Gamecube fondly remembered

[speedlolita]

Wind Waker was great, but it had a lot to live up to sure..

[topper]

All you people who won't part with your GC games annoy me.

Oh, briareos_kerensky, ironically I don't really *enjoy* PC gaming, but in practical terms it wins as obviously I have a PC anyway. But I know what you mean - Nintendo is more about the exclusives than any other platform. I'll probably have PC games on the shelves after I've sold all my consoles. :O

[losersclub]

Well I'm probably all alone with this, but I found the GCN a big disappointment after the N64. None of Nintendo's big games matched up to their 64-bit counterparts (Mario, Zelda, Starfox, Waverace, F-Zero, 1080), although the two Prime games are still sublime to this day. Loved the pad though

I prefer F Zero GX & Wind Waker to their N64 counterparts, i'm with you on Mario and Starfox though!

[briareos_kerensky]

I'm glad I stepped into PC gaming, I wouldn't get hooked to MechWarrior/BattleTech and the turn-based or real time strategy games as I am now...I began playing with the PC when the SNES was dying and till Nintendo released the N64; but games were expensive and hard to find here, so it was mainly PC gaming until the GC. During that period I played with friends' consoles, but I don't regret the afternoons spent playing with the PC.

[Family Fry]

Hey topper don't worry about it at all, when you have the cash in hand you will have made the right choice. If you played them on release, enjoyed them and have fond memories of the games it's the memories of those game that are priceless not the games themselves. Nothing worse than having 45 gamecube games (30 of which you have completed) and they just sit there never to be revisisted, 3 years later you goto the shelf and lo and behold they are still there frozen in time, you put one on, you smile as a memory hits you, you then get bored and switch it off and go play some current games. Back on the shelf it goes, it's hard to motivate yourself to turn back the clock especially with stuff you have played, different case if its a game you have never played.
Sometimes it's best to let go, think more people should do it.
I remember saying this last year (then not doing anything about it!) I have yet to encounter a single item I own that If sold I could never buy back again, hell people still buy Amigas, PC engines, Master Systems the list is endless some consoles even obscurer, they have all withstood the test of time 10 years later and longer, 10 years from now you will still be able to buy a gamecube and the games.
By the end of this year I intend to own 80% less than what I do now, would be pleased if I could flog the entire 100%, we shall see.

[nakamura]

Well I'm probably all alone with this, but I found the GCN a big disappointment after the N64. None of Nintendo's big games matched up to their 64-bit counterparts (Mario, Zelda, Starfox, Waverace, F-Zero, 1080), although the two Prime games are still sublime to this day. Loved the pad though

For me only F-Zero matched up, but I still prefered X overall. I find the GC to be a huge letdown but I still really like it.

[nakamura]

I historically hated Playstations and felt that Sony ruined gaming by taking the fun out. (Not meant to be flamebait, I was just a very opinionated person. ) Perhaps I'm getting old...

Never really understood this comment. I had a few friends who thought the same way too. Sure everyone is entitled to what they prefer, rightly so but the first 2 Sony machines offered so much. Not saying they offered something others didnt't at all, but certainly enough not to hate them. (BTW not trying to provoke a response)

[mekanor]

The cube is my favourite console of all time. Aesthetically it's probably the most beautiful console out there, and I've yet to find a pad that rivals a cube controller.

I think the time period that it was out in had something to do with it as well. I was still in school but I had just started a part time job. It was the first console I bought myself and the first that I could afford to buy games for myself, + I actually had time to play those games at the time. Add to that classics like SSBM, Metroid Prime, Wind Waker etc and you've got a very lovable console.

Not enough it was the console that moved me away from PC gaming and back into the console world.

Strangely me too. My PC was starting to get a bit older and not running new games. As soon as I bought the cube, it took over as my primary games machine. I'm back into PC gaming now but the cube will always have a special place in my heart

[jezzace]

Love my cube. I have a jap cube with us switch, my first import console, so it introduced me to this site! Monkey target, animal crossing, metroid prime, smash bros, killer 7 all classics. I've owned many consoles and only ever not sold 2: my N64 and my GCN.

[kryss]

Ah the ol' GC. Although my original launch day purple GC is still back in Cardiff, I have my cheap secondhand silver one AND my Q here in Canada with me.

As the number of games I buy is going to take a dive this year, I'm hoping to get back to the games I've never even started - ToS, Baten Kaitos 1+2, Cubivore and Paper Mario to name but a few.

They'll have to pry my GC collection from my cold, dead hands.

[Lyris]

I really liked that machine. I loved the styling.

I would always show my friends F-Zero GX running in 480p on my then cutting-edge LCD TV. "Wow!" I also still maintain that Star Fox Adventures was better looking than anything on the Xbox.

I loved the Wavebird. It made going back to wired pads difficult. Although I didn't fully get on with the GameCube controllers - something about the buttons wasn't quite right.

I have many fond memories of playing Burnout 2, Timesplitters 2, and many Game Boy Advance games on the GameCube. Sort of regret selling it, even although my Wii can play all the same stuff, it's somehow not the same.

Like many others, the Cube was my first import console, too. See what you did, Nintendo of Europe?

[Mayhem]

All you people who won't part with your GC games annoy me.

Well I might have to eventually, to some degree... it's a bit hard when you own this much Gamecube related stuff hah hah!

(and that doesn't even show the NR reader with a stack of NR discs)

God knows about moving all of it, and the rest of my collection... I suspect my brother is going to want a place to himself with his girlfriend inside two years...

[stevie vip 99]

Mayhem, yikes!!

Big fan of the cube, wasn't quite as good as the N64 though. Fond memorys of billy hatcher

[sadat]

Well I might have to eventually, to some degree... it's a bit hard when you own this much Gamecube related stuff hah hah!

That's AMAZING -- power to you, never sell anything off those shelves, you'll regret it! Are those mainly US versions, I could only spot a few of the smaller Jap game boxes to the right?

[NW2013]

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

The GC was actually my first import console so it will always be a bit special for me. Had a black US/Jap switchable console. I enjoyed having it for almost a good chunk of a year before the PAL release, was a bit gutted the PAL version was so cheap!

Plus there were tons of games that I spent ages playing: Mario Sunshine, Rogue Sqaudron, the two Metroid Primes, Wind Waker, SSBM, F-Zero, Animal Crossing, etc, etc. Eternal Darkness was also quite enjoyable but must admit I didn't do the alternative endings.

Can we have some close-ups of those shelves Mayhem?