Gamecube Turns 20 Years Old - Our Memories and Experiences
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2021
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My favorite Gamecube memory is 2006, when Twilight Princess has its duel release. Twilight Princess for the gamecube was the first game I ever pre-ordered on my own. At the time, I was very against the way they flipped the world for the wii version and wanted to play it on the original hardware, so I stuck with my Gamecube preorder instead of buying a wii.
Well, I was just starting college and didn't have a TV, so I paid 20 bucks for one of those tiny screens that attach to the top of the Gamecube itself and played through the whole game on that tiny screen in my dorm room. I remember it would overheat and wash out all of the colors after a couple hours, so I'd have turn it off and wait for the screen to cool down before I could play again. It took forever, but it's such a fun memory. I still have the screen attached to my gamecube to this day (though I don't use it anymore).
I vividly remember as a kid, my older brother dressed up as Santa and gifted me a brand new shiny gamecube with a copy of Mario party 7 (my first Mario party game on the gamecube) and I still have the same gamecube to this day. The gamecube will always hold a special place in my heart just for that reason alone and the plethora of games I remembered playing over and over like Melee, Sunshine, Paper Mario TTYD, etc
Best memories of the GameCube.. playing Kirby Air Ride over and over with my siblings and cousin while trying to get each checklist done. Buying Lego Star Wars 1 for GameCube and a week power outage at my cottage before I could play it.
YES, getting the Hydra and Dragoon omg. That used to be so much fun
I remember getting a platinum game cube for my birthday shortly before a road trip. I insisted on dragging that thing with me, and playing animal crossing or Pikmin all night on the hotel TVs.
To this day, Baiten Kaitos is one of my favorite games and one of the craziest plot twists of any game I’ve ever played. It was also one of the earliest Card based RPGs. 100% recommend it.
Good lord.... I remember lining up at night for the gamecube and Xbox with my roommates in college. I'm old too.
I have fond memories of the GC. The first console brought with my own money. Worked all summer freshman year. Smash brothers melee, paper mario , Mario sunshine. Oh man wind waker. So much fun.
Metroid Prime. That was a title I could never forget. Especially when it was released during a rain storm. I lived in Washington state at the time, rain was a given, but winter brr.
I remember, picking up Metroid Fusion as well. But to have Prime, seeing where the series could go next, was incredible. From the music, controls, sound design, and visuals. It was an awesome rollercoaster ride from start to finish.
Sadly also ran into a bug during play. If you moved too quickly thru doors, usually this is when the disc might load. If you try to zip thru said doors, it would later cause the game to lock up while boarding an elevator.
The console would make a high pitch "beep" sound. It was so annoying. Thankfully it only happened once.
It was later fixed in the Player's Choice edition. But it taught me a lesson, there is no need to rush thru every corridor. But that first run, and adrenaline kicked in. Cannot help it
I started with the PS2 this gen and loved it to death... but there's was still so much I was missing out with GC. It's when I actually got my first job as a grocery clerk and I saved up for a system and then grabbed one with Smash Melee and Windwaker. The Wii had just released, but it was hard to get one so I was happy to catch up with Gamecube titles :) Ah memories, great times with this little cube.
I still have fond memories of booting up the GameCube and playing smash bros melee with my sister. I always won because I used the moves in the manual 🤣
On the topic of Pikmin during each day Olimar would write a log of his day, and going off memory some of the logs talked about his family and wondering if he will ever see them again. That plus the time limit pushed me to not squander any days and try to get Olimar back safely to his family.
As an RPG fan, I always thought the GameCube had one of the best RPG lineups of all Nintendo consoles apart from the SNES. There are really a lot of GameCube exclusive RPGs i like very much: Tales of Symphonia, Paper Mario TTYD, the Pokémon games (Colosseum and XD) and both Baten Kaitos games.
Baiten Kaitos is killer, the plot twist in the first is nuts
@Helsionium
Did you play Fire Emblem Path of Radiance on the Gamecube? If so, what did you think of it?
I enjoyed it. It's the first 3d Fire Emblem to be made and one of my favorites/first entries into the Franchise.
(My other first/favorite tandem entry was Sacred Stones on the Game Boy Advance. I did link Por and SS together via the Gba/Gcn link cable to unlock optional content on Path of Radiance which was a neat added bonus to that nice game)
@@nileriver216 Oh yes I did. I enjoyed it, but not as much as Radiant Dawn, which I had already played earlier.
@@Helsionium Nice. I also love Radiant Dawn. Between the two I favor more, Path of Radiance is my choice, just barely, with Radiant Dawn really close by. I love the Tellius games. Ike is definitely my favorite non lord, lord.
It was great seeing him grow, during his journeys, from a teen struggling to become a leader, in the first game, to becoming a mature leader and a buff powerhouse of a specimen in the second game.
My fondest GameCube memory is playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. I don't care WHAT the "Kinda Overrated Hate Brigade" thinks! It's still a masterpiece!
Best Paper Mario game.!
It's amazing, but most ttyd fanboys sleep on the games before and the one after lol
My personal favorite game ever.
Well it is overrated we all know Super is the best one especial with that story.
A lot of great memories with that game. I’ll always remember Glitzville, Twilight Town, and Excess Express for the atmosphere and story elements. As a kid, those places in particular blew me away.
The gamecube got overlooked by so many people but now people see the gamecube as a better system than the ps2 and xbox,the library was great,there were many unique ideas for games,so many franchise's were supported,the games look great for the time even to this day and so much more, there is a resaon why the gamecube is the favourite console to most nintendo fans
the gamecube didn't get kingdom hearts so i never will
Memory Block videos might just be my favorite thing this channel churns out. Thanks guys for always making such great content!
Metroid prime is my favorite game on the gamecube. It's so good!
I remember getting Pikmin and Luigi’s Mansion on GameCube for xmas. I had so much time to play them. Great memories. Down the road I got even more great games. Truly enjoyed Baiten Kaitos Origins and Eternal wings.
The spinoff GoldenEye game on GameCube was called GoldenEye Rogue Agent it was mainly focused on the 007 Villains also don't forget that all of the other first person 007 games did also come out on GameCube like 007 Agent Under Fire & 007 Nightfire also Nightfire to a lot of 007 gaming fans is considered a successor to the original GoldenEye
Nightfire was better that Goldeneye IMO.
I really want to play Nightfire, copies of it are still fairly cheap online. Also, Goldeneye Reloaded was a real game, it was an enhanced port of the Wii remake on ps3/xbox 360. I actually really loved that game for Wii and people just dismiss it as a COD rip off. The motion controls are great and it's one of the best looking Wii games
@@smugcat723 yes that game was amazing
Starfox Adventures. An absolute god-tier game that never got the love it deserved. Me and my Dad spent the whole of the summer of 2003 playing it together.
Wait wait... 2001 was 20 years ago? My god, the sadness.
Wait till you find out how many years ago 1001 was
Finally! I've been waiting 20 years for this video...
I absolutely loved my GameCube and have had such fond memories playing Super Smash Bros. Melee after school with one of my best friends practically everyday; we never got tired of it and found the game endlessly enjoyable. Clocking in over 1000 hours until the game told us to stop playing and go outside lol. I did enjoy my Wii and Wii U, but the GameCube imo had a major edge in comparison regarding its simpler console set up to plug in and start playing immediately; this allowed for it to be much easier to bring over to friends houses for fun gaming get-togethers. There are still games I wish i got to finish off my GameCube library, hopefully that can happen one day.
RE4 was the first M rated game that my mom bought for me. I was 14 at the time, and my mom followed the ESRP rating system pretty strictly.
Yep. Totally had one as a young adult and loved it. Imo blew PS2 and Xbox away. Love Vewtifull Joe and wish it would come back.
6:55 20 years later and some GameCube game is still impressive today.
I was born literally a week after the Wii came out so I never got a GameCube until much later. I got my wii in 2012, but I didn’t play anything but Wii sports/resort and Lego Star Wars the complete saga. Then I got my Wii U in 2014 with Mario 3D world, and that’s when I started picking up Mario games. It wasn’t until the switch, however, with Nintendo in the name that I realized the people making these consoles weren’t just “Wii”. I got my switch in 2018 and with it Mario odyssey, and around that time I had started watching some Mario-related UA-cam videos. Through them I learned about past Nintendo consoles. It wasn’t until the summer of 2021 that I got my hands on a GameCube. I only have 2 games, being Star Wars: the clone wars and sonic adventure 2, but I’m hoping to get a few more for Christmas. (Especially double dash) even though I have so little experience with it I still love the system to death and I’m glad I’ve finally been able to start closing the gap in my Nintendo play history.
My childhood perfectly aligned with the GC/ps2/xbox generation. It was in that sweet spot of 5th-8th grade where you'd walk home from school with friends and just hang out at someone's house playing some local multiplayer. I remember an older cousin at the time, probably 18-20 putting the system down just over how the controller looked. I remember coming home from a trip and just seeing it set up in my bedroom for me. The battle mode in Four Swords was the best thing ever. I mained pikachu and young link in melee, tho I had a friend who absolutely destroyed me as sheik. Finally got a GBP many years after when i was in college. Saw thousand year door at a used game shop for $40 a few years ago but stupidly didn't grab it.
9:39 Metroid Prime is a masterpiece.
my favorite memory of the gamecube is how i bought one - one of my college friends brought their old n64 to the shared apartment-dorm that we snagged together for sophomore year, and we were playing it together one night, enjoying ourselves when we all realized collectively that if we pooled our money we could just, like, walk to wal-mart and buy a new gamecube. So, like responsible proto-adults, we immediately took the 45-minute trip walking to wal-mart in the middle of the night and bought one. we even carried it home like the little purple lunchbox it was. it kept us entertained the entirety of college!
i landed a couple GameCubes a few yrs ago. played one for the first time last week (Jan 2022). the graphics held up VERY well.
The GameCube was my first console I bought with my own money. I got it around Christmas 2001 with Melee and Pikmin and it more than sustained by interest for 4 years or so till I eventually got a PS2. The console still has a place in my heart.
Gamecube holds up so well. I got wind waker and Metroid prime this year. Those games are masterpieces! Can’t wait to find twilight princess.
It was the first console I bought with my own money. I was 14 and prepping the little league diamonds for 5 bucks a field. Pretty much every penny I earned went into the GameCube.
I remember getting my GameCube for Christmas 19 years ago with Star Fox and Harry Potter. Since that day the GameCube has become my all time favourite system. Countless hours playing some of the best 1st and 3rd party games.
A few nice words from Russia for GameCube!
I really love the console. It wasn’t even a question what console to buy. Back then, when I learnt that GC was released with Smash bros I immediately made my mind to get it. Never owned N64 though. It was super rare and expensive.
GameCube was very rare in Russia btw, coz they started to pirate its games pretty late. And for PS2 one could buy pirate disc almost anywhere. And it was super cheap comparing to original GameCube or XBox games. But I was ok, I knew they were worth it:)
Smash bros was my first game, then came RE remake, Phantasy Star online, Metroid Prime, Wind Waker, Soul Calibur 2 etc. I thought I would not be able to afford all that coz I still was a teenager. Luckily my brother helped a lot and I started to have some odd jobs. And my parents helped too:)
That was probably the best times to be a gamer. The games really impressed us. It is tougher now tbh.
Ended up with about 35-50 GameCube discs. I bought almost everything I wanted back then with some omissions for I don’t know what reason:)
And yes, I am still waiting for a new F-Zero game. GX was the best driving experience in video games without considering Mario Kart.
Oh, completely forgot to mention that I loved the console design, the controllers were amazingly responsive and way more superior than what PS could have. The cables were super long and it was nice.
Good old times:)))
"We live in the UK, we get anxiety ringing anyone!" - so accurate!!! 🤣🤣
Thank you for sending this to me!
The GameCube, fondly remembered by everyone but Nintendo
Dude ikr. Nintendo would make bank releasing ports of Gamecube games. Like Star Fox and F Zero. Fox and Captain Falcon might as well be Smash Bros exclusive characters at this point. People would buy F Zero GX HD in droves just seeing Falcon on the cover
And the Wii U. Although I guess Nintendo does kinda fondly remember its games since they are ported to Switch. I wish the Nintendo would care about the GameCube as much so we could have GameCube games on Switch.
There’s wasn’t much discussion of the GameCube at launch because everyone was offended by Luigi’s Mansion. Kind of funny to think that Luigi’s Mansion and Wind Waker were once “universally” hated.
Yeah the cel-da uproar lol. Windwaker was a classic. To be fair though ppl were expecting a 3D Zelda based on the in development sneak peak trailer shown prior
@@Dele83 - Yes. That was a bit of a bait and switch. I remember teenagers at Walmart were talking about the Game Cube and saying even the new Zelda is made for kids. I didn’t like the E3 trailer when Link’s hair looked like a cel shaded sex toy, but they did change his hair in the final game. I was on board then and even preordered it with the bonus disc.
They were just odd decisions/directions at the time. Luigis mansion as a launch title is admittedly not the strongest choice, considering the generation before started off with SM64. Likewise people wanted and were expecting a real successor to OoT that utilized the gamecube's graphic potential and instead got a cartoonish zelda game unlike any other. Again, it all worked out, and I personally loved those games even back then, but I can see where the criticisms were coming from.
The GC rocked! In terms of representation from all of N's best franchises (Mario, Metroid, Zelda, M Kart, F-Zero, Starfox, Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing, Smash, Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion).. the GC is unmatched in its quantity and quality of these franchises. All of these games exist and they are great! No other Nintendo system even comes close when you think about it.
We got a PS2 when I was a kid and I had SpongeBob on it, and that was what I played until I was given my GameCube with wind waker, smash, sunshine, zoids, spider man, and maybe one or two others. I remember going and getting games at the local game store for my GameCube, ttyd, air ride, Luigi’s mansion, and I loved them. Still have all of them to this day, and I play it with my son. Definitely one of my proudest moments is when he first asked to play PAC-MAN World 2 on the GameCube, and I got to sit and help him to the first boss. The memories and nostalgia hit hard for GameCube, more so than other systems for whatever reason
I love my game cube. I've custom painted it and custom painted quite a few for friends as well. Its got many of my favourite games that I can't bare to part with
My hometown had a pizza place that always had a gamecube with double dash hooked up and i looooved it
I played all Zeldas games was amazing momeries,Wind Waker,Ocarina of time,Twilight Princess,Starfox Adventures etc
The GameCube was my literal introduction to video games. My brother’s friend came over with 2 fateful games: Smash Melee and Mario Party 4… my 5-year-old brain was not prepared for the greatness contained within
At 700k subscribers you guys should do a Jon’s friend reveal
My favorite GameCube games that I always remember playing are Timesplitters Future Perfect, Timesplitters 2, Mario Kart Double Dash, Mario Party 6, Super Mario Sunshine, Sonic Gems Collection, Sonic Adventure DX, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, Sonic Heroes, Crash Tag Team Racing, Super Mario Strikers, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Nicktoons Unite, X-Men Legends, X-men Legends 2 Rise Of Apocalypse, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
You are not alone boys, I love the chao garden 😁 I would love to come to Nintendo Life HQ and talk Chao for hours, or appear via videolink in a future Chao episode 😁
My favorite Game Cube memories are playing RE 4, Metroid Prime and Eternal Darkness
GameCube my favorite Nintendo console beside the Switch.
Really love these retrospective videos. Keep up the great work!
I still have a gc and buying all the games for it to this day costing me a small fortune 😝
Still have my UK launch day Gamecube. Preordered it from Woolies and it came with Luigi's Mansion and Rogue Squadron. I still play it fairly often. Melee, Resi 4, Timesplitters 2 (especially multiplayer with Rockets on Ice Station!) & Metroid Primes 1&2 are all classics.
Ikaruga is a relatively hidden gem.
I still remember when I got my first game console for my birthday back in 2006, the Gamecube. I got the silver Super Smash Bros. Melee bundle, and that game taught me pretty much everything about Nintendo. Of course, it was kinda funny when we realized we needed Memory Cards to save game progress. My second game was Pokémon Channel, which I absolutely treasure dearly.
The GameCube was the very first dedicated video game console I ever played on. My first experience with it was playing the multiplayer mode of Hot Wheels: Velocity X with my brother. We were racing against each other on one of the drag race tracks and I would be lying if I said that I wiped the floor with him. What really happened was the exact opposite. From what I remember, my brother absolutely teared through the track all the way to the finish line while I was trapped in some dark area that I had no idea how to get out of.
Good times! I remember back in the year of 2020 when I started making Wind Waker gamecube videos using Dolphin emulator cause I couldn't afford a gamecube nor knew what it was years ago. Tons of nostalgia. My only consoles were the handheld ones growing up such as the GBA, DS, 3DS and New 3DS XL as a kid.
Thanks nintendo for never once re-releasing most of the games they published on this console
Yup
You are not the only ones who want the Chao garden back and think about it constantly
Happy birthday little robot! 😄
The Capcom Five were a big part of my Gamecube experience. Resident Evil 4, Viewtiful Joe, P.N.03 and killer7 (the fifth game being the cancelled 'Dead Phoenix'). It's the console where I became a fan of big colorful Nintendo franchises like Zelda, Mario Kart and Smash Bros, but on the flipside, you had these mad, beautiful, unique action games from Capcom. I loved it.
I didn’t grow up with the GameCube, but I’m 2016 I finally learned what a GameCube was and was so infatuated by it that I asked my parents for one for my birthday. Dad called me stupid for wanting a 15 year old system but he got one and Luigi’s mansion with it. Loved that game, but eventually I got Metroid prime and holy crap I was absolutely blown away. That’s the game that made me a Metroid fan, to put it lightly. One of my favorite games that doesn’t get covered much was Warioware mega party games. I know it’s pretty much just a port of the gba game, but it is honestly one of the best multiplayer games I have every played. Nothing beats a round of Milky Way delirium, I tell you what.
Gotcha force, Kirby Air ride, Warri world and billy hatcher we’re all amazing hidden gems
Ahhh, *Mario Party* ..... good times.
I liked the setup of that Chicago game store. I went into my local GameStop, and they said their only "Retro" games they keep in store are PS3/360, and the older ones are just found online, so I guess not all stores have the retro goodness in store like you've been finding. The hunt continues...
Love the gamecube. Remember getting it day 1 with rogue squadron and wave race. I Still have my original black gamecube and have about 50 games :)
I think the Gamecube has to be my favorite console in general. I have so many fond memories playing Wind Waker, Thousand Year Door, Kirby Air Ride, Melee, etc. I loved playing Pokemon Colosseum and Gale of Darkness on Gamecube a lot, I would love if Nintendo would port those to the Switch, or even make a new game in the Orre region with shadow pokemon. Would easily be an instant buy from me.
Legend has it our old GameCube is still in my parents attic. But no one can find it 😭😭😭
a fond memory of mine is playing custom robo non stop since i bought it a friday aftenoon to a sunday morning
I got a GameCube at launch and the analog sticks are still fine. I got a switch lite in 2017 and in 2019 the analog sticks stopped functioning. Come on Nintendo
Got both a Ps2 & the GC.! Both amazing systems.! and whatta library..
Adore these videos
For a real hidden gem that I feel even Nintendo themselves constantly forgets about with next to zero mentions in Smash Bros; Battalion Wars! A spin-off from the Nintendo/Advance Wars series, it was another really interesting attempt to get an RTS working on console by mixing it with third person shooter elements through having you swap direct control between different units. It was a blast to control the vehicles (even in some dedicated driving and flying missions I loved replaying) and even the enemy factions for a few bonus missions!
(Never got to play the Wii sequel, so I have no idea how that one held up, but the GC one was a great time)
Coming home with a black lunchbox on the day of release & a copy of Rouge Squadron, being totally blown away by the graphics.... only to get an RGB scart lead shortly after & being super impressed even more so. A lot of fun was had by Time Splitters 2, F-Zero GX, Double Dash but my absolute favourite (& still to this day) has to be Metroid Prime. And the in-game map alone was enough to knock your socks of and I don't think that it's ever been bettered. And then theres the actual game controller. Man o live was that thing comfortable in your hands. Fantastic console all round.
I love the GC. Soul Calibur 2,Need for Speed:Most Wanted, Donkey Konga, MK:Double Dash, PAC Man world 2 and many more are my childhood. They make fall in love with video games even more.
While I got a bunch of fun memories with all of my brothers with the GameCube. We were always playing 4 players games on there.
But the most unique story is when my older brother called Movie Gallery (which is basically Blockbuster) and try to see if they had Super Monkey Ball in. When he called he panicked and asked "do you have super monkey balls, the movie?" They hung up on him
My launch was Luigi's Mansion, Extreme G3 and Rogue. It was amazing to at that time. Jon is right the graphical leap was insane.
My favorite game was Phantasy Star Online Ep I & II. Me and my brother used to play it all day!
8 player Mariokart DoubleDash. Two Gamecubes, 2 internet adapters, 2 TVs, 8 controllers, 7 friends over. 8 player DoubleDash! The most fun I've ever had with the system.
GameCube: The Smash Bros Melee console
Might be my favourite console of all time, which, yeah, of course also has a lot to do with my age at the time. Back then, I would still have friends over at least once every week to play Mario Kart, Mario Party, Monkey Ball, Smash, etc. But the console itself was also really powerful for its small size and while the library was tiny compared to the PS2, there were some real bangers in there. Then you had the freeloader which enabled you to play games from other regions in a really simple way (I imported Donkey Konga and Animal Crossing long before they came out in Europe).
In fact, a few years ago, we had somewhat of a Gamecube revival in one clique. We'd hang out, consume copious amounts of MJ and play Monkey Ball minigames or Wario Ware. Good times lol
It's not just your age. Gamecube games were HONED. Metroid Prime is the best game ever made imo
So proud of Jon for coming out as Cubecurious
I just got a platinumsilver edition gamecube today with the box I am soooooo stoked my dudes.
i purchased the gc for $99 the week i preordered re4 at gamestop when they had the promo demo disc. and got the component cables through the nintendo online store. played the demo to death. still own all of it. i treasure the gc more as the years pass
My fondest memories on the cube are when my brother, best friend and his brother would all play 4 player split screen Phantasy Star online. We kept the game going offline with our multitude or characters on multiple memory cards and I still have them all to this day.
The GameCube had a surprisingly stacked catalog of games! If only there had been DVD support - I wonder how much that held it back
I’m glad you guys mentioned timesplitters, I loved Metal Arms too :D
Best memories I had was in Mario Kart double dash and Star Fox Adventures. Man I miss them so much, all GameCube first party games deserve remakes 😪
I was around 2 years late to the gamecube release date but I have good memories as my parents iffered me a gamecube or an Xbox and went with GCN and i was surprised they gave me the silver gamecube with melee included. Also i have good memories of going at local BKs and playing some games that were on the playground of the restaurant, such as luigi's mansion amd even crazy taxi, and also it was around the time BK was promoting super mario sunshine with their kids meal toys. Even today i can feel smell the whopper when playing certain games today.
I spent the night at toys r us on launch to get the GameCube system! I was a junior in high school at the time.
28:40 I think Roaxes certainly knows what a Chao is.
For FPS on Game Cube, I always enjoyed Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. You got all the normal FPS weapons, plus a lightsaber and force powers.
The Metal Gear puzzle was to put there stop people playing the game who had pirated it. Without the game box they couldn't progress (well, they could but they'd have to go through every codec option)
I bought gamecube for my kids back in 2005 and they loved it, more than PS . Colors are really vivid and ganes are very interesting, more than the PS. Mario is the hero !!
GameCube was my first midnight release console. I got Monkey Ball and Luigi’s Mansion.
AS much of a Nintendo fan as I am, what made me get a Gamecube was Resident Evil. I couldn't believe how good it looked on the back of the case in Blockbuster Video.
Does anyone remember the Spaceworld where they showed all the planned GC games and tech demos like Meowth's party and Donkey Kong Racing? I remember vividly that that got me hyped up as a kid
The lord of the rings on GC, two towers and return of the king, that was the stuff
*Melee came out December 3rd. I love/hate that I still know that.
For most consoles that have relatively disappointing sales, it's easy to see why. The Gamecube's, though, was and is kind of a mystery that I can only put down to a great desire at that pre-online subsciptions time for many gamers to have a DVD player in their console. Metroid Prime, Resident Evil 4, Paper Mario - the console was a titan. There is quite an 'arcadey' , in the best way, design philosophy to the feel of the games, a close knit communal feel, a. graphic design experiment that was kind of a more userfriendly form of the Dreamcast philosophy. The games, even when adventure epics, all cut to the chase - they had to on small discs as they weren't skimping on graphical detail/effects - and were crisp, tight, focussed, elegant. Tasteful is one word you could use. Even the controller fit to. your hand in an elegant way. The DNA of the Gamecube is in the WiiU and Switch to some extent and it's pleasing to see that quality can eventually win sales long after the original Wii's buyers probably largely went somewhere else
I really grew up with the Wii, since I was only a year old by the time the GameCube released. But the GameCube was always a part of my life since my dad kept around all the games. And I think I always gravitated toward the controller and games for this over the Wii, and now I sort of wish I could have grown up with the GC as the main Nintendo console.
Not giving up the DS though, favorite handheld by far! My childhood was devoted to that way more than the Wii!