When the Game Boy Advance debuted in 2001, the game industry was supposed to have moved on. In the years before, systems like Sony’s PlayStation had asserted that the future of games had three dimensions. The new millennium, many agreed, would be a place of polygons, not pixels.

And then – as told in The GBA Pixel Book – the Game Boy Advance landed on shelves, dazzling fans as it put 2D worlds front and centre of its offering. Nintendo’s compact pixel art powerhouse quickly established a stunning software library that remains influential almost quarter of a century on, with games like Fire Emblem, The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, Advance Wars, Final Fantasy Tactics, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Metroid Fusion, Metal Slug Advance, Gunstar Future Heroes, and Mother 3.

All those releases and many, many more are included in The GBA Pixel Book, which Bitmap Books is proud to bring to English-language readers in partnership with German publisher Elektrospieler. The book, which has been meticulously translated from the German original, features a bounty of articles that delve deep into the GBA’s magnificent game portfolio, spotlighting over 240 titles. It also brings together almost 4,000 screenshots from the games included, each of which has been especially composed and captured for this book. They are presented across 300-pages along with pixel art cut-outs, sprite work, vast montages, and immense level maps.

In grouping its contents by genre, The GBA Pixel Book also presents a fascinating look at the Game Boy Advance’s key role in evolving so many popular gaming forms, while charting the design trends that kept pixel art alive until it was embraced by today’s indie development movement. The GBA Pixel Book also continues the series established by Bitmap Books Elektrospieler with The SNES Pixel Book.

With the two publishers working together once more, you can also expect ambitious, eye-catching design, high quality printing on heavy gloss paper, and a sturdy, beautiful slipcase to protect the book.

Games Featured:

• Advance Guardian Heroes
• Advance Wars
• Advance Wars: Black Hole Rising
• American Bass Challenge
• Am. Tale: Fievel’s Gold Rush;
• Animaniacs: Lights, Camera, Action
• Ant Bully, The
• Antz: Extreme Racing
• Astro Boy: Omega Factor
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Back to Stone
• Back Track
• Backyard Baseball
• Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance
• Balloon Fight
• Banjo-Pilot
• Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
• Baseball Advance
• Batman: Vengeance
• Beyblade G-Revolution
• Beyblade V-Force: Ultimate Blader Jam
• Big Mutha Truckers
• Bionic Commando
• Black Belt Challenge
• Black/Matrix Zero
• Blender Bros.
• Boktai 1, 2 and 3
• Bomberman Tournament
• Boxing Feve
• Breath of Fire 1 & 2
• Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
• Bruce Lee: Return of the Legend
• Bubble Bobble: Old & New
• Cabela’s Big Game Hunter
• Capcom Classics Mini Mix
• Car Battler Joe
• Cars
• Cartoon Network Speedway
• Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
• Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
• Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
• ChuChu Rocket
• CIMA: The Enemy
• Colin McRae Rally 2.0
• Columns Crown
• Comix Zone
• Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX
• Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
• Crash Nitro Kart
• Crazy Chase
• Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride
• CT Special Forces: Back to Hell
• CT Special Forces: Bioterror
• Custom Robo GX
• Danny Phantom
• Dark Arena
• Deadly Skies
• Defender of the Crown
• DemiKids
• Denki Block
• Densetsu no Stafy 1 and 2
• Digimon Battle Spirit 2
• Digimon Racing
• Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates
• Disney Sports Snowboarding
• Disney Sports Soccer
• Disney’s M. Quest 2: Starring Mickey & Minnie
• Disney’s M. Quest 3: Starring Mickey & Donald
• Disney’s M. Quest: Starring Mickey & Minnie
• DK: King of Swing
• Dokapon: Monster Hunter
• Donkey Kong Country
• Doom
• Double Dragon Advance
• Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure
• Drill Dozer
• Driver 2
• Duke Nukem Advance
• Ecks vs. Sever
• Earthworm Jim
• Egg Mania
• Elevator Action: Old & New
• ESPN Great Outdoor Games: Bass 2002
• Eye of the Beholder, Dungeons & Dragons
• F-14 Tomcat
• F-Zero: Climax
• F-Zero: GP Legend
• F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
• Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls
• Final Fantasy IV
• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
• Final Fantasy V
• Final Fantasy VI
• Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
• Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
• Flintstones: Big Trouble in Bedrock
• Flushed Away
• Frogger’s Adventure: Temple of the Frog
• Game & Watch Gallery 4
• Gekido Advance
• Godzilla Domination!
• Goemon: New Age Shutsudou
• Golden Sun
• Gradius Advance
• Grand Theft Auto Advance
• Gunstar Future Heroes
• Guru Logi Champ
• Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harvest Moon: (More) Friends of Mineral Town
• Heidi: The Game
• Hugo: Bukkazoom!
• Ice Nine
• Incredibles, The
• International Karate Advanced
• Invader
• Iridion II
• Iridion 3D
• James Bond 007: NightFire
• Jet Set Radio
• Juka and the Monophonic Menace
• Jurassic Park III: Dino Attack
• Jurassic Park III: Park Builder
• Justice League Heroes
• Kill Switch
• King of Fighters EX: Howling Blood