This system marks the start of a slow decline for me. After the N64, Nintendo never matches the highs of that era and with the 5th Gen (I'll include the GameBoy Color for convenience here) as a whole being so great, the shortcomings of the 6th were amplified. Most games I played and liked on the GameBoy Advance were ports of older games;
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
What I wrote for those games when talking about the SNES applies to these ports, except Super Mario Bros 3. Although I had played it plenty on NES, I didn't really appreciate it until I played it onthe GBA. Probably because I had now become older, and it quickly became one of my favorite Mario games. A Link to the Past came with Four Swords, but I never cared for it, and couldn't even play it because it needed a complicated set-up with additional GBA's and link-cables. The biggest problem though was the lack of friends that had a GBA and the game. Even my nephews grew out of Nintendo for period of time. Like the Gamecube, this system disappointed in what were supposed to be it's biggest games; there was no original Mario platformer, it's original Zelda game (which also released pretty late) was nowhere near the level of it's predecessors and it's Mario Kart wasn't inspired.
Later on though, I learned through the Virtual Console that I missed two games that actually were good, and are now two of my favorites all the same. Had I played those, I would probably have a higher view of the GBA;
Metroid Fusion
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
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