(Those are the ones with tough plastic housing.

Up to this point, Nintendo had only used cartridge games. Melee.” The GameCube also made history with the first wireless controller (the Wavebird) of any major gaming company. franchise paid off big time (we’re talking 7 million games sold) with “Super Smash Bros. This time, the company rolled the dice and gave Luigi a shot with “Luigi’s Mansion.” Their continuation of the Super Smash Bros.

However, there were a number of features that made the GameCube a worthy contender in its own right.Įvery Nintendo launch up to 2001 had coincided with a new entry in the “Mario” saga. It was intended to compete with the Xbox, Playstation 2 and Dreamcast. The GameCube never quite reached the mainstream popularity of the N64 or the Wii, but true Nintendo fans loved it all the same. The funky little purple box was released by Nintendo in 2001, right after the smashing success of their N64 console but before their game-changing Nintendo Wii. You were definitely a 90s kid (or a pretty cool young adult) if you remember the GameCube.

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