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  • salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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

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    • Crampi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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” 😁

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      • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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.

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      • salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        OK, but let’s be real, Nintendo isn’t competing on the strength of their hardware, its that they (used to) have IPs that slap. If I had a choice to play a 3rd party game on a Nintendo console or PC, I’m picking PC.

        Nowadays, I am not a Nintendo fan. I don’t like their practices and either the IPs aren’t as good anymore or maybe I’ve aged out of the demographic, so I don’t really have a horse in the fight. But the point is, if you’re gaming on a Nintendo console, its probably because you’re playing a Nintendo IP.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean, they are different games with different mechanics.

        Mario Tennis and Super Mario Bros are less similar to one another than Call of Duty and Battlefield, despite them being from the same publisher and having the same characters.

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    • LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The Metroid Prime games were incredible. Also shout-out to Chibi Robo, I loved that game.

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      • korendian@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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      • Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        2 > 1

        and I’m not apologizing.

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    • starik@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
      • Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
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      • specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I have been looking for this game for at least a decade and I finally got a copy over the summer.

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      • korendian@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Holy shit, I totally forgot about this game. Such a mind fuck.

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    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Image

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      • salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My brother!

        Image

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    • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      God I miss Wind Waker. Still waiting for that HD remaster.

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wind Waker but no Twilight Princess? :o

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      • salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I got it on Wii instead - it was basically the reason I purchased the Wii in the first place because I thought the game looked so cool.

        It had such a unique atmosphere, I wish Nintendo had the balls to revisit something like that.

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    • Dymonika@lemmy.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I cannot *believe" you’re omitting Tales of Symphonia!

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      F-Zero GX, Phantasy Star Online, Sonic Adventure 2, Cubivore, Star Fox Adventures, Kirby Air Ride, Pikmin

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem

      One of the very few M rated GameCube games… and, as far as I know, has a unique core sanity mechanic that fairly routinely breaks the fourth wall, aimed at driving you, the player, at losing your own sanity, not merely depicting this happening to your character.

      Also, IIRC, the first iteration of Pikmin, a genuienly novel kind of game. Luigi’s Mansion, also a pretty unique kind of game.

      Oh, and they remade Metal Gear Solid on it, with better graphics than the PS1.

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    • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
      • Luigi’s Mansion
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      • salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Sorry for forgetting your namesake! I never had this one.

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  • eah@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1980s: You have to walk to the arcade, you have to stand to play, and you are charged for every minute of play time.

    1990s: Computer technology has improved to the point that anyone can have the arcade in their home, you sit to play, and you are charged once for the game and can play for as long as you want.

    2010s and onward: Home internet connections are now ubiquitous, enabling instant digital money transactions from anywhere, so the games industry can now nickel and dime you for everything. The coin machines are back.

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    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bullshit, there are more high-quality games out now than ever before.

      Not only are all the games from back then easy to get and emulate, you also have high quality pay-once-enjoy-forever PC games: indie up to big corporations.

      Who cares that mostly indies and mid-sized studios produce non-exploitative shit? There are do many masterpieces constantly coming out.

      The golden age is now.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      you are charged for every minute of play time

      I mean yeah, except that if you were good you could play a really long fucking time on one quarter so your per-minute rate was very low.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fortune in misfortune though, at least in this day and age it’s much easier paying those games without paying them. Although the DRM on some of the newer games have been a a bitch and a half.

      Still, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!!

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I believe the PS3 was.

    Very powerful machine, Sony was losing money on every sale.

    Full of features including a web browser (which at the time was very impressive).

    Full online functionality without any monthly costs

    Upgradable hard drive

    Full backwards compatibility (at launch).

    It just didn’t sell as much as the ps2

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have one of the super chunky OG PS3s thats compatable with PS1/2 games as well as DVD and bluray. I don’t play it anymore but I’m never getting rid of it.

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    • zebidiah@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nahhhh the 360 was better…

      At the time, i was all-in onps3, because of the rrod bullshit, but looking back, virtually every single title that was released on both platforms, runs and plays better on 360.

      both consoles were and are amazing today!

      you can soft-exploit any ps3 in existence with only a usb stick and run all the unsigned code you want.

      the 360 is significantly more complicated, there is a soft-mod out there now, but it’s a little finicky. if you are brave and handy with a soldering iron you can put an RHG chip in there and reflash the bios to allow you to run unsigned code. I dropped a 2tb hdd into mine, which is more than i need for any and every game i ever even considered playing.

      the ps3 is worth owning and playing for ps3 titles, the xbox360 is better for everything else.

      bottom line: seventh gen was best gen

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      • piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The ps3 was superior to the 360 in raw performance. The problem was the architecture was so novel, most developers never bother porting their engines. So games ran like shit.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Conditional backwards compatability and while it did have online features a lot of them required a subscription to access.

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      • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Which features needed subscription?

        I remember, on the ps3, if a game had multiplayer, you had to pay for Xbox live on the 360 but you could play for free on the PS3.

        Maybe it was for premium features? I didn’t really care about that

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  • elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hope the GabeCube has a handle too

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I had a GameCube back in the day no one ever moved it’s around with the handle. Sure you could move the console but you still had all of the wires and of course the controller to move as well so the handle wasn’t really helpful.

      I never understood who they handle was aimed at.

      In Siri you could take it over to your friends house but realistically all you did was just set it up where you wanted it and then never move it.

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      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Didn’t it have local LAN multiplayer for some titles? I think that’s why the handle was on it, but it’s been a long time.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I sort of agree and sort of disagree.

        People absolutely did move their consoles around then. When I’d stay at my friend’s or a family member’s house, I’d often take my Dreamcast or GameCube, because I knew they didn’t have one.

        They’d do the same when they came over to my house, because I never had a PS1/PS2.

        Where the handle doesn’t make sense is what you said with the cables and controllers. I’d always put the console in the same place I put my controller(s) and cables - a bag that has its own handles.

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean they’ve shown it, so we know it doesn’t.

      But the community will make it happen.

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  • zephiriz@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Valve is missing out by not putting a handle on the new steam machine.

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gaben is offering us the chance to start up a handle 3d printing business!

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  • alienzx@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No n64 was

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    • rapchee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      the controller though

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      • errer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ahead of its time, for the future when man would be blessed by genetic technology to bestow 3 hands upon themselves

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      • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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      • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I know, how are you supposed to lower yourself to anything else when you’ve already held perfection.

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    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No ps1 was

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      • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’d argue PS2 is objectively better since it’s also a PS1 too

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      • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        No PC Engine was.

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    • chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      n64 was trash tho

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      • korendian@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yea, Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, 007, Wave Racer, Pilot Wings, Tetrisphere, Banjo Kazooie, Diddy Kong Racing. All garbage.

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  • obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dreamcast because you could just burn a game to CD and run it on an unmodded console.

    Original Xbox because you could slap on a no solder mod chip and boot from the hard drive. Suddenly you could switch up the loader, run modded games, run emulators… Truly ground breaking for the console scene.

    Or SNES if you’re the kind of weirdo who buys a console because they like games.

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    • Axeman666@sh.itjust.works ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I will always die on the hill claiming Dreamcast as the best console. It was so far ahead of it’s time and it had so many great games. I would kill for Sega to release a new console, but I imagine many of the people who helped create the Dreamcast went on to work for Nintendo. I’ve always considered the Wii and Wii U to be the true successors to the Dreamcast and I’ve wondered if they were created with the help of people who made the Dreamcast.

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    • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dreamcast because you could just burn a game to CD and run it on an unmodded console

      My friend spent summers in Greece with his family. He said there was a shop there where you would give them like a dollars and you would take the game home, burn it, and bring it back. Of course this is what doomed the Dreamcast. Noone wants to make a game for a system where you can just a disc into a consumer burner and copy.

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      • obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah… Then we were all sad and shocked when Sega got out of the console market.

        But it was fun while it lasted.

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  • salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I KNEW I MISSED SOMETHING!

    Opening that case and seeing the two discs was mind-blowing at the time. I remember getting stuck and scouring gamefaqs, only to ask on the forums and was told I was stuck on the “hard” path.

    Thanks for reminding me, I’ll add it :)

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  • specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    no dvd or cd capability

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Only three shoulder buttons. No select button. Absolute garbage D-pad and right analog sticks.

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    • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No bloat! /s

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  • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I refused to buy one for two reasons:

    1. the principle of me not having any money

    2. 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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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It sounds like it should have mostly been point 1, but the GC was wildly affordable when it came out.

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    • Sawblade02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      2, if you have a game boy player installed, it becomes an actual cube. I stumbled into a matching orange set at a thrift shop in Japan years ago and will keep it forever.

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  • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I miss ROM-Hacking Luigi’s Mansion. Had some huge drama on some forums and crashed out. I’ve never recovered since.

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    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I need details about this.

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      • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If you look up Mario’s Mansion, that is my project. It also has some weird edits in it (like the money being replaced by Luigi’s Mansion beta disks). I hid away once the pressure and shame and anxiety became too much. Got to learn how to use a hex editor though!

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  • chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    mfw someone calls nintendo “based” 🤢

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  • Una@europe.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nintendo64

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    • Newsteinleo@midwest.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I disagree and point to Metroid Prime as the evidence. Mind you, it was still an amazing game, but it was despite its horrible control scheme (which was still closer to Goldeneye than the modern fps control schemes today).

        Halo was the first game I remember having the better modern control scheme (outside of mouse + keyboard, where PC users lucked out that the obvious control scheme was the basis for any good ones, due to the much better precision of mouse aiming).

        To be more specific, I mean the one stick moves while the other stick looks scheme. Metroid Prime used a one stick looks left and right, moves forward and back, hold down one button to strafe (with the same stick, around a locked on target), hold down another button to make that stick just look around. Goldeneye had the same basic stick scheme plus hold one button to look, but it was a bit better because it had buttons for straffing. Iirc, the up and down c buttons could be used to look up or down and hold it, which was useful when you were playing split screen against others who knew the levels as well as you did. Just look at the ceiling or floor and they can’t just peek at your screen to tell where to go.

        I recall awkward controls being a common thing on the GCN in general, I think due to their attempt to move away from the SNES button scheme entirely. If I had to rank their controllers, I’d only put the GCN controller over the NES (edges were all to sharp; those controllers hurt to use for a long time), Wii remotes (they look the worst IMO and I dislike that the IR gimmick means they have to be used to play Wii games on the Wii U instead of a better controller), and maybe a tie with the Switch controller (specifically the ones attached to the system when using only one half, because it’s awkwardly small and can cause cramping over long periods of play, but it at least has the 4 buttons, which gets it the tie).

        The best controllers are pretty much anything that follows the dual shock scheme. It’s a great foundation. I think the PS5 did improve on it, and that the early xbox controllers did the scheme well but failed a bit on the shape (too bulky), but the good ones are all pretty much iterations of the PS2 controller.

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      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Kart*

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    • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

        GameCube had more T to M rated games than any other Nintendo console.

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  • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dreamcast.

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  • Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wasn’t the Wii objectively better since it could also play GameCube games?

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    SNES was best.

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  • uncouple9831@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Original Xbox and the duke. Full computer, can install xbmc, basically the steam box of it’s time but sold way under cost.

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  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    > Fun startup jingle

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  • ttyybb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Simply put, yes. This reminds me, I have to look into using the GameCube startup animation for booting my computer

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  • ShyFae@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t know about objectivity being the best. I do remember a video where the dropped that generation off a stairs and was only one that worked, although the lid had to be held down. Also I remember hearing it was both the most powerful of its gen and wasn’t sold at a loss.

    It was definitely my favorite console. Got into the wii but overtime I grew out of concals and moved onto doing all my gaming on pc.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Playstation 2 has all of these benefits and more.

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