Gamecube fondly remembered

[briareos_kerensky]

I see this thread has resurrected the spelling of rogue as "rouge", the curse of many a message board for years.

My bad. I meant Rogue but fingers weren't cooperating.

[Wil]

Those little Japanese GC boxes are things of beauty (probably equal faves alongside the Jp GBA boxes) and since I installed the JP/US switched cube I got at work, though Ninty Japan, in my 7 year old son's bedroom I've never played as much Gamecube stuff. I still prefer N64 F-Zero X to GX and, of course, Starfox on the GC isn't really Starfox at all but much prefer the machine to the N64 overall. It's not going anywhere.

[importaku]

The size of the disks the console & the boxes was one of the reasons i really loved the cube. I have more faves for the cube than i ever did for the N64.

Just for you Wil some jpn gamecube porn hehe

[stevie vip 99]

Nice pics

[speedlolita]

Colour me jealous.

[SUMIRE]

I remember my Gamecube mainly from my Phantasy Star Online addiction. Its a great machine, and I still have mine and all the games I bought.

[importaku]

Lets not forget one of the most awesome free games ever, i remember spending hours on multiplayer with this


It was the whole reason for me to get a hacked cable so i could use my gba micro on my cube to play it.

[JU!]

Ws thinkin about playing my Japanese GC the other day. The PS2 has had a run out since I got back to England with Shadow of the Colussus. I should give the GC a go. Love all the Biohazards/Resident Evils Importaku. I only have 0 and 4 on my GC. Was playing 2 and 3 the other day on the PSP. Would love Code Veronica again.

[Lyris]

Giftpia! I was always hoping they would translate that. Too bad.

[nakamura]

The japanese boxes really are so lovely. Nintendo boxes have always been nice in Japan.

[Kieran76]

Gamecube was tops, until the 360 came along it was my favourite console of recent years. It had the mainstream games that I could play with my brother, Fifa, Tiger, Madden etc and it had all the other Nintendo magic. I think it was better than the N64 and just reading this thread makes me want to go back and give Metroid Prime another play through.

[Escape-To-88]

I must admit to always trying to love the Gamecube. Technically it had everything which should appeal to me and Mario is my favourite series in gaming history. However I never seemed to be able to get over the video out issues on a HDTV, meaning the issues with PAL titles not supporting 480p and the component cable being so hard to come by! A terrible reason to dump all over the poor old GC, but one that I feel actually stopped me from enjoying some crackers the system had.

[speedlolita]

I played my PAL cube through composite, didn't make me stop loving it! Of course I wasn't even aware of RGB back then. Aha.

[Escape-To-88]

Yeah I was a disgruntled, ageing gamer by the time the GC came around and had already had enough of the Megadrive through composite, so didn't give the poor blighter a chance really. An ace unit though, and Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat is one of my all-time faves.

[Lyris]

I must admit to always trying to love the Gamecube. Technically it had everything which should appeal to me and Mario is my favourite series in gaming history. However I never seemed to be able to get over the video out issues on a HDTV, meaning the issues with PAL titles not supporting 480p and the component cable being so hard to come by! A terrible reason to dump all over the poor old GC, but one that I feel actually stopped me from enjoying some crackers the system had.

On the contrary, the great support of 480p was what kept me playing when I got a nice new LCD TV in 2004. Especially with in-TV deinterlacing back then (which often made the picture slightly blurry), I really enjoyed the crispness and new lease of life it gave games - especially Super Smash Bros Melee.

It's superficial of me, but I probably played Tales of Symphonia less than I would have otherwise because of its lack of progressive scan output. Fickle...