I feel like this is going down generational lines, because those of us who were young adults during the Gamecube era remember a different reality to the one that those who were really young at the time remember. It's one of those consoles who's history has been a tad revised from what actually happened. It was a good console, and those of us who owned one (me) and enjoyed it (me) certainly spent many hours back in the day defending it against the onslaught of PS2 and Xbox fans. But make no mistake: it WAS a fairly big disappointment. Aside from Metroid Prime, which was a brand new franchise (well, not really, but you know what I mean) and Melee, for the first time in Nintendo's gaming history, most of its big guns didn't blow people away. Luigi's Manson was ignored, Sunshine was underwhelming compared to Mario 64, Wind Waker wasn't the revolution that OOT and MM was, Mario Kart DD was thought of as just okay and a downgrade from MK64, Paper Mario went almost unnoticed, Pikmin was snickered at for being kiddy... it seemed to most that Nintendo had slipped. They were untouchable before, almost Godlike, and then suddenly, with Gamecube, they were passe, an afterthought, something that was and will never be again. Of course, we all know what happened next with Wii, but yeah... that's how it really was. So to see so much love now and this revisionism is more than a little bit of a head-scratcher lol. The only thing more perplexing is Dreamcast. No one was a bigger Dreamcast fan than me but man... it was considered a joke back in the day as soon as PS2 launched. You literally could walk into any store and find stacks of them for $49.99.
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