Present Panic

Released: July 2001  Developed by Supanova Software Story: (quote from developer's webpage...external link)  "Santa Claus is in trouble! The elves have gone on strike and spread all the   presents for Christmas around Santa's factory in the north pole.   Santa must travel through eight areas of the North Pole manufacturing plant   and recover all the presents in time for christmas day! "  A button makes Santa jump, and B button makes Santa run.  Santa can jump farther while he's running.  There's not only "time limit" but also levers and wooden containers.  They makes the game trickier.  The difficulty itself is higher than general commercial GBC games.  If you're an enthusiast for both xmas and hardcore platformer,  this game are recommended for you !

Christmas Advance

Released: November 2001  Developed by ZoneGN  It is the game created for the VISOLY xmas 2001 competition.  You can see it's a clone of famous classic "snake" game.  We must guide Santa to collect xmas gifts.  Santa's bag would become bigger every he collects a xmas gift!  Unfortunately the landscape of the first 3 levels was a grassland, so Santa and his bag seem  grotesque Queen ant & her abdomen (or somewhat looks like a caterpillar) .  Even one miss take you to the title screen, and the game would be all over.

Xmas Crazy Shift

Released: November 2001  Coder: Luigi Fumero  Graphician: Paolo Calloni  It is the game created for the VISOLY xmas 2001 competition.  Only you have to do is moving Santa to carry gifts by pressing direction key only.  At first it is no problem if you carry gifts one by one, however,  it becomes nearly impossible after you earned more than 600 points.  But don't forget that you can carry up to 5 gifts at once.  Too simple game, huh? Remember, the game was created in only 2 days in the same year  GBA hardware released. Superb !!

Dangerous Xmas

Released: March 2003  By Spoutnick Team (webpage...external link)  Do you remember "Rick Dangerous", Core Design's legendary Amiga game?  In recent years that original title was ported to other consoles, such as Genesis and 32X.  To our surprise, this game was released on GBA long ago, in 2003 !  This "Dangerous Xmas" was created by Spoutnick submitting for the GBAX.COM 2003  compo and took second out of more than 50 entries! We can play this xmas edition controlling  Rick in two ways, the same as original Amiga version (one button pad) and GBA's one.

Santa Escape

Released: December 2004  Developed by Future Shock Software Story: (quote from readme file)  "Santa is trapped in the Labyrinth of Presents, with only 3 minutes until Xmas eve!   Help him get to his sleigh before time runs out. There will be many presents blocking your path,   so you must move them out of the way. "    Press A button to move each presents blocking the path. Maze itself is more complicated  than we expected, so we'll have to try again and again.

Santa's Chimney Challenge!

Released: December 2005  Developed by Paradise Games Story: (quote from readme file)  "It's Christmas Eve and Santa is busy delivering everyone's presents!   But Santa's eating too many free cookies and Rudolph is losing height as the night draws on!   Quick! lower the chimneys by delivering, all the presents, before Santa gets too   fat and Rudolph makes a crash landing! "  It's "Air Attack" clone with xmas taste submitting for Drunken Coders Xmas Coding  Competition 2005 (Got the 1st place...External link).  Very simple gameplay.

Christmas Challenge (Défi de noël)

Released: December 2005  Developed by Nagamé Story: (quote from readme file)  "The dwarves of the Playeradvance forum removed the mother Christmas !   Santa Claus, you must found your wife ! Eliminate the 64 dwarves and   finds mother Christmas with the SELECT key. "  This game was the 2nd place in Drunken Coders Xmas Coding Competition 2005.  It's a cute FPS game playing "Jingle Bells" with vocal. You cannot sidestep left/right,  it's almost no problem. You can see a picture of a lady after you kill many dwarves.

Operation Snow

Released: January 2006  Developed by FluBBa This game was created for Drunken Coders Xmas Coding Competition 2005.  FluBBa, a legendary developer of emulators for GBA, created this xmas present.  The game is a shooter game which is similar to "Beast Busters".  You will see tons of bad Santa like enemies who appear in front of you intermittently.  Be careful not to shoot harmless civilians.

Santa's Sweatshop

Released: January 2006  Developed by Sumiguchi This game was created for Drunken Coders Xmas Coding Competition 2005. Santa: Ho ho hun? You're not my Head Elf ! Elf: Oh, didn't you get the memo? Starting today, I am the new Head Elf !! Santa: Ho ho hokay! I suggest you get familiar with the workshop and prepare            for the challenge of being Head Elf ! Elf: Sure thing Santa ! Candy Canes & Christmas Carols all day long ! Santa: Listen up Candy Cane girl ! Along with your regular job of sorting & packing gifts...