Why Does Everyone Love the GameCube? 

Because Nintendo kids who grew up in the 2000s are now highly represented on the internet.

The GameCube definitely spelled the end of an era with what I would describe as "Classic Nintendo Charm". The way their games were made had this aura to them on a system where there were no major gimmicks like motions controls, or gamepads, or hybridization. It was just about the games at its core.

I was born in 1994 so I didn't grow up with the SNES/N64 eras so the GameCube and GBA were my first consoles. But! Putting my bias aside, the GCN was the last traditional home console from Nintendo without gimmicks. Gimmicks aren't bad at all (I love my Switch) but I look back fondly on simpler times. GCN also had an edgy early 2000s vibe. From it's dark purple appeal (that Melee also had) to its commercials, to the shape of the console, it just felt so "cool" to me. The games are a given, I mean come on. Melee, Star Fox, TLOZ Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, Mario Kart DD, Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime, Kirby Air Ride, Pokemon Colosseum and so forth. I'll never stop loving the little purple cube that could, despite the outcome 💜

My kids love gamecube games. There is a pure innocence to playing a great offline game with no adverts or internet weirdos.

I really regret not getting this console back in the day. I remember my mom even said if I wanted one and I said no even though I kind of did want it, but I knew she were tight on money so didn't want to bother her too much with it... You can emulate these games really easy now, but it's not the same. To play these games when they were current and a kid would've meant so much.

It's crazy how loved it is now lol. People HATED it in the early 2000's - At least from my anecdotal experience of being one of the few people in our highschool who liked it lol - everyone was too obsessed with GTA3 and Halo and the GCN didn't have those. So many kids who loved the NES, SNES and N64 all went PS2 or Xbox instead that gen.

In the early 2000s, I got both the PlayStation 2 and the GameCube and I still have them and play games on them more than the current gen consoles I have (PS5 and Switch). I have a massive library worth of PS2 games and same applies for the GameCube as well. On the GameCube, I have numerous top notch games on there like Super Smash Bros: Melee, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, F-Zero GX, Kirby Airride, Mario Kart Double Dash, Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Pikmin 2, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Animal Crossing, Starfox Adventures, Metroid Prime, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Pokémon Colosseum, and Super Mario Sunshine. Thank god I got those games during the GameCube's lifespan way before the price hikes.

I've heard people really knock down the Gamecube over it's lack of RPGs. Even though there aren't as many as there were on PS2, the quality of the RPGs on Gamecube was consistently good to great, and there was still quite a good handful to choose from, and almost all of them were exclusive at the time. Favorite RPGs on Gamecube include Tales of Symphonia, Skies of Arcadia: Legends, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, Baten Kaitos, Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II, and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.

ngl im not sure which alternate universe you visited from where the ds doesn’t get the same amount of, if not way more praise and nostalgic reminiscences that the gamecube does

Its crazy because I've never owned a GameCube but the combination of my nephew bringing it over my house every time he came over, as well as before that me and my friends walking to Fry's electronics to play the super smash bros melee demo all day has me mad nostalgic for the GameCube

Gamecube = smash bros melee Smash bros melee = fox Fox = your ded

Gamecube was the first Nintendo console to have Sonic on it and yes Advance series on Gameboy Advance, that’s another reason to love it more, and I too absolutely love the simple shape and purple color, as I grew older Purple became my favorite color and I think the Gamecube is part of that reason, the GBA was also purple too. Also Gamecube controller is still relevant too with Smash and is the most comfortable ergonomically.

The Gamecube was my first real console, so I am very fond of it even if I played my Wii WAY more. What helps is that almost every first party title were some of the best games of both their series and the era.

Because it has my two favorite games, Megaman network transmission and Twilight Princess. AND FOR GOD SAKE NINTENDO AND CAPCOM, PLEASE REMASTER THESE GAMES ON MODERN PLATFORM!!!

The last time tripping in a cord pulled our Wii off the shelf, we just through it out and went back to our GameCube.

This was my First game Console ever.

The man said, he doesnt know about much local multiplayer games that the Xbox was known for when Halo CE exists LOL a game that was more popular than anything on the gamecube at the time mostly because of its local multiplayer.

feels like a lot more than just 21 mil played the Game Cube growing up

The GameCube was my first home console and it still works to this day, I also have a Wii so I can play my GC games there as well.

I saw those Orange Gamecubes being sold in Ohio at I think a Best Buy in 2003 so they weren't Japan Exclusive. The real Japan Exclusive that I'm aware of was Gundam Series Red which really should have come here promoted by Toonami. There was also a Seafoam Green packaged with a certain game & there were going to be even more colors that were never released such as Blue & Pink. As for the games themselves Nintendo had incredible exclusives Melee, Double Dash, Mario Party 5, 6, & 7, Starfox Adventures, Kirby AirRide, F-Zero GX, Metroid Prime, Pokemon Colosseum, Thousand Year Door, & Wind Waker in addition to the start of both Pikmin & Animal Crossing. 3rd Party support was incredible with Sonic Adventure 2 Battle being exclusive for an entire decade. Sonic likely had the best showing on GameCube of the 6th Gen Consoles with Sega also giving GameCube 3 Super Monkey Ball games & Billy Hatcher. Then there were countless games on Xbox & PS2 as well that played every bit as good on GameCube. I miss being young.

Hoping the lengthy section of highlighting comments doesn't become a common trend. We're here to hear what you think, and I ended up fast forwarding through you reading out comments because it got boring.

When I went to K-mart with my mom to get my gamecube, I distinctly remember the retailer asking me which color I wanted, black or purple and I remember instantly shouting that I wanted purple because it was way more interesting and fun looking over the boring black color that the PS2 and Xbox had

Because it had beautiful graphics, amazing controller, had the majority of ips represented with multiple entries plus you had tons of great 3rd parties as well, Gameboy player, unique accessories like the dk bongos, mic, gb add on connector for bonus features and for games like four swords, 3 diffrent bootup sounds, cool system menu, had pretty much every zelda at the time playable on it due to being able to also play the gb ports, introduced luigis mansion, gave a new way to play metroid, had eternal darkness which was a great horror game exclusive that messed with your TV and thinking it was deleting your saves, the gamecube is the most unique console ever made all others are pretty basic

Another great vieo, Kiro. Keep up the good work 👏

0:01 a GameCube that connects to it self

I remember playing Metroid Prime on a demo system. It blew my mind because up until that point I had only player Metroid 2 and Fusion. The GameCubes games are amazing and most of them hold up to this day to the point that it is depressing. Also since I haven't seen it mentioned yet F-ZERO GX...I don't need to elaborate just saying the name of that game makes my point for me.

"everyone" is an overstatement. I still can't find a SINGLE game that I would like to play there, even after 20 years in the market.

I never grew up with the gamecube so i have no nostalgia bias and even still i absolutely love the gamecube and its library Ive had nothing but a good time playing games like pikmin 2, mario sunshine, mario kart double dash and smash melee on dolphin And the controller is easily the best ive ever held it feels comfortable, sturdy and overall has a good design

It was weird. Purple, a handle, the controller shape PS2 was arguably more iconic

You pick very good discussion topics 👍

We never had a Gamecube when I was a kid, and I felt it hard. Missed so many great games.

Because nostalgia works in 20 year cycles, next question

I really love the GameCube's design. The indigo is a good color that matches well with the logo itself. Also the controller is gorgeous.

I was on message boards in the early 2000s and most of the community despised the Gamecube. We were all early 20 somethings at the time. Most said it would be Nintendo's last console and the would go 3rd party after the generation was over. Even When Nintendo World New York opened, the haters said they were going to go there just to mock Nintendo fans.

Indigo is basically the color between blue and purple. Look at indigo and purple side by side, and the difference is staggering, unless you're color-blind. The hardcore gaming-community basically snubbed their noses at Gamecube when it was out and money was going to Nintendo. Now that time has passed, it's socially acceptable to like Gamecube. It has become a target of hipsters and collectors. It really pisses me off when people who hated Gamecube (when Nintendo was relying on it financially), now seem to love it and collect games for it, the money for which doesn't go to any developer or publisher. I hate collectors.

The funny thing is that Z button was sort of forced in there because a lot of western developers kept asking Nintendo to "put in a Z button". I think what they MEANT was they wanted a "trigger placed" button on the BACK of the controller like the excellent Z Button on the N64, but we got a very awkward button instead. I'd rather they have added a couple little bean buttons to the left and right of the Y button to turn the face button layout into a full 6 button dealy bopper, but eh, it's still good. Just... that d-pad. The biggest weakness of the controller's design. I got a HORI Gameboy Player controller back in the day just for that and I use it on Resident Evil 1's remake on the system. When the system first came out, I didn't realize "Indigo" was the intended "default" color. It came out in two at launch, purple and black, and so most of us just thought the system must not HAVE a default color scheme. I picked black, to match my PS2, and to compliment my white GBA (which also released in purple, and white. Now I appreciate more unique colors more. (Also, the Gamecube came out in the aftershocks of some idiot politician in the late 90's claiming purple was "a gay color", so a lot of teenage idiots didn't want to be caught with anything purple. It's exactly why it was marketed as indigo too. Fortunately, Japan's culture hadn't been infected by that specific flavor of stupidity at the time.) Black sold very well, to such an extent that Nintendo didn't even bother releasing all the alternate color Gameboy Player units in the U.S., so anyone who had a purple, silver, white, or whatever Gamecube were stuck getting a mismatched black Player unit. I kind of lucked out in that sense I suppose. The 251 block memory cards, my controller, and the broadband adapter also all matched.

I like that the GameCube runs at 60 fps and there is barely any input lag. Even though I think the wires are way too short, the controller is comfortable and responsive

I remember loving this every game i had or got was easy 9 out of 10 but its a good reminder quality doesn't always mean victory normally that's great advice from a business point. quality over quantity and all that but the PS2 destroyed the others and there was by far a lot more MEH games in the Ps2 library than gamecube. in my opinion culture and reputation played a massive role, this just my opinion don't know if this is proven BUT I live in UK and in north too, so I remember I had the gamecube and loved it but i would be afraid to tell others I had like 2 friends i could show and because it was nintendo i was not the cool kid. it was very much the fact among kids back then if you didn't have xbox or ps2 you were not cool and gamecube was the kiddie console, people would make you feel embarrassed to have it. Now I'm grown up i realise how stupid that is but at the time i did feel afraid to tell people i had nintendo. we still kinda have that today in UK north today but not nearly as bad as it was. Still didn't stop me from loving that era though. People took the mick this era helped me understand that it really didn't matter and how shallow it was to make fun of others just for what they liked. funny thing is a lot of those people taking mick were same people playing crash bandicoot on PS2 as well. Did anybody else go through this in gamecube era ??

It was the first real try of Nintendo into the cd/dvd technology.

I like the GameCube cause I grew up with a ps2 and it's cool to see how the other side of the generation grew up. Also the library is small and not as big or diverse as the ps2 (no really, I still discover new ps2 games regularly) but still full of top tier Nintendo first parties, 3rd party exclusives and cross platform games. Also that controller is sooooo good.

Whaaaat?¿I need that spice orange game cube, the orange controller was always my favorite to use as a kid 😎

3:55 Halo. Fusion Frenzy. I can go on.

"cute little box" well i say "cute little tv monitor from the 90s"

I think you nailed it with how great of a multiplayer system it was. It felt like the last "oldschool" console. The XBox and PS2 felt like the transition into the beginning of consoles feeling like PCs. Nintendo, to this day, is doing such a good job of NOT being a PC. I haven't purchased a console since the PS3, and even then I waited until it was dirt cheap. I've been on PC. Yet, the switch has kept tempting me. I don't think I game on the go enough to justify it, but honestly, I feel like that desire to get it anyway proves how great they are at making stuff that people still want.

Simple. it was in this era that is born the best Mario 3D render.

Gamecube is the system of hidden gems. GameCube wasnt ahead of its time, it was BEHIND its time - its the nostalgia system - it allows newer gamers a different experience from a time long ago. GameCube lasts forever(except the controllers). I bought one when it came out for PhantasyStar Online. Stumbled into Animal Crossing(bought on a whim at GameStop on sale and got all my friends and coworkers addicted). A few 'rando' games at the time aged pretty well, like Gotcha Force and Cubivore. Ribbit King Plus gets played to this day. Wish i woulda kept Path of Radiance though. Wii sequel wasnt my favorite. There are good cheap games as well. Nintendo made mistakes(mini disks) but went for fun rather than graphics like their competitors. Thats why to this day GC still offers fun.

That was the last time Nintendo was actually tried to make their system powerful, after this they were just underpowered system with gimmicks

Because Nintendo published great games for it. The PlayStation had great third party games but Nintendo has its iconic lineup. Also it had a handle and it worked like a charm.

GameCube suffered because it was glaring how many triple A 3rd party games it was missing, I remember it being the 3rd place console even though in hindsight, it is sooo good!

The Nintendo GameCube was a wonderful gaming console and I'm happy that gamers in recent years have gave it the love and praise that It deserves. Cool video. ^_^

I’ve had my black GameCube since 2003!!!

The Cube was more powerful than people think.

and the gamecube had Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

bias probably plays a great part in it

The Gamecube was the best Nintendo console and the last one they made where they actually cared about graphics, performance and third party support. The fact that they launched the Wii with no HD support and was more successful than the Gamecube is why Nintendo is the way they are now.

6:29 That doesn't make any sense. Every pokémon game since the original red and green has been an RPG.

Wasn't my thing but people held the early Halo games in as high regard as Smash. The four ports definitely made sense for Xbox

GameCube wasnt the Golden Age. the Golden Age had already passed (Super Nintendo).

this video came days after i sold my gamecube to use my wii as a gamecube replacement

Many of the games on it havent been ported to other consoles and alot of them are still the definitive games in their series

Ok, nostalgia is cool and all, but if I remember the early 2000’s correctly, PS2 was the console winner, and the GameCube felt like it was catered to kids at the time. I remember the intense backlash when they saw the cell shaded windwaker, and that game is a near masterpiece!

My first game console and has one of the very best games on this system hands down.

You just had to own it to love it, it was a phenomenal product

People still play Ps2 games. Kids whose parents didn’t buy them ps2 talk about GameCube.

I love the gamecube because it has Metal Arms Glitch in the System in it!!!!!

Before I watch I think it's kind of funny to think about this in retrospective. I remember a common opinion being the GameCube sucked. However as the years go on more and more people defend it. As the years move on more peoples' voices are heard.

I been trying to fix up mine playing smash bros and kirby air ride and other games This month I finally got to play the first Animal crossing, I got that cheap from a seller on Amazon, I been playing since the 5th Before all that though I had to replace the time battery and fix my disc drive it was a learning experience but so far its working great

Because it has Chibi-Robo.

I had a PS2 and for a short time a Dreamcast, but even I love the Gamecube

The GameCube walked so the Wii could run.

The controller philosophy was good, hack and slash games platformers, shoot em ups, smash bros all play amazing, but the console itself was lacking the switch and SNES smoke it with their larger library of games. The console for me was above average I go back and forth with the ranking of the GC and the WII.

not a single bad game on it all the first party was the best nintendo ever produced. even a lot of the third party exclusives plus non exclusive third party

Good memories. Mario sunshine was the last mario game I ever enjoyed

Kids who had the gamecube at the time (i was 12-14 during the system's prime) were made fun of...almost always. I had a ps2, one best friend had an xbox, and the other had the GameCube...we always ended up playing the ps2.

The GameCube is actually more powerful than the PS2. Unlike the N64, they could have ported games like Final Fantasy and Shadow of the Colossus without sacrificing graphical quality. They may have taken more discs, but the graphics could have been even better than the PS2 versions. Just look at what they did with Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid.

After learning so much about the history behind the gamecube, the general environment it was released in, and this generation of consoles in general, I truly believe the gamecube was the last true dedicated "video game" console Nintendo has made. The Wii appealed to everyone. The Wii U was meant to be a general living room entertainment console. And the Switch is a great gaming machine with probably Nintendos best library (because of all the remakes and remasters) but underpowered even when it came out. At the time of the Gamecube, everyone was wanting to make powerful machines with cutting edge graphics, and we had a healthy competition with Sony just recently blowing the N64 out of the water, the Xbox now entering the arms race, and Sega's Dreamcast being their new age swan song. Nintendo made some poor decisions looking back with the mini DVDs and having a hard time getting third parties on the console sure, but it has a fantastic library of games and was truly a powerful machine for its time.

Time can change perspective the GameCube for all purpose was simply just a video game console no gimmicks didn’t do anything beyond that like play dvd player that made the console essentially two things in one more of an interactive box than a console so wasn’t lauded as much for just being a console than the late 2000s slowly these thing became less important the people who cared about this had more options or could just use the options they already had and the new option like blu ray weren’t as appealing incentive buy as dvd and those just wanted to buy a game console we’re getting sick that these feature they didn’t want or just considered a bonus were being pushed more than games like with the Xbox one announcement and as for the gimmick things like the ds and Wii while popular for a while most of the audience appealed had other options to move on to where these no longer felt special that ended the original Wii era the ds was lucky that Nintendo at first emphasize the game to compete with the psp and because of that they had a good balance of title which is why the ds sold more but all these kinda dried out gamers at the end of the 7th generation giving reasoning why the ps3 focusing more on games in the end flipped it around on the 360 selling more to where they look back to the GameCube era where it was simply a console no gimmick or media focus just a console with games with good wink

2 zelda games, 2 metroid prime games, 2-3 mario game.. release a bunch of great games and everyone will love your system.

Because it was a good console,that’s it :)

I personally find the GameCube highly overrated, but that’s just my opinion.🤷🏾‍♂️

The N64/GB not as highly regarded? WRONG! Just that the GC games remain more "viable" to play today (though anything newer would be). The OG Gameboy was groundbreaking for the time but playing it today on an OG umodified one kind of sucks (and the games are very simple). N64 in a way same thing + early 3D had many issues with the controls especially (recently played Mario 64 again on a 351P with drift and shizzballs was it frustrating). Edit: I think some of it has to do with the GC being a bit harder to emulate if the console. The other two were certainly more influential. Love all of the consoles though. Shame the orange GC wasn't released in Europe. Rather... A black/orange mix would've been the coolest. Guess I should buy a black one and then chase down a shell. Edit 2: and yes the GC controller is VERY comfy. Small tweaks and it might've been the standard today (not complaining about current standard).

“I hate the GameCube!” -evil me

Everything all in retrospect. Go back to early 00s nobody cared for the GameCube

Xbox had Halo 1 & 2. Only games you really needed.

I think Gamecube was inspired by Sega Saturn

Still in denial this was the lowest selling console in the 6th revolution. EVERYONE growing up had a GCN or PS2. I legit only knew 2 people who had an Xbox.

The N64 is superior in my mind.

3:56 ah jeez if only there was a flagship title for the xbox that pioneered lan party gaming at home. Ah well good thing those never exist. Ill just go back to playing halo and battlefront 2

At that time the thir parties did make games for Nintendo. It was the last good Nintendo console.

For me, the appeal of the GameCube is that its contender for Nintendo System with the widest representation of Franchises Nearly everyone got a game on the GameCube

The Gamecube was the first console I owned growing up, and I’d say it best describes Nintendo’s “experimental” era. This’s where they tried to push new and unique ideas in order to take advantage of their new 3D hardware, which’s why we got games as wacky and unexpected as Pikmin, Luigi’s Mansion, Chibi-Robo and Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Along with strong sequels to big series with Wind Waker, Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario TTYD, Mario Kart Double-Dash, Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and Smash Bros Melee. Its biggest weakness was Nintendo choosing proprietary discs in order to combat piracy, and so it not only had much less third-party support than the PS2, but also didn’t serve as a DVD player. Nonetheless, nothing will replace the fond memories I have of it, and it sucks that so many of its games are ludicrously expensive nowadays.

I was a GCN teen in high school. All my friends had PS2's and Xbox was the shiny new toy everyone wanted. Nintendo wasn't in a good place reputation wise at that time. People would be like "You still play this kiddy stuff?". I liked the GCN because most franchises Nintendo had to offer were represented at that time. A lot of the games were very creative and different. The tone of a lot of their games was also a lot darker and more mature than normal. It was like Nintendo itself had acknowledged the kids of the 90s were teens and the gameplay reflected that. I just really enjoyed the console. I haven't seen Nintendo the same Wii era and onwards if I'm being honest.

Nintendo said: “let’s get funky”

To me the GameCube is the most overrated and underrated system at the same time. Had it when it was released and thought it was a cool system, but overall wasn’t something I think of when I think Nintendo.

The quick awser is: The games are magical having a unique feeling to them. The controller is one of if not the best controller ever made for 3d games

Because it has Path of Radiance, obviously

I did not grow up with the purple cube when I was a kid, instead utilizing the PS2 for most of my childhood. Whenever I went over to people’s houses though and played games on their children’s GameCubes, I was thoroughly impressed and wanted one for some of those exclusives (namely Star Fox Assault and Geist lol). I also really liked it when certain games had the GameCube controller’s face buttons baked into the UI; that always stood out to me as a really neat feature. I didn’t have a lot of money as a kid though, so I’m making up for it now by grabbing some of the cheaper titles on the system. I’d definitely recommend picking up a backwards-compatible Wii first before grabbing a GameCube later on. It’ll allow you to buy controllers, games, and memory cards. The Wii also has really good native GC emulation with Nintendont.

For me it’s because every GameCube game I own I could play for like 4 hours easily lol

Easily the games were amazing thats it .

The GC has de BEST controller ever. Fight me