How many Game Boy Advance games are there?

Every GBA game counted once — by region, by year, and what is left over once you take out prototypes and unlicensed carts.

There are 1,646 officially released Game Boy Advance games, counting each game once no matter how many regions it came out in. Add 48 unlicensed cartridges and 33 unreleased prototypes or demos and you get the 1,733 entries in the GBApedia collection.

Official releases
1,646
Released in North America
1,019
Released in Japan
793
Japan only
493

By region: North America got the most, a third stayed in Japan

North America had the largest GBA library, 1,019 games. Japan had 793. Most European releases were multi-language cartridges — 710 of them — plus a handful of separate German, French, Spanish and Italian editions. 493 games never left Japan, about 30% of all official releases, and only 192 came out in all three of Japan, North America and Europe.

North America: 1,019 gamesNorth America1019Japan: 793 gamesJapan793Europe (multi-language): 710 gamesEurope (multi-language)710Japan only: 493 gamesJapan only493Japan + US + Europe: 192 gamesJapan + US + Europe192

A game released in several regions counts once in each, so the regions add up to more than the total.

By year: 2002 was the peak

The GBA launched in Japan in March 2001 and in North America that June. Its first full year, 2002, brought 384 new games, and every year after that saw 200–300 until the Nintendo DS arrived at the end of 2004. By 2007 only 43 new games came out.

Released outside JapanJapan only
01002003004002001: 218 — Released outside Japan 143 · Japan only 7521820012002: 384 — Released outside Japan 254 · Japan only 13038420022003: 279 — Released outside Japan 175 · Japan only 10427920032004: 296 — Released outside Japan 181 · Japan only 11529620042005: 235 — Released outside Japan 186 · Japan only 4923520052006: 156 — Released outside Japan 136 · Japan only 2015620062007: 43 — Released outside Japan 43 · Japan only 0432007

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

How we counted

Each game’s version list comes from No-Intro’s cartridge records. Regional editions and revisions of the same game are merged into one entry, and re-releases such as Wii U Virtual Console are not counted separately. Versions marked as prototype, beta, kiosk demo, unlicensed or pirate are left out of the “official releases” count.

Other lists often give different totals, mostly because they count differently — some list every regional edition separately, others include compilations, re-releases and unlicensed carts.

For comparison, Wikipedia’s list of Game Boy Advance games currently has 1,538 licensed titles (excluding GBA Video), and MobyGames lists 1,212. At launch, the GBA had 25 games in Japan, 17 in North America and 15 in Europe.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia, List of Game Boy Advance games
  2. MobyGames, Game Boy Advance
  3. Wikipedia, Game Boy Advance (launch titles)

Last checked: 2026-11-11