My only experience with the GameCube is 10 minutes of Sonic Adventures at a McDonald's play place and a bit of Melee at a sleepover with s basketball teammate
I went to Goodwill a few months ago and found Mario Party 5 for 68 cents. When anywhere else, it would've been like 80+ dollars lmao. It had the booklet and was in great condition!
Yeah I’ve picked up a couple of titles like soul calibur 2 at goodwill. Best find was Skies of Arcadia, I’ve never heard of it and was blown away at the prices on eBay.
As a 50 year old gamer ive still got my fair share of Gamecube games from launch and have collected a few more along the years.But i decided to slow down collecting and move on to newer consoles once the absurd prices started to rise.All of those Resi games you were looking at have been remade into far better looking and better quality versions eg ps3,ps4 etc so i sold my gamecube resi`s to fund the newer versions.Dont get me wrong i love my 2 gamecubes and there are games i love and would never sell ,but as ive got older ive realised life is short so why not enjoy the games you love rather than buying or worrying about the prices of game etc ,you cant take games with you when you kick the bucket and go to video game heaven just enjoy yourself while your still here.
I wish we could reach a point where companies could offer the roms up for purchase so that we can emulate the games without the legal gray area of obtaining roms
My view? Nintendo has had years to allow us to buy the roms from them. Heck, I bought Mario 3D all stars on day one, clearly indicating I’m willing to buy their older stuff if they let me. But I’m not gonna pay some random dude in Florida $400 to play Chibi Robo. Nah, I’m gonna dust off my very limited tech skills and emulate that shit. The way I see it, these video game companies have made thousands of dollars off me. If they are gonna withhold legacy content from us, I’m just gonna go around them.
@@leeartlee915 we have the same view. I don’t feel morally wrong about obtaining roms for Nintendo games they won’t provide access to. Legally however you are in the wrong
@@THEpicND oh I know it’s not legal. I just don’t give a shit. It’s like people who smoke pot (where it’s not legalized) or jaywalk; probably shouldn’t do it but meh. It’s hardly like drunk driving or knocking over a liquor store. I really don’t see who it hurts other than resellers. And those folks, well, let’s just say I’d like nothing more than to shut those people down. When eBay started, it was just people getting rid of crap in their house. Now it’s people who decided to not “work for the man” and scoop up valuable stuff that would have otherwise gone to deal seekers. I’ve literally seen people scooping up entire shelves of games, going to a corner to scan every item, and ditch the stuff they can’t resell. All Nintendo would need to do to shut that crap down would to throw their stuff on the eshop. Sorry for the rant, retro gaming has turned me sour.
SEGA does that for MegaDrive/Genesis games on Steam, including Sonic3&K. Other than that, you only really get that with 8bit and 16bit home computers from Commodore and probably some others.
I bought the Switch on day one under the assumption that it was going to have an eShop and access to buy older Nintendo games, really disappointed with how slow the rollout is of older titles and how I can't even own them, just pay to access a handful of games through online membership.
Since Steven Lee left Nintendo in 2011 (hewas the main guy behind the great N64 emulation on Wii), Nintendo seemingly struggles with emulating N64 games right. It appears that for each game, Nintendo has to specifically tweak their emulator so it runs just one specific game as best as possible - it takes more time with the commercial emulator they have than we think to get out quality re-releases. That's why I think that we'll get less in this regard with future Nitnendo consoles. MVG made a video (titled "Nintendo used to be GOOD at N64 Emulation...what happened?") in which he tries to explain why N64 Emulation got bad. I'm just kinda referencing some stuff from this video, mixing that information with my thoughts and try to draw my own conclusions, just so you know.
@@bradevit2446 Nintendo has gotten lazy and outsources so much of their stuff. Even their "flagship" games are partially outsourced to outside studios. Trying to turn maximum profit with minimum effort.
@@wryyyy aaaand now it's the only profitable videogame company out there, sony just fired 10% of it's workers (and probably dropped a lot of projects) and microsoft it's transitioning to third party developer :3
I think the fact that the Gamecube was such an underrated console is probably the reason why the prices are going so crazy nowadys. The system didn't sell nearly as much as it would have deserved and as it should have and as a result the supply of a lot of great games on the system is very limited
Everyone i knew had one though. How the heck is it considered poorly sold?! Me and all my cousins and friends had it! We all had the best games for it! Those games aren't even rare!
I was at TooManyGames this year and I felt priced out of retro collecting and didn’t end up buying anything aside from some Mother 1+2 and 3 English translation carts.
I have 25 gamecube games (some of the best on the system) and I would like to get more but with these ridiculous prices I just modded my wii and loaded it up with 300+ gamecube ISOs. Plays all the games perfectly. Until prices start to decrease again Im just gonna stay away from retro collecting.
With prices the way they are, it's pretty much becoming a market exclusively for collectors with too much money on their hands. Nintendont is going to be the way to access these games until Nintendo finally decides to re-release them on current hardware.
I can’t believe how much prices have gone up. I remember getting animal crossing for like $5 on gamecube at a convention in 2018 and used to be able to get a lot of cheap games for gamecube at cons. The retro game market is insane
Lucky you. Even in 2017 when I bought animal crossing it costed me $60 CAD. Prices have gone up much more since then but that’s also because of a much higher demand and a lot of it is caused by youtubers. Even myself I have started collecting more (mostly Nintendo) watching these RU-vid videos because it’s something that I enjoy.
The prices will come down once reproduction copies come in and start flooding the market. Its happened with other systems. I don't see why the GameCube will be any different. These high prices give Chinese manufacturers an incentive to make counterfeit copies. It might not matter to the average Joe, as the counterfeit will still play like the original but it certainly affects collectors.
@@joemann7971 honestly if repro discs become a thing that would be good, I wouldn't but Chinese cartridge repros because they have issues saving but a disc based game uses a memory card instead so I would probably be a filthy pirate ha ha
@@PaperBanjo64 I didn't even consider the saving part. I already a filthy pirate. I just went the everdrive route for my N64, and I'm getting a GC Loader for my GameCube. For the price of some these games, the GC Loader easily pays for itself after just one game.
The simple solution to this is Nintendont for your Wii/Wii-U. The games play literally the same as they would via disc, and the program even allows you to force widescreen if you want. Such an amazing program.
Same. There are still some I want here and there, but am happy I picked most of the major hitters years ago. I honestly don't see myself buying more gamecube games unless I find a very cheap game with a good case
Don’t pay these prices for these games. Soft mod a Wii and get yourself a GameCube controller and memory cards and download the games. The developers are not getting money for these games anymore either way.
@@desklaser Good luck a good 3rd of them don't even buy them to play, they actually pay 10 times more sealed copies. And then send them in to get graded like baseball cards. And actually try and to sell them for thousands of dollars. Crazy part is they actually buy them 😳.
I purchased my GameCube games in real-time as they were being released and kept ALL if my games; complete-in-box, but I wish I could say the same for Super Nintendo. For my Super Nintendo collection, I have a fair amount of CIB games I owned as a child, but I am missing key titles like Super Punch-Out!, Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, Mega Man 7, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time, Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2, and Street Fighter II.
One thing I really like about Gamecube Games is the slightly more substantial feeling of the cases. They are a little heavier, a little thicker, and for some reason I just think they feel better in my hands when I admire them compared to some other flimsy cases.
Unfortunately because of environmental bleeding hearts, more cases are going that stupid holey route and I hate that. Don't put holes in my stuff, man.
@@ChrisLee1353-c6e I always held on to my game cases, PS1 included. But regretfully I didn't keep my Game Boy Advance boxes, just the manuals. I kept my cartridges in cartridge holders. However, I did put my CDs in CD holders so that I could change games faster without digging through the cases.
@@ChrisLee1353-c6e "We'd put like 20 discs in a plastic bag, keep them in the lunchbox and carry the Gamecube by the handle to the kids house with the biggest TV." I'll believe you that you and your friends did that, but I have never in my life heard of anyone carrying around game discs, music discs, or any other discs around in a plastic bag like that. That's terrible. "No one kept their GBA boxes so don't feel bad." I still have my boxes from my Gameboy Games. And my GBA games. And every other game I've ever had. I also have the boxes for all of my systems. They were cool; why would I throw them away?
Running its signal through a good HDMI adapter wields some pretty decent image quality. GC was surprisingly powerful for its time, so most games look actually pretty good for their age. Not to mention bunch of GC games support widescreen. Making them quite modern flatscreen friendly.
GameCube was one of my favorite Nintendo consoles, despite it not having strong 3rd party support. I also love that when you hold the Z button down when powering on the system, it makes alternative music with kids laughing...CLASSIC!!!
I am so glad I still have my gamecube but it is the console I regret expanding my collection on the most. It’s just so frustrating seeing the prices constantly go up. Then throughout the recent years of retro stores closing in my area so quickly is just depressing
Those stores close down because nobody is willing to pay their prices, they charge more than eBay prices most of the time. One I went to a while ago was asking £65 for super Mario sunshine which is £15/25 game on eBay. This is the UK keep in mind. The best way seems to be going out to markets or getting lucky in charity stores and finding games cheap there because the seller has no idea what they have.
The problem is that retro game stores have to inflate their prices when online prices inflate to get inventory. If someone could sell their copy of Mario Sunshine online for double what the shop is offering, why would they sell it to the shop? So the shop has to raise their offer which forces them to raise their prices to the consumer. This also puts a lot of pressure on the shop, since if the bubble bursts they're stuck holding the bag.
Makes me glad I started getting into the gamecube collection before the whole pandemic started and managed to scop up many of my favorite games before they spiked up in price.
Good point. I recently got a PS3 and PS2, and noticed Symphony of the Night’s price go from around $30 to $90. I loved that I could just go on the PS3 store and just grab it for $10. Same goes for a lot of old expensive PS1 games.
This was a topic I was discussing with my friends the other day. My favorite consoles of all time were GBA, GameCube and PlayStation 2 and so many of those titles just aren't available to play on any modern console. I have been having a blast lately with the Castlevania Advance Collection and I put my money where my mouth is - I'm willing to pay for these games to play them on my switch. But if a company doesn't give me the option I can either spend serious amounts of cash finding original hardware and games OR more likely I'm putting on my pirate hat. GameCube and PS2 are harder for that shmemulation lifestyle but Konami got my hard earned nostalgia dollars but Nintendo is missing out when it comes to games like Metroid Fusion or LoZ Minish Cap.
Was halfway into the fullset myself. When I started, building the set was around 6k CAD. Now halfway there my collection had a value of 10k, this is rediculous. I sold everything. Wasn't interested in investing that much money to finish the collection.
I've been done with retro collecting in general because of this very issue. The prices for games on numerous consoles, but especially Nintendo platforms, have gotten absolutely insane over the last 10 years & I can't justify paying over $100 for a 20+ year old game that at one point you couldn't give away. I do understand the collectors market and supply and demand ect. but we have to remember that we're talking about stuff that would otherwise be e-waste in landfill at this point.
@@Stillxxen Here in the states thrift stores were shelved with old gaming software that was selling at one to three dollars. I haven't been to one in awhile. I hope the retro craze hasn't fallen in their sphere of awareness.
@@rockapartie In smaller thrift stores, where they have time, yes. But large Thrift Stores it varies. I've had plenty of experience to know software if in a cardboard "suite box" is automatically charged higher (McAfee utilities '97) $10. While software in humbler packaging charged all the same under games versus movies on a sign. They're inundated with donations. I've bought chargers way cheaper than ebay, because the don't have the time to sort them.
Man, twenty years old. It feels like just a few years ago that my mother bought me a purple Gamecube and I had a black controller. I got the GameBoy Player for it too and played Pokémon, Legend of Zelda and Kirby on it. But the game that will forever be a cherished memory is the very first game I got besides anything for the GameBoy Player. Legend of Zelda and the Wind Waker. I also had the one cd with two really old Zelda games (REALLY old), Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and the demo for Wind Waker. There was Sonic Battle Adventure 2, Twilight Princess, etc.
Nintendo don't need to waste time making emulator's, fans have already done that better. What I think Nintendo should do is open their own ROM site selling everything from NES to Wii for now, and as long as the games are priced faily I guarantee most people will buy not pirate.
That's similat to what I've been saying. Instead of starting over from scratch with every. single. console, just make a Virtual Console service for PC!
It'll probably be 30 to 50 years if at all before Nintendo picks up on that from the way they act currently, I will be pleasantly surprised if they do act sooner though
2:02 Magical Mirror starring Mickey Mouse, actually more of a point n click adventure game than a platformer, but it is 3D, and it does have a heartwarming ending once you collect all of the mirror pieces.
Here is my experience at any retro game store: “Woah no way! I’ve been looking for this game!” -picks it up, sees the price, shakes head and places back on the shelf I hardly bother even going into those stores anymore
Other people must have good luck with local stores. I tried 7 years ago never went to a local store since then. When it's always cheaper to just go online to ebay. 30% cheaper. Maybe the local stores in my area just rip me off.
We couldn't even get GameCube games on Wii U (at least officially) and Nintendont has pretty much shown just how flawless those games run on that system. Nintendo just loves creating scarcity. The 3DS was also capable of playing GBA games but the 3DS never got any 3DS games outside of the ambassadors program. Those games weren't even available on the eshop for sale.
@@megamillion5852 Sonic Adventure 2 is a Sega game. They can port that independently of anything Nintendo does. You don't need GameCube emulation for that. Emulation is only needed for games that were specifically designed for the GameCube. They would also need to release GameCube style joycons, since using the original GameCube controller through the adapter would be impractical in handheld mode, and they do need to do GameCube joycons, including the analog triggers. Some games just don't play well without them.
@@joemann7971 i just wish i could get the physical copies, i only have been trying to buy gamecube games for their price before corana, ive only bought a few games, the other ones i will have to get illegally
I remember getting a GameCube with all the wires and two wave birds for $15 at a yard sale a few years back. I also remember that same day getting Mario party 4 for free at another yard sale, and shadow the hedgehog for just a few bucks.
Isn’t that just for sealed copies? As nice as it would be to put all the blame on WATA, I doubt that’s the primary factor for the price increase of regular games.
@@Tom-jw7ii Inflated prices at the high end always raises the floor for the low end. It universally screws REAL collectors. Look at his vid where he talks about the coin market speculation bubble. One of the newspaper articles points out how even 32 years before, in a completely different collectors market, the inflating bubble pulled the floor up, screwing the hobby collectors. the article talks about even the lower prices being artificially pushed too high, and how one coin collector's group lost 1/3 of it's members, due to the market inflation pushing them out. The scam hurts _EVERYONE!_ This grade and sell grift needs to stop. the man behind it now with games was fined I think $1.4 million by the FTC. He's not a friend to the market.
@@richfiles The thing is, though, is it “high end” and “low end” or are they just different markets? People who buy sealed games are almost invariably never going to play them. People who buy loose games generally do buy games with the intent of actually playing them, so then to what extent does inflation in one side carry over to the other? I think the primary culprit is probably Covid fucking up the economy right when demand was already starting to increase. While WATA’s price manipulation may very well have had some effect on the casual market, I highly doubt eliminating them would make everything better again.
@@Tom-jw7ii The issue is the markets _are_ inexplicably tied by the ignorant. Some dude sees a 1.5 million dollar sealed Mario, so they put their worn cartridge up with their ratty box for $250, because "look, comes with box"... It's unrealistic, but you get a shift in the overall perception of value. I've seen it happen time and time again, even with RU-vidrs. A prominent channel talks about some obscure device, and suddenly 10000 people go search for it, and 10 maybe even buy the thing, and suddenly there is an artificial demand that can linger for as long as said video gets its rounds through the algorithm. Those bursts of activity can have long spanning influences on buying history and what sellers set their initial prices to. Look at the video itself (I forget if first or second vid), but where they show the newspaper clippings surrounding the late 1980s coin speculative market bubble. Even back then, without the internet, and without ebay, it _STILL_ had a massive impact on hobby collectors, including those at the bottom end. Pause on the article and read it. They talk about coin collectors clubs losing as much as 1/3 of their membership, and how the proliferation of graded coins really screwed with haggling and cause values to pull away from the bottom, making the low end more expensive. This is not a new thing. people as individuals tend to be rather unpredictable, but take that chaos at a large scale, and overall human behavior becomes disturbingly predictable... These market bubbles always generate the same sorts of results, and it only focuses money into the hands of the early investors that started the bubble inflating. The small guy and the late guy especially, suffer the most. Don't try to pass off what really ought to be considered criminal market manipulation for just another casualty of the pandemic. the video _features_ newspaper evidence that history is only repeating itself. That's _why_ this kind of market manipulation led to fines over three decades ago. it should lead to fines and criminal charges today!
I started retro game collecting in the early 2000s and quit about 5/6 years ago. The prices people demand are insane and they just aren't worth that much.
The thing is, video games are almost never worth more than their original MSRP, and not that many games are even worth their original MSRP. There are exceptions but I can't say I've played too many games worth literally hundreds of dollars, even some of the best games I've ever played.
Meanwhile you can just hack your wii and download roms of any wii or game cube game you could ever possibly want onto an sd card without any real worry of legal repercussions to yourself. That's the type of behavior these exorbanant prices encourage.
And they play pretty much the same as they would if you used the disc. When I discovered Nintendont, I instantly made hundreds of dollars selling my physical copies. I then used that money to buy several Switch games. Food for thought.
The original Bases Loaded on the Nintendo store costs $9.99. Wii games cost $59.99...and they wonder why we pirate. I'm not paying for the same games multiple times.
As a younger video game that grew up with a Wii, I would love to play these older games that came out before I was into gaming, or simply before I was born. I just wish companies would help me be able to play them.
Games released on Nintendo systems will always be like that since I have been collecting since 2006. Sure over time it will continue to rise but they will reach its peak, it will either stay around the same or will go down little by little. When the Wii U become retro/more collectable, it would be interesting to see to what it will become on prices.
I really with they would let limited run do some open preorder reissues of these games, Id love to get some gamecube games that have that blu ray antiscratch coating
@@Oceanandskylinevidss WiiU is a Wii and WiiU sandwiched together. The Wii still has the GC portion minus the controller ports and memory card slots. Nintendo just disabled access to that and removed those parts. There’s more technical garble with this but it’s the simplified version. So it’s not emulation at all.
I started collecting for the GameCube in 2016, and my collection seems to have doubled in value. Unfortunately, in that time, I never picked up the thousand year door when it was like $40 lol
No subscription services, for God's sake. Just let us BUY them. If it's an option between subscription or piracy, I choose piracy every time. If they won't let me buy them, they can get bent.
Great video. Fun fact about 4 years I never own a gamecube til in 2017. When I pick up a bundle off Facebook for $75. This bundle included a black gamecube with hooks up and 10 games. Resident evil zero, remake, 2, 3 and 4. Also super smash bro in inwhich it's in a a sonic riders case pretty cool fine. Good deal .
That's exactly how Ive ALWAYS felt about EVERY console that doesn't require internet, to operate properly. So few people will ever know, how much better it really was. 😔
These days I just frequent my favorite thrift stores and hope for the best. There's something fun about the random, rare finds at stores that don't act like antique/collectible establishments. You'd be surprised if I told you what I've actually found for $1-5 just by being at the right place at the right time. I play all my GC games out of a Wii but hope one day to get an actual GC, maybe when it doesn't cost as much as certain new toys.
Problem is mom and pop shops price ebay prices nowadays. Most pawn shops in my area doesn't even know what they have they check ebay for trending and go above that. If I want ebay price ill go to ebay
@@quadcopteruploads6685 yeah I’ve only bought one game from eBay in recent years, it was Mario Galaxy 2 for the Wii. I can’t believe how much the Nintendo stuff went up on eBay. I go to thrift stores for the thrill of random finds and they should know they kill their business if it’s obvious they’re charging collectible prices for things.
GameCube was the only console I had for it's time. I don't regret it either. Seeing how pricing has gone for the systems the GameCube is clearly the most valuable of them
Na it's like $50-90 depending on where you go. It's because you can play GameCube on the Wii and the game I've has laser issues. The glass over the laser typically gets displaced. Easy enough to fix if you know what you're doing. But potential to permanently ruin the laser.
I wonder if Nintendo could ever be convinced to flat out sell ROMs, it would be making money without having to do anything but they would need a way to keep them from being copied. Maybe that is how Nintendo gets into blockchain by having every game on the same chain so it's ownership history is permanent. Just a thought.
Agreed. Even as a collector I would love to have more access to an online library of games. Makes things infinitely more easy to play especially on a handheld-capable device like the Switch
Glad I finished my gamecube collection 10 years ago when I was in college. I got a gamecube and the gameboy player for my birthday and have greatly enjoyed that system to this day.
Cubivore was one of my favorite GameCube games but in order to be able to experience it again I would have to spend close to a $1000 on the game plus a few hundred dollars on top of that since I no longer have my system anymore. I wish it were easier to play older games without having to spend a million dollars to do so.
I just don't understand why Nintendo won't re-release these games. People are paying $300 for Fire Emblem. Nintendo could charge 60 for Chibi-Robo, F-Zero GX, Pikmin etc. and sell 2 million of each easily. I understand that it does require some work, but I think it would be well worth the money for Nintendo.
Nintendo can't sell those games for those prices. Other people can sell them for those prices due to low supply, but as soon as Nintendo enters the picture, supply is effectively unlimited (or at least enough to meet demand). Nintendo wouldn't be able to sell them for that much. Maybe $15-20 at most.
People have been asking forever but Nintendo isn't listening and will never re-release there older games. Locked away in a vault never to see the light of day. They just don't care. It's either pay the outrageously high prices used prices or get them by the less than legal way to play these older games.
GC Loader with a 1 TB sd card, I have the entire library on my Cube. Easily worth it for any old console you want to collect for. These prices are outrageous. I have some form multicart/ODE setup for every system from NES/Master System Era all the way to xbox PS2 GCN era. Every console with most or all of it's library without worrying about disc drives or getting different games is AMAZING. Worth it every time.
A gamecube with GC Loader has become a favorite right now. Keeping one gamecube still reading discs, but dang is it convenient. The whole library fits on a 1tb SD card, disc swapping, and audio streaming just works. Love the cube, and hell that whole console generation. We have so many options right now....let alone the Dolphin emulator. It's weird how emulation was the gateway that got me just wanting all the actual consoles and a trinitron CRT many years later.
@Green Mamba Games It's kinda what I do. I have a PS2 and an OG Xbox but I have modded them and got large internal storages for them (2TB each) so I could have the games without going bankrupt. If companies offered us a decent way to buy them I would. They don't so I'm not going to give Ebay scammers a single penny either. Plus, it's ridicuously convenient to have your games inside the console, you can bypass region locks, you preserve the optical disc drive, you don't need a warehouse to store hundreds (in my case over a thousand) of games and they load much faster.
I had 45 systems and thousands of games, and I sold all of it except my PS3, 360 and Wii U. The one and only regret I have, was selling the Cube. I have the GB player and damn near every great game for the system. I'm an idiot, but I've still got my Wii U.
Yeah... the Gamecune prices have been inflated for a decade, but since the pandemic it's had a large jump. Collecting for disc consoles in general now is too risky thanks to disc rot & heavily scratched discs. I prefer sticking to cartridge collecting & most of my nostalgia is from the golden age of gaming during the 8 & 16-bit era anyway.
I own quite a few GameCube Games and not once have any of them shown signs of disc rot. Yes scratches can be a problem but you can usually get them resurfaced which works well most of the time and to be honest the CameCube can read disc that are heavily scratched without a problem As long as they're not too deep. The only other thing you gotta worry about is on some games the label peels off because of a bad batch of paint or something like that But that's only limited to certain games like Enter The Matrix and Resident Evil 4 Players Choice. Just be sure to store them in their cases and out of sunlight and extreme temperatures. That way you shouldn't have any problems out of your GameCube Disc Collection!
Gave my sister our gamecube when she moved out years ago. When i asked her a couple years ago where it was she told me she donated it to goodwill with all our games. I had so many of the expensive games but I'll really miss fire emblem. So I just spent 300 bucks on pokemon colosseum, star fox adventures, paper mario, and sonic battle 2 so i can start regaining the games i once had but if I just went and bought them all now id be paying over 2000 dollars this is insane!!!
I had a huge slew of GameCube games from when I was a kid, including a ton of the classics. Unfortunately I lost them all in my mom's house fire in 2015. I decided recently to start building up my collection again, and you're not kidding, it has gotten expensive. Luckily my BIL had a whole stack of GCN games he just gave to me to get me started, including some gems (Metroid Prime, Smash Melee, SMB 1&2, Rogue Squadron 2 and 3, Paper Mario). I would love for Nintendo to offer some way to play these as well!
I just don’t think the Japanese are so big on nostalgia as we are in the West; Sega has been very slow to provide access to its game libraries… simply churning out pretty much the same collection of Mega Drive titles over and over… while completely ignoring the Master System, Sega CD, 32X, Saturn and Dreamcast. Nintendo’s NES/SNES/N64 offerings on the Switch are extremely half-hearted, lacking such basic options as being able to change the screen borders, and a really clunky approach to save states. I think both companies look on in bemusement at the clamour for this stuff… Nintendo could have raked it in by selling their N64 games again, but instead bundled them into a confusing online upgrade, from which they may throw us a new title every 3 months? And don’t even get me started on that piss-poor Mario 3D collection. I think because they fundamentally don’t get why we’d want this stuff instead of new games, they don’t really know how to sell it. Bottom Line: don’t expect any Gamecube titles any time soon.
@@happyspaceinvader508 ok I some know what your talking about. Nintendo does make easy money even right now and they do have a back log of retro games. They simply can't run a business sometimes and Nintendo does implement a lot of Japanese practices to North America and Europe
@Zachary Erickson They’re nowhere near as well designed as the save state / rewind mechanisms in open source emulators… or even M2’s Sega Genesis Collection for Switch.
I remember buying a loose copy of fire emblem path of radiance around 2019 off eBay for $80 and thinking “wow this is a lot” it’s crazy to think that now the manual for the game is going for that amount. The same issue is happening with Pokémon games as well. I do believe that the prices for these games will eventually steady out most likely in a few years once demand from resellers goes down.
There are people who sell a modded Wii with a 2tb external hard drive with every Wii and gc game on it for around $350 lol don't go broke paying $350 for a game that isn't as good as you remember trying to be nostalgic.
Little rats like wata and other rating companies are to blame, deliberately over inflating the market trying to make something from nothing, I guarantee you that you will never meet some super wealthy person who spent a million dollars on a mint Mario 64 lol.
That's why I dump my discs when I get the chance. Not only that but most sets online are NTSC-U which doesn't work for me with saves for the European Version of a game.
The gamecube is my favorite system of all time. It was my first system and i absolutely love alot about it. But man the prices have been insane. Even third party games, i found out some are more expensive on the gamecube then on other systems. Like for instance, i saw some bond games which would be only around 10 dollars at most for xbox and ps2, however on gamecube they would instead be close to 20 dollars or soo, soo even the more common 3rd party multiplatform games costed more on gamecube comparatively. I still wanna collect the gamecube, since their are some games i missed out on playing, but they have been expensive, and i really wished they would get re-released. But awesome video though spawnwave, it was a really interesting vid.
I never thought old stuff would end up having this much value so I sold my systems pretty soon after I was done with them. I kinda wish I hadn't and had my DC with Seaman and the GC with the gameboy player etc etc
Part of the issue with legally emulating games is that, unless its a first-party title and under a studio that you own, getting the rights to resell them is nigh impossible. Twenty years of studio shutdowns, shuffling, buyouts, and whatnot can cause a migraine trying to figure out who even OWNS the rights now. And then you have to figure out if the current owner even wants to allow the game to be re-released. Or if they have some quirk in how they want to handle said game. Just as an example, several years back there was a studio trying to push for a remaster of the original *No One Lives Forever* (a great parody on 60's/70's spy thrillers), and while they had tracked down all the other studios that owned pieces of the IP, Warner Brothers, the last publisher that owned the final pieces of the rights, turned them down at the last second with no explanation. That killed the project then & there. This is just part of the problem at large with video game preservation.
and this is why I turned to emulation, imagine living in country where the gamecube sold very poorly with a small population, Game cube games are way to expensive in Australia (retro games in general are), well GC is expensive everywhere
If Nintendo and namco released socal2 with online with link, heihachi and spawn would be amazing. Its one of the best fighting games to experience in that gen and still holds up. I like it more than the others.
I'm fortunate in that I kept most of my GameCube games from my childhood, picked up heavy hitters like Chibi Robo several years ago for cheaper prices, and just rounding out the collection with games I wanted that I was missing within the last year. The main game I'm still missing that I really want is Fire Emblem... Going to bite the bullet eventually...
@@christophermendez8452 or maybe the next Gen switch. Given how the out put of games and how Nintendo market the switch to become a very hot selling system but call hunch
I’ve been working on my own GameCube collection. The problem that I have noticed is everyone wants top dollar for the games they have as if they are running a business.. it’s like you said, the convenience of having the games all there in one place without having to worry about shipping helps warrant the price. I mean, you’ve got people at garage sales googling the going rate for Zelda wind waker and asking for that price. It eliminates any sort of deal you would have been getting... you know.. the kind of deal you would get from a garage sale.
Been playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for the first time this past week. Really enjoying it. *FYI -- I purchased this game new on clearance from Circuit City many years ago for SIX DOLLARS.
I feel like if anyone could re-release an old console and games at the same price it originally released at, it would be Nintendo. And if it were a limited run they would sell out for sure.
If Nintendo wants to stop pirates, they need to make competent rereleases that render piracy obsolete. A new copy of Twilight Princess currently costs $1000 US. That's absurd for a game that is only about 20 years old.
Anyone who tried justifying a purchase of an expensive Gamecube or Wii game is almost always gonna sound like an idiot. The Gamecube/Wii are blessed with the most robust, accessible and quality emulation systems imaginable both on modified hardware and with Dolphin on PC. Shit runs on a toaster and you'll get an experience that most of the time will outright beat what the stock experience is. Don't buy these games, you're wasting money on a novelty
For the record the comments you made about emulating Gamecube being difficult is just absurd. There is no mysticism in emulation for these systems anymore and I for one hope Nintendo continues their petty, ultimately futile efforts to stomp emulation while not supporting official preservation. Official software emulators almost always suck outside of extremely niche cases like with Xbox. The longer Nintendo sticks their head in the sand in regards to giving people good ways to officially play these games at reasonable prices, the more people will turn to emulation. The more people turn to emulation, the less feel compelled to waste money on overpriced copies of these games via secondhand markets. I love collecting games, but the community has gone to shit in terms of mentality, the market is fucked and its likely only going to get worse. But emulation? Its better and easier than ever. Even if I want to play on OG hardware, boot discs and CFW are so easy to use these days that being able to put these ROMs/ISOs on physical media for free and then play them through the system itself is a cakewalk. I have 0 reason to ever spend absurd amounts on retro games ever again and I'm happier for it. When I find good deals or when games are readonably priced I'll gladly snag em up. But paying $50-60 for a Gamecube game that should really be worth chump change at best with how heavy supply is, is a thing of the past for me.
I've had my gamecude since a few years after it came out. I don't have many games for it but I was able to buy the whole Mario Party gamecube collection (4,5,6,7). It cost me an insane amount of green for all of them. But, my friends and I still play them all the time. (The rest of them were $15 or so).
And ppl laught at me, because i still bought GC Games, the time the Wii came out. Fire Emblem PoR 15€ Sealed? No Problem. Chibi Robo 5€ Sealed? Easy (hard underrated game back in the days) Im not a complete Collector (to many bad Games in between), i just pick and keep the Games i like to play. I was a "release buyer" the time GC was new and bought games like Metroid Prime or Mario Sunshine day one. Later i bought the cheap Sealed Games "noone wanted anymore" for my collection. Even Paper Mario did cost only 20€ Sealed.🙃
GameCube has always been the most nostalgic console for me, I was starting to buy systems and games in anticipation of the 20th anniversary but the pricing is so ridiculous especially in this terrible economy, I resorted to buying an OG Xbox and dozens of games for the price of one or two gamecube games. Xbox as a brand has been the most consumer friendly this gen after being the laughingstock of last gen. Preservation is one of the most important things to me, and on that front Xbox is absolutely dominating Sony and Nintendo that never seemed to care about their legacy content.
Looney Tunes: Back in Action is honestly one of my favorite games in the 6th Generation. I miss those old 5th, 6th and 7th Generation 3D platformers. I had some. I'd say not to play Looney Tunes: Back in Action unless you are a REALLY big Looney Tunes fan, like myself. Some parts feel like an old short. Others feel a bit redundant. And sometimes, you have to fight with the camera. One of my biggest pet peeves is that the voice clips. They either don't get said all the way or they get built up and are said in a row when what the characters are reacting to is not even happening anymore. I'd assume some platformers do that from this era.
I agree with you your not the only one and I wish they made looney tunes HD remasters video games and I still play looney tunes back in action on ps2 and GameCube.❤️🥰😱
@@BeuyobIsHere I totally agree with you my friend and I just wish they brings more of the classic looney tunes video games for modern systems and I would buy it and don’t you agree my friend,❤️🥰😱
@@BeuyobIsHere thank you so much for agreeing with me and thank you for your wonderful reply and awesome comment my friend and have an awesome amazing weekend and have a wonderful Christmas month weekend.❤️😱🥰🎸
I had traded in most of my Gamecube games and I started looking to buy some seemingly right when things started to spike. And since I mostly just want to play them, I decided I’d spend the cost of 1 game (on the low end for anything popular) and invested in a GC Loader instead. Super easy mod that doesn’t require soldering. Worth looking into if you just want to play these games (also it let me spend way less on a Game Boy player since I didn’t need to get the rare, pricey, disc). Highly recommend it, grab a cheap HDMI cord and you’re set.
With Mario party super stars I have been trying to complete my collection of Mario party games. I already have 7 but getting the rest of the GameCube games from 4-6 cost so damn much. I really wish there was a way to just buy GameCube games on switch. I really don't want a subscription service of GameCube but even that I will take at this point.
There's also the recent problem of the "ultra premium copy of [laughably common game] selling for $1.2 million!" and the speculation markets around that by investors and non-gamers. That almost certainly is part of the problem with the rising prices on basically every platform. I've been still trickling additions into my game collection but with the prices I'm just sticking to a few titles at a time that I can sneak decent deals with. For others like on GameCube, GC Loader is looking like a cost effective option when some games alone cost more than the Loader does. Similar with Everdrive carts. I'd be up for getting ROMs officially from companies, but good luck getting them to do so.
@@Nahobinoah I mean he wouldn't be wrong. Games nowadays aren't trying g to innovate, get released broken n have the mentality of fixing it later instead of having a work out of the gate. Even nintendo is starting to do this with the new pokemon games not even released with full content on cartidge.
@@pulseofme6884 I take classes in game design and my teacher has taught me games copy eachother constantly So no wonder less new is coming out nowadays but that doesn't mean it's all bad And yeah that's an issue but I think with the pokemon games they were rushed and ILCA worked on them after they were printed
@@Moe_Lester_fromUptwn They said it was the "last" console they loved. Not the "only" console. PS2 is almost 3 full years older than the GC. Plus, even if they said it was their favorite, why are you correcting them? It's completely an opinion.. 🤣
Nintendo's strategy is to create Artificial Scarcity. This allows it to generate inflated profits over multiple generations of consoles from the same IP. This approach has been successful in other industries like Fashion (ex: the Supreme brand). Nintendo occupies different economic space from Microsoft, which is why they play nice, but is vulnerable to technological innovations like GamePass and emulators, which is why they crack down on ROM sites.
I bought a complete copy of Metroid Prime 1 back in like 2016 or 2017 for $16, and it’s now worth over 2-3x that amount depending on where you look. I also got Prime 2 for nearly $30, and I’m seeing it go up to like $70+ now. This is crazy
In 2019 I was somehow able to get the standard edition of the prime trilogy on wii for 45 bucks complete on ebay, now it's super hard to find one that isn't the collectors edition and they all go for around 130 or so
i love how collector you tubers "don't know why prices are getting so high" as they show a video of themselves saying they're collecting gamecube games to 28,000 people. hmmmm what could have given 28,000 people the idea to go look for the 20,000 copies of each game left. hmmmm spawn wave just doesn't know i guess.
I think one of the easiest and cheapest ways to experience Nintendo's game catalog is through the derided Wii U. It's hardware is an evolution of the GC and Wii so it can play both systems entire catalog natively. Just run a simple browser exploit that works on all firmwares and you'll be playing Nintendo games from breath of the wild to OG arcade donkey Kong. HD output and support for Nintendo's quirky waggle stick, GameCube pads and dual screen DS games I think the Wii U is the best way to play most of Nintendo's catalog of the last 40 years.
The GameCube will always have a place in my heart. I consider the GameCube to be the Sega Dreamcast of Nintendo systems. ( To me at least) Heck, I been playing Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 lately. Good times! Good times!
@@MegaManNeo I fully supported the GameCube, even had the ethernet adapter for it, not that it got much use; there were about 3 games that used it, and two of those stayed in Japan.
I'm literally on ebay and the GameCube is less than $200.. brand new its about $750. There's really no point in getting a new one since it can have a defect for not turning on for so long. If you're handy, you can always buy the repair parts and switch out anything in the cube.
