List of Consoles

This is a list of the various consoles that can be used to play Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age.

Game Boy Advance
The Game Boy Advance (often shortened to GBA) is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo and released in 2001. It is the original system Golden Sun was specifically designed for. The original design of GBA, however, did not feature backlighting and required batteries.

Two models of the GBA were released in the following years. In 2003 a laptop-like model named the Game Boy Advance SP was released, featuring frontlighting and a rechargeable lithium ion battery.

In 2005, in addition to a near-identical model named the Game Boy Advance SP+ which this time featured backlighting, a more slim backlit GBA model named the Game Boy Micro was released. This version did not have a large impact on the market because, unlike the other GBA models, it could not play older Game Boy games, and in a mere half-year Nintendo's current handheld, the Nintendo DS, was released.