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Originally Posted by Powder
Super Monkey Ball 2 & Super Smash Bros. Melee got the most time outta me on this console. Wind Waker remains a classic, for which my pre-order earned me a GC port of Ocarina of Time + Master Quest, which was how I would play that title for the first time, never owning an N64. Super Mario Sunshine has its moments & certainly established a lot of mainstays for the series moving forward, but it suffered from physics & camera based issues, like its predecessor, that really put me off. Mario Kart Double Dash & Mario Party 5/6 are still among the best installments in those games, though. Star Fox Adventures always caught a lot of sh*t, but is still a favorite of mine. It was the last good Rare published title, IMO, & David Wise's work on the soundtrack is great.
I think it's fair to call it an underrated console, but at the same time, I feel like it never really hit its full potential. A decent amount of third party support, though. Metroid Prime, Twilight Princess, these I didn't check out until the Wii ports came along, & I think both are significantly better on that system, aided by the motion controls.
I had the black one, it was either a birthday or Christmas gift, don't recall. Sold it probably over a decade ago, but kept the games, controllers, & memory card since Wii was backwards compatible. Regret it, but my SO has one, so we're good.  |
I have the black one, too. My brother and I tend to love the colour black for video game consoles and electronical devices. The default purple colour for the GameCube was not appealing to us, I guess. But I'd have preferred for him to have bought the orange coloured GC instead haha
Ah I missed out on Super Monkey Ball. There were games of it on the Switch but I heard they're not as good as the GC games.
You're right that the GC has a deeper library than people gave it credit for. Thing is, it looked so barren compared to the PS2's library. And to be honest, the OG Xbox suffers from the same unfortunate circumstances as the GC. Lots of good OG Xbox games that faded into obscurity due to the PS2' existence basically "blocking" the competition at the time to the point people forgot it existed.
I have Assault, but not Adventures. I did want that game when I was a kid, but again, my brother was the one who had the priority to "decide" what games to get. The only GC titles we got based on my "input" were F-Zero GX, Metroid Prime, Pikmin and WWE Day of Reckoning 2. And I only got Prime when it was already a Player's Choice game selling for €19.99 around 2005.