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

TitleDeveloperPublisherRelease dateSalesRef.
1Pokémon Ruby and SapphireGame FreakThe Pokémon Company16,220,000
2Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreenGame FreakThe Pokémon Company12,000,000
3Pokémon EmeraldGame FreakThe Pokémon Company7,060,000
4'Intelligent SystemsNintendo5,910,000
5'Nintendo R&D2Nintendo5,690,000
6Super Mario AdvanceNintendo R&D2Nintendo5,570,000
7' †Nintendo R&D2Nintendo5,430,000
8Namco MuseumMass Media GamesNamco2,960,000
9Pac-Man CollectionMass Media GamesNamco2,940,000
10Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3Nintendo R&D2Nintendo2,830,000
11'Nintendo EAD
Flagship
Nintendo2,820,000
12'ChunsoftThe Pokémon Company2,360,000
13NES Classics Series: Super Mario Bros.Nintendo EADNintendo2,270,000
14Wario Land 4Nintendo R&D1Nintendo2,200,000
15'AlphaDreamNintendo2,150,000
16Kirby: Nightmare in Dream LandHAL LaboratoryNintendo2,100,000
17Finding NemoVicarious VisionsTHQ1,840,000
18Donkey Kong CountryRareNintendo1,820,000
19'FlagshipNintendo1,760,000
20Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist SoulKonamiKonami1,700,000
21Golden SunCamelot Software PlanningNintendo1,650,000
22Final Fantasy Tactics AdvanceSquareNintendo
Square
1,621,000
23Metroid FusionNintendo R&D1Nintendo1,600,000
24'Jupiter
Square Enix
Square Enix
Disney Interactive Studios
1,542,000
25Sonic AdvanceSonic Team
Dimps
Sega
THQ
1,515,000
26Kirby & the Amazing MirrorHAL Laboratory
Flagship
Nintendo1,470,000
27'Webfoot TechnologiesInfogrames1,400,000
28'JupiterThe Pokémon Company1,370,000
29Mario vs. Donkey KongNintendo Software TechnologyNintendo1,370,000
30Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun and Blue MoonCapcomCapcom1,350,000
31'KonamiKonami1,310,000
32'Digital EclipseUniversal Interactive1,900,000
33The IncrediblesHelixeTHQ1,396,000
34Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsEurocom DevelopmentsElectronic Arts1,200,000
35Disney PrincessVicarious VisionsTHQ1,170,000
36'Camelot Software PlanningNintendo1,120,000
37'Nintendo R&D1Nintendo1,100,000
38'NDcubeNintendo1,050,000
39'Nintendo R&D1
Intelligent Systems
Nintendo1,000,000

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