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Nintendo Game Cube (DOL-001)
The light gray button is the power button, lower left: reset, lower right: open.
On November 18, 2001 the Nintendo Game Cube hit American shores for a price of $199.99. This price dropped on May 21, 2002 in the United States to $149.99 USD, and later in September 2003 to $99.99 USD. For the 'cheap' price of a 128 bit system you got: the Game Cube, a controller, a set of AV cables, and a power supply. The colors released at launch to choose from were Indigo (purple) and Black. The reason for the $100 price difference between the Game Cube and it's competitors the Microsoft X Box and Sony Playstation 2 is the lack of a DVD player. Nintendo wanted a pure gaming machine, not a movie player. Panasonic made a hybrid Game Cube with a DVD player for Japan only though. It's name was 'Q' and sold for a round about price of $329.99 USD. The system made use of a 3" optical disk, which Nintendo hopes will help them combat piracy much like Sega's strategy with the Dreamcast did. Before the Game Cube came out the project name given by Nintendo was the Dolphin. When the Game Cube received it's present name, Nintendo officially gave it the GCN alias. The Game Cube holds the IBM Gekko chipset and will hopefully be internet compatible within 2002. While customers have to pay for the internet adapter for their GCN, they do have a choice: broadband or 56K. They will not be forced with one or the other, as in the case of Microsoft X Box and Sega Dreamcast, respectively. The GCN contains ports for two memory cards and four controllers. New TV owners are in luck too: the GCN contains a port for digital AV out.
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Mario Sunshine: Indigo Gamecube, Controller, AV Cables,
AC Adapter, Memory Card 59, and the Super Mario Sunshine
game for $189.99 USD. Released on October 14, 2002. |
Although the past has plagued Nintendo with 'kiddy' games, the president of Nintendo hopes to change this image with more of a mature line of games coming in 2002, but still wants to make games for the younger audience. Some future titles that will grace the GCN are the exclusive rights to the Resident Evil series (Biohazard in Japan) which are to be RE Zero, RE 4 and remakes of the previous Resident Evils (any word on RE: Survivor?) The GCN should also see some mature titles from Nintendo themselves too. Since Sega is into making software for all companies in this present time, Sonic the Hedgehog is a prime canidate for both the GCN and Game Boy Advanced, which I might add will hook to the GCN sometime in the near future.
Like the PS One, the third party company Interact has taken the liberty to make a small 5" LCD screen that attaches to the GCN and makes it portable. For the price of $149.99 USD it comes with a DC adapter.
Demo discs. Right release date movie demos and wallpapers. Left Holiday 2002 DVD movie demos.
Nintendo Gamecube kiosks at the Toys R Us store in Times Square,
NYC. At left is a special setup, at
right is the "official" kiosks given to retailers all over.
Game Boy Advance & Gamecube Link Cable System
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See more on it here. DOL-011 |
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Remove the Animal Crossing Sticker and it's just a plain old Memory Card 59. $14.99 USD, holds 59 blocks of memory. The card is international: if one Japanese save is on it, only Japanese games can be saved, if American games are saved on it, only American games will be saved. It can be formatted later. DOL-008 |
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Boot Disc shown for the Game Boy Player below. The boot disc loads up fine with the Freeloader pictured above, so it works good on US and PAL Gamecubes. It does NOT work with the Panasonic Q. In the software for the games, there is a hot-swap option so you don't have to power off your system everytime you want to change a Game Boy game. |
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