Shacknews remembers the GameCube
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the GameCube. To celebrate, the Shacknews team decided to take a look back at our favorite GameCube moments... and there are plenty to choose from.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Nintendo GameCube's wireless Wavebird controller
Star Fox: Assault
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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the GameCube. To celebrate, the Shacknews team decided to take a look back at our favorite GameCube moments... and there are plenty to choose from.-
Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Wind Waker ... so awesome
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And SSB Melee. The series came into its own on the 'Cube.
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A fantastically under-appreciated gem.
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Gamecube will always be the console I hold dearest. I still remember going early in the morning with my dad to pick it up. First console I ever had on release day and I played the hell out of that thing. I started with Rogue Squadron and then sank hours into Super Monkey Ball and Smash Bros. My brother and I would fight over who got to log in first on Animal Crossing holidays.
I still have urges to go back and play through Wind Waker and F-Zero. Man, Gamecube was great.-
Agreed, not to mention it still managed to get a number of good third party titles (though they were pretty much all cross platform).
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I bought my friend's GC from him about 6 months ago, and have been catching up on some serious gaming moments. Playing through Wind Waker right now, but to take a break, I think I'm gonna start RE4. It'll be my first play-through!
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LOL @ Alice being too poor for all consoles.
I was too. The last console I owned before this current generation was a fucking SEGA Genesis. -
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it was sort of a cross between poker and elemental/weapons summoning, but on top of it, you could hold back from doing damage and instead wait to combine cards to form usable items - such as a rice card next to a fish card next to a vinegar card would give you sushi you could use to heal during a battle, or a fish card you kept in your deck for too long in over-world game time would rot and then you could use it as a poison attack item. Not easy to describe, but super fun and fast paced to play, and the actual story line of the plot was very epic and exciting too (the sequel's story was even better).
By all means worth digging up and playing even today - not outdated at all.
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The GC was awesome. Gaming sites took a dump on it later in its life. I never understood that because as the game releases and 3rd party support faded so did the price. By the time I jumped in circa 2003ish you could get a new GC with Mario Kart included for $99. Plus I believe you also got a few coupons for discounts on other games.
That and the solid cheap back catalog made it a recommended system in my eyes. I couldn't understand how gaming sites couldn't recommend it. $99 plus a game isn't much more than the cost of a game.
The last year or so of the GC was pretty barren. But somewhere in there was Chibi Robo which was a great game that no one played.
Jungle Beat also was released later in the GC lifespan and was another great great game that no one played.
The GC ended with Zelda, but by that time the Wii was out and that's where I played it.
I sold my GC because Wii had b/c.
The fondess for the GC remains. The little system that could. There was something simple and romantic to the GC that was probably the last of its breed. IT just worked. YOu popped in a disc and started it up.
Now we have consoles that do all sorts of things and have OS's and advertisements and settings galore and they do video etc.
I miss the simple inexpensive console. Where controls were solid. There was no flakiness.
Nintendo should just build the fastest $100 console they can that is only a game machine and nothing else. Go back to the GC roots.
And incorporate local networking back into the equation. Something you started with MK:DD and the broadband adapter but never finished.
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Eternal Darkness
F-Zero
RE Remake
Rogue Squadron II
Skies of Arcadia Legends
Soul Calibur II (with Link)
Wario Ware Inc.
All great reasons to own a GC-
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Mario 64 is the game that made me realize that I actually do understand game design and could do just fine making my own. Super Smash Bros. Melee made me realize that I understand game mechanics better than many of my peers. And the GBA player for the GameCube is what my realize that what I really wanted to do was make gaming/computer hardware. Thank you GameCube for being there when I needed a direction to go in life.
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GC's Four Swords and the GBA player was a concept that was ahead of its time. I loved it, even if I never could find another player with a GBA to take full advantage of it.
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I think I actually ended up buying 4 of those GBA connector cables just so I could force my friends to play Four Swords and the Final Fantasy game with me. Totally worth it for Four Swords though.
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It blew my mind, only to be topped when I got new consoles that allowed the system to be turned on using the controller. What a time to be alive.
This. Once I had a Wavebird, all other controllers were cheap pieces of shit. I went through an expensive period of time around then, as I tried to find wireless controllers for the Xbox and PS2 as well. The best were from Logitech, but still felt worse than the 1st party offerings. -
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The Resident Evil Remake is probably still my all-time favorite game. The Rogue Squadron Games were phenomenal. And most of our group bought the GC version of Soul Calibur II. =]
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Metroid Prime is one of my all-time favorite games...and Wind Waker was great as well...so was F-Zero GX. The GameCube had quite a few good games for it...they just happened to mostly be first party games (this seems to be the curse of any Nintendo system since the N64).
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Also the music from Phendrana Drifts is some of the best music in a game ever. That whole level (and the whole game...but especially that part) just oozed atmosphere. Such a fucking great game.
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Definitely. This post makes me want to go and play it all over again.
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Many gamers point out that the GameCube had only a handful or so must-have games. Perhaps. But Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil 4, Eternal Darkness, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Pikmin stand head and shoulders above any other game I played on any other system during the 'Cube's era. I still own one and still play it. Long live the GameCube!
Oh, and fuck the haters: I loved Metal Gear Solid - The Twin Snakes, too.-
Oh, how could I forget Mario Sunshine?! A polarizing game for sure, but I loved it. It maintained solid Mario mechanics while adding a few new variables to fit into the equation. I actually preferred it to Mario 64 - not as a groundbreaking title, because M64 obviously innovated more than, well, probably any other game of its time; but as a refinement of what M64 offered.
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Whole-heartedly agree with this and your following statement. It was an under-appreciated system consider how many of the games on it really were artistic masterpieces. I have all those games you mentioned.
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Both games were awesome in their own unique way, but Halo definitely got praise it didn't necessarily deserve.
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Dude, Xbox LAN parties. A god damned LAN Party on a console that worked. I remember how much a pain in the ass it was for computers, when one guy was fixed someone else's stopped working.
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This, anyone who says otherwise never experienced it.
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Not even gonna mention specific games (other than Metroid Prime, which to this day is still one of my favorite FPS titles).
Gamecube was just a well made console. Fast load times, sturdy construction ... a lot of fun games.
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Nintendo consoles have always been under appreciated by the gaming bros. I primarily game on PC but Nintendo games still have a close space in my heart. GCN definitely had some great games, from Rogue Squadron, Wind Waker, Smash Bros to Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Starfox 64. One particular gem was the very under appreciated Super Mario Sunshine. I thought that most of the complaints against it were petty and it still has some of the most fun and best water effects in it's time. When I was in college, it was Diablo 2 and CS late at night with Wind Waker and Mario Sunshine in the afternoon. I still have all my GCN stuff to this day.
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Gamecube was a great system. I still have mine somewhere - I should hook it up for old times sake.
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Pikmin. I loved that fucking game.
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I don't care what Garnett says - I enjoyed Super Monkey Ball 1 AND 2.
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The Cube was my favorite system of its generation, though they were all solid buys. But it's hard to argue with its library. Eternal Darkness, the RE re-releases and RE4, Wind Waker, Metroid Prime 1&2, and I could go on. It was solid through and through. Had the GBA Player, too, so I could run through Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission on TV.
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My GCN buying story:
I was tasked with getting a GCN for my little brother. My mom knew someone who worked at Target so she asked her and we were able to get a hold of one. However when we got it, it was the Purple one. I knew my brother wouldn't want it because I wouldn't have wanted purple either. But we didn't want to turn it down so we took it.
A few days later I go into Best Buy and there was an employee standing there holding a Black GCN. I just straight up asked him if that was for sale and the guy said he was holding it for someone he said was coming in and has been 10 minutes late. I asked for it and he said "Sure!" So I went home with the black one. My dad decided to spoil the birthday surprise and showed my youngest brother both consoles and said he wasn't getting either. One was going to his cousin and the other he was mailing to Vietnam. My brother started sperging like the kid he was hahaha. Anyways we stopped the joke before any permanent harm.
What happened to the purple one you ask? Well I had a friend who was also tasked with finding one for his brother and so I offered it to him. I asked if he cared if it was purple and he said, "Fuck that, my brother is getting whatever I find even if it smelled like shit." -
My love for the GC was the thing that got me excited for the Wii. "Two gamecubes duct-taped together" was a whole extra gc more than I needed for some of my favorite games of all time. (MP, WW, Double Dash, RE4, SSBM) It was the first console I ever bought myself, and the first new one since SNES.
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The GameCube ahh the GameCube I still have one but I dont use it maybe ill use it again
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I got mine on launch and really loved the little system. Even now my system still work flawlessly. I played it last night and I was surprised how quick the loading times were even without a hard drive. Lot of games that completely hold up.
The GC is really when I became a Nintendo fan.
Pikmin remains one of my all time favorites. SImple, fun and replayable. I've played it many times in a attempt go through it without losing any little guys.
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