GameCube is an oddball to me. On the one hand, there's some sentimentality as it's the first console I seriously got into growing up, as in - first console to stand in line to nab at launch, largely the first machine I was able to buy my own games for, etc. Partly why it's a portion of my username heh. It also has what I feel is still the superior form of Smash Bros. And as weird as that controller is in some ways, I still feel it's THE way to play Smash.

Most of it's other great games I love on it though are actually from 2nd/3rd parties like Metroid Prime, F-Zero GX, RE4, Eternal Darkness, Tales of Symphonia - but these are still some of my all-time favorite games. Funny enough, there wasn't a ton on the Nintendo-made side of things for the Cube that compelled me. Wasn't crazy about either the mainline Mario, Zelda, Star Fox, or Mario Kart games.

Definitely Dolphin.

GameCube winning against N64 is painful to see. It's, just in no way as good. Also NES is very underrepresented, but I guess that's because a lot here never actually played it.

I dont understand why Gamecube is loved so much on this forum either tbh.

Often I hear like SSX, Starwars Rogue Squadron, Smash melee, Tony Hawks, Metal gear solid, Wave Race.. ect.

All I'll think is... non of those mattered to me.


To me the system sellers (why to get a gamecube) would be:

Zelda Wind Walker
Super Mario Sunshine
Metroid Prime series
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

I also considered their first party lineup on the gamecube to be "below" what you normally expect from Nintendo.

Galaxy 1+2, and Xenogears, Mad World, DKC-Returns, TLoZ - SS + TP, New SMB,..... up scaled in resolution.. its a valid opinion.

Home console wise:
Switch>SNES>GC>Wii>WiiU>NES>N64

Handhelds:
DS>GBA>3DS>GB>GBC

Overall
DS>Switch>SNES>GBA>3DS>Gamecube>Wii>GB>GBC>Wii U>NES>N64.

Definitley the SNES. You just look at their library and you can say without a doubt it had the best games that gen and no other system could compete. It had it all.

It is very much a matter of taste.  I think, because I lived through this era, that I actually like harder games.  So the difficulty of say, Metroid makes Super Metroid seem better to most, but I actually like Metroid better.  Also some of these NES games relied on things like an instruction manual or other inserts to be playable (like Zelda).  If you try playing the game now without these tools it doesn't feel quite right.

So, I actually do like the NES games better in probably more instances than you, but also, at it's time it was far more amazing than any other console in its respective time.  For me Mario 3, Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man 2 and Punch Out were the best in the series.  The other franchises I mentioned have better entries on later consoles.  But even considering all that.  It would be nice to have a modern console with this level of originality.

It's a tie for me:

The NES for how it affected the industry:  Established the 3rd party business model, made D-pads standard over 8-way joysticks, and of course, how its library helped to shape gaming going forward. Not to mention how it resuscitated the home gaming market in the US after the crash of '83.

The SNES for so many stellar titles in its well-rounded library of games and how gracefully it aged.

Both are my two favorite systems of all time.

From the ones I had?
Switch.
The games I enjoyed a lot are BOTW, Dark Souls, Hollow Knight, Fortnite, Xenoblade 2, and many others.
Waiting for SMTV and MP4.