The Nintendo GameCube Has A Serious Problem 20 Years Later...
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- This year marked the 20th anniversary for Nintendo's GameCube which was a very underrated system for its time. Unfortunately the system has become incredibly hard to experience without turning to emulation and roms due to the current market.
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i bought a factory sealed animal crossing for the gamecube like a year ago because i love suffering and being stupid
It's the bad guy :O
My only experience with the GameCube is 10 minutes of Sonic Adventures at a McDonald's play place and a bit of Melee at a sleepover with s basketball teammate
Hey your THE bald guy
@@firstfloor_ The serious problem is Nintendo won't make any new games for it!
It’s the bald guy…
It’s good to know if I ever need to come up with a mortgage payment I can just sell a couple of Resident Evil games for GameCube
How expensive if your mortgage???
Probably expensive most are
You just selling the games you need serious help people want games stop holding them for money
I had all of the RE games on the GameCube, then someone borrowed them and never returned them.
😂😂 Facts. The whole Resident Evil collection on the Gamecube is worth $500 plus right now.
I went to Goodwill a few months ago and found Mario Party 5 for 68 cents. When anywhere else, it would've been like 80+ dollars lmao. It had the booklet and was in great condition!
This used to be more common a decade ago; That said, you got really lucky even if the disc doesn't work.
Yeah I’ve picked up a couple of titles like soul calibur 2 at goodwill. Best find was Skies of Arcadia, I’ve never heard of it and was blown away at the prices on eBay.
I had a similar experience with pokemon gale of darkness and a system at a yard sale for 1$
@@_SixthDay_ skies of arcadia is a gem. keep it there, play it and enjoy it
I got Soul Calibur 2 at a flea market. Got it for $20 and it worked perfectly.
Back in the day I traded in 91 GameCube games to buy a 360 🤦🏽 one of the worst decisions I’ve ever made
Yeah, especially if your 360 ended up with the dreaded RRoD.
if your rich you can easily buy all of them back
@@Darkscenes-jp4ge News flash: most people aren't rich
@@wertydeluxe1405 I know lol I just like to torment people
Ouch
Yeah dorks are buying up all the games and HOARDING THEM like that guy from Spawnwave.
Wait where am I?
This is why I got into Wii home brew when I was 15.
*Sits proudly with his homebrew’d Wiiu*
Yes man homebrewed wii is where its at. Litterally packed full of things in one of the cheapest and most mass produced consoles ever.
@RGT 85 Real men hoard copies of Balan Wonderworld!
You are the creator I've never actually heard of who keeps turning up in the comments of people I like. I should probably check it out....
@@genekwagmyrsingh9433 nah
I wish we could reach a point where companies could offer the roms up for purchase so that we can emulate the games without the legal gray area of obtaining roms
My view? Nintendo has had years to allow us to buy the roms from them. Heck, I bought Mario 3D all stars on day one, clearly indicating I’m willing to buy their older stuff if they let me. But I’m not gonna pay some random dude in Florida $400 to play Chibi Robo. Nah, I’m gonna dust off my very limited tech skills and emulate that shit. The way I see it, these video game companies have made thousands of dollars off me. If they are gonna withhold legacy content from us, I’m just gonna go around them.
@@leeartlee915 👍
@@leeartlee915 we have the same view. I don’t feel morally wrong about obtaining roms for Nintendo games they won’t provide access to. Legally however you are in the wrong
@@THEpicND oh I know it’s not legal. I just don’t give a shit. It’s like people who smoke pot (where it’s not legalized) or jaywalk; probably shouldn’t do it but meh. It’s hardly like drunk driving or knocking over a liquor store. I really don’t see who it hurts other than resellers. And those folks, well, let’s just say I’d like nothing more than to shut those people down. When eBay started, it was just people getting rid of crap in their house. Now it’s people who decided to not “work for the man” and scoop up valuable stuff that would have otherwise gone to deal seekers. I’ve literally seen people scooping up entire shelves of games, going to a corner to scan every item, and ditch the stuff they can’t resell. All Nintendo would need to do to shut that crap down would to throw their stuff on the eshop. Sorry for the rant, retro gaming has turned me sour.
SEGA does that for MegaDrive/Genesis games on Steam, including Sonic3&K.
Other than that, you only really get that with 8bit and 16bit home computers from Commodore and probably some others.
As a 50 year old gamer ive still got my fair share of Gamecube games from launch and have collected a few more along the years.But i decided to slow down collecting and move on to newer consoles once the absurd prices started to rise.All of those Resi games you were looking at have been remade into far better looking and better quality versions eg ps3,ps4 etc so i sold my gamecube resi`s to fund the newer versions.Dont get me wrong i love my 2 gamecubes and there are games i love and would never sell ,but as ive got older ive realised life is short so why not enjoy the games you love rather than buying or worrying about the prices of game etc ,you cant take games with you when you kick the bucket and go to video game heaven just enjoy yourself while your still here.
agree
"Video game Heaven". We can start a cult right now!
I honestly prefer to play the older RE games on my cube, I'm still hunting for code veronica though. I've got it on ps2, but I want the set.
Hope you doing ok! Keep Gaming
I have resident evil survivor for the ps1, looks cheesy but a great game to chill a have a few drinks with
I could get Wiis for $20 a pop 2 years ago at my local game shop and now they're like $120. Absolute insanity.
Oof that one sucks
Try thrift stores instead. My local place has like 1-4 Wii systems for $25 regularly.
Thrift stores like Goodwill are where to get Wiis. I’ve gotten 3 for $10 each, all GameCube compatible.
@@patrickmurphy9470 what you want for your wiis i want a wii so i can play games
120 sound like cib wii prices, i picked on up last year for that price with some mario games but it really becomes a competative game.
I bought the Switch on day one under the assumption that it was going to have an eShop and access to buy older Nintendo games, really disappointed with how slow the rollout is of older titles and how I can't even own them, just pay to access a handful of games through online membership.
Not only that but qe don't have an actual virtual console instead it's a subscription service, a bad one at that.
@kiwikemist switch doesn't look abandoned at all
Since Steven Lee left Nintendo in 2011 (hewas the main guy behind the great N64 emulation on Wii), Nintendo seemingly struggles with emulating N64 games right. It appears that for each game, Nintendo has to specifically tweak their emulator so it runs just one specific game as best as possible - it takes more time with the commercial emulator they have than we think to get out quality re-releases. That's why I think that we'll get less in this regard with future Nitnendo consoles.
MVG made a video (titled "Nintendo used to be GOOD at N64 Emulation...what happened?") in which he tries to explain why N64 Emulation got bad. I'm just kinda referencing some stuff from this video, mixing that information with my thoughts and try to draw my own conclusions, just so you know.
@@bradevit2446 Nintendo has gotten lazy and outsources so much of their stuff. Even their "flagship" games are partially outsourced to outside studios. Trying to turn maximum profit with minimum effort.
@@wryyyy aaaand now it's the only profitable videogame company out there, sony just fired 10% of it's workers (and probably dropped a lot of projects) and microsoft it's transitioning to third party developer :3
I was at TooManyGames this year and I felt priced out of retro collecting and didn’t end up buying anything aside from some Mother 1+2 and 3 English translation carts.
Congrats on the pickups!
I felt the same way at South East Game Exchange this year, but I did get some Switch games for a decent price.
I got a melee copy for 50 and it worked but the double dash one was garbage didn’t even buy it after they tried cleaning it
I know what you mean. PS1 games are insane and just 10 years ago they were almost giving them away.
Same here. I was like screw it I'm getting an everdrive after seeing those prices.
I think the fact that the Gamecube was such an underrated console is probably the reason why the prices are going so crazy nowadys. The system didn't sell nearly as much as it would have deserved and as it should have and as a result the supply of a lot of great games on the system is very limited
Same thing is happening to Wii U the prices are slowly rising.
I think that's obviously what's going on.
Everyone i knew had one though. How the heck is it considered poorly sold?! Me and all my cousins and friends had it! We all had the best games for it! Those games aren't even rare!
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Yea thats kinda how shit works. Ps2 and wii sold a FUCK TON and theres not that many games thatre expensive and were extremly popular
I have 25 gamecube games (some of the best on the system) and I would like to get more but with these ridiculous prices I just modded my wii and loaded it up with 300+ gamecube ISOs. Plays all the games perfectly. Until prices start to decrease again Im just gonna stay away from retro collecting.
With prices the way they are, it's pretty much becoming a market exclusively for collectors with too much money on their hands. Nintendont is going to be the way to access these games until Nintendo finally decides to re-release them on current hardware.
@@L00SEG00SE nintendont does what nintendont. spectacular piece of homebrew
SAME
I need mine 😩 I been needing one since 2010
I can’t believe how much prices have gone up. I remember getting animal crossing for like $5 on gamecube at a convention in 2018 and used to be able to get a lot of cheap games for gamecube at cons. The retro game market is insane
Lucky you. Even in 2017 when I bought animal crossing it costed me $60 CAD. Prices have gone up much more since then but that’s also because of a much higher demand and a lot of it is caused by youtubers. Even myself I have started collecting more (mostly Nintendo) watching these CZcams videos because it’s something that I enjoy.
The prices will come down once reproduction copies come in and start flooding the market. Its happened with other systems. I don't see why the GameCube will be any different. These high prices give Chinese manufacturers an incentive to make counterfeit copies. It might not matter to the average Joe, as the counterfeit will still play like the original but it certainly affects collectors.
I’ve been working on collecting every Pokémon game, just the boxes for Pokémon fire red and leaf green are $200
@@joemann7971 honestly if repro discs become a thing that would be good, I wouldn't but Chinese cartridge repros because they have issues saving but a disc based game uses a memory card instead so I would probably be a filthy pirate ha ha
@@polycube868 I didn't even consider the saving part. I already a filthy pirate. I just went the everdrive route for my N64, and I'm getting a GC Loader for my GameCube. For the price of some these games, the GC Loader easily pays for itself after just one game.
I'm glad I bought all the GameCube games I wanted before they went up. Collecting for the GameCube now is definitely a huge pain.
Same. There are still some I want here and there, but am happy I picked most of the major hitters years ago. I honestly don't see myself buying more gamecube games unless I find a very cheap game with a good case
Don’t pay these prices for these games. Soft mod a Wii and get yourself a GameCube controller and memory cards and download the games. The developers are not getting money for these games anymore either way.
You can thank Biden for the inflation!
@@desklaser Good luck a good 3rd of them don't even buy them to play, they actually pay 10 times more sealed copies. And then send them in to get graded like baseball cards. And actually try and to sell them for thousands of dollars. Crazy part is they actually buy them 😳.
I purchased my GameCube games in real-time as they were being released and kept ALL if my games; complete-in-box, but I wish I could say the same for Super Nintendo.
For my Super Nintendo collection, I have a fair amount of CIB games I owned as a child, but I am missing key titles like Super Punch-Out!, Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, Mega Man 7, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time, Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2, and Street Fighter II.
The simple solution to this is Nintendont for your Wii/Wii-U. The games play literally the same as they would via disc, and the program even allows you to force widescreen if you want. Such an amazing program.
Yeah Nintendo isn’t making money off of these games so there’s no reason not to pirate them
One thing I really like about Gamecube Games is the slightly more substantial feeling of the cases. They are a little heavier, a little thicker, and for some reason I just think they feel better in my hands when I admire them compared to some other flimsy cases.
Unfortunately because of environmental bleeding hearts, more cases are going that stupid holey route and I hate that. Don't put holes in my stuff, man.
@@dapperfan44 yeah, the no manuals thing bugs too. I liked having manuals in my games
@@Xero36 don't even get me started on that!
@@veedeejoe8440 I always held on to my game cases, PS1 included. But regretfully I didn't keep my Game Boy Advance boxes, just the manuals. I kept my cartridges in cartridge holders. However, I did put my CDs in CD holders so that I could change games faster without digging through the cases.
@@veedeejoe8440 "We'd put like 20 discs in a plastic bag, keep them in the lunchbox and carry the Gamecube by the handle to the kids house with the biggest TV."
I'll believe you that you and your friends did that, but I have never in my life heard of anyone carrying around game discs, music discs, or any other discs around in a plastic bag like that. That's terrible.
"No one kept their GBA boxes so don't feel bad."
I still have my boxes from my Gameboy Games. And my GBA games. And every other game I've ever had. I also have the boxes for all of my systems. They were cool; why would I throw them away?
The fact of the game cube is still popular to this day is impressive
game cure?
@@B34R117 ment cube
I remember one of my cousins having it and decided to give it to me to play it, but now I don’t know what happened to it.
@@B34R117 Sounds like a repair shop for consoles.
Running its signal through a good HDMI adapter wields some pretty decent image quality. GC was surprisingly powerful for its time, so most games look actually pretty good for their age. Not to mention bunch of GC games support widescreen. Making them quite modern flatscreen friendly.
I am so glad I still have my gamecube but it is the console I regret expanding my collection on the most. It’s just so frustrating seeing the prices constantly go up. Then throughout the recent years of retro stores closing in my area so quickly is just depressing
Exactly having all these purposefully inflated prices defeats the purpose of having a shop
Those stores close down because nobody is willing to pay their prices, they charge more than eBay prices most of the time. One I went to a while ago was asking £65 for super Mario sunshine which is £15/25 game on eBay. This is the UK keep in mind. The best way seems to be going out to markets or getting lucky in charity stores and finding games cheap there because the seller has no idea what they have.
@@Snapmaw And it is mostly 40 somethings that dont keep up with the internet
The problem is that retro game stores have to inflate their prices when online prices inflate to get inventory. If someone could sell their copy of Mario Sunshine online for double what the shop is offering, why would they sell it to the shop?
So the shop has to raise their offer which forces them to raise their prices to the consumer.
This also puts a lot of pressure on the shop, since if the bubble bursts they're stuck holding the bag.
eBay should implement hard price ceilings.
GameCube was one of my favorite Nintendo consoles, despite it not having strong 3rd party support. I also love that when you hold the Z button down when powering on the system, it makes alternative music with kids laughing...CLASSIC!!!
This was a topic I was discussing with my friends the other day. My favorite consoles of all time were GBA, GameCube and PlayStation 2 and so many of those titles just aren't available to play on any modern console. I have been having a blast lately with the Castlevania Advance Collection and I put my money where my mouth is - I'm willing to pay for these games to play them on my switch. But if a company doesn't give me the option I can either spend serious amounts of cash finding original hardware and games OR more likely I'm putting on my pirate hat. GameCube and PS2 are harder for that shmemulation lifestyle but Konami got my hard earned nostalgia dollars but Nintendo is missing out when it comes to games like Metroid Fusion or LoZ Minish Cap.
Good point. I recently got a PS3 and PS2, and noticed Symphony of the Night’s price go from around $30 to $90. I loved that I could just go on the PS3 store and just grab it for $10. Same goes for a lot of old expensive PS1 games.
Or you could jailbreak it and get those games for free
I love my ps3, I haven't even seen it's full potential as an entertainment center.
That's the nice thing about digital distribution. Physical supply may be less but the digital supply is infinite.
@@Hijynx87 wish Sony still embraced that philosophy. It’s one of the only consoles that truly succeeded at that imo.
@@shanez1215 infinite, but not timeless as various companies proved time and times again
I've been done with retro collecting in general because of this very issue. The prices for games on numerous consoles, but especially Nintendo platforms, have gotten absolutely insane over the last 10 years & I can't justify paying over $100 for a 20+ year old game that at one point you couldn't give away. I do understand the collectors market and supply and demand ect. but we have to remember that we're talking about stuff that would otherwise be e-waste in landfill at this point.
True. Three years ago I bought Pink GBA in box. Condition like New, for 25€.
Now good luck to find screen for 20€.
@@Stillxxen Here in the states thrift stores were shelved with old gaming software that was selling at one to three dollars. I haven't been to one in awhile. I hope the retro craze hasn't fallen in their sphere of awareness.
@@rockapartie In smaller thrift stores, where they have time, yes. But large Thrift Stores it varies. I've had plenty of experience to know software if in a cardboard "suite box" is automatically charged higher (McAfee utilities '97) $10. While software in humbler packaging charged all the same under games versus movies on a sign. They're inundated with donations. I've bought chargers way cheaper than ebay, because the don't have the time to sort them.
Don't forget to mention the fact that some one those games may not work (cartridges).
@@Peglegkickboxer Well, I would buy an E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial that came from a New Mexico landfill site, no matter what shape it was in. 😉
Makes me glad I started getting into the gamecube collection before the whole pandemic started and managed to scop up many of my favorite games before they spiked up in price.
2:02 Magical Mirror starring Mickey Mouse, actually more of a point n click adventure game than a platformer, but it is 3D, and it does have a heartwarming ending once you collect all of the mirror pieces.
Yet another example of why emulation is important.
for sure I just found out my phone can emulate GameCube fairly well so doing that tomorrow attach a USB c to hdmi cable and your good 👌😁
BuT ItS IlLeGal
@@ZayaVII Depending on where you live, it's really not
@@DontbeaGoof - It’s illegal everywhere actually. Nintendo doesn’t joke around and has gone after people across the globe.
@@ZayaVII emulation is not illegal downloading Roms is illegal you can just dump the GameCube or any games you have to your system and do it legally.
Was halfway into the fullset myself. When I started, building the set was around 6k CAD. Now halfway there my collection had a value of 10k, this is rediculous. I sold everything. Wasn't interested in investing that much money to finish the collection.
You did the right thing.
waste of money, for far less price you can get huge nas to save every game, preserving the history forever!
Yeah, you would’ve been in the hole once the bubble bursts once the trend dies and scalpers stop lol.
Man, twenty years old. It feels like just a few years ago that my mother bought me a purple Gamecube and I had a black controller. I got the GameBoy Player for it too and played Pokémon, Legend of Zelda and Kirby on it. But the game that will forever be a cherished memory is the very first game I got besides anything for the GameBoy Player.
Legend of Zelda and the Wind Waker. I also had the one cd with two really old Zelda games (REALLY old), Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and the demo for Wind Waker. There was Sonic Battle Adventure 2, Twilight Princess, etc.
I think the same thing has been happening with 3ds games. I've collected games for both systems over the years and it's just way to expensive now.
Nintendo don't need to waste time making emulator's, fans have already done that better.
What I think Nintendo should do is open their own ROM site selling everything from NES to Wii for now, and as long as the games are priced faily I guarantee most people will buy not pirate.
Or if they want infinite money, make it a service on a browser for $20 - $50.
That would be good. Nes games for like 5-10$, Snes 5,99 or 15,99 for better games, etc. etc.
@@Stillxxen nope, free sounds better for 30 year old games.
That's similat to what I've been saying.
Instead of starting over from scratch with every. single. console, just make a Virtual Console service for PC!
It'll probably be 30 to 50 years if at all before Nintendo picks up on that from the way they act currently, I will be pleasantly surprised if they do act sooner though
The prices are also impacted because of a scam. people are activly driving up the prices on purpose. Karl Jobst did two videos on the situation
Exactly even Upper Echalon Gamers did a video about it too
Isn’t that just for sealed copies? As nice as it would be to put all the blame on WATA, I doubt that’s the primary factor for the price increase of regular games.
@@Tom-jw7ii Inflated prices at the high end always raises the floor for the low end. It universally screws REAL collectors. Look at his vid where he talks about the coin market speculation bubble. One of the newspaper articles points out how even 32 years before, in a completely different collectors market, the inflating bubble pulled the floor up, screwing the hobby collectors. the article talks about even the lower prices being artificially pushed too high, and how one coin collector's group lost 1/3 of it's members, due to the market inflation pushing them out. The scam hurts _EVERYONE!_ This grade and sell grift needs to stop. the man behind it now with games was fined I think $1.4 million by the FTC. He's not a friend to the market.
@@richfiles The thing is, though, is it “high end” and “low end” or are they just different markets? People who buy sealed games are almost invariably never going to play them. People who buy loose games generally do buy games with the intent of actually playing them, so then to what extent does inflation in one side carry over to the other? I think the primary culprit is probably Covid fucking up the economy right when demand was already starting to increase. While WATA’s price manipulation may very well have had some effect on the casual market, I highly doubt eliminating them would make everything better again.
@@Tom-jw7ii The issue is the markets _are_ inexplicably tied by the ignorant. Some dude sees a 1.5 million dollar sealed Mario, so they put their worn cartridge up with their ratty box for $250, because "look, comes with box"... It's unrealistic, but you get a shift in the overall perception of value. I've seen it happen time and time again, even with CZcamsrs. A prominent channel talks about some obscure device, and suddenly 10000 people go search for it, and 10 maybe even buy the thing, and suddenly there is an artificial demand that can linger for as long as said video gets its rounds through the algorithm. Those bursts of activity can have long spanning influences on buying history and what sellers set their initial prices to.
Look at the video itself (I forget if first or second vid), but where they show the newspaper clippings surrounding the late 1980s coin speculative market bubble. Even back then, without the internet, and without ebay, it _STILL_ had a massive impact on hobby collectors, including those at the bottom end. Pause on the article and read it. They talk about coin collectors clubs losing as much as 1/3 of their membership, and how the proliferation of graded coins really screwed with haggling and cause values to pull away from the bottom, making the low end more expensive. This is not a new thing. people as individuals tend to be rather unpredictable, but take that chaos at a large scale, and overall human behavior becomes disturbingly predictable... These market bubbles always generate the same sorts of results, and it only focuses money into the hands of the early investors that started the bubble inflating. The small guy and the late guy especially, suffer the most.
Don't try to pass off what really ought to be considered criminal market manipulation for just another casualty of the pandemic. the video _features_ newspaper evidence that history is only repeating itself. That's _why_ this kind of market manipulation led to fines over three decades ago. it should lead to fines and criminal charges today!
Great video. Fun fact about 4 years I never own a gamecube til in 2017. When I pick up a bundle off Facebook for $75. This bundle included a black gamecube with hooks up and 10 games. Resident evil zero, remake, 2, 3 and 4. Also super smash bro in inwhich it's in a a sonic riders case pretty cool fine. Good deal .
I started collecting for the GameCube in 2016, and my collection seems to have doubled in value. Unfortunately, in that time, I never picked up the thousand year door when it was like $40 lol
Man I wish that we could get GameCube games on the switch, I have so many memories with that system. I’d buy a bunch of the games
We couldn't even get GameCube games on Wii U (at least officially) and Nintendont has pretty much shown just how flawless those games run on that system.
Nintendo just loves creating scarcity. The 3DS was also capable of playing GBA games but the 3DS never got any 3DS games outside of the ambassadors program. Those games weren't even available on the eshop for sale.
I really don't understand how we don't already. Sonic Adventure 2's brisk level structure is perfect for portability!
@@megamillion5852 Sonic Adventure 2 is a Sega game. They can port that independently of anything Nintendo does. You don't need GameCube emulation for that. Emulation is only needed for games that were specifically designed for the GameCube. They would also need to release GameCube style joycons, since using the original GameCube controller through the adapter would be impractical in handheld mode, and they do need to do GameCube joycons, including the analog triggers. Some games just don't play well without them.
Bro!!! If they was to release them on the switch they Will make sooo muxhhh more money!! Illbuy everything!
@@joemann7971 i just wish i could get the physical copies, i only have been trying to buy gamecube games for their price before corana, ive only bought a few games, the other ones i will have to get illegally
GameCube is way more appreciated now than when it came out originally.
That's exactly how Ive ALWAYS felt about EVERY console that doesn't require internet, to operate properly. So few people will ever know, how much better it really was. 😔
Admittedly the PS2 was a monster of system with games for literally everyone. While GameCube while a good system lacks variety.
Yeah it is back then (and still now) it was considered the weakest between the xbox and ps2 but it definitely had exclusives
When it was relevant, _everyone_ had a PS2 because of the cool games and laughed at you for going with Nintendo and its kids library of games.
I started retro game collecting in the early 2000s and quit about 5/6 years ago. The prices people demand are insane and they just aren't worth that much.
The thing is, video games are almost never worth more than their original MSRP, and not that many games are even worth their original MSRP. There are exceptions but I can't say I've played too many games worth literally hundreds of dollars, even some of the best games I've ever played.
@1stedTCG you must be a reseller/scalper
I’ve been working on my own GameCube collection. The problem that I have noticed is everyone wants top dollar for the games they have as if they are running a business.. it’s like you said, the convenience of having the games all there in one place without having to worry about shipping helps warrant the price. I mean, you’ve got people at garage sales googling the going rate for Zelda wind waker and asking for that price. It eliminates any sort of deal you would have been getting... you know.. the kind of deal you would get from a garage sale.
No subscription services, for God's sake. Just let us BUY them. If it's an option between subscription or piracy, I choose piracy every time. If they won't let me buy them, they can get bent.
We live in a time where you can buy a gamecube game for the same price as a ps5
So? it's fucking DISCONTINUED someone gonna pull out a gamecube out of your ass or something?
@@XZ-III just use a emulator, it's free :/
@@XZ-III You must be one of thos people who overcharges for them
Agreed. Even as a collector I would love to have more access to an online library of games. Makes things infinitely more easy to play especially on a handheld-capable device like the Switch
These days I just frequent my favorite thrift stores and hope for the best. There's something fun about the random, rare finds at stores that don't act like antique/collectible establishments. You'd be surprised if I told you what I've actually found for $1-5 just by being at the right place at the right time. I play all my GC games out of a Wii but hope one day to get an actual GC, maybe when it doesn't cost as much as certain new toys.
Problem is mom and pop shops price ebay prices nowadays. Most pawn shops in my area doesn't even know what they have they check ebay for trending and go above that. If I want ebay price ill go to ebay
@@quadcopteruploads6685 yeah I’ve only bought one game from eBay in recent years, it was Mario Galaxy 2 for the Wii. I can’t believe how much the Nintendo stuff went up on eBay. I go to thrift stores for the thrill of random finds and they should know they kill their business if it’s obvious they’re charging collectible prices for things.
GameCube was the only console I had for it's time. I don't regret it either. Seeing how pricing has gone for the systems the GameCube is clearly the most valuable of them
PS2 has more expensive games
Nah. PS2 slim can be the same or more valuable.
@@sigmatic2788 nah its cheap af
@@RetroBacon1 look again
Na it's like $50-90 depending on where you go. It's because you can play GameCube on the Wii and the game I've has laser issues. The glass over the laser typically gets displaced. Easy enough to fix if you know what you're doing. But potential to permanently ruin the laser.
Meanwhile you can just hack your wii and download roms of any wii or game cube game you could ever possibly want onto an sd card without any real worry of legal repercussions to yourself.
That's the type of behavior these exorbanant prices encourage.
And they play pretty much the same as they would if you used the disc. When I discovered Nintendont, I instantly made hundreds of dollars selling my physical copies. I then used that money to buy several Switch games. Food for thought.
The original Bases Loaded on the Nintendo store costs $9.99. Wii games cost $59.99...and they wonder why we pirate. I'm not paying for the same games multiple times.
I remember buying a loose copy of fire emblem path of radiance around 2019 off eBay for $80 and thinking “wow this is a lot” it’s crazy to think that now the manual for the game is going for that amount. The same issue is happening with Pokémon games as well. I do believe that the prices for these games will eventually steady out most likely in a few years once demand from resellers goes down.
It's all cuz of resellers
I remember getting a GameCube with all the wires and two wave birds for $15 at a yard sale a few years back. I also remember that same day getting Mario party 4 for free at another yard sale, and shadow the hedgehog for just a few bucks.
That's lit. Mario Party 4 was my first GameCube game, and 3 years later Shadow The Hedgehog was a great birthday present. 🙂
Those wave birds with the rf receiver is worth good money if its in good condition!
I got three of them, glad I lucked out when I did.
Best thing to do take your Wii or Wii U and load up those GameCube ISO. It’s not emulation and you can play them all :)
WiiU doesn't have anything for GameCube. I had to emulate it with nintendont.
@@Oceanandskylinevidss that’s not emulation though. It’s loading the file. From the hardware. Emulation would be like Nes virtual console
@@Oceanandskylinevidss WiiU is a Wii and WiiU sandwiched together. The Wii still has the GC portion minus the controller ports and memory card slots. Nintendo just disabled access to that and removed those parts. There’s more technical garble with this but it’s the simplified version. So it’s not emulation at all.
Wow I never knew that.
I just don't understand why Nintendo won't re-release these games. People are paying $300 for Fire Emblem. Nintendo could charge 60 for Chibi-Robo, F-Zero GX, Pikmin etc. and sell 2 million of each easily. I understand that it does require some work, but I think it would be well worth the money for Nintendo.
Nintendo purposefully created artificial scarcity until enough demand is built to justify re releases
Yep I agree which why I had to buy all three fire emblems on my 3ds instead as compensation.
NSO.
Nintendo can't sell those games for those prices. Other people can sell them for those prices due to low supply, but as soon as Nintendo enters the picture, supply is effectively unlimited (or at least enough to meet demand). Nintendo wouldn't be able to sell them for that much. Maybe $15-20 at most.
@@joemann7971 they are charging $50 a year for 9 N64 ROMs. They could charge whatever they wanted
As a younger video game that grew up with a Wii, I would love to play these older games that came out before I was into gaming, or simply before I was born. I just wish companies would help me be able to play them.
Same here except grew up on ps3
I grew up on the wii as well
I had the Wii too growing up.
We would also buy GameCube games to play on the Wii.
1:58 I'm telling Miss Click LOLOLOL
I wouldn't have to pirate games if Nintendo would provide them.
I wonder if Nintendo could ever be convinced to flat out sell ROMs, it would be making money without having to do anything but they would need a way to keep them from being copied. Maybe that is how Nintendo gets into blockchain by having every game on the same chain so it's ownership history is permanent. Just a thought.
I'm fortunate in that I kept most of my GameCube games from my childhood, picked up heavy hitters like Chibi Robo several years ago for cheaper prices, and just rounding out the collection with games I wanted that I was missing within the last year. The main game I'm still missing that I really want is Fire Emblem... Going to bite the bullet eventually...
GC Loader with a 1 TB sd card, I have the entire library on my Cube. Easily worth it for any old console you want to collect for. These prices are outrageous. I have some form multicart/ODE setup for every system from NES/Master System Era all the way to xbox PS2 GCN era. Every console with most or all of it's library without worrying about disc drives or getting different games is AMAZING. Worth it every time.
People have been asking forever but Nintendo isn't listening and will never re-release there older games. Locked away in a vault never to see the light of day. They just don't care. It's either pay the outrageously high prices used prices or get them by the less than legal way to play these older games.
The games are getting so old at some point copyrights no longer apply.
I've had a NES top loader since I was a kid and the other kids on the playground thought I was lying about the games going in the top.
I appreciate the clips of Viewtiful Joe, really wish they would bring the series back. I recently bought the first and second game for the GameCube last year when the pandemic started. Since I had fond memories of them. I need a third one maybe Platinum games can pick it up or capcom can figure something out with it.
I had traded in most of my Gamecube games and I started looking to buy some seemingly right when things started to spike. And since I mostly just want to play them, I decided I’d spend the cost of 1 game (on the low end for anything popular) and invested in a GC Loader instead. Super easy mod that doesn’t require soldering. Worth looking into if you just want to play these games (also it let me spend way less on a Game Boy player since I didn’t need to get the rare, pricey, disc). Highly recommend it, grab a cheap HDMI cord and you’re set.
Glad I finished my gamecube collection 10 years ago when I was in college. I got a gamecube and the gameboy player for my birthday and have greatly enjoyed that system to this day.
would you take £5 for it
@@TurnaboutAdam I bid 10
Dont lose the disc for the player
Yeah... the Gamecune prices have been inflated for a decade, but since the pandemic it's had a large jump. Collecting for disc consoles in general now is too risky thanks to disc rot & heavily scratched discs. I prefer sticking to cartridge collecting & most of my nostalgia is from the golden age of gaming during the 8 & 16-bit era anyway.
I own quite a few GameCube Games and not once have any of them shown signs of disc rot. Yes scratches can be a problem but you can usually get them resurfaced which works well most of the time and to be honest the CameCube can read disc that are heavily scratched without a problem As long as they're not too deep. The only other thing you gotta worry about is on some games the label peels off because of a bad batch of paint or something like that But that's only limited to certain games like Enter The Matrix and Resident Evil 4 Players Choice. Just be sure to store them in their cases and out of sunlight and extreme temperatures. That way you shouldn't have any problems out of your GameCube Disc Collection!
Gamecube games hold up a little better than the full sized discs IMO. They don't brake as often.
@@rockapartie i have cd's from the early 80's, possibly late 70's even which all play fine.
Disc rot is a non issue for most as it's heavily climate dependent
@@versnellingspookie CDs weren't around in the late 70s.
Looney Tunes Back in Action was the second GameCube game I ever played, glad to see you got it. I still have fun with it to this day, even if it can be buggy at times and is definitely showing its age.
I had a huge slew of GameCube games from when I was a kid, including a ton of the classics. Unfortunately I lost them all in my mom's house fire in 2015. I decided recently to start building up my collection again, and you're not kidding, it has gotten expensive. Luckily my BIL had a whole stack of GCN games he just gave to me to get me started, including some gems (Metroid Prime, Smash Melee, SMB 1&2, Rogue Squadron 2 and 3, Paper Mario). I would love for Nintendo to offer some way to play these as well!
A gamecube with GC Loader has become a favorite right now. Keeping one gamecube still reading discs, but dang is it convenient. The whole library fits on a 1tb SD card, disc swapping, and audio streaming just works. Love the cube, and hell that whole console generation. We have so many options right now....let alone the Dolphin emulator. It's weird how emulation was the gateway that got me just wanting all the actual consoles and a trinitron CRT many years later.
Looked to the comments for mention of this. Revived my launch Cube with a GCLoader earlier this year (dead disc drive) and couldn't be happier.
same i used to emulate so now im just buying the games i can
@Green Mamba Games A great strategy for retro games...buying them is for a collecting itch, which can be fun as well.
@Green Mamba Games It's kinda what I do. I have a PS2 and an OG Xbox but I have modded them and got large internal storages for them (2TB each) so I could have the games without going bankrupt. If companies offered us a decent way to buy them I would. They don't so I'm not going to give Ebay scammers a single penny either.
Plus, it's ridicuously convenient to have your games inside the console, you can bypass region locks, you preserve the optical disc drive, you don't need a warehouse to store hundreds (in my case over a thousand) of games and they load much faster.
The Gamecube was a great system for it's time. Some of my favourite games on the Gamecube were RE0, RE re-make, RE 2, RE 3, the Zelda Collection, Luigi's Mansion, Super Smash Bro's Melee, Timesplitters 2 and many others. Interesting fact, the Gamecube was the first console to implement use of wireless controllers. However, wireless controllers never really became standard until the release of the Xbox 360, PS3 and Nintendo Wii.
The zelda collection was riddled with bugs and control issues, but still a nice collectors item.
@@AttunedFlux The bugs were something I never really thought of back then. I just accepted the Zelda Collection for what it was and it was an enjoyable experience. Having said that it has made me think about bugs in games. I know a lot of people these days complain about games having bugs and requiring patches to fix them. However, at least patches can be released to try and fix the issue. Whereas back then if games were released with bugs there wasn't anything that could be done to fix them.
There were actually wireless controllers back in the 90s. There were some for Sega and even the SNES. But the Wavebird could be considered the first truly great wireless controller. One that people would actually be willing to use over the standard wired one.
@@darknight10000 I never knew that. That's fascinating. It's interesting when you look back at these retro systems and compare them to the modern consoles we have now. It's amazing to see how much video games consoles have changed over the years.
Here is my experience at any retro game store:
“Woah no way! I’ve been looking for this game!”
-picks it up, sees the price, shakes head and places back on the shelf
I hardly bother even going into those stores anymore
Other people must have good luck with local stores. I tried 7 years ago never went to a local store since then. When it's always cheaper to just go online to ebay. 30% cheaper. Maybe the local stores in my area just rip me off.
Games released on Nintendo systems will always be like that since I have been collecting since 2006. Sure over time it will continue to rise but they will reach its peak, it will either stay around the same or will go down little by little. When the Wii U become retro/more collectable, it would be interesting to see to what it will become on prices.
It won't be anything like the GameCube. You can play most Wii U games on Switch.
I really with they would let limited run do some open preorder reissues of these games, Id love to get some gamecube games that have that blu ray antiscratch coating
I just don’t think the Japanese are so big on nostalgia as we are in the West; Sega has been very slow to provide access to its game libraries… simply churning out pretty much the same collection of Mega Drive titles over and over… while completely ignoring the Master System, Sega CD, 32X, Saturn and Dreamcast.
Nintendo’s NES/SNES/N64 offerings on the Switch are extremely half-hearted, lacking such basic options as being able to change the screen borders, and a really clunky approach to save states.
I think both companies look on in bemusement at the clamour for this stuff… Nintendo could have raked it in by selling their N64 games again, but instead bundled them into a confusing online upgrade, from which they may throw us a new title every 3 months? And don’t even get me started on that piss-poor Mario 3D collection. I think because they fundamentally don’t get why we’d want this stuff instead of new games, they don’t really know how to sell it.
Bottom Line: don’t expect any Gamecube titles any time soon.
They are making new games it takes time and Nintendo knows how to sell games your being straight up toxic
@@maplemiles3381 I think you’ve completely misunderstood my post. Maybe give it another read?
@@happyspaceinvader508 ok I some know what your talking about. Nintendo does make easy money even right now and they do have a back log of retro games. They simply can't run a business sometimes and Nintendo does implement a lot of Japanese practices to North America and Europe
@Zachary Erickson They’re nowhere near as well designed as the save state / rewind mechanisms in open source emulators… or even M2’s Sega Genesis Collection for Switch.
@@maplemiles3381 These are already completed games that are over a decade old, and they used to release them faster on the Wii and even Wii U.
Path of Radiance is insane to get right now. I was looking into replacing a lost copy and I cannot express how glad I am to have found my old disk...
Cubivore was one of my favorite GameCube games but in order to be able to experience it again I would have to spend close to a $1000 on the game plus a few hundred dollars on top of that since I no longer have my system anymore. I wish it were easier to play older games without having to spend a million dollars to do so.
Emulators
I would love a Gamecube Classic mini or whatever... such good times
The biggest issue for me is, disc rot..
@Zachary Erickson Something that only happens to people who suck at taking care of their games
Dude great video. Way back when GameStop was selling GameCube games (me and my dad love GameCube btw) we bought up all the Resident Evil games for GameCube. We already had 0, 4, and REmake but being fans of the classics we had to snag 2, 3, and Code Veronica X when they came to the Cube. Back then those games were only $20-$40 a piece. Still expensive for the time, but WAY better than current prices. I also really love Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. Someone stole my copy of Eternal Darkness a few years ago. I've never bought it again because the price of it is so absurd from any seller.
I've had my gamecude since a few years after it came out. I don't have many games for it but I was able to buy the whole Mario Party gamecube collection (4,5,6,7). It cost me an insane amount of green for all of them. But, my friends and I still play them all the time. (The rest of them were $15 or so).
Right, so the Nintendo Gamecube doesn’t have a problem… late collectors of Gamecube games have the problem.
There are people who sell a modded Wii with a 2tb external hard drive with every Wii and gc game on it for around $350 lol don't go broke paying $350 for a game that isn't as good as you remember trying to be nostalgic.
You can probably buy all the stuff you need and mod it yourself for half that price. But yeah, still a better deal than $350 for one GameCube game.
Little rats like wata and other rating companies are to blame, deliberately over inflating the market trying to make something from nothing, I guarantee you that you will never meet some super wealthy person who spent a million dollars on a mint Mario 64 lol.
I have a reasonable GameCube collection, but I'm missing some key titles that I just can't justify picking up. I invested in an Action Replay, a SD card reader, and a SD2SP2 adapter to play GameCube games. I had a GC Loader but I sold it.
I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for posting them.
The gamecube is my favorite system of all time. It was my first system and i absolutely love alot about it. But man the prices have been insane. Even third party games, i found out some are more expensive on the gamecube then on other systems. Like for instance, i saw some bond games which would be only around 10 dollars at most for xbox and ps2, however on gamecube they would instead be close to 20 dollars or soo, soo even the more common 3rd party multiplatform games costed more on gamecube comparatively. I still wanna collect the gamecube, since their are some games i missed out on playing, but they have been expensive, and i really wished they would get re-released. But awesome video though spawnwave, it was a really interesting vid.
I never thought old stuff would end up having this much value so I sold my systems pretty soon after I was done with them. I kinda wish I hadn't and had my DC with Seaman and the GC with the gameboy player etc etc
I'm happy that I still held on to my GameCube games there are still some that I do want to get I want others to have the chance to enjoy these games like I have and not get ripped off
I did the same every new console I bought I always kept everything from the previous console's I had and never sold or gave anything away
Gave my sister our gamecube when she moved out years ago. When i asked her a couple years ago where it was she told me she donated it to goodwill with all our games. I had so many of the expensive games but I'll really miss fire emblem. So I just spent 300 bucks on pokemon colosseum, star fox adventures, paper mario, and sonic battle 2 so i can start regaining the games i once had but if I just went and bought them all now id be paying over 2000 dollars this is insane!!!
There's also the recent problem of the "ultra premium copy of [laughably common game] selling for $1.2 million!" and the speculation markets around that by investors and non-gamers. That almost certainly is part of the problem with the rising prices on basically every platform.
I've been still trickling additions into my game collection but with the prices I'm just sticking to a few titles at a time that I can sneak decent deals with. For others like on GameCube, GC Loader is looking like a cost effective option when some games alone cost more than the Loader does. Similar with Everdrive carts.
I'd be up for getting ROMs officially from companies, but good luck getting them to do so.
Been playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for the first time this past week. Really enjoying it. *FYI -- I purchased this game new on clearance from Circuit City many years ago for SIX DOLLARS.
I think if Nintendo's Expansion Pack is anything to go off of. Then we're best to simply emulate the games.
I had 45 systems and thousands of games, and I sold all of it except my PS3, 360 and Wii U. The one and only regret I have, was selling the Cube. I have the GB player and damn near every great game for the system. I'm an idiot, but I've still got my Wii U.
7:40 - Sorry man, I didn't hear a word you said after that point, all I could hear was the music blaring in my head and I can't stop bopping!
ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND!
If nintendo does re-release GCN games, it will probably be 5-10 years from now or not at all because they always wait too long to do everything good.
@@thelastofus2872 they don't do the bare minimum and this year they in fact came out swinging and they have every right to protect their ip's.
It'll be on NSO by next year lol
@@christophermendez8452 or maybe the next Gen switch. Given how the out put of games and how Nintendo market the switch to become a very hot selling system but call hunch
@@maplemiles3381 I honestly think it'll be added to Expansion Pack, next year. Educated speculation. No inside knowledge.
@@christophermendez8452 that maybe spot on given the quality out put of games the switch library has and what the games Nintendo has next year coming
Disks suffer from a problem that over time the chemicals in the disk start breaking down. This means the data gets erased.
That's why I dump my discs when I get the chance.
Not only that but most sets online are NTSC-U which doesn't work for me with saves for the European Version of a game.
Are you sure that isn't a Memory Card problem?
@@AkameGaKillfan777 Nope, if you take the disk and put it up to a light you can see holes in the sliver part where the chemicals have broken down.
I have a decent collection of GC games (some of which are pretty valuable), but I took the route of modding the console with the GC Loader. Now I have all the games I want and don't have to worry about wearing out any of my discs.
Part of the issue with legally emulating games is that, unless its a first-party title and under a studio that you own, getting the rights to resell them is nigh impossible. Twenty years of studio shutdowns, shuffling, buyouts, and whatnot can cause a migraine trying to figure out who even OWNS the rights now. And then you have to figure out if the current owner even wants to allow the game to be re-released. Or if they have some quirk in how they want to handle said game.
Just as an example, several years back there was a studio trying to push for a remaster of the original *No One Lives Forever* (a great parody on 60's/70's spy thrillers), and while they had tracked down all the other studios that owned pieces of the IP, Warner Brothers, the last publisher that owned the final pieces of the rights, turned them down at the last second with no explanation. That killed the project then & there.
This is just part of the problem at large with video game preservation.
With Mario party super stars I have been trying to complete my collection of Mario party games. I already have 7 but getting the rest of the GameCube games from 4-6 cost so damn much. I really wish there was a way to just buy GameCube games on switch. I really don't want a subscription service of GameCube but even that I will take at this point.
If you have a Wii you can just emulate them by downloading the nintendon’t GCN emulator and putting the rom on there
@@jakighcolburnchannel3584 I have them on dolphin already and they work ok enough (I have a Mac book so it's not exactly a gaming device)
And ppl laught at me, because i still bought GC Games, the time the Wii came out. Fire Emblem PoR 15€ Sealed? No Problem. Chibi Robo 5€ Sealed? Easy (hard underrated game back in the days)
Im not a complete Collector (to many bad Games in between), i just pick and keep the Games i like to play. I was a "release buyer" the time GC was new and bought games like Metroid Prime or Mario Sunshine day one. Later i bought the cheap Sealed Games "noone wanted anymore" for my collection. Even Paper Mario did cost only 20€ Sealed.🙃
I think most of my Gamecube games were bought around 2005-2007 when the console was on its way out and being replaced by the Wii.
I worked in a second hand games store for a month and they had two game cube games for £20-£40. Both had many light scratches and rot signs, Mario Sunshine had pin holes and didn't load past the loading screen. The other, Pokemon DX, some of the logo was missing and refused to read on the two gamecubes we were testing and all the other gamecube games worked.
I told the supervisor as fhey wanted me to test them they advised the manager not to sell them because they would come straight back.
Manager said to put them on the shelf to sell. They sold in two days and got returned in one as they would not play.
I don't miss that place at all.
I'm trying to round out my Gamecube collection with the last couple dozen titles I'm interested in, it's so difficult finding certain games for a halfway decent price. I'm just thankful I have the games I have for now, I had about 30 games around the time the Gamecube was current gen, by the end of the Wii era I had about 100 Gamecube games, but I haven't been buying much since then, my collection sits at 110, but I'm still missing some staples like Pikmin 2 and Chibi Robo that I'm struggling to find for a good price.
Looney Tunes: Back in Action is honestly one of my favorite games in the 6th Generation. I miss those old 5th, 6th and 7th Generation 3D platformers. I had some. I'd say not to play Looney Tunes: Back in Action unless you are a REALLY big Looney Tunes fan, like myself. Some parts feel like an old short. Others feel a bit redundant. And sometimes, you have to fight with the camera. One of my biggest pet peeves is that the voice clips. They either don't get said all the way or they get built up and are said in a row when what the characters are reacting to is not even happening anymore. I'd assume some platformers do that from this era.
I agree with you your not the only one and I wish they made looney tunes HD remasters video games and I still play looney tunes back in action on ps2 and GameCube.❤️🥰😱
@@WESK125gamingchannel DUDE! I have had that thought myself! That would be AMAZING! Like the Disney Afternoon collection.
@@BeuyobIsHere I totally agree with you my friend and I just wish they brings more of the classic looney tunes video games for modern systems and I would buy it and don’t you agree my friend,❤️🥰😱
@@WESK125gamingchannel I do! I'd buy it in an instant.
@@BeuyobIsHere thank you so much for agreeing with me and thank you for your wonderful reply and awesome comment my friend and have an awesome amazing weekend and have a wonderful Christmas month weekend.❤️😱🥰🎸
I feel like if anyone could re-release an old console and games at the same price it originally released at, it would be Nintendo. And if it were a limited run they would sell out for sure.
I remember I picked up a bunch of GameCube games from a local GameStop back in 2012, when they were liquidating them. Can't believe the prices now.
I think one of the easiest and cheapest ways to experience Nintendo's game catalog is through the derided Wii U. It's hardware is an evolution of the GC and Wii so it can play both systems entire catalog natively. Just run a simple browser exploit that works on all firmwares and you'll be playing Nintendo games from breath of the wild to OG arcade donkey Kong. HD output and support for Nintendo's quirky waggle stick, GameCube pads and dual screen DS games I think the Wii U is the best way to play most of Nintendo's catalog of the last 40 years.
and this is why I turned to emulation, imagine living in country where the gamecube sold very poorly with a small population, Game cube games are way to expensive in Australia (retro games in general are), well GC is expensive everywhere
Everything that has to do with nintendo is expensive.
I totally agree with thr idea of making older games more accessible. I recently picked up PS3 and started collecting the games (the ones I'm interested in) and playing them. I'm enjoying it so far and it isn't costing me crazy money. I only buy them if I find them at a thrift store to keep me from going crazy. I kept me Wii games and have started playing it again. Love this channel and content
Seeing the top loader brought back so many memories, I forgot the nes we had when I was a kid wasn’t the og version