{"id":379,"date":"2024-12-22T16:43:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2024-12-22T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:43:59","slug":"celebrating-the-gamecube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating The Gamecube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Originally published on GameOnAus.com in Sept 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two things I remember vividly around the launch of the GameCube. The first is the demo disk that showed up in stores &#8211; the last one I can remember ever seeing. I think there were three games on it but I can only remember Luigi\u2019s Mansion and Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader. If you were good enough you could finish the first boss in Luigi\u2019s Mansion and finish the Death Star run in Rogue Leader. FYI, I was good enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second thing I remember is being in Year 11 when it came out. Sadly, I didn\u2019t get a GameCube on launch, but a friend was getting it and we spent all day teasing him that the GameCube had been out for X hours and he hadn\u2019t played it yet! The next day he was relentless in his teasing of us for not having one yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually I did get one and loved it. For a long time, it was Nintendo\u2019s worst selling home console (thank you Wii U for taking that title) but I\u2019ve always felt that its sales didn\u2019t accurately reflect how amazing it was. It had some cracker games. Here\u2019s some highlights for me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rogue Leader was an amazing title. I still maintain it has the best version of The Battle Of Endor ever put into a video game and replaying levels to unlock bonus missions like attacking World Devastators on Mon Calamari from the Dark Empire series of comics was a blast.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>While I admit I was one of the people that hated the look of The Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker when it was announced (mainly because of the amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RIa79bTDuV4&amp;t=14s&amp;ab_channel=Wolfric\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spaceworld 2000 demo<\/a> of a realistic Link and Gannon fighting), I was sold on the cel-shaded graphics the minute I faced off against the first dungeon boss.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My love of rhythm games like Rock Band was born on the GameCube with Donkey Konga and its adorable plastic bongo drums. My friends and I had many a good time laughing along to the songs on this wonderful peripheral.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speaking of multiplayer mayhem, many hours were spent in Mario Kart: Double Dash working out the best combination of characters to get the best items and crush your opponent! And I just have to mention Super Smash Bros: Melee that is still played in competitive circles to this day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Even back in the early 2000s Nintendo were thinking of a second screen via the Game Boy Advanced Link Cable which connected a Game Boy Advanced handheld console to the controller port of your GameCube. Multiplayer games of The Legend Of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure were epic with this feature!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Special shoutouts to titles with a special place in my heart like Pikmin, Viewtiful Joe, Eternal Darkness and Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on GameOnAus.com in Sept 2021 There are two things I remember vividly around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[26,22],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-26","tag-gamecube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.str8jaktjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}