Why Does Everyone Love the GameCube?

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

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

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 💜

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.

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.

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

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.

The handle on the gamecube was there do that you could bring the console to your friends house. Even back then, they were thinking of ways to make consoles more portable.

Nintendo said: “let’s get funky”

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.

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.

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

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

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

First thing I want to say is, great video man. Love it. So for me I’m a big GameCube fan, when I was a kid it was my favorite console, from the awesome controller which is still my favorite controller, to the small discs, nice colors for the consoles, the cool designs and amazing graphics for back then, especially for games like Star fox adventures looked amazing graphically. The best part was the games and fun, so many great games from Zelda windwaker being my all time favorite, to smash bros melee and time splitters 2, and Metroid prime to the so many Mario games like tennis and golf to Mario party and baseball, just so much fun and great memories on it. But I always remembered GameCube growing up being the most hated console everyone seemed to hate it said it looks like a kids console, everyone hating Luigi’s mansion because he couldn’t jump and toon link not looking mature. Everyone in my school made fun of you if you had it, everyone loved ps2 and Xbox and always made fun of GameCube, heck I remember hearing that the GameCube was one of Nintendo’s biggest failures because it didn’t sell good and was a dead console by 2006, they said if it wasn’t for the gameboy advance and Nintendo DS, that Nintendo would have went out of business but the handhelds saved Nintendo. But for me GameCube was always the underdog and my personal favorite console. Heck on my Nintendo switch I play 90% of my games with a GameCube controller, obviously a modern one from power a. I remember in my family, everyone didn’t like the GameCube, because they were used to the n64. My dad and cousins were like this controller is weird and the games are different lol

Because it has Path of Radiance, obviously

You pick very good discussion topics 👍

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.

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.

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.