| Wman1996 said: "POKEMON! With the pokie and the mon and thing where the guy comes out of the thing and the rah rah rah! Funny enough GameCube actually had two Pokemon RPGs, Pokemon Box, and Pokemon Channel. Not enough of the games people were looking for, I suppose. |
I barely remember those games, but Pokemon Box was not a game, was somekind of an app for the GC to organize and save your pokemons in a GC Memory Card. It was a very strange product: you needed a GBA and the "(in)famous" GC-GBA cable Nintendo pretended to sell a lot (using FF and Zelda games as an excuse). I also remember it was very restricted in which pokémon games were compatible instead of being "a general GB pokemon games organizer and data saver". That last decision very much defeated its usefulness for the young Pokemon collectors.
Pokémon Channel was even more obscure to me, but always thought it was somekind of an "Hey You Pikachu" sequel... the game of the N64 microphone. Probably a game only for the most younger ones, and without the charisma of the N64 game. I've never seen nothing of it but the front box art.
The other 2 was the Colosseum, who sold more or less well (for a Gamecube game) and was basically a Stadium game, with some story to do.
And the other one was a more complete RPG, but i can't remember anything of it. No one does (was too late in the commercial life of the GC)
Pokemon in Gamecube had little impact compared with the Pokemon games for N64, and that was totally unexpected in late 2000, for sure, when Gamecube was presented in the last Space World. Maybe a good Pokémon game for the launch of the GC could have helped it to sell better, but it was not the case... Gamecube was so fastly obliterated in the market, by 2004 was basically a niche console. Even Pokemon games didn't help to boost its sells (like they in fact did during the last years of N64).
I never had any interest to play any of them, btw.
