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Experiment 626 is about to destroy you and this game's box! And show you that there are movie clips featured in the game!
Disney's Lilo & Stitch is a side-scrolling Platform Game for the Game Boy Advance developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Disney Interactive, with Ubisoft co-publishing in Europe and Australia. It was released in North America on June 7, 2002, in Europe on October 4, 2002, and in Australia on March 24, 2005. Taking place after the events of the original film, Lilo and Stitch are living happily together on Hawaii when she suddenly gets kidnapped by an intergalactic bounty hunter. He takes her aboard a spaceship belonging to a robotic, mosquito-like Mad Scientist named Dr. Pestus, who wants to use her as food for his genetically-modified mosquito army. Stitch immediately goes out to save her, shooting his way through as many enemies as possible.

Gameplay is mainly divided into three different types; Stitch's main levels involve him running and gunning á la Metal Slug through alien environments (and Hawaiʻi in the first level), wielding plasma blasters with his four arms. Lilo's segments are Puzzle Platformer levels with a bit of sneaking around as she tries to find a way to contact Stitch and get off the ship. Finally, there are some Tempest-like tube shooter segments in which Stitch flies a small spacecraft as he tries to reach Dr. Pestus's ship, shooting down enemies and obstacles as he flies through space.

This game was surprisingly well-received by critics, who found the Run-and-Gun gameplay highly engaging and the graphics to be colorful and well-animated. It was also commercially successful, selling 620,000 copies and earning $14 million in the United States by August 2006.

It received a standalone sequel in 2004 called Disney's Lilo & Stitch 2: Hämsterviel Havoc, which is based on Lilo & Stitch: The Series.


Tropes relating to Lilo & Stitch for Game Boy Advance include:

  • Aliens Speaking English: C'mon, you know this franchise by now. Besides that, Stitch actually speaks some very fluent English in this game's cutscenes, with only his Third-Person Person sticking around for the most part.
  • A Winner Is You: When Lilo and Stitch defeat Pestus, the Grand Councilwoman thanks them for saving the planet and gives them a spacecraft to head back home. The duo cheer as they fly off and the game cuts to credits.
  • Blob Monster: One of the boss fights in the game features Stitch fighting off one to get a new spaceship.
  • Canon Foreigner: Nearly every single alien introduced in this game.
  • Classic Cheat Code: Holding the R and Select buttons with the cursor over "Start Game" and pressing A starts the game with 99 lives.
  • Covers Always Lie: Stitch does not wear his spacesuit at any point in this game.
  • Edible Ammunition: Stitch can throw pineapple bombs at enemies.
  • Filler: The game takes place after the original film, but it's a standalone story that has no bearing on the franchise's canon overall.
  • The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Because Experiment 626 will tear that cover and force his hand through that GBA platform label to get to you!
  • Insectoid Aliens: Dr. Pestus is a robotic one.
  • Landfill Beyond the Stars: Stitch crash-lands on a junkyard asteroid called Scum, where he has to find a new spaceship to replace the one that was wrecked in his crash.
  • Mad Scientist: Dr. Pestus genetically modified mosquitoes to build an army and he kidnaps creatures to serve them as food.
  • Password Save: Done through icons showing Stitch, Lilo, Scrump, a plasma blaster, a flying saucer, a hibiscus, a rocket, and a pineapple. A new seven-icon password is shown after completing a level.
  • Playful Otter: Averted; the alien otter mooks are certainly not playful.
  • Run-and-Gun: The side-scrolling Stitch levels are essentially a Disney version of the Metal Slug series.
  • Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: The North American box art (pictured above) has Stitch (in his Experiment 626 form and suit) preparing to murder you by hitting you with a small, ripped-off part of the box art.
  • Shoot 'Em Up: Besides the Run-and-Gun Stitch levels, the levels where Stitch pilots a spaceship turn into a tube shooter à la Tempest.
  • Stealth-Based Game: The Lilo levels have her sneaking around a spaceship trying to evade her captors in order to escape.

Alternative Title(s): Lilo And Stitch GBA

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