[Interesting] Start-up melody FDS vs. Menu melody NGC

[Tatsujin]

It took someone about 9 years to figure this out.

Start-up melody FC Disk Menu:



Gamecube Menu (speed x16):




And for those who do not own a NGC anymore, here the menu sound in realtime:

[ceti alpha]

Cool! Neat to see the character sprites from the original Mario Bros. game.

Seeing that GameCube menu made me think that console could have looked pretty cool if it didn't go for the Windows XP/Fischer Price look. For example:

[Arkhan]

yeah, I caught that one time a few years ago.  Its neat that they hid it in there.  Its sad the Gamecube sucked though.

[BlueBMW]

yeah, I caught that one time a few years ago.  Its neat that they hid it in there.  Its sad the Gamecube sucked though.

I actually rather liked the Gamecube.   In fact its the only system I ever bought on launch day!

[ceti alpha]

yeah, I caught that one time a few years ago.  Its neat that they hid it in there.  Its sad the Gamecube sucked though.

I actually rather liked the Gamecube.   In fact its the only system I ever bought on launch day!

The GameCube gets too much flack. It's not that bad of a system. I never picked it up myself, but I didn't really pick up any of those systems of the day - well I did buy an Xbox used well after its launch because I wanted to play Burnout:Takedown really bad, everyday. lol

[Arkhan]

I got the gamecube launch day and was sorely disappointed with the games on it for a long time.  The amount of games I enjoyed on it is still pretty slim to this day. 

[DragonmasterDan]

I got the gamecube launch day and was sorely disappointed with the games on it for a long time.  The amount of games I enjoyed on it is still pretty slim to this day. 

Just of launch titles, the amount of playtime I've put into the original Super Monkey Ball (primarily the multiplayer) is astronomical.

[TheClash603]

Gamecube has the 3rd best Mario game of all-time, so that makes it okay in my book.

[nat]

GameCube was a decent system let down by an awful library. Nintendo's second-worst system, second only to the 64, which had an even worse library and some of the worst controllers in video game history.

[SignOfZeta]

Interesting!

The GC really lacked good software, but not as badly as the N64 did. I bought all my GC stuff late and at cut rate prices, so I didn't feel the struggle of buying the system new and having to wait forever for new (good) games to come out.

In general, I actually like the system quite a lot. From the perspective of the hardware design itself, I think its one of the best designed systems of all time. The small disks have very low seek time making for very low load times (none at all on many 1st party games), the cooling is beyond awesome making it almost impossible to overheat. The Wavebird was the best pad of its time. The GB Player is a GB fan's dream. The systems have a failure rate about 1/10000th that of the PS2, etc etc.

[Arkhan]

The most fun I had with the cube was indeed the GBA player...

and buying ass-cheap games for like 3$ after the Wii came out.

I like the cube itself.  The system is awesome.  The library sucks.

off the top of my head, all I liked were:

the RE games
Phantasy Star Online
...uh

wow lol   That is kind of bad.

[Tatsujin]

No Monkey love? Cum'on!

[Starfighter]

I like the GC because it's a cube (the best shape!), because it have sweet controllers and because it has a certain "cuteness" about it. But of that generation (Xbox, PS2, GC) the Xbox would be my rational choise. But sometimes I want to choose with my heart.

And by that I don't mean I choose GC instead of something, I mean I want a GC as well.

[Arkhan]

. But of that generation (Xbox, PS2, GC) the Xbox would be my rational choise. But sometimes I want to choose with my heart.

what. no dreamcast?

[SignOfZeta]

The Xbox was the worst of those systems by far, unless you really like dark gritty gloomy western stuff. The PS2 crushes all with its amazingly huge library of basically everything.

Since the DC came before all those, its not often thought of as being from the same "generation", whatever that means. If you include it, then yeah, its my favorite of those four. No question.