The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy for Game Boy Advance was developed by Full Fat and published by Midway, arriving in North America in 2006. Based on Maxwell Atoms’ Cartoon Network series, it brings the show’s peculiar household arrangement—two kids with the Grim Reaper under their thumb—to Nintendo’s handheld. That mix of supernatural trouble and everyday obnoxiousness gives the game a distinctly different personality from the usual cheerful cartoon adaptation.Rather than squeezing the home-console versions’ arena fighting onto a smaller screen, the Game Boy Advance release takes its own route as a side-scrolling action game with platforming and puzzle elements. It’s an important distinction for anyone who remembers playing the PlayStation 2 or GameCube edition: this is a separate handheld adaptation, not simply the same game with smaller sprites. Its appeal sits squarely in that intersection of Cartoon Network’s stranger comedy and the GBA’s busy library of licensed action games.This sealed US copy has our shop’s Platinum rarity designation and was inspected and cleaned externally by hand at Broad Street Exchange in Woodbury, NJ. Because it remains sealed, the cartridge itself has not been tested.