Jomo is a puzzle game for one player. The object of the game is to push the blocks such that all the X’s on the floor are covered by the glowing orbs. An orb under a crate will move only one space when pushed, whereas an orb which is not under a crate will continue to roll when pushed, until it collides with something. The game includes some nice graphics and music, 100 levels, and even a plot!

Release note for this version:

Seems there was also a bug on level 92 in Jomo, this bug meant there was no coliision so you could walk through walls (many thanks to anli for pointing this out). I’m 99% sure this is the last problem in the game, so should be the last patch, though I’m disappointed with myself for having to release any 🙁

http://www.saikou.co.uk/

News taken from GBAdev.org:

Dave Mejia has released his first game for the GBA called Touch!

Touch! can be thought of as breakout with a few twists… The goal of the game is to move all the blocks to the bottom of the screen. Your paddle can move up, down, left or right? and you can control the speed of the ball.To clear the level you must move all the blocks within the three-minute time limit. Each time the ball hits the red line you will be penalized by a certain deduction of time.

The game includes:
+ A High Score system (not saved to SRAM though)
+ Instructions are built into the image
+ Proper credit to the people who made the game possible.

http://www.gbadev.org/

News taken from GBAemu.com:

A port of Elite: The New Kind has been made for the GBA! It features everything found in the PC (a remake itself) and also has a nifty menu system which replaces the keyboard you would have used on the PC. A very nice port and well worth checking out. And before you say the news is old (it says January 2002 on the homepage) the binaries say 26/01/2003 so I will go with that 🙂

http://www.quirky.remakes.org/

News taken from GBAemu.com:

You may kinda recognise 2BitsBallWall as its predecessor 1BitsBallWall was entered originally in last years 4K GBA compo by JustBurn. This version released today was made in July 2002 but he forgot to release it 🙂 It now features 60 levels, password support and 4 colors per tile instead of 2 colors 🙂

You can get the download from GBAemu.

http://www.gbaemu.com/

Saikou released a good puzzle game with 100(!) levels. Details and download from his page.

http://www.saikou.co.uk/

Ball of Death is a new game release by C. Brandon Patterson. Details and download from GBAdev.org.

http://www.gbadev.org/

Another Gorillas Advance update by Ben Stark!

http://www.geocities.com/benstarksgames/

Ben Stark did it again! A update of “Gorillas Advance” is out! New in this version: Updated graphics and now has music!

http://www.geocities.com/benstarksgames/

Grumpy Cat is now responsible for the second “Thrust” clone on the GBA 😉 The download could be get from GBAdev.org.

Here are a few lines from the readme:

Grumpy Cat’s “Thrust” is based on the Atari ST version of “Thrust” by Alan Butcher – which is the version I played the most in the 80s. It includes the following:

+ Complete game: intro, info screens, demos, high score table (and the game itself). All 80s style.
+ All 10 missions from the Atari ST version.
+ High scores saved to battery backed RAM.
+ Antialiased sprites and tether.
+ Reverse gravity.
+ Invisible landscape.
+ All-new sound effects.
+ Original Atari ST “Thrust” theme by Rob Hubbard.

My Gameboy Advance has an Afterburner backlight and the color palette has been tuned for high contrast and good AA performance on that screen – that’s why the bullet sprites are white instead of red… red bullets were almost invisible on my screen.

Jeremy C. Smith wrote the original “Thrust” for the BBC Microcomputer. I used the status display and font from his version as I think they look better than the Atari ST version.

http://www.gbadev.org/

Another game I missed is “LodeRunner” by Consolecoder. This game has been released on the 27th December 2002 and is based on… guess 😉 (This project is open source!)

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ck/GBA/index.htm