by far my favorite console of all time since i first got it, i love pretty much everything on it. someone actually ported a game to the gamecube in the modern day (albeit it needs Swiss, a homebrew app to run) and it’s just so cool to see that it refuses to die
Right there with ya! GameCube has always been my favorite. It also has the best iterations of Kart and Smash imo. I’ve recently been acquiring more GBA games to play on the adapter which is a fun time.
A tip for anyone who has the DOL-001 version with the digital output: you can easily get and adapter to HDMI, and there’s a company that now makes a USB-drive sized signal processor that does some upscaling and anti-aliasing. I’m now able to play on my 4k TV with a 1080p signal. Anyone feel free to DM me for the details!
I’m not saying a big old CRT isn’t still the best experience, but this lets me play on my main TV which is great for party games.
Didn’t own one so I can’t say it was my fav, but pretty much all the games I played on it smacked
at the time I was a PC gamer and for some weird reason, none of my friends owned a GameCube which, in hindsight makes me a bit sad. Great console, great games.
My GameCube was my favourite console and I wish I hadn’t sold it.
I feel this, sold every console I’ve ever owned.
My GameCube is still in service - slowly but surely working through Twilight Princess between work and other things!
Twilight Princess is probably my favorite GC title :) enjoy that one!
Big shout out to the Gameboy Player add-on for the GameCube, and the equally brilliant Game Boy Interface which vastly improves the video quality.
brilliant Game Boy Interface which vastly improves the video quality.
It cannot be overstated just how massive of an improvement GBI is. If you’re using the stock Nintendo Gameboy Player disc/software, you’re playing with an enormous handicap.
Indeed. And that’s not even taking account those discs are much harder to get a hold of and/or more expensive than the Gameboy Player itself!
WarioLand 4 on the TV always felt special ヾ(＾-＾)ノ
Oh absolutely! That’s the killer app for the Gameboy Player IMHO. Properly felt like a return to the SNES days of 2D platforming, but with improved tech and quality of life. Love it.
yeah, WL4 felt like it was designed more for the GBP than the actual GBA! haahaha, and i remember how excited i was when i discovered i could play it on the TV and just put it back in my GBA when I had to go somewhere. Now that’s what the switch is all about, but the jankiness of the GBP just made it more special to me
It’s the only console with a built in handle which automatically makes it the greatest console ever
it was my first (after my Atari 2600) , and honestly favorite, console. I still have the games but I no longer have the console.
That’s crazy! Why such a long gap? Just curious :)
I grew up pretty poor. I got most tech when it went on sale or was discontinued. so, I got my Atari when I was 11, in 1985. when I went to college in 1991, I played a friend’s Sega and became obsessed with Sonic! by 1993, I was surrounded by computer nerds and had access to most consoles and just fell into PC gaming instead. Sam and Max. Day of the tentacle. Lemmings. Monkey Island. It wasn’t until I realized I could play all the sonic games on GameCube that I even wanted a console.
nowadays, I live in a household with all the consoles, but they’re not “mine” and I barely touch my PC.
Many fond memories playing my Melee and Double Dash with my father and brother. We still play every once and a while for old times’ sake.
The GameCube is considered retro now?
The wii is retro now, we’re getting old
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Surely we recall typing code into basic from the back of a magazine. Later we were blown away from having a EGA card that didn’t make text look like crap? Right guys?
As much as I hate to admit it, 2001 was 22 years ago now…
NES was 16 years old in the US then.
Absolutely love my GameCube. Recently did a noctua fan mod to keep it going after the original fan died.
I was just thinking about this today! I thought it was high time I dug out the old ones. I have to buy an adapter for the AV but these games were some of my favorites. Double Dash is still the best Mario Kart.
I fancy them all. So I stuffed them all into a tiny computer and hooked it up to the TV in my living room. Even Atari. I can still remember the right passageways in Adventure to find the magic chalice from when I was six years old. The dragons still scare the crap out of me to this day when they pop up.
As far as Gamecube, I loved Sonic Adventure and still play that and Pikmin. Wife plays Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. Those tiny little discs were a cool novelty. I love them so much I bought a stack of mini CD-Rs back in the day, thinking I was some kinda cool hacker kid or some shit.
I love mine. Still play it for the GameCube Pokémon games, Colosseum and XD. The game boy player for the GameCube still gets plenty of use too for the earlier Pokémon games.
I haven’t played my GameCube since it was current, but recently I installed the picoboot mod which lets me load games off of a microSD card. Haven’t actually sat down to play anything yet but I’ve booted Baten Kaitos and Tales of Symphonia just to confirm that it works 😎
