай бұрын

Hell yeah Gundam Seed destiny !!! My favorite GBA fighting game, fun fact, you can unlock the previous entry "gundam seed battle assault" in Seed destiny ! But the funny thing is, battle assault got released exclusively in the US, but seed destiny is exclusively JP, so a JP only game has the US exclusive previous game as an unlockable (guess the US one isn't so exclusive anymore lol). Btw worth noting that Seed destiny is more of an upgrade version of seed battle assault so if you're interesting in playing one of em go with Seed destiny.

@gzero26 Ай бұрын

Very solid selection of games! believe it or not. I actually played all these games on an actual GBA. Minus Flames of Recca since I live in the US. but out of em all I found Super Sonic Warriors to have been my favorite just cuz at the time I was a major DBZ fan. And being able to play a DBZ fighting game on the go was a dream come true!

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Same here, was such a perfect fighter for the series!

@evilblader7 Ай бұрын

1:48 I think if You like DBZ butoden or hyper dimension you'll love this one, is inproved version of them. Medabots Metabee and Rokusho version are good choises too, the slowdonw can be anoying sometimes, but is whorty to play. Thanks again for a new gameboy advance episode.

@gapster77 Ай бұрын

Nice breakdown, brah! This system was/is the one to just keep giving. Your vids have contributed to me building up some really decent ROM sets, they are always very interesting. Keep up the good work 👍🏻

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Glad I could help =)

@drowningin Ай бұрын

GBA was my favorite handheld, the only negative was only 2 face buttons instead of 4. That had some real limitations especially for SNES ports

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Agreed there!

@user-eg9sx3oo9u Ай бұрын

Great list! Thought GBA just had SF, KOF, and the crappy MK games lol

@purwantiallan5089 Ай бұрын

KOF EX2 Howling Blood surprisingly amazing on GBA and even more so than KOF 15.

@Yoruzo38 26 күн бұрын

Damn, I missed supersonic warriors HAHAHAHA

@AnthonyRiddle Ай бұрын

I didn't know about a few of these games. The GBA was a pretty good handheld for fighting game fans like me. Tekken Advanced is still amazing to play these days

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Glad you found out about some new games!

@mymoviesbetter8466 Ай бұрын

Two more that are actually game boy and game boy color games are Battle Arena Toshinden and the GBC version of street fighter alpha

@jorgemendez081 Ай бұрын

Street Fighter ll Turbo Sonic Battle Guilty Gear X Advance

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Great suggestions there!

@themblan Ай бұрын

Tokido: Fighting, game... is something so great.

@ravenfighter9157 Ай бұрын

13:32 " and anyone familiar with the series.. and anyone familiar with the series" 😅

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

That’ll teach me to double check 😅

@ainnocent Ай бұрын

I dont remember 10 GBA fighting games that are even worth playing...however before I watch this vid SF Alpha 3 SSF2T Revival Tekken Advance Sonic Battle (im serious) Have to be included in this

@000mjd Ай бұрын

KOF EX2 Howling Blood was such a masterpiece of the portable genre, since the first part was so bad i wasn't expect much from the sequel but damn....new characters, smooth gameplay, good music Flame of Recca too i can't believed how much good was the controk for that game

@Guilherme36594 Ай бұрын

My list 10 - Mortal kombat Deadly Alliance 9 - Flame of Recca 8 - Ravemaster special attack force 7 - Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic warriors 6 - Tekken advance 5 - Mobile Suit Gundam Seed: Battle assault 4 - Guilty gear X: Advance edition 3 - King of fighters EX2 Howling blood 2 - Super street fighter II turbo revival 1 - Street fighter Alpha 3 Honorable mentions K-1 pocket grand prix Dual blades Digimon battle spirit 1 and 2

@chiarosuburekeni9325 Ай бұрын

Super turbo revival is a good game and I still play even though I have like all kinds of other ways to play streetfighter two. It’s so unique.

@mjdf122 Ай бұрын

I’m late to the party but I’m here now gba time

@paulfavila5482 Ай бұрын

good to see gundam seed in the list (not the battle assault variant)

@watcherman222 Ай бұрын

Believe it or not, Tekken Advance has a small competitive scene. Someone even modded the game to enable 2-player vs matches with a Game Boy Player + 2 controllers.

@41illusion Ай бұрын

I own DBZ Supersonic Warriors and its one hell of a fighting game that gets classic DBZ fights just right on ye olde GBA hardware. Bless that game.

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

One of the best to come out of the franchise!

@MuJoNeSs Ай бұрын

Guilty gear is pretty great too! SFA3 Upper it's a GBA masterpiece. Almost magic, to port such a game, to the handheld. Thanks.

@sdj0914 Ай бұрын

DBZ supersonic warriors is my main and favorite fighting game in gba ❤

@zinesis Ай бұрын

Kof ex2 and Sf Alpha3 are my fav and still play it, btw Dbz Sonic Warriors got a rom hack that added some characters from the Db Super series.

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Didn't know about that ROM hack, thanks for the tip!

@GamerbyDesign Ай бұрын

First thing I noticed is a game called Gran Prix not involve cars.

@xTerrySunderlandx 29 күн бұрын

im surprised you left out guilty gear (which is a really good port)

@133thefallen Ай бұрын

I think Mortal kombat tournament edition is the better version as it’s “the other half” of deadly alliance with more characters, finishers and single and multiplayer modes

@zexyswami1994 Ай бұрын

Bro I didn't even watch the whole video yet... but holy crap Mark Hunt was a pocket fighting game, I hope those Fighters who were characters in the game got compensated 💰 😂

@cb8913 Ай бұрын

I wish this video started with "These games take place"

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

What do you mean?

@slowbro1337 Ай бұрын

I absolutely loved I absolutely loved Dragonball Z Supersonic Warriors, flowed well, and played great. Wish they would make a new one tbh. It was a really incredible game.

@Celicagame13 Ай бұрын

Invalid list for not having super street fighter 2 turbo revival

@viridionwaves Ай бұрын

Can you please mention when a game is a fan translation or an exclusive in a particular region? K1 grand prix was a japan exclusive series on the gba so you must have used a fan translated rom. Would be helpful to mention that info in vidoes in the future.

@TANKTREAD Ай бұрын

All these types of videos are good. The only question is how much are ANY of these games cartridge only or CIB(Zeus forbid). Sadly, trying to collect any type of retro game today is all BIG, RIDICULOUS, CRAZY amounts of $$$$(Especially for those who can't emulate).

@kingstarscream3807 Ай бұрын

I used to be a big collector who insisted on only playing games on original hardware and getting complete copies if I could to display on my shelf. But sadly, as you say, it simply isn't feasible these days and it's only going to get worst. An everdrive is the best compromise, at least you can play the game on original hardware.

@PsychomachineryEBM Ай бұрын

Not sure if Rave Master could be considered fighting. Great game, tho.

@supermahmoud Ай бұрын

A video does not do these games justice as they're meant to be played on a small resolution/screen on a portable system, most of these look better on the actual handheld.

@gjergjaurelius9798 Ай бұрын

POCKET K1 GRAND PRIX? I need a copy NOW!!!

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Such a fun fighter!

@manuelaxolot4945 Ай бұрын

would you consider covering on homebrew gb games?

@johnmartinez-valentin5427 Ай бұрын

My favorite type of games 🎮

@sofaking1180 Ай бұрын

Wasn't there a great GBA version of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo??

@PewableShift Ай бұрын

But are they better than Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure ‘s Versus Mode!?

@hong10ly70 Ай бұрын

Good games

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

Cheers!

@math-et-facile Ай бұрын

13:32 This is a GBA bug

@mcbill7352 Ай бұрын

Lmao bro changed the thumbnail to nina

@That_Guy_83 Ай бұрын

What happened to Heihachi?

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

KZfaq has a new feature where you can set multiple thumbnails and they are shown randomly to viewers. You can then select the winner at the end of the test.

@That_Guy_83 Ай бұрын

@@thatvideogamesshow oh, that's pretty cool. thanks for letting me know

@shounen_saturday4665 Ай бұрын

Call of Duty games on PS3

@mr.sigfrid 15 күн бұрын

Where is Guilty Gear X?

@eduardogaxiola3907 Ай бұрын

Am I tripping or did you change the thumbnail?

@thatvideogamesshow Ай бұрын

KZfaq has got a new feature where you can setup three separate thumbnails that are randomly shown to viewers. You can then select the one which did the best =)

@eduardogaxiola3907 Ай бұрын

@@thatvideogamesshow Ah, I see. Thanks! Good to know

@alanf8622 Ай бұрын

"Arguably inferior hardware" lmfaoooooooo yo wtf. You mean factually?

@eS._Te Ай бұрын

i dont like fighting games :D

@kingstarscream3807 Ай бұрын

They may have been must have at the time, but the lack of face buttons means none of the GBA fighters are must haves today. The console objectively sucked for fighters.