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Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
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One of Nintendo's prettiest platformers survived the trip to handheld with most of its personality intact.

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Super Mario Advance 3 brings Yoshi's Island to GBA with portability and extra content, keeping the hand-drawn charm and egg-throwing precision that made the SNES original special. Even on a smaller screen, the game's visual identity still punches through instantly.

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Unlockable extra stages gave veterans another reason to revisit a platformer that already had a near-mythic reputation.

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Why it matters

It matters because it extends the life of one of the boldest Mario-branded platformers ever made and reinforces Nintendo's habit of treating legacy content as living software.

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