GameCube 15th Anniversary | Top 20 GameCube Games

The comments on Super Monkey Ball are spot on. I'm so glad to have found someone that holds it as highly as I do!

Also, everyone knows that the Cube is most beautiful in purple. 

The one major game that I would have liked to have seen in the top 20 was Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II. One of the best Star Wars games ever created, but also an incredible game in its own right.

It was very disappointing to hear that there was a completed Rogue Squadron trilogy game (consisting of Rogue Squadron I, II, and III levels plus new content and Wii Remote lightsaber dueling(!!) running at 60fps) that was never released.

Star Fox Assault was a favorite of mine, that also did not make the list. I had a ton of fun playing this both in single player and multiplayer versus modes.

Though I'm not surprised they didn't make the top 20, I had a lot of fun playing both Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Donkey Konga with the bongo drum controllers.

Cheesing It Up said:
The comments on Super Monkey Ball are spot on. I'm so glad to have found someone that holds it as highly as I do!

Also, everyone knows that the Cube is most beautiful in purple. 

Gamecube was fantastic! Such a great library of games and it had decent 3rd party support, too! So many great games! Including my favourite Zelda of them all, The Wind Waker.

 

( Edited 15.09.2016 22:51 by Marzy )

You filthy purple dweebs X) Did anyone get a system colour other than purple or black? I bought an orange spice controller. I'd have loved a console in that colour haha. I was really keen on getting my hands on a white controller, but never did get one in the end. Loved the Wavebird - my first wireless controller.

Second the Super Monkey Ball comment btw. It's the most Nintendo game that wasn't made by Nintendo - exactly the sort of thing they were striving for with the whole "you only need one button" thing that Miyamoto was blasting about when the GC was coming out. Ingeniously crafted game.

I adored the Cube. First console I could call my own, and had enough third party greats that I could live through that gen with only a GC. Really the last Nintendo console I loved, and had so many last games of their type on it, too - F-Zero GX, Paper Mario 2, traditional Star Fox. Just about everything on this list I loved, and more. It was the multiplayer machine - I lost months of my life to TimeSplitters 2 and Mario Kart. I may have more games on other consoles now, but I don't think I have one where almost my entire collection is just pure fun.

I remember when the Gamecube was phasing out in its last year and Argos were selling special edition white ones that came with Mario Strikers for super cheap. I was so tempted to get one at the time. I didn't get one in the end though.

I always wanted that orange one, too.

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Marzy said:
I remember when the Gamecube was phasing out in its last year and Argos were selling special edition white ones that came with Mario Strikers for super cheap. I was so tempted to get one at the time. I didn't get one in the end though.

I always wanted that orange one, too.

Yep, I think so! Never saw them sold separately.

Here's a photo of the bundle!

I have 3 - count 'em - Gamecubes! Have 2 purple PAL consoles, each with a BB adaptor so I can play LAN Mario Kart DD and 1080 Avalanche (but rarely do). One of them has the GBA player perma-bolted to it (again - rarely used!) My 3rd one is a black Japanese model with matching controller - lovely.

Love the cube - and also love the way most of the 1st and 2nd party games have practically no load times.

Nice list with few surprises. I personally wouldn't put WIndwaker at the top but I can understand why it's there as it represents such a bold move resulting in a game almost as timeless as the peerless Link to the Past (The best Zelda game as far as I'm concerned).

Have an official 1019 memory card which is gigantic and use on my main console (though it sits in the Wii now)! Have a few standard "59s" for the others.

( Edited 16.09.2016 19:12 by davyK )

Had to buy a 1019 myself when I migrated to the Wii. Just convenient all around, instead of faffing around trying to work out which games are saved on which card!

Sonic_13 said:
The one major game that I would have liked to have seen in the top 20 was Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II. One of the best Star Wars games ever created, but also an incredible game in its own right.

Though I'm not surprised they didn't make the top 20, I had a lot of fun playing both Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Donkey Konga with the bongo drum controllers. 

I've still got GameCube controllers sealed away knowing that I'll be playing this for years to come. By and large my favourite Nintendo home console. The wavebird was also bloody brilliant at the time and today! For me, games like Starfox Adventures still holds up visually really well today. WaveRace blue storm is also another great example of this. Metal Gear Twin Snakes is also probably the best Metal Gear game out there! I also agree with everything on this list. It's a bloody hard job to order it as well!

I remember that GAME fucked up my preorder for the Cube. They gave my black one to someone else! So I had to wait 3 weeks until I could get one. I also had to travel 15 miles! I ended up going to pick it up on 7 June 2002! The day that England played Argentina! So public transport was fucked because everyone had taken the day off! At least I had smash bros from the start!

I also remember the McDonalds in my town had demo booths of GameCubes that had Burnout and Sonic Adventure 2, I spent so much time in Maccys just for that!
Hands down it is by and large my favourite library of Nintendo games!