this is the correct answer. back then people thought the gamecube was the dark age of nintendo. also 8 bit and 16 bit nostalgia was all the rage like how loy poly and ps1 asthetics have become popular now
The GameCube definitely spelled the end of an era with what I would describe as "Classic Nintendo Charm". The way their games were made had this aura to them on a system where there were no major gimmicks like motions controls, or gamepads, or hybridization. It was just about the games at its core.
What a load of shit. Nintendo has always been goofy look at n64 controller. Or the ultrahand, the wonderboy, SB attachment for the super famcom n so on n so on. Take that nostalgic glasses off.
Pretty much. And I feel Nintendo didn't learn from their mistakes and just decided to embrace a gimmick and casual market, aka those who never normally play video games. Imo it imo long term affected gaming negatively some areas.
For me, the appeal of the GameCube is that its contender for Nintendo System with the widest representation of Franchises Nearly everyone got a game on the GameCube
That’s because after the N64, third-parties had largely jumped ship on Nintendo and they desperately had to produce games themselves for the GameCube just to keep it afloat. It’s nice in retrospect, but back in 2003 it was frustrating have nearly every AAA title release on PS2 and Xbox and not GameCube.
@@Cozy_Talk That's fair. But also, it gave us the best F-Zero game ever, which is still my favorite racing game of all time, though I'll admit I'm biased lol
The Gamecube was the first console I owned growing up, and I’d say it best describes Nintendo’s “experimental” era. This’s where they tried to push new and unique ideas in order to take advantage of their new 3D hardware, which’s why we got games as wacky and unexpected as Pikmin, Luigi’s Mansion, Chibi-Robo and Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Along with strong sequels to big series with Wind Waker, Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario TTYD, Mario Kart Double-Dash, Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and Smash Bros Melee. Its biggest weakness was Nintendo choosing proprietary discs in order to combat piracy, and so it not only had much less third-party support than the PS2, but also didn’t serve as a DVD player. Nonetheless, nothing will replace the fond memories I have of it, and it sucks that so many of its games are ludicrously expensive nowadays.
Actually the minidiscs were a good thing as they were much cheaper in the early 2000s for Nintendo to make games for while still being able to fit most games of the era onto them. Those smaller discs made the GameCube itself cheaper, smaller, & more portable. The real weakness had to be Nintendo not having the money to market their console against such fierce competitors.
Honestly the ps2, OG Xbox, and GameCube were all great. That’s what I miss about games. All offline simple time killers. No micro transactions or any of that crap.
I was a GCN teen in high school. All my friends had PS2's and Xbox was the shiny new toy everyone wanted. Nintendo wasn't in a good place reputation wise at that time. People would be like "You still play this kiddy stuff?". I liked the GCN because most franchises Nintendo had to offer were represented at that time. A lot of the games were very creative and different. The tone of a lot of their games was also a lot darker and more mature than normal. It was like Nintendo itself had acknowledged the kids of the 90s were teens and the gameplay reflected that. I just really enjoyed the console. I haven't seen Nintendo the same Wii era and onwards if I'm being honest.
YES! Fuck. Finally someone said it. I was a Gamecube guy in highschool and it was lonely as fuck. Lol. Everyone shit on the gamecube in highschool. It was considered the "kiddy" console because its games have color and I remember people hating on the controller too. This revisionist history drives me insane. I believe people younger than me, who grew up on Gamecube, probably always loved it. But the people who were teenagers and up during the gamecubes run? Most of ya'll lyin. 🤣 The sales numbers dont lie. I wonder how long it will take the Wii U history to be revised? Everyone saying its their favorite console, controller, and games. 🤣
Nintendo is like the Disney of Videogames not cool enough for edgy teenage boys & Sports Men. GameCube had a lot more variety than Wii or Wii U yet its games were dismissed by a lot of the gamers at the time. People often fail to realize how easily cute & cuddly can get dark & edgy such as with Kirby or various anime series like Made in Abyss. Even in the early 2000s I could tell that sports games were usually shovelware & tell that the real exclusives were on PS2 & GameCube making them the 2 worth having. NoA didn't do enough to market GameCube Stateside & explain what it offered.
What you’re saying is true Nintendo game cube was definitely not popular, or respected by gamers. I was in my early 20s at the time and I remember how everybody spoke about it. It wasn’t in a positive light. For me ultimately I didn’t care because I’ve been a hard-core gamer and I had a GameCube and enjoyed it but people don’t realize how bad it was for that platform and controller is terrible.
I was born in 1994 so I didn't grow up with the SNES/N64 eras so the GameCube and GBA were my first consoles. But! Putting my bias aside, the GCN was the last traditional home console from Nintendo without gimmicks. Gimmicks aren't bad at all (I love my Switch) but I look back fondly on simpler times. GCN also had an edgy early 2000s vibe. From it's dark purple appeal (that Melee also had) to its commercials, to the shape of the console, it just felt so "cool" to me. The games are a given, I mean come on. Melee, Star Fox, TLOZ Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, Mario Kart DD, Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime, Kirby Air Ride, Pokemon Colosseum and so forth. I'll never stop loving the little purple cube that could, despite the outcome 💜
Resident Evil 1 Remake too. RE fans were well taken care of on GameCube. Didn't get GameCube Ports of RE1 DC, Dead Aim, or Outbreak sadly. Would've liked to see ports of Dino Crisis 1&2 as well. Xbox can keep Dino Crisis 3...
N64 was available right up to 2002, it was your era. You just skipped it in favour of the newest thing. Likewise the Gameboy was still very much relevant, (especially considering the GBA was backwards compatible) just not the newest thing. Btw it’s N-GC NOT GCN, the brand (aka Nintendo) ALWAYS comes first.
@@ObsessiveGeek Timeline wise you're right but no it really wasn't 😅Let me be more clear, my parents are Jamaican and came to the US in the late 80s and had no gaming experience or knowledge, so I didn't even know about the N64 or Nintendo, Sega etc until around 2000 when I was 6 , so the GCN really was my personal first era of gaming. I saw my cousin playing Melee in 2002 and every thing changed since that moment. Gooood times.
Funny considering my oldest siblings had Playstation 1 and Nintendo 64, and needless to say, PS1 and PS2 were my favorites despite not having many games on it.
The Gamecube came out in the last era of the old era of games. Before online was the norm, before microtransactions, and back before the middleclass of videogame budget disappeared.
xbox 360 controller is the best of all time by far. especially for 3d games. the thin flimsy right stick on the gc controller makes it really bad for camera control. im pretty sure that right stick was created for smash bros specifically. second place would be ps5 controller and third place would be the 8bitdo/switch pro controller. the gamecube has a nice controller but nowhere near the best.
The GC controller is absolutely the best controller for MOST games. And the Xbox controller is trash, don't @ me. There are only really two categories of games that the GCN struggled with. 2D games, because the d-pad is crap (weird, since Nintendo's always been the king of d-pads), and shooters because the c-stick is stubby (though this can be fixed as easily as opening it and dropping in a wii nunchuck stick as a replacement). Being fairly good for every game has its own appeal, which is why modern controllers are the way they are, but being able to use it for EVERYTHING tends to also prevent it from being GREAT at anything. Everything the GCN controller was made to play, it was pretty much the perfect controller for, which is what makes it great. I'd rather have (and do have) a GCN controller for all games it works for, and a more standard controller for everything else, and it's a far better experience than when I was using a standard modern controller for every single game.
I did not grow up with the purple cube when I was a kid, instead utilizing the PS2 for most of my childhood. Whenever I went over to people’s houses though and played games on their children’s GameCubes, I was thoroughly impressed and wanted one for some of those exclusives (namely Star Fox Assault and Geist lol). I also really liked it when certain games had the GameCube controller’s face buttons baked into the UI; that always stood out to me as a really neat feature. I didn’t have a lot of money as a kid though, so I’m making up for it now by grabbing some of the cheaper titles on the system. I’d definitely recommend picking up a backwards-compatible Wii first before grabbing a GameCube later on. It’ll allow you to buy controllers, games, and memory cards. The Wii also has really good native GC emulation with Nintendont.
In the early 2000s, I got both the PlayStation 2 and the GameCube and I still have them and play games on them more than the current gen consoles I have (PS5 and Switch). I have a massive library worth of PS2 games and same applies for the GameCube as well. On the GameCube, I have numerous top notch games on there like Super Smash Bros: Melee, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, F-Zero GX, Kirby Airride, Mario Kart Double Dash, Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Pikmin 2, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Animal Crossing, Starfox Adventures, Metroid Prime, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Pokémon Colosseum, and Super Mario Sunshine. Thank god I got those games during the GameCube's lifespan way before the price hikes.
The GameCube is my favorite game console and one of the two consoles I’m deeply nostalgic for (the other being PlayStation 2). Super Mario Sunshine is my favorite Mario game, Luigi’s Mansion is my favorite Mario spin-off series, Pikmin is my favorite Nintendo franchise, etc. The GameCube is genuinely unmatched in library variety and there truly is something for everybody on this system. So many childhood memories of mine were made with it, and it’s my primary console of choice for multiplayer games with friends.
The Gamecube was an amazing platform for Zelda and Metroid and gave us some more unique games like Pokémon Colosseum and XD Gale of Darkness, Mario Kart Double Dash, and Eternal Darkness. Plus, as others have said, those who grew up with it are nostalgic for the Gamecube nowadays.
Sad nostalgia is looked negatively when there is actual good games that to this day are worthwhile that you can't exactly get entirely with modern AAA or Indie gaming currently.
I loved the gamecube growing up but I still remember so many people bashing on it. Nowadays it feels like some people didn't realize how much they were missing out on. Experiementation isn't inherently a bad thing, despite many a gamer feeling back then that 'different=bad'. So I agree with the comments that experimentation is a big part of what made the GC special. Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, and yes even Starfox Adventures (despite its flaws) all hold a place in my heart.
GameCube had variety for sure. Not just Mario and Sonic, but also many spinoff games, tie ins to many movies, and unique games for many underrated IPs like Billy Hatcher, Vexx, Amazing Island, and Ribbit King.
It's crazy how loved it is now lol. People HATED it in the early 2000's - At least from my anecdotal experience of being one of the few people in our highschool who liked it lol - everyone was too obsessed with GTA3 and Halo and the GCN didn't have those. So many kids who loved the NES, SNES and N64 all went PS2 or Xbox instead that gen.
@@HunnysPlaylists I could pull some old, withered issues of EGM from the early 2000s out of my closet right now and pore through pages upon pages of "journalists" calling Gamecube a kiddie console, bemoaning how "gay" Wind Waker's art style was, and gushing about how cool it would be if the next 3D Mario were an M-rated game featuring Peach as a half-naked pole-stripper. The Gamecube was very much hated. And God help you if you were a college student at the time and you openly confessed to playing Mario.
@@RawPower867 yup lol I was in high school in 2003 I remember you were seen as that weird kid if you said you had a game cube and played Mario a Zelda windwaker It started getting some traction in my school once people heard it was getting Resident Evil 4 as an exclusive But then that faded out as soon as people realised it was also going to the PS2 with extra content I look back on that era of gaming with a lot of nostalgia As I had 2 friends in high school and one of them had a PS2 and the other had an Xbox And they didn't live too far from me so we would play either one on weekends We probably played the PS2 and GameCube that generation the most So many incredible couch co-op games that gen So as I said the nostalgia is heavy for me but I'm not one of those people who go around saying how popular the GameCube was.. It had some amazing games that are looked back on Fondley nowadays but back then as you said it was seen as a babies console at the time by the gaming masses Which was true
I've heard people really knock down the Gamecube over it's lack of RPGs. Even though there aren't as many as there were on PS2, the quality of the RPGs on Gamecube was consistently good to great, and there was still quite a good handful to choose from, and almost all of them were exclusive at the time. Favorite RPGs on Gamecube include Tales of Symphonia, Skies of Arcadia: Legends, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, Baten Kaitos, Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II, and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
@@darkzeroprojects4245 XPlay sounds like an Xbox Magazine. Did they prefer sports shovelware & shooters like the Xbox itself? 1 of SoA's fatal flaws that doomed Saturn was underestimating JRPGs with Pokemon, Final Fantasy, & Dragon Quest gaining massive popularity alongside anime during the late 90s.
@@WaterKirby1994 They weren't forgotten, I just never had the opportunity to play them yet. Most of the RPGs I got on Gamecube, I've had since I was a child. Now, most of them cost more than I'm willing to pay. If I ever find copies of Colosseum or XD Gale of Darkness for a reasonable price, then I would love to play them! And I'd much rather play them legally on original hardware than emulate them.
I really regret not getting this console back in the day. I remember my mom even said if I wanted one and I said no even though I kind of did want it, but I knew she were tight on money so didn't want to bother her too much with it... You can emulate these games really easy now, but it's not the same. To play these games when they were current and a kid would've meant so much.
First thing I want to say is, great video man. Love it. So for me I’m a big GameCube fan, when I was a kid it was my favorite console, from the awesome controller which is still my favorite controller, to the small discs, nice colors for the consoles, the cool designs and amazing graphics for back then, especially for games like Star fox adventures looked amazing graphically. The best part was the games and fun, so many great games from Zelda windwaker being my all time favorite, to smash bros melee and time splitters 2, and Metroid prime to the so many Mario games like tennis and golf to Mario party and baseball, just so much fun and great memories on it. But I always remembered GameCube growing up being the most hated console everyone seemed to hate it said it looks like a kids console, everyone hating Luigi’s mansion because he couldn’t jump and toon link not looking mature. Everyone in my school made fun of you if you had it, everyone loved ps2 and Xbox and always made fun of GameCube, heck I remember hearing that the GameCube was one of Nintendo’s biggest failures because it didn’t sell good and was a dead console by 2006, they said if it wasn’t for the gameboy advance and Nintendo DS, that Nintendo would have went out of business but the handhelds saved Nintendo. But for me GameCube was always the underdog and my personal favorite console. Heck on my Nintendo switch I play 90% of my games with a GameCube controller, obviously a modern one from power a. I remember in my family, everyone didn’t like the GameCube, because they were used to the n64. My dad and cousins were like this controller is weird and the games are different lol
I remember playing Metroid Prime on a demo system. It blew my mind because up until that point I had only player Metroid 2 and Fusion. The GameCubes games are amazing and most of them hold up to this day to the point that it is depressing. Also since I haven't seen it mentioned yet F-ZERO GX...I don't need to elaborate just saying the name of that game makes my point for me.
The Gamecube was my first real console, so I am very fond of it even if I played my Wii WAY more. What helps is that almost every first party title were some of the best games of both their series and the era.
ngl im not sure which alternate universe you visited from where the ds doesn’t get the same amount of, if not way more praise and nostalgic reminiscences that the gamecube does
The NDS imo is by far the greatest Nintendo console (that has run its course) and its not even close The DS had extremely good first and third party support for literally its entire existence on the top of my head I can list around 40 games the DS had that were excellent
Gamecube was the first Nintendo console to have Sonic on it and yes Advance series on Gameboy Advance, that’s another reason to love it more, and I too absolutely love the simple shape and purple color, as I grew older Purple became my favorite color and I think the Gamecube is part of that reason, the GBA was also purple too. Also Gamecube controller is still relevant too with Smash and is the most comfortable ergonomically.
I like that the GameCube runs at 60 fps and there is barely any input lag. Even though I think the wires are way too short, the controller is comfortable and responsive
I have a fun fact, sonic the hedgehog is the reason why the popular game PIZZA TOWER is popular. Back when there were demos and dev footages (somewhere in 2018, the start of pizza tower development), nobody was even knowing about the game, but then... Sonic Amateur Game Expo (or SAGE) launched. And so pizza tower's SAGE 2019 demo released. A BIG amount of pepole would download the demo, to the point when the sage servers crashed. When the full game came out (january 2023), it got the title for the 3rd highest ranked game after a really short time. To anyone who sees this fact, i recommend you buy it, its great. (you dont need to)
I never grew up with the gamecube so i have no nostalgia bias and even still i absolutely love the gamecube and its library Ive had nothing but a good time playing games like pikmin 2, mario sunshine, mario kart double dash and smash melee on dolphin And the controller is easily the best ive ever held it feels comfortable, sturdy and overall has a good design
Because it has my two favorite games, Megaman network transmission and Twilight Princess. AND FOR GOD SAKE NINTENDO AND CAPCOM, PLEASE REMASTER THESE GAMES ON MODERN PLATFORM!!!
Its crazy because I've never owned a GameCube but the combination of my nephew bringing it over my house every time he came over, as well as before that me and my friends walking to Fry's electronics to play the super smash bros melee demo all day has me mad nostalgic for the GameCube
I was on message boards in the early 2000s and most of the community despised the Gamecube. We were all early 20 somethings at the time. Most said it would be Nintendo's last console and the would go 3rd party after the generation was over. Even When Nintendo World New York opened, the haters said they were going to go there just to mock Nintendo fans.
I still have my GameCube hooked up to my tv now. Luckily I managed to get my hands on the component cables from Japan in the 2000s which makes it still hold up. Those cables sell for like $400 or more now when I paid $30 for them then.
I didn't have a GameCube either. I owned 2 of them one Indigo and one Black, one in my room and one in the living room. The Indigo one was my take everywhere one and living room one I still have my cards with all my saves and use them to play my games.
The handle on the gamecube was there do that you could bring the console to your friends house. Even back then, they were thinking of ways to make consoles more portable.
Hoping the lengthy section of highlighting comments doesn't become a common trend. We're here to hear what you think, and I ended up fast forwarding through you reading out comments because it got boring.
I think that section can be good but if put at the end or many of them are less nostalgia focused and better responses it would be more engaging. I never owned one but I care about what the games and hardware gimmicks of GBA/GameCube or other things offered or the angle or the experimental games. I don't care about nostalgia even if I owned a PS2/Xbox I still care about the quality, effort and different of this era not emotions clouding judgement.
You are forgetting the MAIN reason why fans love it soo much... It was a Console FOR GAMERS!... Especially for fans that grew up with Nintendo. It had its games for "kids/family" but also had games for Teen and Adults... Like Baten Kaitos & Eternal Darkness (when was the last time Nintendo was involved with a M for Mature game?... exactly!) The design of the controller was made taking what gamers liked in the designs of the competition but adding "Nintendo's Style" to it. The gimmicks felt natural, like Link Cable with GBA to transfer data like Pokémons, for game like Wind Waker and Four Swords, and to even download temporarily NES games and mini games like Animal Crossing did... or Like the Ethernet Adapter, which allows you not only to play online Phantasy Star, but ALSO to play Mario Kart DD with 8 players offline split between two TVs... It tried to bring almost all their IPs and creating new ones in almost perfect balance... Wave Race, 1080⁰, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf... and Mario "soccer", Mario Baseball, Pikmin, etc... It brought a dream come true for those who loved Sonic but never had a Sega, bringing all Sonic Games and new ones... It was the console with bigger 3rd party games support EVER in the history of Nintendo... (when they had a hard contenders 😅 I mean)... almost everything that you get in PS2 it was on GameCube too... It had way more games than Xbox 1. But like the Vita, it failed because gamers are not as big masses or Normies... That is why they change their focus from Gamers to Normies with the Wii 😒 IF ONLY the GameCube had DVD players, normies would rather prefer to buy a GCN for their kids and the DVD for them... And sadly, being a hard console to pirate, that make it hard to sell in LATAM 😓... #SaquenmeDeLatinoAmerica That is why it was loved but had low sells... 😞 #WeLoveYouGameCube 🥲
I also look at Gamecube as the “remaster system” like how in 1998 Mgs and sonic adventure came out. And kinda aged when we saw the power of the next gen ps2/xbox/GC Then 2003/04 sonic adventure DX and Twin snakes come out with remastered visuals and as a gamecube exclusive’s. theres also a few other dream cast games that was cross platforms with the gamecube and ps2 aswell
Because it had beautiful graphics, amazing controller, had the majority of ips represented with multiple entries plus you had tons of great 3rd parties as well, Gameboy player, unique accessories like the dk bongos, mic, gb add on connector for bonus features and for games like four swords, 3 diffrent bootup sounds, cool system menu, had pretty much every zelda at the time playable on it due to being able to also play the gb ports, introduced luigis mansion, gave a new way to play metroid, had eternal darkness which was a great horror game exclusive that messed with your TV and thinking it was deleting your saves, the gamecube is the most unique console ever made all others are pretty basic
For me it's nostalgia and the game library. So many fond memories playing through the multiplayer games with friends or the single-player and multiplayer ones with my sister. 3 months ago I came across my old GameCube while looking for something else. It still works great and I started over all of my games and they are still just as fun to play today as they were all those years ago
I grew up on snes and genesis. Then n64 and ps1. My brother and I traded everything we had at babages for the GameCube the week it came out! I was 12 he was 13.
the gamecube also had ocarina of time and majora's mask. that's why i bought it. sad it was only sold as a bundle. as a little kid i really struggled with the n64 controller. so i was finally able to play those games with a normal controller.
Excellent video! For the Xbox though, the sheer power that Halo 1 and 2 had to sell the entire console and some controllers for 4-player split screen can't be discounted.
I saw those Orange Gamecubes being sold in Ohio at I think a Best Buy in 2003 so they weren't Japan Exclusive. The real Japan Exclusive that I'm aware of was Gundam Series Red which really should have come here promoted by Toonami. There was also a Seafoam Green packaged with a certain game & there were going to be even more colors that were never released such as Blue & Pink. As for the games themselves Nintendo had incredible exclusives Melee, Double Dash, Mario Party 5, 6, & 7, Starfox Adventures, Kirby AirRide, F-Zero GX, Metroid Prime, Pokemon Colosseum, Thousand Year Door, & Wind Waker in addition to the start of both Pikmin & Animal Crossing. 3rd Party support was incredible with Sonic Adventure 2 Battle being exclusive for an entire decade. Sonic likely had the best showing on GameCube of the 6th Gen Consoles with Sega also giving GameCube 3 Super Monkey Ball games & Billy Hatcher. Then there were countless games on Xbox & PS2 as well that played every bit as good on GameCube. I miss being young.
Everyone who owned a GameCube has only good things to say about it. Considering it was the last console Nintendo made while Hiroshi Yamauchi was president of the company, and before they changed their official color from red to gray, and back to red again, it has a special place in the hearts of gaming collectors.
To me the GameCube is the most overrated and underrated system at the same time. Had it when it was released and thought it was a cool system, but overall wasn’t something I think of when I think Nintendo.
That's kinda how I feel about N64 and GameCube. I feel that some of the praise is moreso praise from that era as a whole. The creativity seemed stronger during the 6th gen era without the amateurish feel of indie games. Back when everyone hyped the N64 as this almighty beast, I felt it was oversold. Now people seem to crap on it and call it overrated, and now I feel obligated to defend it, LOL! Funny how things come full circle.
Tiny d-pad, tiny C-Stick, using the face buttons would be hell for any non-GCN games (try playing Wii VC games with a GCN controller) and there's no second Z button. The GCN controller is good, but no way in hell it's the best.
LOL I didn't expect my comment in a community tab I was skimming through to end up being highlighted as one of the reasons people love the GameCube. Glad I could be of assistance.
One of the coolest and most iconic consoles! the GameCube holds some of my best gaming memories. There was something about its sleek, dark aesthetic and the experimental games that made it perfect. The early 2000s were truly a golden era for gaming. While I enjoy my current consoles and their games, it feels like something is missing from today's gaming experience, games just hit you different back then, and I swear it’s not because of nostalgia I feel this way!!! 😂
When I went to K-mart with my mom to get my gamecube, I distinctly remember the retailer asking me which color I wanted, black or purple and I remember instantly shouting that I wanted purple because it was way more interesting and fun looking over the boring black color that the PS2 and Xbox had
Indigo is basically the color between blue and purple. Look at indigo and purple side by side, and the difference is staggering, unless you're color-blind. The hardcore gaming-community basically snubbed their noses at Gamecube when it was out and money was going to Nintendo. Now that time has passed, it's socially acceptable to like Gamecube. It has become a target of hipsters and collectors. It really pisses me off when people who hated Gamecube (when Nintendo was relying on it financially), now seem to love it and collect games for it, the money for which doesn't go to any developer or publisher. I hate collectors.
The man said, he doesnt know about much local multiplayer games that the Xbox was known for when Halo CE exists LOL a game that was more popular than anything on the gamecube at the time mostly because of its local multiplayer.
In the early 2000s, this was the only console I had. As someone who loves fighting games, the Gamecube wasn't known for that. Although I did get to play the Gamecube port of Soul Calibur 2 & Sonic Gems Collection had Sonic the Fighters. 2 of my fave non-fighting Gamecube games are Custom Robo & Legend of Zelda 4 Swords Adventures. I played that Zelda game in 4 player co-op in summer 2006 ❤
There were 4 Naruto Clash of Ninja Series games on GC (although 3&4 were Japan Exclusive) as well as a 3 Way Crossover Fighting Game between Dragon Ball, One Piece, & Naruto that was also Japan Exclusive. Super Smash Bros Melee is also technically a fighting game & I feel like there were more fighting games on GameCube than those.
@@WaterKirby1994 true, but the PS2 had better fighting games available. Such as the Tekken series, the KOF series, Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution, mortal kombat armageddon, & the Street Fighter 15th anniversary collection
For me, the controller. I know that the GameCube controller has flaws like the d pad being too small, having one Z button, the C Stick being too small, but it was comfortable and the ABXY buttons had a unique layout.
I like the GameCube cause I grew up with a ps2 and it's cool to see how the other side of the generation grew up. Also the library is small and not as big or diverse as the ps2 (no really, I still discover new ps2 games regularly) but still full of top tier Nintendo first parties, 3rd party exclusives and cross platform games. Also that controller is sooooo good.
I think the main reason I liked the gamecube was because every Nintendo IP (excluding a small few) ate extremely well on the console; I mean, we got two starfox games, an f-zero game, two metroid games, three mario party games, the introduction of Custom Robo and Chibi Robo in the West, 3 Zelda games as well as a collection, the list goes on.
Because of Melee, Sunshine, Double Dash, Sonic Adventure and Adventure 2, Metriod Prime, Wind Waker and much more and heck even movie video games Before the Wii the Gamecube was pretty much the best console ever alongside Playstation 2
The funny thing about a lot of the things people say they like about the GameCube these days, were reasons it was ridiculed in the early-mid 2000s. Experimentation in game design? No, at the time people didn't want Mario with a water jet pack, they wanted Mario 64 2, they didn't want cell shaded cartoony Zelda, they wanted dark and gritty Zelda (which only eventually came at the very end of the GameCube's life). I also think people today overestimate the third party support on the GameCube, it was lackluster at best. The GameCube missed out on many notable third party games, and even series that initially started releasing on the GameCube were no longer releasing on it by the end of the generation (GameCube got the first two Burnout games, but not the third, same with Call of Duty, just for a couple examples), it missed out completely on GTA, mainline Final Fantasy, mainline Metal Gear, mainline Mega Man, Silent Hill, Tekken, and many others, with no good replacements.
I think you nailed it with how great of a multiplayer system it was. It felt like the last "oldschool" console. The XBox and PS2 felt like the transition into the beginning of consoles feeling like PCs. Nintendo, to this day, is doing such a good job of NOT being a PC. I haven't purchased a console since the PS3, and even then I waited until it was dirt cheap. I've been on PC. Yet, the switch has kept tempting me. I don't think I game on the go enough to justify it, but honestly, I feel like that desire to get it anyway proves how great they are at making stuff that people still want.
It delivered a unique flavor of games distinct from what you got on the PS2. PS2 was much better for many (if not most) genres, but Gamecube had its own niches.
At the time, the Gane Cube was seen as a "Kids" console, Mario wore a t-shirt, instead of a full shirt, and a water backpack, Link became a strange big-headed cartoon, and the console itself looked like a toy stove, and in the 2000s, we were dark, edge, and it's not a phase mom!!! Thing kkkkk But deep down we wanted to play the cube, we were afraid of being teased at school, of being a kid and don't be mature. I look back then and and I regret not having played it at the time, because of social pressure, at least that was how Nintendo was seen in Brazil, video games for babies
The GameCube is actually more powerful than the PS2. Unlike the N64, they could have ported games like Final Fantasy and Shadow of the Colossus without sacrificing graphical quality. They may have taken more discs, but the graphics could have been even better than the PS2 versions. Just look at what they did with Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid.
It's simple, everyone who grew up with a GameCube is now old enough to shill for it online. N64 and GameCube owners were underdogs for the entire generation and that only made them attached to them more.
There were reasons both good and dumb. Both did suffer hard commercial failures , former in japan though did well internationally, the latter I think all over compared to xbox and ps2. Ya know Tbh I rather have a new gen of consoles that were more like those 3 over what we get now while using modern hardware. Systems made for gaming, only gaming, and isn't constantly nickel and diming you, and has as much physical and digital distribution. If a indie somehow was able to build such a solid console even if its not as powerful as current consoles, it can still offer solid quality and performance.
Still in denial this was the lowest selling console in the 6th revolution. EVERYONE growing up had a GCN or PS2. I legit only knew 2 people who had an Xbox.
GameCube wasn’t exactly the lowest selling of its generation as that would go to the Dreamcast. And even then, the original Xbox barely did any better considering that the console was backed by a company valued over $400 billion back then. Surpassing the GameCube’s only ever so slightly (Yet, the GameCube turned out far more profitable in comparison), while turning out to be a huge financial disaster for Microsoft where the first Xbox costed them $4 billion in losses. As a result, Microsoft made drastic changes with their upcoming successor to not repeat any of the financial problems they went through with the original Xbox, just as Nintendo changed their strategy to appeal to a wider audience.
Because Nintendo kids who grew up in the 2000s are now highly represented on the internet.
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Because GC is a cool nickname
this is the correct answer. back then people thought the gamecube was the dark age of nintendo. also 8 bit and 16 bit nostalgia was all the rage like how loy poly and ps1 asthetics have become popular now
@@legospacememe8468 A lot of its games were shafted for being too ambitious or zany but after 2 decades that's why they've endured
Bro answered the title before I can even start the video 😭
The GameCube definitely spelled the end of an era with what I would describe as "Classic Nintendo Charm". The way their games were made had this aura to them on a system where there were no major gimmicks like motions controls, or gamepads, or hybridization. It was just about the games at its core.
It's the last standard home Nintendo console
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What a load of shit. Nintendo has always been goofy look at n64 controller. Or the ultrahand, the wonderboy, SB attachment for the super famcom n so on n so on. Take that nostalgic glasses off.
Pretty much.
And I feel Nintendo didn't learn from their mistakes and just decided to embrace a gimmick and casual market, aka those who never normally play video games.
Imo it imo long term affected gaming negatively some areas.
fr, the difference on direction pre wii and post gc are night and day
For me, the appeal of the GameCube is that its contender for Nintendo System with the widest representation of Franchises
Nearly everyone got a game on the GameCube
I had to fact-check that. My word! Gamecube, and even GBA, has Tomb Raider.
I don't know anyone who did 😂
That’s because after the N64, third-parties had largely jumped ship on Nintendo and they desperately had to produce games themselves for the GameCube just to keep it afloat. It’s nice in retrospect, but back in 2003 it was frustrating have nearly every AAA title release on PS2 and Xbox and not GameCube.
@@Cozy_Talk That's fair. But also, it gave us the best F-Zero game ever, which is still my favorite racing game of all time, though I'll admit I'm biased lol
@@0rnery0verwatch that game is really well made, but it’s too damn hard for me lol. I’m more into f-zero x on n64.
The Gamecube was the first console I owned growing up, and I’d say it best describes Nintendo’s “experimental” era. This’s where they tried to push new and unique ideas in order to take advantage of their new 3D hardware, which’s why we got games as wacky and unexpected as Pikmin, Luigi’s Mansion, Chibi-Robo and Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Along with strong sequels to big series with Wind Waker, Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario TTYD, Mario Kart Double-Dash, Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and Smash Bros Melee. Its biggest weakness was Nintendo choosing proprietary discs in order to combat piracy, and so it not only had much less third-party support than the PS2, but also didn’t serve as a DVD player. Nonetheless, nothing will replace the fond memories I have of it, and it sucks that so many of its games are ludicrously expensive nowadays.
Actually the minidiscs were a good thing as they were much cheaper in the early 2000s for Nintendo to make games for while still being able to fit most games of the era onto them. Those smaller discs made the GameCube itself cheaper, smaller, & more portable. The real weakness had to be Nintendo not having the money to market their console against such fierce competitors.
For the games part, you can now mod a GC for about at most 100$ and play game backups from an SD card. Also conserves the disk drive.
you can emulate the GameCube by using dolphin
My kids love gamecube games. There is a pure innocence to playing a great offline game with no adverts or internet weirdos.
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Honestly the ps2, OG Xbox, and GameCube were all great. That’s what I miss about games. All offline simple time killers. No micro transactions or any of that crap.
Shout-outs to Melee! Slippi matchmaking has kept it alive and popular online to this day! 🙏
@@real30yearoldboomerhours53 7th and 8th generation (before 2017): i am joke to you?
I was a GCN teen in high school. All my friends had PS2's and Xbox was the shiny new toy everyone wanted. Nintendo wasn't in a good place reputation wise at that time. People would be like "You still play this kiddy stuff?". I liked the GCN because most franchises Nintendo had to offer were represented at that time. A lot of the games were very creative and different. The tone of a lot of their games was also a lot darker and more mature than normal. It was like Nintendo itself had acknowledged the kids of the 90s were teens and the gameplay reflected that. I just really enjoyed the console. I haven't seen Nintendo the same Wii era and onwards if I'm being honest.
YES! Fuck. Finally someone said it. I was a Gamecube guy in highschool and it was lonely as fuck. Lol. Everyone shit on the gamecube in highschool. It was considered the "kiddy" console because its games have color and I remember people hating on the controller too. This revisionist history drives me insane. I believe people younger than me, who grew up on Gamecube, probably always loved it. But the people who were teenagers and up during the gamecubes run? Most of ya'll lyin. 🤣 The sales numbers dont lie. I wonder how long it will take the Wii U history to be revised? Everyone saying its their favorite console, controller, and games. 🤣
Nintendo is like the Disney of Videogames not cool enough for edgy teenage boys & Sports Men. GameCube had a lot more variety than Wii or Wii U yet its games were dismissed by a lot of the gamers at the time. People often fail to realize how easily cute & cuddly can get dark & edgy such as with Kirby or various anime series like Made in Abyss. Even in the early 2000s I could tell that sports games were usually shovelware & tell that the real exclusives were on PS2 & GameCube making them the 2 worth having. NoA didn't do enough to market GameCube Stateside & explain what it offered.
What you’re saying is true Nintendo game cube was definitely not popular, or respected by gamers. I was in my early 20s at the time and I remember how everybody spoke about it. It wasn’t in a positive light. For me ultimately I didn’t care because I’ve been a hard-core gamer and I had a GameCube and enjoyed it but people don’t realize how bad it was for that platform and controller is terrible.
the gamecube is dark and griddy????
I had both a Gamecube and PS2 as a teen. Both of them had some great games.
I was born in 1994 so I didn't grow up with the SNES/N64 eras so the GameCube and GBA were my first consoles. But! Putting my bias aside, the GCN was the last traditional home console from Nintendo without gimmicks. Gimmicks aren't bad at all (I love my Switch) but I look back fondly on simpler times. GCN also had an edgy early 2000s vibe. From it's dark purple appeal (that Melee also had) to its commercials, to the shape of the console, it just felt so "cool" to me. The games are a given, I mean come on. Melee, Star Fox, TLOZ Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, Mario Kart DD, Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime, Kirby Air Ride, Pokemon Colosseum and so forth. I'll never stop loving the little purple cube that could, despite the outcome 💜
Resident Evil 1 Remake too. RE fans were well taken care of on GameCube. Didn't get GameCube Ports of RE1 DC, Dead Aim, or Outbreak sadly.
Would've liked to see ports of Dino Crisis 1&2 as well. Xbox can keep Dino Crisis 3...
N64 was available right up to 2002, it was your era.
You just skipped it in favour of the newest thing.
Likewise the Gameboy was still very much relevant, (especially considering the GBA was backwards compatible) just not the newest thing.
Btw it’s N-GC NOT GCN, the brand (aka Nintendo) ALWAYS comes first.
@@ObsessiveGeek Timeline wise you're right but no it really wasn't 😅Let me be more clear, my parents are Jamaican and came to the US in the late 80s and had no gaming experience or knowledge, so I didn't even know about the N64 or Nintendo, Sega etc until around 2000 when I was 6 , so the GCN really was my personal first era of gaming. I saw my cousin playing Melee in 2002 and every thing changed since that moment. Gooood times.
Funny considering my oldest siblings had Playstation 1 and Nintendo 64, and needless to say, PS1 and PS2 were my favorites despite not having many games on it.
what's GCN stand for
The Gamecube came out in the last era of the old era of games. Before online was the norm, before microtransactions, and back before the middleclass of videogame budget disappeared.
The quick awser is:
The games are magical having a unique feeling to them.
The controller is one of if not the best controller ever made for 3d games
xbox 360 controller is the best of all time by far. especially for 3d games. the thin flimsy right stick on the gc controller makes it really bad for camera control. im pretty sure that right stick was created for smash bros specifically. second place would be ps5 controller and third place would be the 8bitdo/switch pro controller. the gamecube has a nice controller but nowhere near the best.
The GC controller is absolutely the best controller for MOST games. And the Xbox controller is trash, don't @ me.
There are only really two categories of games that the GCN struggled with. 2D games, because the d-pad is crap (weird, since Nintendo's always been the king of d-pads), and shooters because the c-stick is stubby (though this can be fixed as easily as opening it and dropping in a wii nunchuck stick as a replacement). Being fairly good for every game has its own appeal, which is why modern controllers are the way they are, but being able to use it for EVERYTHING tends to also prevent it from being GREAT at anything. Everything the GCN controller was made to play, it was pretty much the perfect controller for, which is what makes it great. I'd rather have (and do have) a GCN controller for all games it works for, and a more standard controller for everything else, and it's a far better experience than when I was using a standard modern controller for every single game.
Nintendo said: “let’s get funky”
I'm reading this in the voice of Dream Street and their song, "Let's Get Funky Tonight".
"are y'all ready to get funky"
I did not grow up with the purple cube when I was a kid, instead utilizing the PS2 for most of my childhood. Whenever I went over to people’s houses though and played games on their children’s GameCubes, I was thoroughly impressed and wanted one for some of those exclusives (namely Star Fox Assault and Geist lol). I also really liked it when certain games had the GameCube controller’s face buttons baked into the UI; that always stood out to me as a really neat feature. I didn’t have a lot of money as a kid though, so I’m making up for it now by grabbing some of the cheaper titles on the system. I’d definitely recommend picking up a backwards-compatible Wii first before grabbing a GameCube later on. It’ll allow you to buy controllers, games, and memory cards. The Wii also has really good native GC emulation with Nintendont.
In the early 2000s, I got both the PlayStation 2 and the GameCube and I still have them and play games on them more than the current gen consoles I have (PS5 and Switch).
I have a massive library worth of PS2 games and same applies for the GameCube as well. On the GameCube, I have numerous top notch games on there like Super Smash Bros: Melee, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, F-Zero GX, Kirby Airride, Mario Kart Double Dash, Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Pikmin 2, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Animal Crossing, Starfox Adventures, Metroid Prime, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Pokémon Colosseum, and Super Mario Sunshine. Thank god I got those games during the GameCube's lifespan way before the price hikes.
Also thank God GameCube emulation is as good as it is with those current prices
The GameCube is my favorite game console and one of the two consoles I’m deeply nostalgic for (the other being PlayStation 2).
Super Mario Sunshine is my favorite Mario game, Luigi’s Mansion is my favorite Mario spin-off series, Pikmin is my favorite Nintendo franchise, etc. The GameCube is genuinely unmatched in library variety and there truly is something for everybody on this system. So many childhood memories of mine were made with it, and it’s my primary console of choice for multiplayer games with friends.
The Cube was more powerful than people think.
The Gamecube was an amazing platform for Zelda and Metroid and gave us some more unique games like Pokémon Colosseum and XD Gale of Darkness, Mario Kart Double Dash, and Eternal Darkness. Plus, as others have said, those who grew up with it are nostalgic for the Gamecube nowadays.
Sad nostalgia is looked negatively when there is actual good games that to this day are worthwhile that you can't exactly get entirely with modern AAA or Indie gaming currently.
I loved the gamecube growing up but I still remember so many people bashing on it. Nowadays it feels like some people didn't realize how much they were missing out on. Experiementation isn't inherently a bad thing, despite many a gamer feeling back then that 'different=bad'. So I agree with the comments that experimentation is a big part of what made the GC special. Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, and yes even Starfox Adventures (despite its flaws) all hold a place in my heart.
GameCube had variety for sure. Not just Mario and Sonic, but also many spinoff games, tie ins to many movies, and unique games for many underrated IPs like Billy Hatcher, Vexx, Amazing Island, and Ribbit King.
It's crazy how loved it is now lol. People HATED it in the early 2000's - At least from my anecdotal experience of being one of the few people in our highschool who liked it lol - everyone was too obsessed with GTA3 and Halo and the GCN didn't have those.
So many kids who loved the NES, SNES and N64 all went PS2 or Xbox instead that gen.
People didn't hate it.
@@HunnysPlaylists I could pull some old, withered issues of EGM from the early 2000s out of my closet right now and pore through pages upon pages of "journalists" calling Gamecube a kiddie console, bemoaning how "gay" Wind Waker's art style was, and gushing about how cool it would be if the next 3D Mario were an M-rated game featuring Peach as a half-naked pole-stripper.
The Gamecube was very much hated.
And God help you if you were a college student at the time and you openly confessed to playing Mario.
@@RawPower867 I was actually alive then.
@@HunnysPlaylists So was I. The GC came out when I was in college.
@@RawPower867 yup lol I was in high school in 2003 I remember you were seen as that weird kid if you said you had a game cube and played Mario a Zelda windwaker It started getting some traction in my school once people heard it was getting Resident Evil 4 as an exclusive But then that faded out as soon as people realised it was also going to the PS2 with extra content
I look back on that era of gaming with a lot of nostalgia As I had 2 friends in high school and one of them had a PS2 and the other had an Xbox And they didn't live too far from me so we would play either one on weekends We probably played the PS2 and GameCube that generation the most So many incredible couch co-op games that gen So as I said the nostalgia is heavy for me but I'm not one of those people who go around saying how popular the GameCube was.. It had some amazing games that are looked back on Fondley nowadays but back then as you said it was seen as a babies console at the time by the gaming masses Which was true
I've heard people really knock down the Gamecube over it's lack of RPGs. Even though there aren't as many as there were on PS2, the quality of the RPGs on Gamecube was consistently good to great, and there was still quite a good handful to choose from, and almost all of them were exclusive at the time.
Favorite RPGs on Gamecube include Tales of Symphonia, Skies of Arcadia: Legends, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, Baten Kaitos, Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II, and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
How did you forget Pokemon Colosseum & XD Gale of Darkness? You chose some quality RPGs though.
@@WaterKirby1994
At the time I recall when JRPGS were always trashed on by outlets like XPlay.
@@darkzeroprojects4245 XPlay sounds like an Xbox Magazine. Did they prefer sports shovelware & shooters like the Xbox itself? 1 of SoA's fatal flaws that doomed Saturn was underestimating JRPGs with Pokemon, Final Fantasy, & Dragon Quest gaining massive popularity alongside anime during the late 90s.
phantasy star was peak
@@WaterKirby1994 They weren't forgotten, I just never had the opportunity to play them yet. Most of the RPGs I got on Gamecube, I've had since I was a child. Now, most of them cost more than I'm willing to pay. If I ever find copies of Colosseum or XD Gale of Darkness for a reasonable price, then I would love to play them! And I'd much rather play them legally on original hardware than emulate them.
I really regret not getting this console back in the day. I remember my mom even said if I wanted one and I said no even though I kind of did want it, but I knew she were tight on money so didn't want to bother her too much with it...
You can emulate these games really easy now, but it's not the same. To play these games when they were current and a kid would've meant so much.
First thing I want to say is, great video man. Love it. So for me I’m a big GameCube fan, when I was a kid it was my favorite console, from the awesome controller which is still my favorite controller, to the small discs, nice colors for the consoles, the cool designs and amazing graphics for back then, especially for games like Star fox adventures looked amazing graphically. The best part was the games and fun, so many great games from Zelda windwaker being my all time favorite, to smash bros melee and time splitters 2, and Metroid prime to the so many Mario games like tennis and golf to Mario party and baseball, just so much fun and great memories on it. But I always remembered GameCube growing up being the most hated console everyone seemed to hate it said it looks like a kids console, everyone hating Luigi’s mansion because he couldn’t jump and toon link not looking mature. Everyone in my school made fun of you if you had it, everyone loved ps2 and Xbox and always made fun of GameCube, heck I remember hearing that the GameCube was one of Nintendo’s biggest failures because it didn’t sell good and was a dead console by 2006, they said if it wasn’t for the gameboy advance and Nintendo DS, that Nintendo would have went out of business but the handhelds saved Nintendo. But for me GameCube was always the underdog and my personal favorite console. Heck on my Nintendo switch I play 90% of my games with a GameCube controller, obviously a modern one from power a. I remember in my family, everyone didn’t like the GameCube, because they were used to the n64. My dad and cousins were like this controller is weird and the games are different lol
Gamecube = smash bros melee
Smash bros melee = fox
Fox = your ded
For me it’s because every GameCube game I own I could play for like 4 hours easily lol
I remember playing Metroid Prime on a demo system. It blew my mind because up until that point I had only player Metroid 2 and Fusion.
The GameCubes games are amazing and most of them hold up to this day to the point that it is depressing. Also since I haven't seen it mentioned yet F-ZERO GX...I don't need to elaborate just saying the name of that game makes my point for me.
The Gamecube was my first real console, so I am very fond of it even if I played my Wii WAY more. What helps is that almost every first party title were some of the best games of both their series and the era.
Because it has Path of Radiance, obviously
Making Sandwiches during a Fe9 enemy phase is my favorite thing to do gahahaha
ngl im not sure which alternate universe you visited from where the ds doesn’t get the same amount of, if not way more praise and nostalgic reminiscences that the gamecube does
yeah, hence why that "if you were born before the ds, shut the fuck up" and "hiding my nintendo ds" jokes are popular nowadays
@@ssg-eggunner Weirdly ageist jokes.
The NDS imo is by far the greatest Nintendo console (that has run its course) and its not even close
The DS had extremely good first and third party support for literally its entire existence on the top of my head I can list around 40 games the DS had that were excellent
@@snapdragonzoroarkand the games were going to fun instead of newest graphics
I was one of those 2000s kids that thought the GameCube was lame. Now it’s one on my favorite consoles.
Gamecube was the first Nintendo console to have Sonic on it and yes Advance series on Gameboy Advance, that’s another reason to love it more, and I too absolutely love the simple shape and purple color, as I grew older Purple became my favorite color and I think the Gamecube is part of that reason, the GBA was also purple too. Also Gamecube controller is still relevant too with Smash and is the most comfortable ergonomically.
I like that the GameCube runs at 60 fps and there is barely any input lag. Even though I think the wires are way too short, the controller is comfortable and responsive
It's so awesome no one bought it because they couldn't handle the awesomeness.
I have a fun fact, sonic the hedgehog is the reason why the popular game PIZZA TOWER is popular. Back when there were demos and dev footages (somewhere in 2018, the start of pizza tower development), nobody was even knowing about the game, but then... Sonic Amateur Game Expo (or SAGE) launched. And so pizza tower's SAGE 2019 demo released. A BIG amount of pepole would download the demo, to the point when the sage servers crashed. When the full game came out (january 2023), it got the title for the 3rd highest ranked game after a really short time. To anyone who sees this fact, i recommend you buy it, its great. (you dont need to)
The last time tripping in a cord pulled our Wii off the shelf, we just through it out and went back to our GameCube.
Another great vieo, Kiro. Keep up the good work 👏
I never grew up with the gamecube so i have no nostalgia bias and even still i absolutely love the gamecube and its library
Ive had nothing but a good time playing games like pikmin 2, mario sunshine, mario kart double dash and smash melee on dolphin
And the controller is easily the best ive ever held it feels comfortable, sturdy and overall has a good design
Because it has my two favorite games, Megaman network transmission and Twilight Princess. AND FOR GOD SAKE NINTENDO AND CAPCOM, PLEASE REMASTER THESE GAMES ON MODERN PLATFORM!!!
Its crazy because I've never owned a GameCube but the combination of my nephew bringing it over my house every time he came over, as well as before that me and my friends walking to Fry's electronics to play the super smash bros melee demo all day has me mad nostalgic for the GameCube
Pure focus on gameplay, some of the best games of all time, great ergonomic controller, pretty graphics. Not hard to figure out
This was my First game Console ever.
Same
I was on message boards in the early 2000s and most of the community despised the Gamecube. We were all early 20 somethings at the time. Most said it would be Nintendo's last console and the would go 3rd party after the generation was over. Even When Nintendo World New York opened, the haters said they were going to go there just to mock Nintendo fans.
I still have my GameCube hooked up to my tv now. Luckily I managed to get my hands on the component cables from Japan in the 2000s which makes it still hold up. Those cables sell for like $400 or more now when I paid $30 for them then.
I didn't have a GameCube either. I owned 2 of them one Indigo and one Black, one in my room and one in the living room. The Indigo one was my take everywhere one and living room one I still have my cards with all my saves and use them to play my games.
The handle on the gamecube was there do that you could bring the console to your friends house. Even back then, they were thinking of ways to make consoles more portable.
Hoping the lengthy section of highlighting comments doesn't become a common trend. We're here to hear what you think, and I ended up fast forwarding through you reading out comments because it got boring.
I think that section can be good but if put at the end or many of them are less nostalgia focused and better responses it would be more engaging. I never owned one but I care about what the games and hardware gimmicks of GBA/GameCube or other things offered or the angle or the experimental games. I don't care about nostalgia even if I owned a PS2/Xbox I still care about the quality, effort and different of this era not emotions clouding judgement.
fr
he should've asked people specifically born after 2005 so we could get non biased responses
The GameCube was my first home console and it still works to this day, I also have a Wii so I can play my GC games there as well.
You are forgetting the MAIN reason why fans love it soo much... It was a Console FOR GAMERS!... Especially for fans that grew up with Nintendo.
It had its games for "kids/family" but also had games for Teen and Adults... Like Baten Kaitos & Eternal Darkness
(when was the last time Nintendo was involved with a M for Mature game?... exactly!)
The design of the controller was made taking what gamers liked in the designs of the competition but adding "Nintendo's Style" to it.
The gimmicks felt natural, like Link Cable with GBA to transfer data like Pokémons, for game like Wind Waker and Four Swords, and to even download temporarily NES games and mini games like Animal Crossing did...
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Like the Ethernet Adapter, which allows you not only to play online Phantasy Star, but ALSO to play Mario Kart DD with 8 players offline split between two TVs...
It tried to bring almost all their IPs and creating new ones in almost perfect balance...
Wave Race, 1080⁰, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf... and Mario "soccer", Mario Baseball, Pikmin, etc...
It brought a dream come true for those who loved Sonic but never had a Sega, bringing all Sonic Games and new ones...
It was the console with bigger 3rd party games support EVER in the history of Nintendo... (when they had a hard contenders 😅 I mean)... almost everything that you get in PS2 it was on GameCube too...
It had way more games than Xbox 1.
But like the Vita, it failed because gamers are not as big masses or Normies...
That is why they change their focus from Gamers to Normies with the Wii 😒
IF ONLY the GameCube had DVD players, normies would rather prefer to buy a GCN for their kids and the DVD for them...
And sadly, being a hard console to pirate, that make it hard to sell in LATAM 😓...
#SaquenmeDeLatinoAmerica
That is why it was loved but had low sells...
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#WeLoveYouGameCube
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I also look at Gamecube as the “remaster system” like how in 1998
Mgs and sonic adventure came out. And kinda aged when we saw the power of the next gen ps2/xbox/GC
Then 2003/04 sonic adventure DX and Twin snakes come out with remastered visuals and as a gamecube exclusive’s.
theres also a few other dream cast games that was cross platforms with the gamecube and ps2 aswell
You pick very good discussion topics 👍
PS2 has a stronger library of games, but GameCube is the one I grew up with. I love the little box console
Because it had beautiful graphics, amazing controller, had the majority of ips represented with multiple entries plus you had tons of great 3rd parties as well, Gameboy player, unique accessories like the dk bongos, mic, gb add on connector for bonus features and for games like four swords, 3 diffrent bootup sounds, cool system menu, had pretty much every zelda at the time playable on it due to being able to also play the gb ports, introduced luigis mansion, gave a new way to play metroid, had eternal darkness which was a great horror game exclusive that messed with your TV and thinking it was deleting your saves, the gamecube is the most unique console ever made all others are pretty basic
For me it's nostalgia and the game library. So many fond memories playing through the multiplayer games with friends or the single-player and multiplayer ones with my sister.
3 months ago I came across my old GameCube while looking for something else. It still works great and I started over all of my games and they are still just as fun to play today as they were all those years ago
feels like a lot more than just 21 mil played the Game Cube growing up
I grew up on snes and genesis. Then n64 and ps1. My brother and I traded everything we had at babages for the GameCube the week it came out! I was 12 he was 13.
the gamecube also had ocarina of time and majora's mask. that's why i bought it. sad it was only sold as a bundle.
as a little kid i really struggled with the n64 controller. so i was finally able to play those games with a normal controller.
Excellent video! For the Xbox though, the sheer power that Halo 1 and 2 had to sell the entire console and some controllers for 4-player split screen can't be discounted.
I saw those Orange Gamecubes being sold in Ohio at I think a Best Buy in 2003 so they weren't Japan Exclusive. The real Japan Exclusive that I'm aware of was Gundam Series Red which really should have come here promoted by Toonami. There was also a Seafoam Green packaged with a certain game & there were going to be even more colors that were never released such as Blue & Pink.
As for the games themselves Nintendo had incredible exclusives Melee, Double Dash, Mario Party 5, 6, & 7, Starfox Adventures, Kirby AirRide, F-Zero GX, Metroid Prime, Pokemon Colosseum, Thousand Year Door, & Wind Waker in addition to the start of both Pikmin & Animal Crossing. 3rd Party support was incredible with Sonic Adventure 2 Battle being exclusive for an entire decade. Sonic likely had the best showing on GameCube of the 6th Gen Consoles with Sega also giving GameCube 3 Super Monkey Ball games & Billy Hatcher. Then there were countless games on Xbox & PS2 as well that played every bit as good on GameCube. I miss being young.
Everyone who owned a GameCube has only good things to say about it. Considering it was the last console Nintendo made while Hiroshi Yamauchi was president of the company, and before they changed their official color from red to gray, and back to red again, it has a special place in the hearts of gaming collectors.
What would be even more awesome is if "Panasonic GameCube" were sold worldwide instead as it also had DVD player among other things.
It was weird. Purple, a handle, the controller shape
PS2 was arguably more iconic
It was the last generation that had to make games without the internet. There were standards for how games should release.
To me the GameCube is the most overrated and underrated system at the same time. Had it when it was released and thought it was a cool system, but overall wasn’t something I think of when I think Nintendo.
That's kinda how I feel about N64 and GameCube. I feel that some of the praise is moreso praise from that era as a whole. The creativity seemed stronger during the 6th gen era without the amateurish feel of indie games. Back when everyone hyped the N64 as this almighty beast, I felt it was oversold. Now people seem to crap on it and call it overrated, and now I feel obligated to defend it, LOL! Funny how things come full circle.
0:01 a GameCube that connects to it self
We never had a Gamecube when I was a kid, and I felt it hard. Missed so many great games.
The GC has de BEST controller ever. Fight me
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Tiny d-pad, tiny C-Stick, using the face buttons would be hell for any non-GCN games (try playing Wii VC games with a GCN controller) and there's no second Z button.
The GCN controller is good, but no way in hell it's the best.
Nah I say ps2 had it. But console wise yes GameCube had the best console design, I mean it the most durable console despite its small size
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@@zemchia didn't say perfect, I said BEST
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I didn't expect my comment in a community tab I was skimming through to end up being highlighted as one of the reasons people love the GameCube. Glad I could be of assistance.
One of the coolest and most iconic consoles! the GameCube holds some of my best gaming memories. There was something about its sleek, dark aesthetic and the experimental games that made it perfect. The early 2000s were truly a golden era for gaming.
While I enjoy my current consoles and their games, it feels like something is missing from today's gaming experience, games just hit you different back then, and I swear it’s not because of nostalgia I feel this way!!! 😂
When I went to K-mart with my mom to get my gamecube, I distinctly remember the retailer asking me which color I wanted, black or purple and I remember instantly shouting that I wanted purple because it was way more interesting and fun looking over the boring black color that the PS2 and Xbox had
Indigo is basically the color between blue and purple. Look at indigo and purple side by side, and the difference is staggering, unless you're color-blind.
The hardcore gaming-community basically snubbed their noses at Gamecube when it was out and money was going to Nintendo. Now that time has passed, it's socially acceptable to like Gamecube. It has become a target of hipsters and collectors. It really pisses me off when people who hated Gamecube (when Nintendo was relying on it financially), now seem to love it and collect games for it, the money for which doesn't go to any developer or publisher. I hate collectors.
The man said, he doesnt know about much local multiplayer games that the Xbox was known for when Halo CE exists LOL a game that was more popular than anything on the gamecube at the time mostly because of its local multiplayer.
The GameCube Era was Nintendo at their most creative and interesting before they started focusing on gimmick consoles.
Wasn't my thing but people held the early Halo games in as high regard as Smash. The four ports definitely made sense for Xbox
In the early 2000s, this was the only console I had. As someone who loves fighting games, the Gamecube wasn't known for that. Although I did get to play the Gamecube port of Soul Calibur 2 & Sonic Gems Collection had Sonic the Fighters. 2 of my fave non-fighting Gamecube games are Custom Robo & Legend of Zelda 4 Swords Adventures. I played that Zelda game in 4 player co-op in summer 2006 ❤
There were 4 Naruto Clash of Ninja Series games on GC (although 3&4 were Japan Exclusive) as well as a 3 Way Crossover Fighting Game between Dragon Ball, One Piece, & Naruto that was also Japan Exclusive. Super Smash Bros Melee is also technically a fighting game & I feel like there were more fighting games on GameCube than those.
@@WaterKirby1994 true, but the PS2 had better fighting games available. Such as the Tekken series, the KOF series, Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution, mortal kombat armageddon, & the Street Fighter 15th anniversary collection
For me, the controller. I know that the GameCube controller has flaws like the d pad being too small, having one Z button, the C Stick being too small, but it was comfortable and the ABXY buttons had a unique layout.
Im almost 23 and still playing my GameCube to this day
$100 gamecube was an amazing deal.
6:29 That doesn't make any sense. Every pokémon game since the original red and green has been an RPG.
I like the GameCube cause I grew up with a ps2 and it's cool to see how the other side of the generation grew up. Also the library is small and not as big or diverse as the ps2 (no really, I still discover new ps2 games regularly) but still full of top tier Nintendo first parties, 3rd party exclusives and cross platform games. Also that controller is sooooo good.
The GameCube was an era of more experimentation for popular franchises and a lot of it holds up nicely!
I think the main reason I liked the gamecube was because every Nintendo IP (excluding a small few) ate extremely well on the console; I mean, we got two starfox games, an f-zero game, two metroid games, three mario party games, the introduction of Custom Robo and Chibi Robo in the West, 3 Zelda games as well as a collection, the list goes on.
Wait, I never knew the GameCube Platinum was a limited edition console? I have two of them.
Whaaaat?¿I need that spice orange game cube, the orange controller was always my favorite to use as a kid 😎
It was the first real try of Nintendo into the cd/dvd technology.
Because of Melee, Sunshine, Double Dash, Sonic Adventure and Adventure 2, Metriod Prime, Wind Waker and much more and heck even movie video games
Before the Wii the Gamecube was pretty much the best console ever alongside Playstation 2
The funny thing about a lot of the things people say they like about the GameCube these days, were reasons it was ridiculed in the early-mid 2000s. Experimentation in game design? No, at the time people didn't want Mario with a water jet pack, they wanted Mario 64 2, they didn't want cell shaded cartoony Zelda, they wanted dark and gritty Zelda (which only eventually came at the very end of the GameCube's life).
I also think people today overestimate the third party support on the GameCube, it was lackluster at best. The GameCube missed out on many notable third party games, and even series that initially started releasing on the GameCube were no longer releasing on it by the end of the generation (GameCube got the first two Burnout games, but not the third, same with Call of Duty, just for a couple examples), it missed out completely on GTA, mainline Final Fantasy, mainline Metal Gear, mainline Mega Man, Silent Hill, Tekken, and many others, with no good replacements.
Chibi Robo Plug Into Adventure is one of my all-time favorite Gamecube games. I would love a Switch port!
The gamecube era was just a really fun and silly era for Nintendo and gaming that i love :' )
I definitely felt big ballin with my Platinum GC back when it dropped. 😭
I think you nailed it with how great of a multiplayer system it was. It felt like the last "oldschool" console. The XBox and PS2 felt like the transition into the beginning of consoles feeling like PCs. Nintendo, to this day, is doing such a good job of NOT being a PC. I haven't purchased a console since the PS3, and even then I waited until it was dirt cheap. I've been on PC. Yet, the switch has kept tempting me. I don't think I game on the go enough to justify it, but honestly, I feel like that desire to get it anyway proves how great they are at making stuff that people still want.
It delivered a unique flavor of games distinct from what you got on the PS2. PS2 was much better for many (if not most) genres, but Gamecube had its own niches.
At the time, the Gane Cube was seen as a "Kids" console, Mario wore a t-shirt, instead of a full shirt, and a water backpack, Link became a strange big-headed cartoon, and the console itself looked like a toy stove, and in the 2000s, we were dark, edge, and it's not a phase mom!!! Thing kkkkk But deep down we wanted to play the cube, we were afraid of being teased at school, of being a kid and don't be mature. I look back then and and I regret not having played it at the time, because of social pressure, at least that was how Nintendo was seen in Brazil, video games for babies
"everyone" is an overstatement. I still can't find a SINGLE game that I would like to play there, even after 20 years in the market.
One of my life questions answered by one of my favorite youtubers
I really love the GameCube's design. The indigo is a good color that matches well with the logo itself. Also the controller is gorgeous.
Simple. it was in this era that is born the best Mario 3D render.
The GameCube is actually more powerful than the PS2. Unlike the N64, they could have ported games like Final Fantasy and Shadow of the Colossus without sacrificing graphical quality. They may have taken more discs, but the graphics could have been even better than the PS2 versions. Just look at what they did with Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid.
It's simple, everyone who grew up with a GameCube is now old enough to shill for it online.
N64 and GameCube owners were underdogs for the entire generation and that only made them attached to them more.
There were reasons both good and dumb.
Both did suffer hard commercial failures , former in japan though did well internationally, the latter I think all over compared to xbox and ps2.
Ya know
Tbh I rather have a new gen of consoles that were more like those 3 over what we get now while using modern hardware.
Systems made for gaming, only gaming, and isn't constantly nickel and diming you, and has as much physical and digital distribution.
If a indie somehow was able to build such a solid console even if its not as powerful as current consoles, it can still offer solid quality and performance.
Still in denial this was the lowest selling console in the 6th revolution. EVERYONE growing up had a GCN or PS2. I legit only knew 2 people who had an Xbox.
GameCube wasn’t exactly the lowest selling of its generation as that would go to the Dreamcast. And even then, the original Xbox barely did any better considering that the console was backed by a company valued over $400 billion back then. Surpassing the GameCube’s only ever so slightly (Yet, the GameCube turned out far more profitable in comparison), while turning out to be a huge financial disaster for Microsoft where the first Xbox costed them $4 billion in losses. As a result, Microsoft made drastic changes with their upcoming successor to not repeat any of the financial problems they went through with the original Xbox, just as Nintendo changed their strategy to appeal to a wider audience.
The GameCube could've released in the 90s
The nostalgia boom of the sixth generation is still going on. People in their 20's like me just wanna play it again.
2 zelda games, 2 metroid prime games, 2-3 mario game.. release a bunch of great games and everyone will love your system.