Rocket Power: Beach Bandits on GBA is basically your childhood summer vacation in cartridge form. You start off as Otto or Reggie (I always picked Otto—his voice lines are ridiculous) tearing up the beach on a skateboard, dodging sandcastles and doing ollies over crabs. The controls take a second to get used to—hold B to build speed, then tap A to jump—but once it clicks, you’re grinding palm trees and pulling off 360s like it’s nothing.

Between the skate sections, there’s this weird little mystery about some shady guys stealing beach gear, so you’re running around talking to NPCs in that janky GBA text-box style. The surfing minigame’s the real star though—timing your turns to ride the wave just right feels surprisingly good for a 20-year-old handheld title. Graphics are bright and chunky in that early 2000s way, and the soundtrack’s all fake punk riffs that somehow work. If you watched the show as a kid, the nostalgia hits hard; if not, it’s still a solid arcadey time-waster with way more personality than most licensed games.

Just don’t expect a masterpiece—it’s short, a bit clunky, and Twister still talks like someone fed a surfer dictionary through a woodchipper.