Anyone remember the Nintendo GameCube?

[TheEndlessWaters]

Anyone here remember, or has a Nintendo GameCube?
I recently got one after spending the last few years trying to. I have like a brotherly attachment to it.

Maybe it's because we were both born the same year: 2001.

[The Gunner's Dream]

Wow, I was about your age when I joined this forum- in 2005!

My memories of early 2000's game consoles are primarily of the Playstation 2, as that is what I spent most of my time playing. I remember the GameCube being something very short lived, soon to be made obsolete by the Xbox.

[TheEndlessWaters]

Wow, I was about your age when I joined this forum- in 2005!

My memories of early 2000's game consoles are primarily of the Playstation 2, as that is what I spent most of my time playing. I remember the GameCube being something very short lived, soon to be made obsolete by the Xbox.

Wow, I feel like a little kid now...

I remember the PS2 also. While our family was primarily a SNES one, my friend had a PS2 that I would play constantly at their house.
My favorite game was Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly for some reason. Now that I look back, that game was REALLY bad.

[Hudini]

You guys make me feel like an old fart. I grew up on Commodore 64. This was the shit back in the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfIcu3Tf26U

When I was about your age, TDB came out. Still, I am nowhere near being among the oldest folks on the board.

[snifferdog]

Now you're talking Hudini! We didn't have a Commodore 64 chez Snifferdog but a Sinclair ZX Spectrum with a whopping 128k of RAM and a built in cassette player to load in the games. I can't remember what I did while waiting for the games to load - some of them used to take up to 10 minutes to be ready.

By the time TDB came out we'd gone all fancy and owned a Commodore Amiga which was a great computer in its time. It had better sound and video than a lot of computers that were around at the same time and it's where I first used a mouse. The computer shipped with a horrible mouse though and a lot of people ended up buying a third party one.

The only Nintendo consoles I ever owned were the Gameboys. I bought the original Gameboy as a teenager and went on to own a few different iterations of that until a few years ago. I sold my NDS about 3 years ago because I'd started using my phone instead.

If anyone's feeling nostalgic, there are plenty of emulators and old games out there which can be played on a computer. I sometimes play old ZX Spectrum, Amiga and Playstation games on my PC here. It's an interesting experience. Some games still stand the test of time while others just aren't how I remember them

[TheEndlessWaters]

You guys make me feel like an old fart. I grew up on Commodore 64. This was the shit back in the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfIcu3Tf26U

Oh no, Bubble Bopple...

...the music. IT WILL NEVER LEAVE.

[Hudini]

By the time TDB came out we'd gone all fancy and owned a Commodore Amiga which was a great computer in its time. It had better sound and video than a lot of computers that were around at the same time and it's where I first used a mouse. The computer shipped with a horrible mouse though and a lot of people ended up buying a third party one.

I remember those. My uncle owned an Amiga 500 which was top class back in the day.
I also remember those third party mice that were sold separately from the computers. They were apparently considered so hi-tech that they used to come in a hard plastic foam box.

If anyone's feeling nostalgic, there are plenty of emulators and old games out there which can be played on a computer. I sometimes play old ZX Spectrum, Amiga and Playstation games on my PC here. It's an interesting experience. Some games still stand the test of time while others just aren't how I remember them

Oh yes! I often play old games, mostly old C64 and Playstation games, but there's also a number of old PC games online. Most of them are still fun. I just went to see if Wolfenstein 3D (which was considered revolutionary when it came out) is still online and ended up playing for the last half an hour.

...the music. IT WILL NEVER LEAVE.

I know what you mean. It's been ringing in my ears for more than 20 years now. You'll get used to it eventually.

[henno]

amstrad 464 here, complete with green screen tv

harrier attack was the best ever!!!

[Keith Jordan]

I used to love Harrier Attack!

[Ageless Stranger]

I've been through a few computers in my time, Vic-20, ZX-81, Spectrum 16k then 48k moving on to the Atari ST and finally settling on a PC (Windows 3.0)

[snifferdog]

You never moved on from Windows 3.0? Wow.

only joking

[TheEndlessWaters]

I should probably rename this "The Nostalgia Thread." It makes much more sense.
:3

[Ageless Stranger]

You never moved on from Windows 3.0? Wow.

only joking

in hindsight 3.0 would run a lot faster on my behemoth of a machine, but no I moved through most of the windows incarnations mostly because of work.

Still have my old speccy kicking about somewhere at home, wish I had my ST though

[Hudini]

I should probably rename this "The Nostalgia Thread." It makes much more sense.
:3

Don't. There's quite a lot of nostalgia threads around here. "Computer Nostalgia Thread" perhaps. But don't take my advice.

[Ageless Stranger]

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be