Play Britney's Dance Beat Online

Britney’s Dance Beat on the GBA is exactly what it sounds like—a pocket-sized dose of early 2000s pop nostalgia wrapped in a rhythm game. You’ve got this spinning radar thing on the left showing which buttons to hit (A, B, or sometimes the D-pad), while a tiny pixel Britney grooves on the right. Hit the beats right, and you get "great" or "good"; miss, and, well… you’ll hear it in the music.

You start in Practice Mode with simpler tracks before unlocking Concert Mode, where things get way more intense. The songs are the same in both, but Concert cranks up the difficulty—suddenly you’re juggling multiple buttons like some kind of dance prodigy. Finish a song, and you unlock photos of Britney in the Tour Book; clear everything in Concert Mode, and you get a grainy but hype concert clip.

There’s a two-player mode if you’ve got a link cable (remember those?), where you can mess with your friend’s controls if you’re doing well. And for some reason, there’s also a sliding puzzle mode with unlockable pics—weird, but kind of charming.

Don’t expect CD-quality tracks, though. The GBA can’t handle full vocals, so the songs are this weird mix of synth approximations and occasional voice clips. Somehow, it still works. If you ever wanted to tap along to "Oops!… I Did It Again" on the go, this is your shot.