I think I spent more time trying to get the PSO hack to work than I did playing the actual games.
that’s a lie i played animal crossing and double dash until my eyes were bleeding
Nintendo64
Going to disagree, the N64 was amazing but there was a lot about controllers and 3D game play that was still getting figured out. By the time the Game Cube came around we had figured out a good controller layout and how to interact with 3D environments. Also Mario Cart Double Dash was peek Mario Cart.
People love the GC controller but I prefer the N64 even considering joystick failure. I never liked the stiff joysticks and mushy l/r buttons on the GC.
I also feel like the N64 was the last Nintendo console made for kids and adults. GC games seem cutesy and infantalized compared to older Nintendo consoles, and they’ve been like that ever since.
Cartridges are superior to discs for game performance and stack nicely without cases. They are also less prone to damage.
Most importantly, the N64 hit my nostalgia prime time where the GC was too late. My younger relatives love the GC.
Came here to make sure someone had added this. Got mine in '99, it’s still hooked up to my main TV today. I have a spare too.
mfw someone calls nintendo “based” 🤢
no dvd or cd capability
No bloat! /s
Valve is missing out by not putting a handle on the new steam machine.
I refused to buy one for two reasons:
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the principle of me not having any money
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it’s not a fucking cube. It’s a cuboid.
2 might seem like pedantry, but it would have cost them almost nothing in terms of plastic to make it a cube without having to redesign the internals, or they had used an honest designer in the first place.
Honestly, it still itches me now. If I had one I’d 3d-print a little extension to fix it.
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GameCube was the first console in the house that was actually MINE and not my sibling’s, and so it will forever be the best to me, especially with games like:
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Animal Crossing
- Mario Kart: Double Dash
- Super Smash Bros Melee
- The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
And others I’m surely forgetting
I’m sorry but when I hear Nintendo gamers talk about all their games it’s like “I play a lot of different games like: ‑ Mario ‑ Mario ‑ Mario with a green hat ‑ Mario with boxing gloves ‑ Mario in a car” 😁
Haha so true.
Although looking at all the game announcements last week it felt like a lot of them were the same game, so a similar situation these days I think.
The Metroid Prime games were incredible. Also shout-out to Chibi Robo, I loved that game.
Metroid Prime was one of the most memorable games I played in my childhood, up there with ocarina of time and super Mario bros, imo.
2 > 1
and I’m not apologizing. Magmoor caverns drags P1 down for me.
Sunshine fucked so hard, I’m looking directly into your soul with that at the top of the list and let me tell you, I fucking see you dude.
And I love it.
- Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
Holy shit, I totally forgot about this game. Such a mind fuck.
I have been looking for this game for at least a decade and I finally got a copy over the summer.
Roms exist
I know, but it was my white whale and I wanted to play it on the original hardware.
Wind Waker but no Twilight Princess? :o
- Luigi’s Mansion
Sorry for forgetting your namesake! I never had this one.
Wasn’t the Wii objectively better since it could also play GameCube games?
Maybe, but the GameCube was really riding a particular techno aesthetic, both externally and in the menu design. It was really the very tail-end of the “just because we can!” breed of design.
The Wii went all nice and soft white, rounded buttons, happy and family-friendly, which was absolutely the correct move for Nintendo commercially to make it mass-market, but it lost something at the same time.
No n64 was
n64 was trash tho. literally the only 90s console i never emulate, because nothing on it is worth playing.
Yea, Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, 007, Wave Racer, Pilot Wings, Tetrisphere, Banjo Kazooie, Diddy Kong Racing. All garbage.
i’m glad we can agree.
the controller though
Ahead of its time, for the future when man would be blessed by genetic technology to bestow 3 hands upon themselves
The controller was perfectly fine. The concept was slightly ridiculous and I don’t think I ever played a game that actually used the left side, but ergonomically it was fine.
I know, how are you supposed to lower yourself to anything else when you’ve already held perfection.
No ps1 was
I’d argue PS2 is objectively better since it’s also a PS1 too
No PC Engine was.
Listen to this and I fucking dare you to type that again
No it was the 4.77 MHz 8086. It beeped and it hummed, providing much needed warm air to my room - the only insulation of which was nkotb posters.
Dreamcast.
I miss ROM-Hacking Luigi’s Mansion. Had some huge drama on some forums and crashed out. I’ve never recovered since.
I need details about this.
Man I would love to read about a bunch of luigis mansion romhacking drama
SNES was best.
Yeah, SNES then the PS2 in my opinion.
Did it have Blast Processing?
animal crossing on the gamecube had a lot of “microtransactions”. part of the functionality of the game was tied to having a gba/gamecube link cable. another part was tied to having an e-reader, along with several series of cards you had to collect in almost a “gacha” like sense.
Simply put, yes. This reminds me, I have to look into using the GameCube startup animation for booting my computer
