Gamecube is the most underrated console while it was in circulation.

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Jaes@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

No shit. I mean what console has survived as long as those OG Gamecubes. I have had mine for 20 years and the first issue came up this year. Turns out it’s an easy fix I can do myself and nothing destroying the console itself I can still play while working on this fix.

Also the Gamecube had so many games that were moved from the N64 that and some of the rarest games exist on Gamecube. Sometimes I can’t believe it was ever a flop for them because it was a childhood favorite. I’m so glad I kept mine and tried to take good care of it even when it was in storage for so long.

I don’t think any console today or even back at the time in 99 or early 2000s would last 20 years with kids turning into adults and 5-6 moves without having a console breaking issue.

Ive had 2 PS2’s go down, a PS3 Gen1 break, 3 Xbox 360, and very sadly an OG Xbox that did last from 2005 to 2015, an N64, and my PS4 Slim is getting there for sure. All (except the 64) gotten years (some a decade) after this Gamecube I still have today.

Thank my lucky stars my sister gave it back to me because it is my rock of a console. It should have done so much better than what articles and money say. It’s a very sought after retro console and I’m glad I still have and take care of mine from 2003 when I was a youngin’

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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
GameCube was good, but I say the SEGA Dreamcast definitely takes the Underrated and Underutilized Console award.

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- foggy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Had an internet browser.
  
  Controllers had mini screens available.
  
  Shit was OP, ahead of its time.
  
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  - MudMan@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It did cloud game streaming in 2012 and, unlike the Sony Portal, the Steam Link or Xbox Cloud, it actually worked.
    
    Granted, while you were within spitting distance of the unit and had clear line of sight, but still. Impressively lagless wireless video out of a console in the early 2010s? We don't respect that enough.
    
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  - chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Man issue with most things is $$$.
    
    No point in releasing the most advanced console if people can’t afford it or its features, ensuring no developers actually make games for it.
    
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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wii U: Am I a joke to you?
  
  Everyone: YES
  
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  - MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    To me, the WiiU is the modern Dreamcast. I miss it and it’s promises that we’re never kept :(
    
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  - CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s a shame the Wii U never really saw the modding community the Vita had
    
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  - RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    WiiU was underpowered when it launched. Even if someone had utilized it 100%, it still would have been behind compared to the Xbox360 and PS3. 720p only when the Xbox and PS2 were already supporting 720p and 1080i was also a bad choice.
    
    WiiU was just a bunch of bad choices combined in a single product. Bad hardware choices, bad marketing, bad name, requiring the massive gamepad for console setup, etc.
    
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  - clearleaf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The only thing wrong with the wiiu was the price of the games. People call it the “switch tax” but I had to pay $90 for pikmin 3 in 2013, when the idea of $70 games was still rocking the world of Sony and MS fans. If it wasn’t for a gift I never would have accepted that price.
    
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- MudMan@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I'm not a fan of the Dreamcast library at all. If you ask me, that'd be the Saturn, which has more interesting games by a wide margin, IMO. If anything, I feel the DC has been mythologized unfairly. It has good ports of a bunch of great ports of fighting games from the worst period for fighting games and a few 3D arcade ports from the worst period for 3D arcade games.
  
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  - RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The Dreamcast library can feel underwhelming because of how shortlived the console was. Most Dreamcast games didn’t get to fully realize the console’s power because it didn’t last long enough for the potential to be fully realized. EA was afraid of piracy so didnt even try to develop for it, and the Dreamcast launched too close to the Saturn for most people. However, it was the fastest selling console in the US at the time. But then like, a year and a half later the PS2 launched and killed any chance the Dreamcast had.
    
    Dreamcast had a lot of good games. Notably, Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, Shenmue, Grandia 2, and Record of Lodoss War. But what I think makes the library good is how experimental all the games on it were. Games like Illbleed. Its hard to find “duplicate” games on the Dreamcast, unless you look at like, the Resident Evil port and Dino Crisis port.
    
    For a console that realistically only existed for about 18 months, it did quite well. Had the Dreamcast not launched so close to the Saturn, had SEGA supported the Saturn in the US more, had the PS2 not come along to kick it down, and had EA not dropped it instantly, then I definitely think the console would have done well.
    
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  - key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It had Sonic Adventure which was and is a really great game. The chao garden made great use of the little screen thingy compared to other games.
    
    Oh and Crazy Taxi was an arcade port but pretty dang decent despite that!
    
    And uh… Sonic adventure 2?
    
    OK maybe not a lot of greats but that’s part of the mythos of DC, it could’a been a contend’a but games didn’t make good use of its capabilities.
    
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frezik@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
DVD playback was a big issue at the time. Buy a PS2 and you got a built in DVD player. Here’s the 2000 JCPenney Christmas catalog for DVD players:

christmas.musetechnical.com/…/0689

Around $250-$350. The PS2 was introduced that year in North America for $300. So you could get one for about the price of a standalone DVD player. Why wouldn’t you? Nobody cares now, of course, but it was a big thing at the time.

Oh, and the PS2 played all the existing PS1 games. To this day, I still tell people that the PS2 is one of the best deals in retro gaming because of the wide range of titles it can play. Lots of hidden gems to find. Even better if you can score an early model PS3, but they’re harder to find and more expensive than a PS2.

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- highenergyphysics@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The early model PS3 had a literal PS2 crammed inside of it for the sole purpose of backwards comparability which was fascinating. The death of physical media (blu ray) and high price kind of caused it to flop that generation. Look who’s laughing now though!
  
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  - frezik@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    PS3 still outsold the XB360 globally, barely. 87M vs 85M. That was also the generation Nintendo decided to take its ball and play by itself with the Wii. Microsoft had its own fuckup with the red ring of death. PS3 wasn’t a total flop, though certainly not as dominant as it has been against Microsoft before or since.
    
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  - Aatube@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I'm pretty sure the PS3 flopped because of its new architecture most developer just cheaped out on, resulting in most 3rd-party game having significantly less graphical quality on PS than other consoles.
    
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- chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A lot of people don’t realize this, but the same thing applied at an even greater scale with PS3’s Blu-Ray player.
  
  At the time, Blu-Ray players cost $1000 while the PS3 launched at $500 or $600. Sony was legit doing everyone a solid, and they got shat on for it.
  
  It’s so sad how the xbox 360 won that gen, considering it was the more expensive console when you factor in paying for 2nd internet. Then it ended up normalizing the trend of 2nd internet, lol.
  
  Needless to say, I stopped buying consoles at the PS4 era. Thank god emulation is great, PC hardware is cheap, and many console exclusives are getting PC releases anyways.
  
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- NinjaTeensy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I had one of those early model PS3s and I loved it. Eventually it died from overheating I think and I got a PS3 Slim to replace it only to discover my PS2 library was now unplayable…
  
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- Cort@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Not only did the ps2 play all the ps1 games, it made them look better! I remember paying Spyro and Tony hawk on a friend’s ps2 and they looked so much better. That was the factor that made us go with ps2 over GameCube and Xbox og.
  
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- GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  PS2 was my first DVD player. First DVD was Braveheart!
  
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tiramichu@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The GameCube was a flop mostly because of image and marketing, not because it wasn’t technically good.

I have one and I love it, but I only got it long, long after release.

What 12-year-old boy asking for a Christmas present is going to choose the cutesy purple brick that “only has kid games” over a sleek black PS2 that is seen as being adult, with action and fighting games? Not many, and so the GameCube flopped.

I think Nintendo were starting to see at that time that consoles weren’t just for boys. They were for girls too, and for the whole family, and the GameCube was a step towards that. But it didn’t go far enough. They ended up stopping short and falling smack in the middle where it didn’t appeal to the established ‘male gamer’ demographic, and still didn’t grab families either.

Then the Wii came along and went HARD on the family-friendly aspect, and just blasted off the shelves. Nintendo learned a lesson, but the GameCube was the price they had to pay for it.

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- MudMan@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Okay, here's my obligatory reminder that it's less of a flop than people, particularly in anglo territories, give it credit for. It sold just shy of the original Xbox and it outsold well liked stuff like the Dreamcast or the Vita about 2 to 1.
  
  A few consoles at that time were very regional. The N64 was a rare sight where I'm from, I have seen an original Xbox in the wild exactly once, it was being used as a DVD player and the owner had no games for it. The Gamecube picked up a lot of steam over here once the price went down to 100 bucks and it got a reputation for having some of the best excluisves of that generation later in its lifespan.
  
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  - Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Here’s MY obligatory reminder that GameCube had little compartments on the bottom that you could hide yer drugs in!
    
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- orclev@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You touched on a few good points, but I think ultimately reached the wrong conclusion.
  
  What 12-year-old boy asking for a Christmas present is going to choose the cutesy purple brick that “only has kid games” over a sleek black PS2 that is seen as being adult, with action and fighting games?
  
  This was literally Segas entire marketing strategy. Nintendo early on decided to lean heavily into the family friendly marketing for their consoles starting with the NES (or famicom, literally family computer) for various reasons but most prominently because of the videogame crash of the 70s.
  
  Sega saw an opportunity to position themselves as an edgier option that would appeal more to the tween and teen demographic and so leaned very heavily into that in their advertising in the 80s and particularly the 90s. This tactic was rather successful and so Nintendo developed a reputation as the console for children. This image was further cemented by certain decisions by Nintendo around game content, most prominently by the rather shortsighted decision to force the Mortal Kombat series of games to recolor characters blood to green instead of the red it was on arcade and sega systems (this could be disabled using a hidden cheat code somewhat rendering the entire exercise moot).
  
  When Sony and Microsoft came along they didn’t really need to do anything special besides release whatever games they wanted, the damage to Nintendo’s rep was already done. Nintendo then made things even worse for themselves by releasing a console in bright candy colors most closely associated with marketing towards young children that literally looked like a small childs lunchbox.
  
  Then the Wii came along and went HARD on the family-friendly aspect, and just blasted off the shelves.
  
  Nintendo realized that they wouldn’t be able to shake the children’s console rep they had developed easily and so decided to lean heavily into messaging that their consoles were also for adults. Much of the marketing for the Wii (in fact the majority of it) depicted the console being played by adults and the elderly. It was actually somewhat rare to see advertising for the Wii showing young children using the console, a stark contrast from Nintendo’s previous marketing.
  
  This was also reflected in the design aesthetic of the console and its packaging featuring a modern minimalist flat white color scheme with minimal light blue highlights. Compared with previous Nintendo consoles the Wii was downright drab looking. It’s packaging looked more like a product from Ikea than a games console.
  
  Nintendo further lucked out with the Wii in that it had a novel control system utterly unlike anything else in the market at the time and so had a massive novelty factor going for it. Additionally helping with this was that they positioned the console at the extreme low end of the market releasing it at a price point well below half the cost of their nearest competitor.
  
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  - MudMan@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They didn't "luck out", they were reproducing the strategy that had already worked in the DS. Remember "Brain Training"? To this day I know people who claim to loathe videogames who owned a DS and were cool with it. Same core design: accessible, unorthodox input system as a trojan horse for adults, here are all the games it turns out you also enjoy playing.
    
    It's the same with the Switch and the detachable controller, dockable console gimmick. If anything, the Wii U is the outlier in them not designing it well enough to pay off that ongoing strategy. One could argue that the 3DS did as well, but that glassless 3D screen is amazing, particularly once they figured out eye tracking, you're all wrong about that one.
    
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- aard@kyu.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And for the family friendly aspect nothing after the wii beat it.
  
  The multiplayer games there are just better than something like the switch offers, and the controllers are a good size and weight for emulating whatever they are representing in games. Stuff like tennis with the tiny light switch controllers just feels wrong.
  
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  - orclev@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The market forces of today are also vastly different from when the GameCube or even the Wii launched. When the GameCube launched videogames were still largely considered something for children, game consoles were the primary platform for gaming, and the PC gaming market although it had been around for a while was still very much a hobbyist demographic. For context the GameCube was released in 2001 while Steam wouldn’t even be available till 2003 and wouldn’t have any 3rd party games until 2005. Today in contrast I think it’s very much accepted that people of all ages play videogames and the gaming market is pretty evenly divided up between PC and console gaming. Nintendo is quite happy with the niche they’ve carved out for themselves with their systems being largely a platform for their own extensive first party catalog plus any other 3rd party games people care to play on them. We live in an age where cross platform releases are the norm now, so platform is largely a question of preference outside of exclusive releases.
    
    Family friendly at the time meant that your kids could play it on the living room TV and there wouldn’t be anything your average uptight conservative suburban mom would start writing angry letters about. Recalling my point about Nintendo’s family friendly rep having been established during the era of the NES and SNES it’s important to note that the ESRB didn’t exist for the entirety of the life of the NES and only showed up late into the life of the SNES. During that timeframe Nintendo very much wanted parents and grandparents to be comfortable purchasing any NES or SNES game for their children no matter their age, and so were very strict about what kinds of content they would or wouldn’t allow. The fact they let Mortal Kombat onto the SNES at all was something of a miracle even if they did insist on the most pointless censorship ever.
    
    What you’re referring to as family friendly I would say is more accurately described as social gaming or couch co-op. The physical aspect of multiplayer gaming on the Wii certainly added something unique to local multiplayer on the console, an experience wholly unlike a group of players sitting on a couch holding more traditional controllers.
    
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thethirdobject@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I thought the Dreamcast earned this title

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- Staiden@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  For sure. Lots of people knew how awesome game cube was and what it was capable of. Its lacking graphics with extremely well made games. The dreamcast was a powerhouse with VGA out. Barely anyone knew how amazing it was. It could have blown away Sony. Sega really dropped the ball. I wish I had known when it came out.
  
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  - thethirdobject@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The sad thing is I knew at the time, but lack of games and, most of all, the lack of my friends having it, made the dreamcast lose in favour of its contenders.
    
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- vivavideri@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m on my 3rd dreamcast but it’s been fine for the last couple decades. My genesis, though, 1991 and still fine. Kicking myself actually, the cartridge port was feisty for EVER but i finally had the guts to really look in there and i tweezed out 30 years of fuzz that had felted down in it.
  
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- GunValkyrie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The dreamcast is still underrated it seems.
  
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NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I mean what console has survived as long as those OG Gamecubes

Uhhh the N64, SNES, PS1 to name a few

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- Shah_of_Iran@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, I still have a NES and 2 SNES that work perfectly
  
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- Vash63@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  PS1? Those disc drives were very fragile. Mine didn’t work unless I physically tilted console sideways after like 2 years of use.
  
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  - frezik@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    SDIO mod is almost mandatory at this point. Not an easy mod, though. Certainly not a first time soldering project. You have to carefully scrape away the protective layer of some very thin traces to expose the copper and solder a fine wire to it.
    
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- TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Not a console, but I have a working Tandy 1000 from 1984.
  
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- chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My PS1 died before I got a PS2 :(
  
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- nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah I've seen a lot of SNES still working today. I had one myself just a few years ago and sold it when I had a big move. So that's a lifespan of about 25-33 years depending on when the existing units were produced.
  
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Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The GameCube controller was hot garbage. Weird unfriendly shape, buttons in the wrong spot, my thumbs and index fingers we’re not happy with it. The N64 controllers had durability issues but the layout was spot on.

I also have the same complaints about the switch controllers. The secondary thumb functions (left d pad and right joystick) and primary L/R buttons are not in a good ergonomic place and cause my hands to hurt after a bit of playing.

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- ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Talk about an unpopular opinion. But hey your entitled to your opinion
  
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  - chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No, it’s pretty popular.
    
    The gamecube controller is a pile of shit. There’s good reason why we don’t make them like that anymore.
    
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- c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve always considered every Nintendo control scheme to be garbage and usually people can at least agree that the N64 was trash, but to call it a spot on layout? Damn, what kind of hands do you have? Lol
  
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  - Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The button position is not compromised like it is on “normal” shaped controllers. There is one joystick right in the center of thumb ROM, the triggers are where my index finger naturally rests, it’s just nice to use. I don’t need Spiderman hands to hit button combos.
    
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- cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I loved the controllers
  
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  - Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The gamecube controller and the xbox duke are basically in polar opposite sides of thr spectrum. If you had on the reletively speaking, smaller hands, you liked the gamecube controller and hated the duke. Conversely if you had larger hands, it was usually the reverse.
    
    Situatiom of japanese company built something optimized for the average japanese hand
    
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  - HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    me2
    
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jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The GameCube had one key flaw and that is that nobody actually used it to it’s fullest potential.

Look at something like the Resident Evil Remake:

youtu.be/x72pByrt9kI

Just a great looking game, head and shoulders above what was happening on the PS2.

But most GameCube games, even the good ones, looked like garbage.

youtu.be/MJLnDq6f2eM

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- RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The key flaw was it using mini disks. Not only did this kneecap storage capacity for developers, but it also made it difficult to pirate games, which is ironically a big part of its failure.
  
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- MudMan@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Eternal Darkness is an overrated game that looks pretty bad, I agree. It's also early.
  
  But no, what the hell are you talking about? Luigi's Mansion, Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime, Killer 7, RE4... so many GC games specifically still hold up today, especially when played on a CRT. Most multiplatform releases looked closer to the Xbox versions and better than the PS2, and GC exclusives were hands down some of the best looking games of the generation.
  
  Like someone else said, the issue was them insisting on proprietary formats with low capacity, which led to some low-effort compromised ports sometimes. But otherwise it was easily the most comparatively performant and consistently visually impressive Nintendo console since what? The SNES? I guess it depends on whether you thought the vaseline-smear look of the N64 sucked, which I did.
  
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  - jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The reason Eternal Darkness looked bad was because it was developed as an N64 game. Dev time took soooo long, it released on the GameCube instead.
    
    The vast, vast majority of GC games looked like ass because nobody seriously threw dev cycles at it. They didn’t have to because they knew kids would just buy any branded property and eat it up.
    
    youtu.be/QNjqwueSvBY
    
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Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Looks at OG Atari 2600 still chugging away on my gaming shelf after almost 40 years and chuckles.

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Ghost33313@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The gamecube's durability was known during that era: https://youtu.be/ioWnoOjP9IA?si=zPRczUBOp4p4oYCZ

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- JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thank you for this. I remember parts of this skit to this day.
  
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CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
GameCube was the Nokia of the gaming consoles. Actually, it probably still is.

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sleepmode@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My roommate and I stood in line for it, I remember marveling over how well-made it was. They got everything right. Even the little beeps and boops using the OS itself. You don’t really see that anymore.

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- cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Now it’s ads and garbage all over the screen. Even at that I think ps3 xmb was my favorite console os
  
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- Wahots@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The console and its software were so incredibly well designed. Different era of design. I really miss it. Now everything is filled with bugs and ads.
  
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I mean what console has survived as long as those OG Gamecubes.

I still have my OG SNES from when I was a kid and got one the year they came out as a Christmas gift.

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- rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I got rid of the fat boy as soon as the slim came out
  
  Right about now, the funk soul brother…
  
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Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I miss my gamecube. That and the ps2 have to be the pinnacle of home console. After those two consoles PCs have reigned supreme.

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- chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s a good thing we can emulate them easily with Dolphin and PCSX2.
  
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utubas@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I just grabbed a Wii U and modded it so I can play mostly Gamecube, but also some Wii and Wii U games. So much fun completing Timesplitters, and the occasional Mario Football

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- SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I like my hacked Wii u. Pretty versatile
  
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CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Ive had 2 PS2’s go down, a PS3 Gen1 break, 3 Xbox 360, and very sadly an OG Xbox that did last from 2005 to 2015, an N64, and my PS4 Slim is getting there for sure. All (except the 64) gotten years (some a decade) after this Gamecube I still have today.

What do you mean by PS2s going down? I feel like they’re the most robust console I’ve come across especially when the benefits of modding are taken into account

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cuchilloc@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Check out the raspberry pi mods you can do now!

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IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Anyone remember when GameStop was selling refurbished GameCubes for $30? I think I bought 2.

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reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The games that used the game boy as a controller and second screen were interesting.

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shasta@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Like others said, ut was competing with ps2 which had a dvd player. Also, I didn’t actually care for the gamecube games available at release, whereas ps2 had some great options, AND it was backwards compatible with ps1. So right off the bat ps2 had a great bunch of games available, many of which you could get really cheap and used. For kids at the time who were on a budget and buying games with their allowance, ps2 was a far better value at the time. If I had enough money to get but, I absolutely would have.

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OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Spent so many hours on Smash, Wind Waker, Pikmin, Twilight Princess, RE4 (originally GC exclusive).

Also have that Zelda OOT promo with Master Quest on one disc, as well as the one with various Zelda games on one disc including MM.

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ofk12@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I still have mine and it works fine too! Great console. I still have an OG Xbox too.

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