Gamecube fondly remembered

[mekanor]

It's mostly a PAL collection as by the time I discovered importing I already had too many games to start over, but here's my collection (sorry about the phone camera)

[Lyris]

Was that one where everyone went to gamestats live not realising resi 4 was playable over at ects?

Yes that was the one! I went to both!

[Neon Ignition]

Back in the day I loved the Cube. In the early days of its life it dominated my play time as the Xbox was struggling and the PS2 was so slow to build momentum with releases, eventually it tailed off as just like now with the Wii Nintendo seemed to lose attention because of the DS but there's some great games for it and it's been amazing, for one, how Luigi's Mansion began as a disappointing release and has become... Awesome

I've got my Club Nintendo Mario-Luigi-Wario pads to remember it by though

[Wools]

The Gamecube has always been a odd console in my eyes. Traditionally, Nintendo would produce work of such outstanding brilliance that you would buy a console for their games and then buy other third party exclusives.

The big games such as Zelda Wind Waker & Mario Sunshine were hardly bad games, but they did not live up to their Nintendo 64 predecessors. Aside from that you had some very good third party software but that dried to a trickle in till Capcom showed what could be done with Killer7, P.N.03, Viewtiful Joe and Resident Evil 4. Looking back, there were few classic titles for the system, and Nintendo were not on form during that generation.

My favourite games for the system were Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil, Super Monkey Ball, Animal Crossing and Wave Race Blue Storm. All were great games, but only Resident Evil 4 transcended the system but that was ported to other consoles which removed some of the allure to the original Gamecube.

It's a great system and I have a lot of fond memories of it. The discs and the console itself were a novelty for being so small, the £130 price point was stunning, the wireless Wavebird controller was a revelation and freeloader introduced me to Resident Evil 4 & Animal Crossing months before release in the UK. However, I've always found the games library to be a little lacking.

[Scythe]

I've kept mine for my kids (2 & 4) and I have a big box of games (all classics mentioned MGS:TS etc) can't wait to dig it out for them!

[dataDave]

I'm shocked at most of the comments in this thread given the pasting the GC got at the time from all quarters. The same thing happened with the N64.

Good to see it being remembered fondly.

Strangely most of the comments are championing the design of the console - something wildly flamed back in the day.

I remember the cube getting a great workout at the games meets crisprapper used to have. I used to bring along my cube for some 4 player projector screen goodness. Fzero, naruto gekitou ninja taisen, donkey konga, mr driller & loads more. Was always fun with 4 sets of bongos out, ah sadly those days are long gone.

Yeah, they are/ Does Crisp still play games even? I see him on Facebook thesedays farting around with linking music and that's about it.

Oh yeah I remember I called you a C**T in public (which you are!) and most people around me seemed shocked and appalled, I thought **** 'em all!

Haha!! That's what I'd do too!

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Reading this thread has made me remember some golden moments in my gaming history...

My first taste of the Cube was thanks to GregMoss, who loaned me his console overnight so I could thrash Rogue Leader/Squadron (whatever). Which I did, to completion. I then had to play Starfox Adventures just to see what Rare had come up with - eventhough I thought the game was mostly pish the Dave Wise soundtrack completely redeemed everything.

Destroying F-Zero GX and competing with people on here in TT was something else, I don't think I've played a racing game so seriously before or since.

The Prime games, no one has mentioned their brilliance much in this thread - but I suppose they both go without saying really. Prime 2 was 100% pure Bitches Leave - I remember that f**king game with so much passion, the music, challenge, environments, art, design, music, everything, is just so gush-worthy I reckon it's probably my 2nd favourite game of the 2000s. I won't even replay it because it won't be as good as playing it the first time and I don't want to tarnish my memories of it. I used to 'revisit' my save file rather than play everything again. I'd hangout in one of my various favourite spots with the music and crank up a big one - absorbing the atmosphere and everything.... argghhhh....

Res Evil 4 - Just pure ****ing win all over, and glazed in even more win - which absolutely no one can question. Find me one hater and I'll Paypal everyone in this thread a tenner. I don't give a **** if it's out on other consoles, I played it on the GC first because that's the way I roll.

[Brad]

Wind Waker (my fave Zelda)
Metroid Prime
Resident Evil 4 (second fave game of all time I think)
Donkey Konga
Animal Crossing
Matt Hoffman 2
P.N.0.3
PES 2008 - Best 3d Footy game ever

Great console!!

[topper]

Well I didn't see all that coming when I started the thread. Um.

Seriously considering limiting the damage, pulling my sales thread and selling Retro stuff that's even less likely to get used due to lack of crt etc.

Anyway whatever I do, its been just great reading about the love for the cube and more importantly its games. I said at the start I always loved the cube and the dreamcast most of all, and reading all this makes me even more sure that in years to come the cube will have similar unsung hero status.

[Ragnar004]

The cube is where i started to get good at games, where i played them to the extent that I watch people in SSBM tournaments on youtube and think "I woulda killed you with Roy and you wouldn't have known what hit you." I miss Roy. I hate that he wasnt on Brawl. But he was replaced with Ike, and that is by far the proudest purchase I have ever made in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. I love that game so much, it combined strategy and rpg-ing at once, it was so amazing. Not to mention DK Jungle Beat or Pikmin or any of my beloved Mario Sports games... Ahh Gamecube...

[Kit]

The convenience of having all the Resident Evil games in one place will always make the GC a favourite of mine.

I think Wools hit the nail on the head about the higher profile first party games not quite living up to expectations (recall Mario Sunshine getting a 7/10 somewhere) but Nintendo more than compensated with Luigi’s Mansion, Smash Bros Melee, bringing Metroid back, Pikmin and so on. ;p

The only real negative was the picture quality; if the picture was as clear as the Dreamcasts (recall someone saying the blurriness was due to some stupid cheap aa trick) it would still be my main console.

[dataDave]

The only real negative was the picture quality; if the picture was as clear as the Dreamcasts (recall someone saying the blurriness was due to some stupid cheap aa trick) it would still be my main console.

The RGB-out is one of the best ever pal, well, I had a Jpn/US machine with a Saurian modded RGB lead, and then later used the component. I don't know about how PAL machines looked.

[spagmasterswift]

with a Saurian modded RGB lead.

I have one of those and VJ never looked so good!

[Kit]

Should have been clearer. It?s something to do with the games themselves. Lots of devs used a method to get anti-aliasing on the cheap which resulted in certain games looking a complete mess on an lcd; it?s the reason resi 4 and Zelda look so blurry. I think Smash Bros had an option to turn it off.

[speedlolita]

It did, through my XRGB with D Terminal it looks stupidly sharp with the blur turned off.

[Taka]

Like others, I have very fond memories of my Cube. Owned three over its lifetime, with my first being a PAL purple one, my second was a black PAL one with matching GameBoy player, and my third was a JPN spice one with matching GameBoy player (switched by Will of London Console fame).

Loved how import friendly the Cube was thanks to the Freeloader and Action Replay, though it was the fiasco with Japanese copies of F-Zero not displaying text or HUD graphics properly that pushed me to finally seek out a switched NTSC version.

Absolutely adored the Wavebird, both as an actual controller and as a proof of concept. None of my friends at the time liked using it and couldn't get over its lack of wires, but now take their wireless controllers for granted.

A friend of mine picked up a second hand Cube for peanuts recently and started working through Resi Remake last night, which brought all my memories flooding back. Ended up sitting through the first disc with him, helping and just soaking up the atmosphere.