Does anyone have proof of the launch day GBA titles?

[noiseredux]

Wiki lists 22 games I believe. Other lists I've seen vary and range from 17-25 launch titles. Does anyone have solid proof for me of the ONLY GBA games that were available in the US on launch day?

[YoshiEgg25]

I have the Nintendo Power from when the GBA was released, but it's at home and I'm not going back there anytime soon. However, I did notice a retro magazine site on the 1up Top 101 Sites under Racketboy, so I may be able to find it. I'll let you know.

EDIT: Never mind, I'll have to wait until I go home in late December.

We fully support the magazine industry and as such, we do not provide anything besides a cover for post 1999 material.

[t0yrobo]

I didn't think there were that many, at least not in the US. Here's the list from Gamespot's 2001 article for the GBA launch.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2693383.html

Army Men Advance (3DO)
ChuChu Rocket! (Sega)
Dodge Ball Advance (Atlus)
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (Nintendo)
Fire Pro Wrestling (BAM)
Fortress (Majesco)
High Heat Major League Baseball 2002 (3DO)
Iridion 3-D (Majesco)
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (Majesco)
Rayman (Ubi Soft)
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 (Midway)
Super Mario Advance (Nintendo)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (Activision)
Top Gear GT Championship (Kemco)
Tweety and the Magic Jewel (Kemco)

[Anapan]

There's the PocketHeaven release list (the NFOs have the exact release dates and extra info)
http://www.pocketheaven.com/ph/releases ... lease_list

[irixith]

Dodge Ball Advance (Atlus)
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (Nintendo)
Super Mario Advance (Nintendo)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (Activision)

All definitely true, I picked those up on launch day with mine.

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon was out that day too.

[flamepanther]

What exactly would constitute solid proof?

[noiseredux]

What exactly would constitute solid proof?

I'm not sure. That's the problem. I have a lot of magazines from around the time of launch. But that doesn't mean that the titles they're talking up didn't just come out that MONTH or something. I wish someone that worked at a game store actually had like I don't know, a packing slip showing all the games received that day or something. I feel like fastbilly told me that the wiki list had a few titles on it that he thinks were NOT available on day 1. So yeah. I don't know.

[dsheinem]

Hmmm:

http://www.gaming-age.com/cgi-bin/speci ... &pagenum=1

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2772526.html

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2693383.html

http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/092/092140p1.html

FYI, the Gamespot sitemap is awesome: http://sitemap.gamespot.com/news/2001/5.html (and change the "5" for various months - June=6, etc.)

Those might get you closer to an answer, but not sure...

[t0yrobo]

Emailing Nintendo would be worth a shot, there's nothing to lose at least.

[nielse16]

No, but here is another source!

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/gameslist/gamelist.jsp

GT Advance Championship Racing THQ 6/1/2001
Chu Chu Rocket! Sega 6/6/2001
Army Men Advance 3DO 6/11/2001
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon Konami 6/11/2001
Earthworm Jim Majesco Sales Inc. 6/11/2001
Fire Pro Wrestling BAM! entertainment 6/11/2001
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity Nintendo 6/11/2001
Iridion 3-D Majesco Sales Inc. 6/11/2001
Konami Krazy Racers Konami 6/11/2001
Namco Museum (GBA) Namco 6/11/2001
Pinobee: Wings of Adventure Activision 6/11/2001
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure Majesco Sales Inc. 6/11/2001
Rayman Advance Ubisoft 6/11/2001
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 (GBA) Midway Home Entertainment 6/11/2001
Super Dodge Ball Advance Atlus 6/11/2001
Super Mario Advance Nintendo 6/11/2001
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (GBA) Activision 6/11/2001
Top Gear GT Championship Kemco 6/11/2001
Tweety and the Magic Gems Kemco 6/11/2001