Can we talk about GameCube for a minute?
What was it like having it?
Nintendo GameCube
also here's a cool cool pic of its box
almost every kid I knew who had one had Mario Party 7 for some reason
Was great if you had a bunch of friends to play its multiplayer games with. It library might've been small, but it was still good.
I kinda wish I had bought more JRPGs on it myself when I was young. Like Megaman X: Command Mission was fun when I borrowed it from a friend, but looking at prices now, I don't wanna spend a fortune on the GC version.
What was it like having it?
It was like playing video games, what the fuck do you think it was like?
Was like having a PS2 with a smaller subset of games, a worse controller, but generally better visuals & load times.
Growing up with some simblings, it was a very nice console to have. A bunch of nice multiplayer games and some nice solo games you can backseat your big brother with.
Metroid Prime was game of the generation and nothing really came close
Which color would you get? I'm a sucker for silver version
I never knew because I owned a PS2, the best console of all time
Purple is the only canon colour, I'm sorry.
simblings
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It couldn't compete with the PS2 in my mind for the games it had. Super Mario Sunshine was great but no other Nintendo property really had staying power with me. But I did like it for a minute then sold it to a friend. It was the purple one.
It was weird. It was my second console after the OG Xbox and though I had very few games on it comparatively, I think I loved it more. Our copy of Melee was used and scuffed to hell, so picking Peach or Ness crashed the game. Never saw those characters in action until Brawl.
In retrospect, I kinda wish I had had a PS2, but I played way more multiplayer as a kid, so my perspective has changed a bit.
why didn't you keep it? t would be nice to have a ps2 and gamecube
What was it like having it?
Miserable.
What was it like having it?
Fantastic.
You didn't have a PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox?
pretty cool.
smash, as always.
GC PSO is the complete version of that game.
Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Killer7.
a couple Resident Evil games that were exclusive for less than a year.
Better games and performance too unless you're some faggy JRPG fag.
An absolute joy, I got Luigi's Mansion and Pikmin with my brand new GC and had a great holiday, then got Melee and became the best player in the playground not even Marth mains coul defeat my Doc. Next I got Sunshine for my birthday and spent the whole weekend playing it. Some time later I got Metroid Prime and Star Fox Adventures and they were the most incredibly atmospheric games I've ever played and lastly I got Sonic Adventure 2 and become the happiest autistic child ever. The Wii didn't replictae the same experience except for Brawl maybe.
I got a gamecube for christmas in 2007
This shit was fun as fuck, especially with the ragdoll physics. The Jetpack level was the best.
mfw F-Zero GX
I had both PS2 and GameCube, and while I favored PS2 while I was alone, GameCube was the go to console for when my friends came over, and big part of that was that all you needed was extra controllers for up to 4 people to play, while with PS2 you had to have the extra controller plus an addon to allow for it
We still played a good amount of multiplayer PS2 games like the Need for Speed, Tekken or SmackDown vs RAW games, but playing Smash Bros Melee or Mario Kart Double Dash was a different thing
Also since PS2 was shared with my big brother, GameCube felt like it was my first proper home console, so I had a lot of memories of playing Mario Sunshine and the Pokemon games
I actually still own my original GameCube but as many kids I was a fucking idiot and sold all my copies including Pokemon Colosseum with Pokemon Box to fucking GameStop to have some money
It was wild
As a Nintendo system, you jumped from cartridge to disk, cartridge storage to memory cards, the in hindsight goody yet still fun N64 controller to a controller that in many ways still holds up
Then there's the games
You got melee, TONS of sega's best stuff when the dreamcast and ultimately sega's console presence sadly died, link in soul calibur 2, a fantasy card battle game from "from software", the trilogy of peak (although still flawed) sonic 3d games, metroid prime, and so much more
The first first-party wireless controller, the wavebird
The gamecube is nothing short of a legend, if you experienced it growing up.
If Nintendo brought back the virtual console, and made those remastered GC games a one time purchase, I'd buy that system as soon as I could.
What was it like having it?
Playing Resident Evil 4 on launch was incredible
I also enjoyed the RE1 remake which is still one of my favorite games of all time
Hey MagicMush
it was easy 2pac
In hindsight all I really cared about was RE4. It was the beginning of the end for Nintendo as good developers.
i was a retarded kid and didn't understand how memory cards worked for most of my time playing on it
You have a Wii? It was that minus wagglan
I wish I fucking had 6th gen console back then when it all was happening, instead all I had was a fucking PS1, old PC and og GameBoy. I’m scarred for life
inb4 just play it now
Its not the same as enjoying latest tech when you was a kid/teenager
mfw checking out the character descriptions and Dr. Stewart's theme starts playing
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FOREVER HE WILL BE MY HEEEROOOOOO
N-no...
Not those anons, but it's ok, anon
I didn't have the PS1, og GB, or Dreamcast growing up. I know that pain, and I'm sorry for your childhood loss
Imagine showing all your friends your brand new GameCube…
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It was good in the beginning but support disappeared midway through the gen as everything went towards the PS2
It reminded me a bit of the Xbox 360 except that had a better sales start but also faded away as it got overtaken
In my experience, it was just my younger brother, one of my best friends to this day, and a good hs buddy
So it was more for me than it was showing off, which I suppose is why I have a greater appreciation for single player modes
Not that I didn't/ couldn't play multiplayer, but I grew to find fun in single player, exploring at my own pace
What bums me out is that there are teens looking at the switch 2 and thinking "this is it", when Nintendo is in peak soulless corporate suit
don't feel bad, half the systems I got as a kid I only got when they were near the end of their lifespan
GBA SP in 2004
N64 in 2005
Gamecube in 2007
DS and Wii in 2008 (DSi had just come out, it counts)
3DS and Xbox 360 in 2011 (I only wanted the latter for Sonic Generations)
Wii U in 2013 (only console so ass I ended up selling it)
anything else came after I got a job so I could buy consoles with my own money (covid fucked the market so collecting old stuff sucks now though)
nta, but covid fucked a lot of gamers up, and with a stronger emphasis on online/ online dependency, I feel gaming will never be the same again for the worst
Getting GBA SP in 2004 was good
you're not wrong, although the DS did come out the same year.
Not me dude but thanks.
It sucked not being able to play God Hand for years until I got a PS2 Slim late in that gen.
At the beginning it wasn't great because I remember there only being waverace and Luigi's Mansion but once titles started dropping I remember the console taking off and being great to own, at the time it felt impressive.
Sure thing, MagicMush
It WAS
It did steal some of gba sp's thunder, but there was something to be said about the gba sp closed using half the space of a ds, which was great when I was in hs
Hiding a ds was a bit trickier, especially since opened up it was so much bigger too
So putting aside the ds, it was so awesome to have the back lit screen, but unlike other handhelds that were back lit before gba, it was the first Nintendo handheld to utilize a rechargeable battery, and not to through a metric fuckton of AA/ AAA batteries
Back when a late-gen console purchase meant all the good shit got greatest hits/player's choice'd for cheap.
Meanwhile, Zelda BOTW is still full price years later.
It was fun and it had a solid amount of multi-player games.
It's size made it very portable, especially with the mini screen attachment, so I took it a lot of places. It was a great distraction I'm a car ride for vacation.
Meanwhile, Zelda BOTW is still full price years later.
full price on two different systems, and the only version that isn't is the wii u version. but also...
released on three nintendo consoles in a row
considered a turning point for the zelda series and nintendo as a company
one version is cheap as shit while the other two are overpriced
the newest version has it's exclusive content locked away and requires something else to access it
Welcome back, Twilight Princess
Great system with great games. For me, it was Kirby's Air Ride and F-Zero
Am I banned yet?
My first one broke (purple) then we got the silver.
KAR
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That and MKDD were my favorite racing games
a worse controller
the gamecube controller was superior
Pretty good. Parents came home with it, Mario Party 4, and Kirby Air Ride one day, and I've been playing vidya ever since.
My childhood Gamecube was the silver one so that.
I actually traded in my black GameCube, plus paid $50 for a silver one when it was released. I realized it was a retarded financial decision later that night, but making mistakes is how we learn.
i had the white one that came with the mario smash footbal pack
Had purple, but WISH I had the orange one. I never thought I'd see a console in my favorite color. That might be my biggest (minor) gaming regret from childhood
One of the coolest things ever was that the gamecube had a portable screen attachment that you could hook onto it. You could hook it and the gamecube up to a car power outlet and play games that way. My family played a bunch of games on it on a really long road trip once, was a lot of fun and good memories actually
I had a Gamecube and PS2. Bought almost no PS2 games because there were so many Nintendo games I wanted.
It was great, i don't know how many wednesday or saturday afternoons i spent playing melee or double dash with my friends
THE NINTENDO SHITCUBE
It made me want to cut my penis and I'm trans now
Never got that, but it would've been really cool
I miss the days when any screen would suffice, and devs and consumers didn't get obsessed with visual fidelity
I only remember a few games from PS2 I bothered to play, ffx, dark cloud (which pissed me off to no end and ruined "breakable equipment" for me), and twisted metal black
Oh right, and Luigi's Mansion was so damned good as a kid (still good today actually, but being young makes it so much scarier and mysterious). It was the first game I ever speedran before I knew what speedrunning even was. Playing it late at night was just great and makes me smile remembering it today. FUCK the breaker sequence
Yep, the screen was incredibly small but it didn't matter, what mattered was what you were doing with people you cared about :)
not my pic but this is what it was
Oh yeah, those were the days
I know part of it is that I'm older now, but I do feel like couch co-op is going the way of the dodo, which is a real bummer for young/ future gamers
What was it like having it?
Unironically embarrassing. There was never a time where the Nintendo=Kiddie shit rang more true than during the GC's time.
No DVD playback.
The babbie discs for babbie gamers.
The handle for the kids with divorced parents.
The Fisherprice controller and system design.
Licensed Nickelodeon slop front and center.
And then the Wind Waker art style.
I remember desperately clinging to the like one year of RE4 exclusivity like my life depended on it.
It sounds like you grew up in a overly privileged and jaded area
I'm sorry, anon
I wonder what prompts people to LARP like this
kinda sad
What about it is a LARP, anon? Was the handle not real? Or the backlash against Celda? I love the GC and the games and the Wind Waker artstyle aged perfectly compared to the muh mature followup TP.
Is it that unrealistic that a 12 year old kid would feel insecure about his Spongebob Cube when the other's at school are talking about Vice City?
I feel like it had the best party games. Star Fox Assault is a party game.
I went to buy one last year and went with the classic purple one.
Grey's no good because scratches are gonna be seen too easily and will bother me, and some of the other colors like orange and co look too bootleg for me.
I didn't feel insecure about it. When I was in sixth grade I thought GTA was for low IQ apes.
When I was in sixth grade I thought GTA was for low IQ apes
It is. Good taste anon
I had this, a car power adapter, and the Gameboy adapter.
I was hackerman playing Gameboy games, Tony hawk, and need for speed during car rides.
I grew up privileged
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Gamecube was the worst of the three consoles and the only one that still insisted on an obsolete controller design.
But it does have the Nintendo brand on it, so it is overrated .
It's probably my favorite Nintendo console, even though I never grew up with it. It has the best versions of RE4 and Viewtiful Joe, plus the best home console Mario Kart and a bunch of other shit.
Some ports were bad cause it had fewer buttons. SSX3, for example
And the discs having like a third of the capacity of a normal DVD.
It was ok. Honestly, a lot of my time playing it was as a worse Dreamcast because I sunk a lot of hours into PSO(eps 1/2 and 3), Skies of Arcadia, and Ikaruga. As far as Nintendo games went, I played a lot of Melee and Animal Crossing but Nintendo's own lineup was a bit weak. Wind Waker and Sunshine weren't that great. Other than Melee and Prime, I sold those first party Nintendo games to Gamestop back in the day because they were meh.
As soon as I bought a PS2, I more or less stopped playing my GameCube entirely outside of Melee with friends. RE4 and Tales of Symphonia on Gamecube were cool though but overall from the consoles I owned I'd rank it PS2>Dreamcast>Gamecube. Melee fucking ruled though, I still remember going to GameFAQs and getting tricked into doing retarded challenges in game because someone would lie and say that doing that esoteric thing would unlock a new character.