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RE: In the age of PS2 and Xbox, I was a Gamecube gamer
the main determining factor in my purchase decision was to save a bit of money
And probably my parents' in getting me one for Christmas which like you, I still have (but mine works 🙂)
The only game I really remember on it was Super Monkey Ball. Nothing clever about the game but for some reason, trying to smash my brother off a platform for hours on end was great fun!
Is it bad for me to say I've never heard of Metroid Prime? I can buy a copy for £15 and I see there's a Metroid Prime 2 - Echos for £22 - Did you play that one too?
I've got a Wii too. Who knew that standing in front of a TV, pretending to do 10-pin bowling could be so much fun?? (Nintendo I guess)
15 pounds (don't know how to make the symbol, sorry) doesn't seem like too much for that game but i bet you could find one even cheaper 2nd hand unless you are a collector and need to have the boxes and booklets and what not. I think it was my favorite game on the system and yes, I think it is worth it, but we have to keep in mind that this was nearly 20 years ago so the graphics might be less than dazzling by today's standards. I never had the honor of playing MP2 unfortunately. I was considering getting it but since my Gamecube is broken I have never done so. I would imagine I can emulate it on PC. I dunno, I haven't tried.
I also had Super Monkey Ball but on one player mode it was boring (to me) and I found the sound effects to be annoying. I can understand how it would be fun to knock your buddy (or brother) off the side as much as possible.
The £15's the 2nd hand price! I just looked up the price of a 2nd hand console and it's a lot more than I expected - £50. I wonder if they're starting to become collectors items.
I think that some things are best left to the nostalgic memory bank. I can't help but feel you'd be disappointed if you were to play it now.
I completely get where you're coming from with Monkey Ball - it's one of those games which only works against human players but they need to be good. My siblings weren't very good which made it quite boring now that I think about it!!
You've probably covered this in another post somewhere - but what's your favourite game on any system for its period of time?
That's a tough question at the end there. My favorite game ever on any system? or one particular system?
I'll go with any system so you'd be comparing your feeling towards Q*bert in the 1980's with your feelings towards Halo in the 2000's for example.
Ok, well I'm gonna go old school because of the fact that those were my fondest gaming memories because everything was new. These days most games kind of feel like a rehash of something else as is evidenced in a game I recently started playing called Days Gone which is extremely similar to so many other games. I think my favorite ever would be a toss up between Super Metroid on SNES or Hollow Knight on PS4.
And you?
I'd have to say that I've now realised what an impossible question this is to answer!! There are so many that when I think about them, reflect a stage in my life. Championship Manager '93, 97/98 or 01/02 are games that if I hadn't ever played, would have given me the time to do something world changing. But the game I'm going to have to choose is... changing constantly as I type this 😄
I'll go with Super Mario World on the SNES. It was a game I could play with both my brother (whose console it was) or my sister or on my own. In the days before online guides, trying to find the 96 worlds offered so much.
yeah, i think a better question would be a favorite game on a particular console or even a particular genre but even that would be difficult. Perhaps a particular genre on a particular console... haha. There are thousands (probably tens of thousands) of games out there. It is very difficult to choose just ONE that you love more than all of the others.
An easier question perhaps 😆