Official Chinese releases

The handful of games iQue localised for the mainland Chinese release of the GBA — the only official Simplified Chinese GBA games.

21 games

iQue, Nintendo’s China venture

iQue was founded in 2002 by Wei Yen together with Nintendo, to sell Nintendo hardware officially in mainland China. The iQue Game Boy Advance launched on June 8, 2004 for 590 yuan, bundled with Chinese versions of Super Mario Advance and Wario Land 4. An iQue SP followed in October 2004, and an iQue Micro in 2005.

Only about eight Chinese-language GBA games were officially released; more were planned but reportedly cancelled because of widespread piracy. That makes them some of the rarest GBA cartridges today.