29:00 Animal Crossing came with a memory card because its save took up 58 blocks of a normal, 59-block memory card. Besides the special sticker, the memory cards in Animal Crossing have a one-block unlock save that prompts Tom Nook to give you some additional goodies.
I thought that one block was used for NES data/saves. Though interestingly, there's code in the game that implies that Nintendo could of sold memory cards with NES games built-in to them, allowing more NES games to be played in Animal Crossing than the ones already in the game itself.
@@Toonrick12pretty sure there are a couple of NES games thay have no way of legitimately getting them, so there's a chance that they might've had other memory cards with em, idk.
That's crazy, that's a huge save file! All my GC games save to single digit block sizes, aside from NFS Carbon, which takes like 34. I wonder how long it takes to save lol.
Fun fact about the GameCube menu music: sped up 16x it’s actually the famicom disk system startup music. There’s a few videos on TH-cam showing this if you look around.
I was a missionary for the GameCube, I took pride in it and was always so happy with it. I didn't understand why certain people didn't like it, I heard them talking about it having no games but like the video said, there were so many good games for it. Ahhh, I love that little lunchbox.
In my mid 40s so I don’t know if I fall in that 5-10 year younger range or not, but I got the GameCube on launch day and I loved it. I still pull it out every now and then to play Eternal Darkness - still one of my favorite games ever.
Running the games on period correct hardware (a CRT TV) really helps with the looks of games from this era. The textures and color dithering don't move over to an LCD very nicely, it just looks so much better on an old TV.
Glad to see you giving the GameCube a fair shot. Yeah, the games can be expensive, so I really don’t blame those who resort to emulation. Fortunately, we seem to be getting more and more GameCube games re-released on Switch, so we can finally see what we missed. Now that you’ve unboxed the Dreamcast, Xbox and GameCube does this mean you’re unboxing the PS2 next? Definitely looking forward to that.
You're better off buying a 2nd console and getting a optical drive emulator board so you can play .iso's on an SD card. Alternatively you can also use a Swiss memory card and put .iso's on an sd card to gamecube memory card adapter. There's also the 1st gen wii's that you can soft mod with Nintendont and play games off a usb connected HDD. I wouldn't buy Gamecube games in this current market the prices are too high because of speculative investors and I'd rather have the greedy investors and resellers get stuck holding their bag.
@@oOignignoktOo1 You can play gamecube games all the way up to the Wii U if you so desire; Although 1st gen Wiis are the only consoles that retain the NGC controller/memory card ports, so some of the more esoteric stuff like the GBA transfer cable are only available there or via PC emulation..
Luke turning around was scary, especially how he violently swivelled back. It was almost like he's been cranking his neck at the kiosk all these years.
For me, the Resident Evil remake and legacy ports were more than enough reasons to buy this console. Double Dash and the Mario Party games were a welcome surprise. Being primarily a PC gamer, the Game Cube turned out to be the console I played the most for that generation.
My GC memory is my very generous boss buying all of us a platinum edition unit. He then ordered the network adapters from Japan so we could play multiplayer Mario Kart together. Good times.
Your pic of your brother is amazing, but only slightly more amazing than the reveal! hahahaha. well done, guys. ALSO, I almost didn't watch this because the Cube wasn't on my radar either. Not a tiny blip even. BUUUUUT I;m so glad i did! hah
I got a purple one at launch, and perhaps "played it loud" too much because that one burned out in 3 years and then I bought one of these platinum ones at target for 99.99 to replace it. I didn't know how to mess with the laser potentiometer at the time. A year after that, I mod chipped it with a Q00b pro and to this day that console is still in service and can play ANYTHING. The internet is a good teacher.
I believe you might find it difficult to locate original component cables. I still have a multi adapter cable that has composite and S-video with the other end for Gamecube, XBox, and Playstation consoles at the time. Still works and I keep just in case. It looks like you have the version with the digital output, because I believe later revisions removed it. The square hole in the game box is the "hole" Blockbuster used for the yellow locking mechanism that slide inside the side of the case. Working there, it was easy to get fast unlocking or securing a crap load of rentals/returns. That was a great and fun video! 😊
Later revisions did remove the component jack. I believe it was a cost-saving measure; it's probably a big reason why those later GameCube bundles were only $99.
What a pleasant surprise. Thanks for sharing this with us. I have very fond memories of the system. I bought one after my Xbox was stolen, right before Wind Waker was released, and that got me through some rough times. If you get the urge to go down the route of using the fancy video out, I can whole heartedly recommended the CARBY.
I recieved mine from a friend, the Metroid Prime bundle, as he got the RE4 edition. All because their cats had chewed the power cables into such state. It was easier to buy a new console than find a new powercable for the system - so I cut the bad parts off and solded the cables back together. A working GameCube, yay!
My parents got the gamecube for me because I played it at the demo kiosk so much. Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg was the game that captured my attention. It was so much fun. Great video.
I’m glad that even as a kid i didn’t care about stigmas or the opinions of others. I thought myself more mature than others and yet at the same time loved things such as the gamecube and defended it and the games.
You absolutely need to pick up Eternal Darkness if you can get it for a good price. And Viewtiful Joe. And look out for an Action Replay or Gameshark as an oddware type thing (disc and custom memory card). I think the GameCube had the last one which actually ran on the system and modified the running game, instead of being a device to import hacked save data. Freeloader was another thing from Datel, for playing imports, though this was built in to the AR/GS as well. Also, the official memory cards were grey (same colour as the front port surround) for the 59 block one and black for the 251 block cards.
Ah, the old Nintendo lunchbox. I was around 9 when I got mine so I was the perfect audience for the console. It's great that most of the games have gotten a cult following even a few getting remade. Cause this system was a good fraction of my childhood.
18:25 Ah, Rogue Leader, excellent choice. Remember that Family Guy Star Wars moment where Peter is manning one of the Millennium Falcon turrets and chanting the music from the scene? That was totally one of the levels of the game and totally how everybody who played it played it.
I'd never seen those Japanese size cases before. I think they should've stuck to them for US. It would've helped retailers by taking up less space, and would've stood out to consumers for being different.
That's not really how it works in the US. Especially during this time, size was everything. People associate it with power. Their decision to use DVD cases instead of the smaller Japanese cases probably helped sales, even though the console was already doomed by its color and shape.
"No no, make the NES cartridge hull over twice the size of the actual board, because them landfills won't pollute themselves with excess plastic. Also to make it look more like a VHS tape, because we reaaaaally don't want to be associated with the game crash. No, really, it's just a bizarro VHS player that plays games, lol." -Nintendo But seriously, all game cases should be like, old PC/PS1 jewel case size, but made out of tougher plastic. So probably like a OG Nintendo DS game case (not the hollower and flimsier 3DS cases), but slightly bigger, and holds a disc instead of a cartridge. Even the Switch game cases should be made like 40% smaller (and 40% tougher).
The Game Boy Player Start-up Disc came in a Japanese style case in North America. The Japanese start-up disc actually used a special case that was blue and had an extra holder for a GBA cartridge in addition to the memory card holder.
While I owned consoles prior to the Gamecube, that was the first console I ever bought with my own money after moving out of my parents home. I got it on sale for $100, and I got Baiten Kaitos and Tales of Symphonia with it. It is a personal fav console just because of those memories.
For the longest longest time I didnt realise the Wii was backwards compatible with GameCube. I just played Wii games as a kid that mom bought for us. When I did eventually find out it didn't really click with any significance for me. But now, I've gone on a full nostalgia journey and I'm so excited by the possibility of being able to play some games I missed out on by not owning a GameCube
8:25 about the GameCube triggers... they were odd ones. They were analog from the very beginning, with a sort of digital end-stop with that weird click you feel at the end of travel. Basically, game devs could map the analog travel of the trigger to one function and then have the end stop mapped to something else. If I remember right, Eternal Darkness and Smash Bros Melee used that function pretty well. Basically, Eternal Darkness used the triggers for targeting different parts of enemies' anatomy, and pressing the trigger all the way to the end really locked you in on a target. And in Melee, the triggers were for block/shield, where a moderate press of the trigger would put up a pretty mild block/shield that would only block pretty mild attacks, whereas going full-lock would protect you against just about anything but risk having your shield broken which would stun you.
I was obsessed with owning consoles as a kid and opted to save up any birthday and Christmas money I could get and buy more consoles (usually renting games primarily and just owning a handful). So I had Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox and GameCube during their heyday, even starting to have some more income to buy more games for all of them, and GC may have been my favourite. I was 13 in 2001. It mainly comes down to Nintendo's first party output I suppose, but watching this I'm seeing all the little things about it that were charming to me. You can push a button to release discs from the console! It's right in the middle. No need to pry them out. I remember just sitting with my GC and inspecting it sometimes, taking the little nameplate off and opening up all the compartments. I was obsessed with that thing.
It's so cool to be able to g back through your thrift videos and see how things have even recently changed. Plz do more to keep the updates for future.
Metroid Prime graphics and mechanics are very impressive for the weak GameCube and for a game that is so old. Environment looks like something taken out of Doom 3. No wonder it is addictive for you. Thank you Clint for the awesome, nostalgic video ❤ I love your channel. It is always so comfy and calming. Your soothing, warm voice makes every video a perfect material to chill out and relieve even the worst anxiety 👍 Please never stop uploading.
My brother and I bought the GameCube together for one reason. It was cheap. We absolutely took advantage of the pack deals. Ours was Walmart. We got a GameCube, two controllers, Mario Sunshine, Smash Bros Melee, and Metroid Prime for the price of $150. I had really wanted a PS2, but its price didn't really drop. A used PS2 with 2 controllers was the same price as the brand new GCN bundle we got.
SP2 was used for the dial-up modem. Despite not using dial-up any more at the time, I still got a modem for my gamecube just so it would be complete. Nowadays you can also use it for a microsd reader
I got a platinum gamecube for Christmas of it's launch year with Sunshine and Metroid Prime, I still have it sitting in my room with almost the entire collection of games I'd got for it over the years. I did eventually get every console from that generation, but honestly I think I look back on the gamecube with the most fondness.
lol - trying to remember the things I was going to comment as you were walking through this. #1 is that the RTC uses a coin cell battery that should be serviced at this point, but thankfully nothing explodey. #2 is that the discs are proprietary but also /kind of/ in a good way - they're CAV instead of CLE which means they're formatted more like a computer disk drive with sectors. That trades off density for faster seeks. #3 is that the shoulder buttons are full analog with an additional button at the end - they are literally two separate mechanisms inside the controller. #4 it's a great system and there are some real gems. I hope you have a blast with it.
The first console I bought myself - got the Japanese version on launch and modded to play NA games just a smidge in advance of Western release. Such a great time
I've had my DOL 001 GC since it came out, Just did the Pico mod a couple days ago and discovered that little watch battery is still ticking! I'll be cracking it back open to swap it out but it really is amazing how durable these little guys are
When I was 10, the Game Cube was the first console I bought from Media Play after saving up allowance, Xmas and Birthday money. The first games I got were Smash Bros Melee, Metroid Prime and 007 Agent Under Fire.
Clint, Resi 4 debuted on the Cube! A kid's toy it wasn't. Some of the most beautiful titles ever released (like Resi 4) were ported with *_worse_* graphics to other consoles, and others (like Tales of Symphonia) were lost to time until being re-issued on Switch. And don't forget the Wii was internally a GameCube on steroids! And modern Mario Kart is still based on the new game model introduced in Double-Dash on the Cube. It was a graphically groundbreaking system.
When I got my Gamecube, I read up about it, having seen it might support S-Video, I went out and got an S-Video cable. Then when I saw a couple games supporting Dolby Pro Logic, I connected it to our home theater system, it was quite the time.
I remember my Dad taking me picking up this exact “limited editon platinum” gamecube and XD Gail of darkness from Toys R Us for my birthday as a kid. Ahh to go back. You really missed out, Smash bros Melee, Double Dash, Super Mario Sunshine, Star Fox, Metroid, Animal Crossing. The GameCube had a solid line up and was a big part of my childhood.
I like many left after N64, when I was 11. Getting the Dreamcast got me so excited for the future and the promise of a huge library meant I had a PS2 by 2002…took until 2010 before I got a used Wii and went back to Nintendo!
Being a ps2 guy, i remember ordering the Resident Evil/Biohazard Remake from japan and then picking up a new black Gamecube. I modded the gc by bridging a contact and added a switch to play jp games. It was so worth it, a true system seller for the resident evil remake.
that tear on the box seems to indicate that at one time it was probably wrapped up a christmas present and got returned. because, dad, mom or grandma got one too
Not only did I end up with a GameCube pretty early, I was just out of college when it came out. And I stood in line to get one opening night/day for my youngest sibling for Christmas. Even though I had a PS2 we were still very much a Nintendo family.
Love the Gamecube! Parents got me the black one for Xmas when it came out. I played so much NFS, and Metroid, and various Mario-related games on it. It eventually crapped out, I RMA'd it and they sent me a silver one like you got here. And that one still works, yay! When my buddies come over we typically play Mario Party on it lol. Also, this was very cool seeing crisp footage of a Gamecube in new condition!
Awesome video. Cool to hear about the history behind it. My only experience with a GameCube was trying out Metroid Prime on a demo setup at a local Kmart. Getting consoles was tough for me because my family couldn't really afford much, so by the time I got enough to work with, I ended up going PlayStation because other influences, but I would've liked to try Metroid Prime again, and killer7 on its original platform.
i remember that ps2 xbox gamecube component cable it was made by madcatz , also due to my late intro into the need for speed franchise i recall NFS hot pursuit 2 on the gamecube was my first taste of the franchise , ive been hooked on NFS ever since lol
My entire experience with the Gamecube was playing Mario Party with friends after I finished my exams in my last year of University and before graduation. We had nothing better to do, so we got drunk every night and played on the Gamecube over at a friend's house for about 2 weeks or so.
Maybe someone will agree with me, I feel like when you grow up with GameCube it's forever the console in your heart. The iconic games like Mario Sunshine and Double Dash come so naturally, and they always look good. I'm always shocked when I hear how people feel about GameCube, cause it just doesn't hit me the same way
The hole in the bottom of Gamecube game cases was for a plastic insert that would prevent people from just opening the case and stealing the game from it.
Have had all three, I still have a couple GameCubes, sold and repurchased a PS2, and had the X-Box for a month and traded it in for a GBA SP long-long ago... still have the SP.
looks a lot like a gameboy advance SP - I had a GBA in this color, and every time Clint turns the gamecube over, it reminds me exactly of my old gameboy.
Still having the fresh memory of how my siblings mistreated my n64 and its controllers in my mind, I ordered two GC bundles with mario kart, one for me and one for them. Yes I was older and bought it near its demise, but, mine is still pristine today, not so much the other one... I can really only remember playing smash.
I remember my mom taking me to Walmart so I could buy one with my own money that I had been saving since I heard it was coming out. We got the purple one right at midnight when they went on sale. I had just turned 15 so I'm sure it was a lot of birthday cash.
I can relate to gamers that get their hands on a console no one else where live even heard of, then having to get rid of it because of not being able to find games for that system where they live, for me it was a Sega Dream Cast.
I never actually owned one of these. But I remember playing on one at the 2001 E3 I attended. They had Luigi's Manion and I took home a foam gba and game cube. Heh. I remember telling my little brother I had gotten him a game cube and handed him the foam one. :D. My brother did end up owning a real one before too long, so I ended up playing through Super Mario Sunshine and a few others on his system.
GameCube has aged like fine wine & I never owned one! I was a PS2/Xbox 360 kid and GameCubes always seemed underpowered at the time; looking back and realizing the games make or break the console makes me realize GameCube will stand the test of time with one of the best gaming libraries available for kids and some adults.
I actually passed up a PS2 at first in favor of a Gamecube because I was so impressed with my neighbours N64 compared to my PS1. I eventually moved over to PS2 when stores stopped supporting the Gamecube, but I'll always love it. Glad you found some love for it as well.🤣
The menu music is actually a severely slowed down version of the boot music that plays on the famicom disk system. I learned that from did you know gaming, lol. The gc is one of my all-time fave consoles. If I was forced to choose a console of that gen, I would begrudgingly pick the ps2purely for the quantity and quality of games, plus that dvd player really helped. But i would really miss not being able to play gc games as I can't remeber ever owning a bad one
i remember coming home from School one year on my Birthday i think it was 2002 or 2003 my dad got me a GameCube with Need for speed hot pursuit Good times!
You know it really does astound me at just how well the GameCube has held up over all these years. The thing is over 20 years old, and playing on a CRT, it really does look great, graphically, even today. I don't think there's a single thing that came out on the GameCube (first-party wise, anyway) that I could definitely say just looked "ugly."
I'd love to see a retrospective of the Rogue Squadron games... When I was a kid, I had the Rogue Squadron demo on my computer and played it religiously for months. Just the demo. (god, I miss the days of ungodly amounts of PC demos) My father ended up buying me the CD-ROM for Christmas. He never really paid attention to video games or technology so it was a really cool surprise.
Game Cube, Bloody Roar. Many many many College afternoons with my mates smashing that game out and battling everyone! Oh and the Zombie shooter that was a huge GC hit, can't remember the name off hand though.
I had a Gamecube but my ex took it in the divorce...even though she didn't really want it, she just didn't want me having it. But I kept MY games lol...which I eventually sold. It was a good system, I loved it for the short period I had it (less than 1 year). I wonder what she ended up doing with it... Oh and you're not wrong about the console being good for "party games", that's the main reason my ex and I got it, because we were always hosting hang outs there every weekend. The system had 4 joystick ports and a ton of fun party games. Mario Kart, Mario Party and Warioware were our favorites at the time. So I do have a lot of fond memories of it...until the divorce :P
I have fond memories of this console. I had just moved into a place with my girlfriend, and for my birthday, she bought me an Indigo GameCube with the GBA Player, and Super Mario Sunshine. I would spend Saturdays playing it until she would get home from work, then we would hang out together. She talked about that for years, how she would open the door and I would be there, curled up on the couch, relaxed, and happy to see her. It was one of her favorite things.
I’ve never been much of a gamer and never owned a console of my own. That said, I have lots of good memories playing GameCube games with my brother and occasionally with his gamer friends. It was the last console he owned before we both moved out and went our separate ways. Smash Brothers, Mario Party and Mario Cart were excellent games that were tons of fun, even for teenagers and even without a ton of violence and mature ratings like the most popular PS and Xbox games. I have nothing against reasonable game violence, but it isn’t necessary to have fun. “Scanning Mario’s dick” is not a phrase I ever thought I’d hear.
If you're getting told to set the calendar every time you turn it on, the internal RTC battery has died. Had I not known this was in production ahead of time, I could have lent you some games for you to demo on there, along with a Memory Card with my saves.
Insurrection industries has a very solid component cable that is on the same level as the oem. It wasnt untill a few years ago that it was even possible to make third party cables because of something locking others out that smart ass people reverse engineered. Thank god for the retro community.
i ate some mushrooms before watching this and when you were talking about the smell of it when it's right out of the box i almost started crying tears of joy because i could smell it too in my brain lololololol
29:00 Animal Crossing came with a memory card because its save took up 58 blocks of a normal, 59-block memory card. Besides the special sticker, the memory cards in Animal Crossing have a one-block unlock save that prompts Tom Nook to give you some additional goodies.
I thought that one block was used for NES data/saves. Though interestingly, there's code in the game that implies that Nintendo could of sold memory cards with NES games built-in to them, allowing more NES games to be played in Animal Crossing than the ones already in the game itself.
That rascal!
@@Toonrick12pretty sure there are a couple of NES games thay have no way of legitimately getting them, so there's a chance that they might've had other memory cards with em, idk.
That's crazy, that's a huge save file! All my GC games save to single digit block sizes, aside from NFS Carbon, which takes like 34. I wonder how long it takes to save lol.
@@roflBeckYou think that's bad? Try any sports title. They range from 200-300 blocks in total
The GameCube kid photo getting an origin story is the best thing ever
That’s the best thing ever!
Fun fact about the GameCube menu music: sped up 16x it’s actually the famicom disk system startup music. There’s a few videos on TH-cam showing this if you look around.
I was a missionary for the GameCube, I took pride in it and was always so happy with it. I didn't understand why certain people didn't like it, I heard them talking about it having no games but like the video said, there were so many good games for it. Ahhh, I love that little lunchbox.
You guys had Metroid. You also had the superior versions of the Resident Evil franchise. Legend of Zelda. People are crazy.
In my mid 40s so I don’t know if I fall in that 5-10 year younger range or not, but I got the GameCube on launch day and I loved it. I still pull it out every now and then to play Eternal Darkness - still one of my favorite games ever.
Same here.... almost 40 in about a week but I got the jet black on launch day and I had all the games that Clint played except Metroid......
Ive owned this game for years never got round to playing it yet.
I think we all really underappreciated how good games looked and how well they ran on the GameCube. I miss stable framerates, lol.
Running the games on period correct hardware (a CRT TV) really helps with the looks of games from this era.
The textures and color dithering don't move over to an LCD very nicely, it just looks so much better on an old TV.
Glad to see you giving the GameCube a fair shot. Yeah, the games can be expensive, so I really don’t blame those who resort to emulation. Fortunately, we seem to be getting more and more GameCube games re-released on Switch, so we can finally see what we missed. Now that you’ve unboxed the Dreamcast, Xbox and GameCube does this mean you’re unboxing the PS2 next? Definitely looking forward to that.
You're better off buying a 2nd console and getting a optical drive emulator board so you can play .iso's on an SD card. Alternatively you can also use a Swiss memory card and put .iso's on an sd card to gamecube memory card adapter.
There's also the 1st gen wii's that you can soft mod with Nintendont and play games off a usb connected HDD.
I wouldn't buy Gamecube games in this current market the prices are too high because of speculative investors and I'd rather have the greedy investors and resellers get stuck holding their bag.
@@oOignignoktOo1 You can play gamecube games all the way up to the Wii U if you so desire; Although 1st gen Wiis are the only consoles that retain the NGC controller/memory card ports, so some of the more esoteric stuff like the GBA transfer cable are only available there or via PC emulation..
This was such a major hit of nostalgia. So many core memories unlocked. Thanks LGR!
Luke turning around was scary, especially how he violently swivelled back. It was almost like he's been cranking his neck at the kiosk all these years.
For me, the Resident Evil remake and legacy ports were more than enough reasons to buy this console. Double Dash and the Mario Party games were a welcome surprise. Being primarily a PC gamer, the Game Cube turned out to be the console I played the most for that generation.
I have a purple model and i played a lot of it for sure as a child around the 2010 era. Still have it!
My GC memory is my very generous boss buying all of us a platinum edition unit. He then ordered the network adapters from Japan so we could play multiplayer Mario Kart together. Good times.
Your pic of your brother is amazing, but only slightly more amazing than the reveal! hahahaha. well done, guys.
ALSO, I almost didn't watch this because the Cube wasn't on my radar either. Not a tiny blip even. BUUUUUT I;m so glad i did! hah
I got a purple one at launch, and perhaps "played it loud" too much because that one burned out in 3 years and then I bought one of these platinum ones at target for 99.99 to replace it. I didn't know how to mess with the laser potentiometer at the time. A year after that, I mod chipped it with a Q00b pro and to this day that console is still in service and can play ANYTHING. The internet is a good teacher.
I believe you might find it difficult to locate original component cables. I still have a multi adapter cable that has composite and S-video with the other end for Gamecube, XBox, and Playstation consoles at the time. Still works and I keep just in case. It looks like you have the version with the digital output, because I believe later revisions removed it. The square hole in the game box is the "hole" Blockbuster used for the yellow locking mechanism that slide inside the side of the case. Working there, it was easy to get fast unlocking or securing a crap load of rentals/returns. That was a great and fun video! 😊
Later revisions did remove the component jack. I believe it was a cost-saving measure; it's probably a big reason why those later GameCube bundles were only $99.
I still have my original component cables, play Strikers quite often.
What a pleasant surprise. Thanks for sharing this with us. I have very fond memories of the system. I bought one after my Xbox was stolen, right before Wind Waker was released, and that got me through some rough times.
If you get the urge to go down the route of using the fancy video out, I can whole heartedly recommended the CARBY.
Stolen??
I recieved mine from a friend, the Metroid Prime bundle, as he got the RE4 edition. All because their cats had chewed the power cables into such state. It was easier to buy a new console than find a new powercable for the system - so I cut the bad parts off and solded the cables back together. A working GameCube, yay!
My parents got the gamecube for me because I played it at the demo kiosk so much. Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg was the game that captured my attention. It was so much fun. Great video.
I’m glad that even as a kid i didn’t care about stigmas or the opinions of others. I thought myself more mature than others and yet at the same time loved things such as the gamecube and defended it and the games.
Fun fact: The GameCube main menu music is actually the Famicom Disk System intro music slowed WAY down.
You absolutely need to pick up Eternal Darkness if you can get it for a good price. And Viewtiful Joe.
And look out for an Action Replay or Gameshark as an oddware type thing (disc and custom memory card). I think the GameCube had the last one which actually ran on the system and modified the running game, instead of being a device to import hacked save data. Freeloader was another thing from Datel, for playing imports, though this was built in to the AR/GS as well.
Also, the official memory cards were grey (same colour as the front port surround) for the 59 block one and black for the 251 block cards.
Ah, the old Nintendo lunchbox. I was around 9 when I got mine so I was the perfect audience for the console. It's great that most of the games have gotten a cult following even a few getting remade. Cause this system was a good fraction of my childhood.
22:02 "Aaah no, somebody pooped on the runway!"
That line delivery was so powerful, I laughed hard
18:25 Ah, Rogue Leader, excellent choice. Remember that Family Guy Star Wars moment where Peter is manning one of the Millennium Falcon turrets and chanting the music from the scene? That was totally one of the levels of the game and totally how everybody who played it played it.
finally can comment and say - THANK YOU! Loved this video, so many good memories when i first got mine.
I'd never seen those Japanese size cases before. I think they should've stuck to them for US. It would've helped retailers by taking up less space, and would've stood out to consumers for being different.
That's not really how it works in the US. Especially during this time, size was everything. People associate it with power. Their decision to use DVD cases instead of the smaller Japanese cases probably helped sales, even though the console was already doomed by its color and shape.
"No no, make the NES cartridge hull over twice the size of the actual board, because them landfills won't pollute themselves with excess plastic. Also to make it look more like a VHS tape, because we reaaaaally don't want to be associated with the game crash. No, really, it's just a bizarro VHS player that plays games, lol." -Nintendo
But seriously, all game cases should be like, old PC/PS1 jewel case size, but made out of tougher plastic. So probably like a OG Nintendo DS game case (not the hollower and flimsier 3DS cases), but slightly bigger, and holds a disc instead of a cartridge. Even the Switch game cases should be made like 40% smaller (and 40% tougher).
The Game Boy Player Start-up Disc came in a Japanese style case in North America. The Japanese start-up disc actually used a special case that was blue and had an extra holder for a GBA cartridge in addition to the memory card holder.
While I owned consoles prior to the Gamecube, that was the first console I ever bought with my own money after moving out of my parents home. I got it on sale for $100, and I got Baiten Kaitos and Tales of Symphonia with it. It is a personal fav console just because of those memories.
I unboxed a brand new one recently. It was awesome. My favourite console.
For the longest longest time I didnt realise the Wii was backwards compatible with GameCube.
I just played Wii games as a kid that mom bought for us.
When I did eventually find out it didn't really click with any significance for me.
But now, I've gone on a full nostalgia journey and I'm so excited by the possibility of being able to play some games I missed out on by not owning a GameCube
8:25 about the GameCube triggers... they were odd ones. They were analog from the very beginning, with a sort of digital end-stop with that weird click you feel at the end of travel. Basically, game devs could map the analog travel of the trigger to one function and then have the end stop mapped to something else. If I remember right, Eternal Darkness and Smash Bros Melee used that function pretty well. Basically, Eternal Darkness used the triggers for targeting different parts of enemies' anatomy, and pressing the trigger all the way to the end really locked you in on a target. And in Melee, the triggers were for block/shield, where a moderate press of the trigger would put up a pretty mild block/shield that would only block pretty mild attacks, whereas going full-lock would protect you against just about anything but risk having your shield broken which would stun you.
I was obsessed with owning consoles as a kid and opted to save up any birthday and Christmas money I could get and buy more consoles (usually renting games primarily and just owning a handful). So I had Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox and GameCube during their heyday, even starting to have some more income to buy more games for all of them, and GC may have been my favourite. I was 13 in 2001. It mainly comes down to Nintendo's first party output I suppose, but watching this I'm seeing all the little things about it that were charming to me. You can push a button to release discs from the console! It's right in the middle. No need to pry them out.
I remember just sitting with my GC and inspecting it sometimes, taking the little nameplate off and opening up all the compartments. I was obsessed with that thing.
It's so cool to be able to g back through your thrift videos and see how things have even recently changed. Plz do more to keep the updates for future.
That big slot on the box is for a plastic locking mechanism. I wasn't sure if they were commonly used, but I remember them for sure.
Metroid Prime graphics and mechanics are very impressive for the weak GameCube and for a game that is so old. Environment looks like something taken out of Doom 3. No wonder it is addictive for you. Thank you Clint for the awesome, nostalgic video ❤ I love your channel. It is always so comfy and calming. Your soothing, warm voice makes every video a perfect material to chill out and relieve even the worst anxiety 👍 Please never stop uploading.
It's a great game too. A little easy, but very cool.
The GameCube wasn’t underpowered though. It was more powerful than than the PS2 and not too far off from the Original Xbox.
Same as you, I just *missed* both the GameCube and Dreamcast.
Bought both recently and I'm having a lot of fun playing the games I missed.
I was gifted a game cube with about 30 games from my cousin that got a new Wii. I love it still play it today.
My brother and I bought the GameCube together for one reason. It was cheap. We absolutely took advantage of the pack deals. Ours was Walmart. We got a GameCube, two controllers, Mario Sunshine, Smash Bros Melee, and Metroid Prime for the price of $150. I had really wanted a PS2, but its price didn't really drop. A used PS2 with 2 controllers was the same price as the brand new GCN bundle we got.
LUKE! That small moment in this video was phenomenal.
SP2 was used for the dial-up modem.
Despite not using dial-up any more at the time, I still got a modem for my gamecube just so it would be complete.
Nowadays you can also use it for a microsd reader
YOUR BROTHER IS THE GAMECUBE KID?
Thats freaking awesome
I got a platinum gamecube for Christmas of it's launch year with Sunshine and Metroid Prime, I still have it sitting in my room with almost the entire collection of games I'd got for it over the years. I did eventually get every console from that generation, but honestly I think I look back on the gamecube with the most fondness.
Thanks for the video Clint! Missed out on most of the GC action too, so I know exactly how you feel.
I... do not enjoy the fact the gamecube is 22 years old. *experiencing existential dread* lmao
lol - trying to remember the things I was going to comment as you were walking through this. #1 is that the RTC uses a coin cell battery that should be serviced at this point, but thankfully nothing explodey. #2 is that the discs are proprietary but also /kind of/ in a good way - they're CAV instead of CLE which means they're formatted more like a computer disk drive with sectors. That trades off density for faster seeks. #3 is that the shoulder buttons are full analog with an additional button at the end - they are literally two separate mechanisms inside the controller. #4 it's a great system and there are some real gems. I hope you have a blast with it.
The first console I bought myself - got the Japanese version on launch and modded to play NA games just a smidge in advance of Western release. Such a great time
I've had my DOL 001 GC since it came out, Just did the Pico mod a couple days ago and discovered that little watch battery is still ticking! I'll be cracking it back open to swap it out but it really is amazing how durable these little guys are
When I was 10, the Game Cube was the first console I bought from Media Play after saving up allowance, Xmas and Birthday money. The first games I got were Smash Bros Melee, Metroid Prime and 007 Agent Under Fire.
Thanks LGR! Awesome, I never had the GameCube and when I got the Wii I didn’t even realize it could play GameCube games. I missed out on this thing.
Clint, Resi 4 debuted on the Cube! A kid's toy it wasn't. Some of the most beautiful titles ever released (like Resi 4) were ported with *_worse_* graphics to other consoles, and others (like Tales of Symphonia) were lost to time until being re-issued on Switch. And don't forget the Wii was internally a GameCube on steroids! And modern Mario Kart is still based on the new game model introduced in Double-Dash on the Cube. It was a graphically groundbreaking system.
When I got my Gamecube, I read up about it, having seen it might support S-Video, I went out and got an S-Video cable. Then when I saw a couple games supporting Dolby Pro Logic, I connected it to our home theater system, it was quite the time.
I remember my Dad taking me picking up this exact “limited editon platinum” gamecube and XD Gail of darkness from Toys R Us for my birthday as a kid. Ahh to go back. You really missed out, Smash bros Melee, Double Dash, Super Mario Sunshine, Star Fox, Metroid, Animal Crossing. The GameCube had a solid line up and was a big part of my childhood.
:) my heart when clint starts falling for Samus's charms
The quiet fan and fast load times were really noticeable back in the day
Born in 94. Gamecube my jam. Currently playing XD Gale
Never played on one, or the Wii u, and I'm a Nintendo Gameboy. PS2 and PC were my jam back then.
I cannot get over the fact that the GameCube kid pic came from you. Truly earth shattering for me LOL
I like many left after N64, when I was 11. Getting the Dreamcast got me so excited for the future and the promise of a huge library meant I had a PS2 by 2002…took until 2010 before I got a used Wii and went back to Nintendo!
Being a ps2 guy, i remember ordering the Resident Evil/Biohazard Remake from japan and then picking up a new black Gamecube.
I modded the gc by bridging a contact and added a switch to play jp games.
It was so worth it, a true system seller for the resident evil remake.
that tear on the box seems to indicate that at one time it was probably wrapped up a christmas present and got returned. because, dad, mom or grandma got one too
Not only did I end up with a GameCube pretty early, I was just out of college when it came out. And I stood in line to get one opening night/day for my youngest sibling for Christmas. Even though I had a PS2 we were still very much a Nintendo family.
Love the Gamecube! Parents got me the black one for Xmas when it came out. I played so much NFS, and Metroid, and various Mario-related games on it. It eventually crapped out, I RMA'd it and they sent me a silver one like you got here. And that one still works, yay! When my buddies come over we typically play Mario Party on it lol. Also, this was very cool seeing crisp footage of a Gamecube in new condition!
Awesome video. Cool to hear about the history behind it.
My only experience with a GameCube was trying out Metroid Prime on a demo setup at a local Kmart. Getting consoles was tough for me because my family couldn't really afford much, so by the time I got enough to work with, I ended up going PlayStation because other influences, but I would've liked to try Metroid Prime again, and killer7 on its original platform.
Holy crap… LGR has the Animal Crossing memory card. That thing is worth a whole bunch of moola.
i remember that ps2 xbox gamecube component cable it was made by madcatz , also due to my late intro into the need for speed franchise i recall NFS hot pursuit 2 on the gamecube was my first taste of the franchise , ive been hooked on NFS ever since lol
Yes I think I recall Mad Catz packaging!
My entire experience with the Gamecube was playing Mario Party with friends after I finished my exams in my last year of University and before graduation. We had nothing better to do, so we got drunk every night and played on the Gamecube over at a friend's house for about 2 weeks or so.
Maybe someone will agree with me, I feel like when you grow up with GameCube it's forever the console in your heart. The iconic games like Mario Sunshine and Double Dash come so naturally, and they always look good. I'm always shocked when I hear how people feel about GameCube, cause it just doesn't hit me the same way
Recreating the black hole glitch in Super Smash Bros. Melee was a gaming highlight of my life haha
The hole in the bottom of Gamecube game cases was for a plastic insert that would prevent people from just opening the case and stealing the game from it.
I was so happy when I got the GameCube for Christmas!!
My friends and i played so much mario sunshine. It was awesome and is still fun. Plus we were really high during college
Have had all three, I still have a couple GameCubes, sold and repurchased a PS2, and had the X-Box for a month and traded it in for a GBA SP long-long ago... still have the SP.
looks a lot like a gameboy advance SP - I had a GBA in this color, and every time Clint turns the gamecube over, it reminds me exactly of my old gameboy.
Still having the fresh memory of how my siblings mistreated my n64 and its controllers in my mind, I ordered two GC bundles with mario kart, one for me and one for them. Yes I was older and bought it near its demise, but, mine is still pristine today, not so much the other one... I can really only remember playing smash.
I remember the GameCube and I can remember playing Super Mario Sunshine on it; those were the days!!
Resident evil 4 for the GCN was just awesome!
I remember my mom taking me to Walmart so I could buy one with my own money that I had been saving since I heard it was coming out. We got the purple one right at midnight when they went on sale. I had just turned 15 so I'm sure it was a lot of birthday cash.
I remember wanting to this console so bad solely for the Resident Evil remake and Zero. I was that big a fan of RE at the time.
I can relate to gamers that get their hands on a console no one else where live even heard of, then having to get rid of it because of not being able to find games for that system where they live, for me it was a Sega Dream Cast.
I never actually owned one of these. But I remember playing on one at the 2001 E3 I attended. They had Luigi's Manion and I took home a foam gba and game cube. Heh. I remember telling my little brother I had gotten him a game cube and handed him the foam one. :D. My brother did end up owning a real one before too long, so I ended up playing through Super Mario Sunshine and a few others on his system.
GameCube has aged like fine wine & I never owned one! I was a PS2/Xbox 360 kid and GameCubes always seemed underpowered at the time;
looking back and realizing the games make or break the console makes me realize GameCube will stand the test of time with one of the best gaming libraries available for kids and some adults.
I actually passed up a PS2 at first in favor of a Gamecube because I was so impressed with my neighbours N64 compared to my PS1. I eventually moved over to PS2 when stores stopped supporting the Gamecube, but I'll always love it. Glad you found some love for it as well.🤣
The menu music is actually a severely slowed down version of the boot music that plays on the famicom disk system. I learned that from did you know gaming, lol. The gc is one of my all-time fave consoles. If I was forced to choose a console of that gen, I would begrudgingly pick the ps2purely for the quantity and quality of games, plus that dvd player really helped. But i would really miss not being able to play gc games as I can't remeber ever owning a bad one
i remember coming home from School one year on my Birthday i think it was 2002 or 2003 my dad got me a GameCube with Need for speed hot pursuit Good times!
I had a Gamecube as a kid at launch. Everyone at school would make fun of me for having one. I loved it.
Great console. I miss the one I had as a child.
You know it really does astound me at just how well the GameCube has held up over all these years. The thing is over 20 years old, and playing on a CRT, it really does look great, graphically, even today. I don't think there's a single thing that came out on the GameCube (first-party wise, anyway) that I could definitely say just looked "ugly."
Born way after the GameCube prime but DAAAM is it a premium console ( but my collection is pretty neat now)
I'd love to see a retrospective of the Rogue Squadron games...
When I was a kid, I had the Rogue Squadron demo on my computer and played it religiously for months. Just the demo. (god, I miss the days of ungodly amounts of PC demos) My father ended up buying me the CD-ROM for Christmas. He never really paid attention to video games or technology so it was a really cool surprise.
I didn't know Game Cubes are so rare now.
I played the crap out of my Game Cube as a kid, probably a 1000 hours in melee alone.
Game Cube, Bloody Roar. Many many many College afternoons with my mates smashing that game out and battling everyone! Oh and the Zombie shooter that was a huge GC hit, can't remember the name off hand though.
Love back in time when live was simple
I had a Gamecube but my ex took it in the divorce...even though she didn't really want it, she just didn't want me having it. But I kept MY games lol...which I eventually sold. It was a good system, I loved it for the short period I had it (less than 1 year). I wonder what she ended up doing with it...
Oh and you're not wrong about the console being good for "party games", that's the main reason my ex and I got it, because we were always hosting hang outs there every weekend. The system had 4 joystick ports and a ton of fun party games. Mario Kart, Mario Party and Warioware were our favorites at the time. So I do have a lot of fond memories of it...until the divorce :P
I am 42. I had the gamecube xbox and ps2 dreamcast and dude i got a dell. But surprisingly i spent more time on my gamecube.
I have fond memories of this console. I had just moved into a place with my girlfriend, and for my birthday, she bought me an Indigo GameCube with the GBA Player, and Super Mario Sunshine. I would spend Saturdays playing it until she would get home from work, then we would hang out together. She talked about that for years, how she would open the door and I would be there, curled up on the couch, relaxed, and happy to see her. It was one of her favorite things.
That’s good found memories will last you to the end of time.
I’ve never been much of a gamer and never owned a console of my own. That said, I have lots of good memories playing GameCube games with my brother and occasionally with his gamer friends. It was the last console he owned before we both moved out and went our separate ways. Smash Brothers, Mario Party and Mario Cart were excellent games that were tons of fun, even for teenagers and even without a ton of violence and mature ratings like the most popular PS and Xbox games. I have nothing against reasonable game violence, but it isn’t necessary to have fun.
“Scanning Mario’s dick” is not a phrase I ever thought I’d hear.
If you're getting told to set the calendar every time you turn it on, the internal RTC battery has died.
Had I not known this was in production ahead of time, I could have lent you some games for you to demo on there, along with a Memory Card with my saves.
Insurrection industries has a very solid component cable that is on the same level as the oem. It wasnt untill a few years ago that it was even possible to make third party cables because of something locking others out that smart ass people reverse engineered. Thank god for the retro community.
Eternal Darkness was my favorite GameCube game.
I wish i had your Trinitron!! I play my SNES and N64 on a flat screen CRT, but i want a Trinitron!!! 👍
i ate some mushrooms before watching this and when you were talking about the smell of it when it's right out of the box i almost started crying tears of joy because i could smell it too in my brain lololololol