Tekken Advance brings the Iron Fist Tournament to the Game Boy Advance, a fighting game developed by Eighting and released in Japan in December 2001, with Namco Hometek and Infogrames handling publishing as the series’ first handheld entry. It is the only mainline Tekken game ever made for a Nintendo platform of its era, and it arranges the familiar clash of fists and family into a portable adaptation built around the Game Boy Advance’s two-button face layout.

Fighters are rendered as pre-drawn sprites rather than the polygonal models of the console games, and the roster draws on the series’ established cast. Matches follow Tekken’s tradition of juggles, throws and multi-hit combos, while a link cable lets two players settle their rivalry head to head. It is remembered as a curiosity: an authentic taste of the tournament squeezed into a handheld cartridge, with the compromises that came with it.