The cover wouldn't stay down the last year having it, so I kept it shut with a heavy book.
Other then that, flawless.

my 1st gamecube died on me cuz if disk read errors, got it in 2001, it died in summer of 2006, I bought the Mario Sunshine bundle soon after and havent looked back. I love the Gamecube.

My NES, SNES, Pikachu N64 and launch GameCube are all still running just like new. I've never had ANY problem with my GCN and it was thoughly abused throughout its life..

My Wii has frozen and made that high pitched noise 3 or 4 times and i had to reset it.. All while playing CoD 3 which i ended up trading in for Metroid Prime 3 :P

Wah, don't get those who had their PS2's break. I have mine for 5.5 years, I dropped it twice, no DRE's, no freezes (1 time in the whole lifetime), still working as new... hehe. Hope for the same with my GC.

I've had mine for 5 years and not had a single problem

My black launch Cube died on me after years of my kids putting there grubby little fingers on the lens... I have 2 platinum systems (1 new 1 used) both work wonderfully.

Nintendo is the best when it comes to repairs. They fixed my wifes DS for free (it was out of warrenty) had games replaced or fixed for as little as 15 bucks...

Now if they could get my launch Wii working..... sent if for the SSBB read error, had it back for less than 24 hours, and instead of not reading the disk, I got disk errors while playing the game... needless to say its on its way back for more repairs. They told me they are going to change out the hardware and transfer all my saves, luckly enough I have a second Wii

Yeah, I'm not sure I believe him either. I did the math and if he got it on launch day in North America that is playing roughly 4 hours a day every day since it came out. Do I believe? It's possible. I know guys who have put that much time into MMOs... more actually. I knew a guy who spent 1.2 years playing EQ in a 3 year period. That is almost 10 hours a day every day.

I'm finding it hard to beleive someone could devote even the much less obsessive 4 hours a day to melee, especially over the longer time period.

nintendo in general is known to make very reliable and long lasting consoles/handhelds, so yea dont worry bout it.

I've had mine for quite a few years and I've never any problems with it. So I'd say it's a reliable console.