Game & Watch Gallery Advance (GBA) Review

As you may have figured out from some of my previous posts I’m a bit of a Game & Watch fan! There were several Game & Watch Gallery games released by Nintendo for the GameBoy, GameBoy Color and GameBoy Advance all allowing you to play classic Game & Watch machines faithfully reproduced in both Classic and Modern modes.

By far the best of these was Game & Watch Gallery Advance for the GameBoy Advance, this cartridge offers the best choice and value for money of any of the games, already unlocked with the game are :

- Fire

- Rain Shower

- Donkey Kong Jr.

- Mario’s Cement Factory

- Boxing

- Donkey Kong 3

A further 14 are unlockable through achieving a certain score on the unlocked games and therefore earning stars - the more stars you earn the more games you can unlock, some are then displayed in the main menu, the rest are in the ‘Museum’, most are only playable in Classic mode.  If like me, you’re probably never going to get the required stars to unlock them all, there is another way.  If you own an emulation handheld such as the excellent Anbernic RG351M or the Powkiddy RGB10 Max simply do a Google search for ‘Game & Watch Gallery Advance save files’ and you will find that people have uploaded save files containing all the unlocked games, simply download the file, rename the file extension to .srm and copy it to the same folder as the game making sure the file names match exactly.  You should then be able to enjoy all the unlocked games!  I did this on my handhelds and I can confirm it works a treat!  Save files are also available online to obtain the locked games on Game & Watch Gallery 2 & 3 for GameBoy Color.

For your information the unlocked games on GBA are : Chef, Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Octopus, Fire Attack, Manhole, Tropical Fish, Mario’s Bombs Away, Parachute, Bombsweeper, Climber, Safebuster, Lifeboat and Zelda.

This gives you a huge choice and is a very affordable way of enjoying these excellent titles, as I previously mentioned the reproduction of them in classic mode is spot on and works perfectly, being old school I always prefer to play them this way but the Modern mode is also available offering updated graphics.

One of my favourite GameBoy Advance games (especially with the unlocked games) this is very highly recommended for fans of the series and is great fun…….TRJ RATING : 5/5