Sonic Advance (ソニックアドバンス, Sonikku Adobansu?) is a 2001 platform game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, developed by Dimps, published by Sega (in Japan), by THQ (in North America) and by Infogrames (in Europe and Australia) for Game Boy Advance. It was released in Japan on December 20, 2001, in North America on February 4, 2002 and finally in Europe on March 23, 2002. It is the second Sonic game to be released on a Nintendo console (having been beaten by 10 days by Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for the Gamecube). Sonic Advance was also ported to Nokia's N-Gage system on October 7, 2003, under the title SonicN. A version for Android devices was released in Japan on November 25, 2011.