Top 10 Nintendo GameCube Games - My Retro Life 

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Good list. My personal top 10 gamecube games: 1. Resident Evil 4 2. Metroid Prime 3. Resident Evil 1 Remake 4. Super Smash Bros Melee 5. Zelda Wind Waker 6. Viewtiful Joe 7. SoulCalibur II 8. Mario Sunshine 9. Metroid Prime 2 10. Pikmin

I just turned 49, and the GameCube is and always will be my favorite gaming console. I do own every single Nintendo console from the N64 and up, but GameCube for life.... 🤘😁🤘

Gotta love the gamecube. I grew up with it. I'd say I spent most of my time playing the awesome WWE games 👍

3 months ago I lost my grandpa to heart problems on Thursday I lost my dad to liver cancer man I'm a mess right now and your videos have Ben helping me thru this man

Gotta love the GameCube. :) Games like resident evil 4 really shows the power of the console. The graphics still hold up well.

My top 10 10) Super Monkey Ball 9) Mario Party 4 8) Puyo Pop Fever 7) F Zero GX 6) Luigi's Mansion 5) Mario Kart Double Dash 4) Zelda Wind Waker 3) Super Mario Sunshine 2) Metroid Prime 1) Super Smash Bros. Melee

Man, I just got to say it again. Appreciate you sharing these home videos. It brings all of us back in time!

I absolutely love mario kart double dash. To this day i think its my favorite mario kart game

Gamecube..aah, sweet memories! Ever since Metroid Prime came out, I wanted GC so bad..but didn't have money to buy it, because I already had ps2 and tons of games for it. But my dream did get fulfilled in 2007, when I actually bought Gamecube off ebay for roughly 70$ (good luck finding a working GC with adaptor, controllers, etc for that price in 2024). Still have it along with my crt tv. Thanks again Tyler, for bringing up these sweet nostalgia memories!

Man I luv the GameCube so much. Never owned one till late 2019 but I always had good memorable memories with it from my childhood friend (who was my Nextdoor neighbor) when I use to play it or see him play . Now I have been picking up more games for it and it’s so fun being to see my own personal collection grow and games I can play

Top 5 for me - 1. Paper Mario thousand year door 2. Smash Bros Melee 3.Mario Kart Double Dash 4.Legend of Zelda Windwaker 5.Super Mario Strikers

I'm always happy when you upload a new video, thanks

Super Mario Sunshine, 007 Agent Under Fire, and Lego Star Wars were the first games I owned for my GameCube as a kid growing up. Proud to say I still own them and my childhood GameCube console!!!!

My favorite has to be Metroid Prime 1 , Zelda Windwaker , Super Monkey Ball 2, and Mario Kart Double Dash 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thank you for this. Your videos give me a sense of nostalgia I haven't felt in 20 years. Watching this video just made all my childhood memories flood back in because I only had a GC as a kid.

I always remember my friends 13th Birthday. We went paint balling and there was 5 of us that went back to his house and we played Super Smash Brothers and for those 4/5 hours we were engrossed. I’d never played 4 players before it was amazing.

Dude i absolutely adore your channel every time i watch one of your videos i am transported back to my teenage years. I live over the pond in Wales but still so many similarities to you. Keep up the excellent work 👍🏻

Great video! Anyway, I couldn't think of a top 10 but to make up for that, here are my favourite games on the GameCube!: 1. Metroid Prime 2. Mario Kart Double Dash!! 3. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door 4. Battalion Wars 5. Mario Party 4

Excellent video, Tyler! So many awesome picks, and a few surprise picks too. It’s definitely challenging narrowing the choices down to 10, when the console had so many quality titles 👍.

Good memories of My NGC and PS2 times.. My top 10 NGC that I cannot live without.. 01) Metroid prime 02) Paper Mario Thousands Years Door 03) Tales of Symphonia 04) LoZ Wind Waker 05) Mario Kart DD 06) Resident Evil 4 ( NGC controller was very good for this ) 07) Super Mario Sunshine 08) Eternal Darkness 09) Metroid prime 2 10) Pikmin 1 and also: 11) Pimin 2 12) Luigis mansion 13) Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg 14) Sonic Adventure DX 15) Fire Emblem 16) F-Zero GX 17) Viewtiful Joe ( 1 & 2 ) 18) Mario Golf 19) Sonic Riders 20) Sonic Adventure DX NGC is a good Console, still have mine, and is an excellent complement to the PS2 which had great RPG.

Great list as always man! Love all your stuff.

Another great video Tyler! Some games I’ve been meaning to play, and some of my favorites! I grew up with Melee, Sunshine, Mansion and Monkey Ball! So many great memories. I have Metroid Prime remastered for Switch, haven’t played it yet.. And I need to get Eternal Darkness & RE4!

great list tyler! thankyou for uploading this!

It was my first console. I've been meaning to buy another Starfox game after playing one of my first games, “Starfox Assault” more recently. Now I'm going to get “Star Fox Adventures” my first video game. I love the music in Assult, it's so beautiful and adventurous.

Luigi's Mansion is such an underrated game graphically. A lot of those effects blew my mind when I first played it, never seen them before.

-Love this channel man, SMSunshine, Resident Evil 1 remake were definitely my favorites! A friend of mine, and I sit in line to buy GC on launch!! Great memories

The gamecube was the first console i ever asked for and got brand new. Paper Mario the thousand year door, mario party 4, super mario sunshine, and luigis mansion were all such great games that still hold up very well nowadays

I bought a used GameCube for $30 from GameStop in 2010. Id played on a GameCube many times already, but this was the first home Nintendo console I ever owned. Later on, I bought F-Zero GX for it for $5. I wish I didnt get too distracted by the PS3 I got a few months later. I would've collected more for the GameCube back then, because prices are sky-high now.

I bought a GameCube because of Wind Waker. I remember seeing footage of it on a tv show and being blown away by how it looked. My fondest memories with that console are playing both Zelda games, both Metroid games, Mario Kart, Paper Mario, Killer7, RE4, Twin Snakes, F Zero. I still own those games today along with a few others. Great console.

Great video and retrospective; Phantasy Star Online was amazing! I'm glad you gave it some spotlight. I like your list--the Nintendo 1st party choices (especially) truly stand the test of time. A couple more personal favorites I spent countless hours with would be: Mario Superstar Baseball and Mario Kart: Double Dash.

Glad I was able to help get some of your favorites back in your collection. Enjoy the new memories.

Been waiting so excited for this! Tyler!

GameCube was my 2nd favorite from this generation (PlayStation 2 #1 XBOX #3). I remember having so many games for this console, but Resident Evil Zero and remake..let’s not forget number 4 had a major impact on me. Metal Gear Twin Snakes was refreshing as well!! Super Monkey ball, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, F-Zero GX, Smash Brothers Melee, Wind Waker, SM SunShine, Mario Kart, Pokémon Colosseum! Honestly there are a few more, but these stick out the most. Tyler you remind me of how it was as a child growing up with family and friends when it comes to this timeline of gaming. As always your content takes me back to incredible storytelling of generations in gaming! Long live gaming, and the money I’ve spent over 32 years is enough to “Make a Grown man cry” Thank you 🤟🏻

Thanks for this list and the memories! I need to go back and collect a few Gamecube games since I have the Wii that can play them now. Back then I was playing more XBOX and Playstation while my youngest brother was playing most of the Gamecube games. Definitely need to grab some of these gems and get to playing.

GameCube is peak Nintendo. Absolutely love it and all the games that came out for it. Sad it wasn’t as popular back in The day but glad it gets the love it deserves now.

An absolutely great list. I’ve recently bought a Gamecube again at a great price after selling my original one years ago to pay for an addiction that was ruining my life which I’d developed during a horrendous breakup. Gonna quickly build up my collection of all the games I had along with many others I didn’t! Great video by the way. I can tell your dad is a great guy & did a great job documenting your youth for both of your sakes🙏🏻🍻

My top ten is Resident Evil 4 Luigi’s Mansion Zelda Wind Waker Mario Sunshine Zelda Twilight Princess Tak 2 the Staff of Dreams Super Smash Bros. Melee Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door Resident Evil remake Wario World The GameCube was the first new system I got and it has some of the best games ever made! Love your channel Tyler like always great video!

great top 10 my dude ! pretty much a spot on list haha

What a fantastic list, might be the same as my own top 10 or VERY close to it even TBH, though I would move some games around. I loved the GameCube, great video!

You were ahead of your time with your documentation as a kid. From the box opening reveals to the game reviews… pretty cool to see that in 2001 format.

Love these videos reminds me buying every console for my son.

Another great video, my love! ❤ The best part was watching this with Hallie and her getting all excited when her game play clips were used. We had to rewind many times! 😂

Just randomly found this video, but i really enjoy the clips of your childhood playing withbur friends

Your inclusion of Phantasy Star Online brings me so much happiness. Such an underrated and unveravalued game. So much of the modern game industry can trace things back to PSO!

funny that the xbox soul caliber is on the shelf behind you. Great list! Gamecube is something special, feels like every game is at least good- and there are of course many great/amazing/perfect games.

Sometimes I feel i'm the only one who remembers Chibi-Robo.

YES!!!! Eternal Darkness getting some love!! one of my all time favorite games with how unique it was and how much it just creeped you the hell out.

I didn't get a GC until 2005 or so, and I regret not getting it sooner. It's such a charming system. Windwaker was beautiful and fun, I loved sunshine, metroid was mindblowing, and eternal darkness was soooo good! I never got to phantasy star online. Great list Tyler!

I traded in all my games and previous console( I was always trading games so don’t remember what I had before it) with my brother to get the GameCube when it came out. We had the game pass at blockbuster and would walk back and forth from blockbuster sometimes multiple times in the same day to switch out games. What a joyous time in my life!

Mad nostalgia man my friend had a GameCube across the street from my dad's..wed play monkey ball and resident evil 4 all the time..make music . Sadly he passed away about 20 years ago but I'll never forget those memories

I grew up with the GameCube and mane I miss them days 😭

I really loved the Need4Speed games on GameCube more than the other consoles. Underground 2, Most Wanted, and Carbon. I know these games on the other systems were better graphically, but the GameCube controller was by far superior when it came to racing games! I always played with manual transmission, and you could set up the GameCube controller in a way the other systems didn't even allow, with the triggers for gas and break, and the c-stick as shift up/ down. This set up allowed you to downshift them e- brake around a corner without letting off the gas, giving perfect handling around corners. Not to mention, with the pressure sensitive triggers, you could rev up and hold the rpm's at the right spot for a perfect takeoff every time. I don't have them anymore, or GameCube for that matter, but recently got them on an old ps2, and while the games were still really fun to play, it just wasn't the same. The GameCube controller was just hands down the greatest video game controller ever made!

Really nice list of games. Glad to see the Gamecube get more recognition. Games which do not appear on this list that are among by favorites are Viewtiful Joe, Star Wars: the Clone Wars, Star Fox: Assault, and Pokemon Colosseum. I am playing Pokemon Colosseum right now.

Great video, perfect length but I really hoped sonic adventure 2 battle was gonna be no. 1 lol

Had a gamecube as a kid. Didnt even know metroid existed. Absolutely was BLOWN away with the remaster on switch. 10/10

Great video Tyler

Melee will always be my favorite Smash. It feels better than the others to me, plus the trophies and event matches were so fun and rewarding.

Great list man nice to see the old footage too [: my number one would be paper mario the thousand year door but couldnt disagree with any of your choices tbh (havent player them all but most of them) but yeah great list!

I missed Metroid Prime the first time around, but played the remaster and, man, it's one of my favourite games. Really captures the atmosphere of a classic 2D Metroid game, like you mentioned

I'm happy you mentioned PSO. This is one of my favorite games ever made

Well, you’ve already put some of my FAVORITE GameCube games. Which were, Luigi’s Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Smash Bros. Melee, AND The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker!

That little GameCube box is so unique and iconic.

I got my first Gamecube in July 2005 and it was the indigo model and I still have it today along with a platinum GameCube I got at a yard sale in August 2019 and the jet black model I got from another yard sale in October 2021. I currently have 3 GameCubes with different colors.

Great list!

Thanks brother I was just starting to feel that sadness creeping in but you helped me more than ya know. My dad bought my indigo purple cube. 99 bucks in about 2004? Any who I can relate love remembering them times. We are the super players.

Beach Spikers is definitely a favorite of mine, as well as basically your whole list

1. Mario Sunshine 2. Super Smash Bros Melee 3. Mario Strikers 4. Kirby’s Air Ride 5. MLB Slugfest 2003

Gamecube was a fun time as a kid alongside the PS2.

Great list. Luigi's Mansion sold me on the GameCube. The prime games still look and play great on the cube. Looking forward to prime 4.

Going back in time with My Retro Life I’ve seen all from 1980-Now great memories

I love the Gamecube, I spent so many hours playing Super Mario Strikers, Smash Melee and Kirby AirRIde

I just started collecting GameCube last year because I was watching Scott the Woz and I’ve been in love with it ever since. I had a GameCube growing up but we only had two games for it “Monsters Inc: Scream Arena & Finding Nimo”. I really love the GameCube a lot.

I know sports game were not good on GameCube but Kobe Bryant Court Side 2 I loved. Played with Micheal Jordan for the Wizards for hours

Super underrated Gcube game that me and my cousin spent hours trying to complete before the age of youtube and playthroughs was Star Fox Adventures

I enjoyed playing my Nintendo GameCube when I was a kid/teenager Mario & Sonic were my favorite games on it

One of the best games that many people don't even know but has always been my favorite gamecube game (and one of my favorite games of all time) is: 1. Skies of Arcadia Legends

I just played wind waker for the first time. I'm like 32 now. I used to think it looked cartoonish but it was so fun! It's literally like a regular Zelda game

I never played Eternal Darkness, but I had a similar heart attack moment with Animal Crossing, of all games! My friend and I were about 10 years old and having a sleepover. It was dark, and for fun, we kept resetting Animal Crossing to see Mr. Resetti get angrier and angrier, and eventually he tricked us into believing that he had just deleted my save file! My friend and I were both momentarily terrified! It's even funnier now that this video has taught me that 2 different GameCube games play this trick on you, and the other one is a horror game.

Paper Mario thousand year door is my favorite of all time on the GameCube. That and wind walker’s graphics have aged extremely well.

I knew back then Gamecube was special. I still love the design and games. Resident Evil Remake and Zero blew me away. Wind Waker was my FIRST 3D Zelda, i skipped the N64 as i was addicted to PS1, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid etc so going from Link to the Past to Wind Waker was... life changing man! lol. It pulled me away from my EverQuest Onlne Adventures (PS2 MMORPG) addiction for a solid month, that's saying A LOT.

Mario Kart, Paper Mario, and Twilight Princess are my top three. Beyond Good and Evil is another great one that some might not know about.

The PS2 May have been the first console I ever played but the GameCube was the thing that really got me into gaming. I’ll never forget when my local McDonald’s had a GameCube kiosk with Mario Party 4 and my dad showed it to me and let me play it. I was instantly hooked and begged for the console and game for Christmas. When I finally got it, that began my love of Mario and Nintendo which turned into my love for gaming as a whole. In other words, I owe a huge part of who I am today to the GameCube

Great list! My personal favorite is Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2.

Where Star Wars Rogue Sqadron II: Rogue Leader? One of the best games for platform and one of the best Star Wars game of all time. True exclusive for platform, instead Wind Waker, RE4 and Metroid Prime. Bought Wii for that game back in 2011 and start explore gamecube and Wii library, which i miss.

It's a good list. I love those games. I also would add Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door to that list as it's one of my favorite RPGs and Paper Mario games ever alongside Mario Kart Double Dash.

One of the best games to play on gamecube was Viewtiful Joe... the only reason why i found out of this game was because it came with a demo disk when i bought mario kart. and wow the way you flow with the controller from fast forward, to slow down zoom in .. just a flow with this controller...chef's kiss

Dude GameCube was the first system I got of that era . Xmas 2002 I was 8 or 9 got the platinum color an pack in was Sunshine Mario . It's my favorite Mario game still . My next favorite is Star Fox adventures me my brother cuz an my dad spent hours playing it !

I finnally got my first ever GC this year off ebay and I love it so much ❤❤❤❤

I appreciate the video and all, but my big takeaway is that you have a really cool dad! 😊

Gamecube was my most recent console until a few weeks ago, when I bought a wii (mostly to play gamecube games in better quality!).

I never owned a gamecube or played one but I have played some of the gamecube games on other platforms like metroid prime, mario sunshine, and resident evil 4. Some solid games

Awesome video

It's funny you mention the Cube version of Soul Caliber 2 often gets forgotten, if memory serves me correctly it was the best selling version of that game, lol

The Nintendo GameCube had so many wonderful games that are still beloved by new and old gamers everywhere. Although the Nintendo GameCube came out in 3rd place these days It's number 1 and has many gamers going out collecting for it. I have been going through Mario Party 6 but my favorite Mario Party is Mario Party 7. Resident Evil 4 was amazing, F-Zero GX shows other games what it looks like to go out on top and so many amazing classic games spanning almost all popular main line Nintendo franchises. To bad we never go Earth Bound back then and many other but what we did get was perfect. Cool video. ^_^

Missed out on a lot of gamecube games back then, but did buy a gamecube for the sole purpose of PSO ep1&2

nice list bro

GameCube was such a good system! My favorites were: Zelda: Twilight Princess Resident Evil 4 Metroid Prime REmake Super Smash Bros Melee Paper Mario Thousand Year Door Pikmin Animal Crossing Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes Tony Hawk 3 Luigi’s Mansion Super Mario Sunshine Zelda: Wind Waker Metroid Prime 2 Echoes Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Star Fox Adventures But there were many more! I don’t know how it didn’t get more love during its time.

Growing up with one of these was a blessing

Great video! GameCube is the only Nintendo console I never had but I’ve definitely played a few of these. So if Metroid Prime ISNT your favorite Metroid game, which one is???