A Brief History of 3D Graphics on the Game Boy Advance

For many modern gamers, it’s all too easy to forget the cultural impact Nintendo’s eponymous Game Boy had on not only the gaming industry, but the wider world in general. Nearly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">119 million</a> of the late great Gunpei Yokoi’s little handheld wonder were sold. The Game Boy’s impressive 14 year run in production is filled with absolute classics. Donkey Kong, Kirby’s Dream Land, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, Tetris — even the unstoppable force that is Pokémon got its start here. There’s a reason why everyone’s grandmother calls any handheld gaming peripheral they see a “Game Boy,” because it mattered that much when it was released. The Game Boy went through multiple iterations over its tenure as the handheld king. The Game Boy family includes the original Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light, Game Boy Color, and three versions of Nintendo’s last production Game Boy: the Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, and Game Boy Micro. Like with many products under the Nintendo brand, achieving peak performance and rendering sleek graphics were not the mission for the Game Boy series, instead giving quality, addicting experiences that could be taken on the go. The Game Boy Advance (GBA) felt like a different beast when it arrived on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">market in 2001.</a> While still woefully underpowered compared to it’s successor (the Nintendo DS) or even to its competitor (the PSP) the colorful 32-bit graphics and 256 kB of external wRAM made everyone feel as though they had a SNES in their pockets. For 2001, that was a hell of a feat. <a href="https://medium.com/super-jump/a-brief-history-of-3d-graphics-on-the-game-boy-advance-c8621c5ccb93">Click Here</a>