10th Anniversary of the GameCube

[mlucifersam]

Let it go, Jagfest. No one cares.

Here here!!

[mlucifersam]

I got mine a few months after they ame out from Game in Manchester's Arndale. I still have it, in great condition & still occasionally purchase a missing game from ebay but, for me, after playing the N64 to death, I couldn't really get in to any of the games at the time. I had 'Eternal Darkness', 'Wind Waker', 'Super Mario Sunshine', 'Starfox Adventures & 'Rogue Leader' but I generally gave up on the them pretty quickly. No idea why. Maybe it wasn't the machine's fault and I'd just had enough of playing games but not long buying it after I went through a period of 4 or 5 years of not playing anything!

And that wasn't to change until all things retro reawakened my interest and I started back from scratch.

[nakamura]

I found the machine to be woefully disappointing on launch and the love never really grew for a long time.

I found almost every Major franchise to be lacking, it didn't have great racers, football games or J-Rpgs. I prefered Jak and Daxter to Mario Sunshine, Wipeout Fusion to F-Zero GX(though I new Fusion wasn't perhaps as good, I just loved it).

All of my fav franchises I just didn't enjoy. I prefered older F-Zero games, 1080 and Wave Racer were both better on N64. Zelda WW is my least fav Zelda game. Starfox on SNES and N64 are both better than any GC version. Metroid Prime didn't grab me.

All of these points stopped me from buying one and frankly I didn't regret it. I know everyone was going on about the amazing graphics and all that but to me Rogue Leader seemed like a one off, very little looked as good as that. Plus I was enjoyed GT3 on PS2 and Halo on Xbox and many others so I had no need for a machine. I did really enjoy playing Monkey Ball with Sonic the Hedgehog from here though.


Looking back I have no fond memories and no expectations like back then. I now own 10 games for the machine and love them! I will pick up more too.
Mario Kart DD is now amazing, not sure why, I just love it! Metroid Prime is magnificent, wonderfully absorbing and beautiful to look at. Wave Race is a lot of fun. Starfox is also great fun to play. I have Resi Remake which is a standard setter and why they didn't do no 2 in the same way is beyond me.
I still don't like Zelda WW that much though and I do enjoy F-Zero but it is the weakest one for me.

For me the GC represents huge disappointment in most areas. However all these years on when the disappointments are long behind me, it represents high quality gaming.

[commanderkaiser]

I arrived to the party late and got it as a Christmas present one time. I think it was around the time it cost £79 or so. It was one of the original Purple ones with the multi av port thing (I read it wasn't on the later models) so it must have been sitting in a stock room all that time waiting for me to come along.
The only game I got with it on the day was Animal Crossing which I loved, I ended up buying a ton of games for it but ended up selling most for peanuts to gamestation which I truly regret doing now.

I'm trying to build a little collection of the must haves and a few hidden gems now and in the past few weeks I've added quite a few to my collection and even picked up another Gamecube as a spare.