sonic advance is a platform video game for the game boy advance game console. it was developed by sonic team and published by sega in japan, by thq in north america, and by infogrammes in europe and australia. it was released in japan on december 20, 2001, in north america on february 4, 2002, and in europe on march 23, 2002. it is the first "sonic the hedgehog" game on the game boy advance, and the second on a nintendo console. a version titled sonic n was later released for the n-gage on october 7, 2003.