Thread 719158212

What was the feeling of having a GameCube on its release day?

>>719158212 (OP)
Feeling? Come on, this is 4chan.

>>719158212 (OP)
People don't talk about the fact that a lot of gaming in those days and at a young age was a lot of waiting on new games to come out I feel like there's just so much now and you don't really have to wait like that idk maybe I just felt that way

>>719158867
Good games back then released yearly, you waited max few month for a new good release, nowadays you wait 3-4 years for 1 (one) good game

>>719158212 (OP)
Disappointment it wasn't a ps2 or xbox

>>719158867
>a lot of gaming in those days and at a young age was a lot of waiting on new games to come out
Nah, I was such a dumb simple kid that I could have fun just running around the hub world in Mario

>>719158212 (OP)
You had a few games. They were games kids with PS2s or XBOXes didn't have, and they were all bangers, but it was kind of isolating.

Until someone had a sleep over or something and then you were the cool wild card with the games nobody else had.

Melee was always a hit in middle school.

>>719158942
You wait 5 years for 1 good game but the shelves are loaded with 30 years worth of remakes. We are gluttons for choice now. Its all mid slop, but we have a ton of it.

>>719158212 (OP)
Say one thing for the GameCube: it certainly was fucking cubic.

>>719158212 (OP)
>WTF, PS2 has Final Fantasy X, Metal Solid 2, Grand Theft Auto 3, and Silent Hill 2 this year?!?!?!? Why am I sitting here playing Luigi's-hump-dressers-in-a-haunted-mansion tech demo that ends after 2 hours?!?!
>WTF, PS2 can play PS1 games and use PS1 controllers?!? Why can't the GameCube play N64 games?
>WTF, the PS2 is getting support for online games this year?!? Why can't my GameCube play Tony Hawk online??!?
>WTF, the controller is missing a second Z button, clickable sticks, a select button, and
Buying the shitcube is the biggest regret of my life. Absolute dogshit console with 0 redeeming qualities. Anyone shilling this slop is a mentally retarded cubie who had no other games growing up.

>>719158212 (OP)
No games.

>>719159092
spot on.

>>719158212 (OP)
humiliation

>>719159092
but at least it was cheap and it was new

OP spams these threads on v and vr

>>719158212 (OP)
idk i bought a ps2 instead

>>719158212 (OP)
I remember being super impressed at the dust Luigi kicked up when walking in Mansion.
The controller felt weird after getting used to the Dreamcast one.

>>719158212 (OP)
Disappointing. The launch line up was really weak. Smash was the only good game for a while and graphics were still borderline N64. Meanwhile Xbox had DOA3 looking incredible.

>>719159363
nah just genuinely curious

>>719159363
what do you suggest is a better activity than spamming this website?

>>719158212 (OP)
I went to a midnight release for mine and there was only about 20 people lol
Had a lot of fun playing that hockey game with my brother

>>719158212 (OP)
Wouldnt know. It wasnt worth it to me till they started selling the silver one for $99.

>>719159401
>forgetting about rogue leader

Gamecube was the Xbox Series of its time. It missed so many multiplat games because of low sales and the mini discs causing limitations.

>>719158867
>at a young age was a lot of waiting on new games to come out
Was the opposite for me. I generally did not keep up with release dates for games until I was a teenager or so and the internet became more fleshed out.

I was playing Smelee and Luigi's Mansion

I got bullied for owning it because it looked like a lunchbox for kids.

In all honesty Gamecube games on release wss quite spectacular because the fee games that were looked a lot more notably next gen than what the ps2 had been getting so far, which was a lot of Dreamcast ports.

Luigi's Mansion, Rogue Leader and Melee looked so slick and round and sharp. It was mesmerizing.

>>719159401
>graphics were still borderline N64

Youre talking about the ps2 early games. Gamecube early exclusives were aggressively better looking than most stuff on the competition. It was a drastic change.

>>719159092
Go outside sperg

>>719158212 (OP)
I legit was amazed when I pressed the power button and heard the little fan start the whiring sound.

I miss being wowed by the simple things in life.

Very underwhelming to get Luigi's Mansion instead of Super Mario 128. It took a few days to warm up to LM and realize it was a good game in its own right but it was never a substitute for Mario. Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II was good though, just what you'd want from a sequel.

>>719158212 (OP)
Excitment and optimism. I had Rogue Squadron 2, Luigi’s Mansion, and Wave Race on day 1. Pretty solid launch lineup for a Nintendo console.

But it also lacked the magic of playing Super Mario World or Super Mario 64 for the first time. It didn’t feel like a huge jump the way it felt for those games. But RS2 looked amazing and was fun as hell