Thirty-four million button-mashers agree: Game Boy Advance is the ultimate category killer. If only Nintendo's console were as successful. What do you do when your system ranks third among three? You launch a slew of titles that link your megahit to your underachiever. Plug that GBA or GBA SP into a GameCube, and it becomes a souped-up controller that's vital to the game. Here's how the pairing is giving big-name titles a boost.
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
The Basics: The 11th installment in the Final Fantasy series - and a GameCube exclusive - requires teamwork to defeat enemies, make deals, and cast spells. Two to four people can play.
The Extras: While the action unfolds on the TV screen, you can call up maps, enemy statistics, and other info on your Game Boy.
Release: November 2003
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
The Basics: Up to four players can guide their own Link character through the land of Hyrule. When not fighting enemies, each Link competes for the largest crystal Rupee collection.
The Extras: When your character disappears into a cave, dungeon, or house on the TV, he reappears "inside" on your Game Boy screen.
Release: March 2004
Pac-Man
The Basics: The yellow dude runs mazes, eats pellets, dodges ghosts.
The Extras: When you're not controlling Pac-Man, you steer the new Inky, Blinky, or Pinky through partial maze views on the TV. When you are the Man, you work through an aerial view of the puzzle on your Game Boy - just like in the original. Adds two more players (four total).
Release: Still in development
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
The Basics: Special agent Sam Fisher is sent to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to save two American spies.
The Extras: The Game Boy gives you, the only player, access to a radarlike miniature map, as well as remote control of computers and weapons, and exclusive use of sticky bombs.
Release: Available now
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