GT Advance Championship Racing
| GT Advance Championship Racing | |
|---|---|
North American cover art featuring a Honda S2000 | |
| Developer(s) | MTO |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Designer(s) | Hiroshi Kitayama |
| Series | GT Advance |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
GT Advance Championship Racing, known in Japan as Advance GTA (アドバンスGTA, Adobansu GTA), is a racing game developed by MTO and published by THQ. It was a launch title for the Game Boy Advance. The game's sequel, GT Advance 2: Rally Racing, was released on June 30, 2002, in North America.
GT Advance features forty-five licensed Japanese cars and places the player in races on thirty-two tracks. Due to positive reaction to the game in Japan, THQ purchased publishing rights for the North American and European releases to the game after a reported bidding war, and added in a controversial password save system into the game to cut costs.
The game was received with mostly positive reviews from critics that praised the game for its fun gameplay, but THQ was criticized by most reviewers for adding passwords to the game when the Japanese version had battery-backed saves.