Unboxing an UNUSED GameCube Console! 22 Years Later

Opening up a fresh in box Nintendo GameCube Limited Edition Platinum console built in 2002! Nintendo released the system over two decades ago and for whatever reason this felt like the right time to unbox one, set it up, and play some of the best GameCube games.

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00:00 Intro – The Gamecube
01:11 A little history & context
03:09 Panasonic Q, GameCube Kid
04:18 Low sales, high interest later on
06:24 The Unboxing
11:27 Some Technical Tidbits
14:53 Setup and memory card
15:54 First power on test
17:45 My GameCube game collection
18:36 Star Wars Rogue Squadron II
21:18 Super Mario Sunshine
24:34 Mario Kart Double Dash
26:17 Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee
28:40 OG Animal Crossing 2002
31:37 Metroid Prime
35:07 Other GCN games, Outro

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[paincreatesfame]

The GameCube kid photo getting an origin story is the best thing ever

[bananachild]

3:43 That is the most hilarious but fantastic transition/de-transition cut I have ever seen in any YT video ever

[MrLeerot]

8:20 They were very much analog. Games like Smash Bros. Melee let you control how big your shield was. Mario Sunshine let you control how much water you sprayed. It was mainly first party games that supported it.

[thegamerguru]

Watching someone discover metroid prime for the first time is always a magical experience!

Remember to scan everything!

[Irockman]

The GameCube Animal Crossing is still my favorite one. It has the most personality out of all the games.

Fun fact: being an enhanced N64 game, the whole game fits into RAM, so you can take the disk out once the game loads so you don't have to listen to the disk spinning. Or you can play multiple Animal Crossing villages on all your GameCubes at the same time using your one disk. People also reportedly rented the game for a week and kept playing it well after they returned the game by just not turning their console off.

[TwelveBaud]

29:00 Animal Crossing came with a memory card because its save took up 58 blocks of a normal, 59-block memory card. Besides the special sticker, the memory cards in Animal Crossing have a one-block unlock save that prompts Tom Nook to give you some additional goodies.

[davidt]

I'm with you, I was 17 at the time and the GameCube was for "baby games." A lot of us missed out on a lot of cool games because we were pretending we were "adults."

[RobbYarber]

I miss this era of gaming so freaking badly! The days when you could just stick the disc in and the game would play and not have to wait hours for gigabytes of updates to download!

[mycophobia]

Metroid Prime is one of the greatest games ever made, hope you're digging it. The quality-to-quantity ratio of the GameCube library in general is off the charts

[LadyBaconx]

I just realized something. I know what that handle is for, for the game cube. And I realized there is an entire future that no longer has sleepovers. We had sleepovers because that's how we got to hang out and communicate with our friends. And we couldn't always go to where the Xbox or the PlayStation was. So sometimes you had to bring the console to whoever's house didn't have it so you could still play with your friends. The handle was for transporting the system easily. And you only played it at night because the parents would make you be outside during the day. Kids today have discord and texting and FaceTime. We only had AOL if someone wasn't using the LAN line. I just went down an entire rabbit hole, but this unboxing gave me serious nostalgia! Thanks Clint, awesome as always!

[KyleJWest-vnkn]

One of the best decisions Nintendo made was having the Wii be fully backwards compatible with the GameCube. I never owned a GameCube when it was new but I did pick up a Wii right away. It was great being able to go back and play some of the titles I had missed out on previously.

[LegionOfEclaires]

I remember the day I got my GameCube. My sister took me to Walmart, got my system and then she took me to McDonald's and I got breakfast. Came home and started playing Metroid Prime.
It's funny what memories stick with you throughout your life.

[ggezlol-]

LGR made the GameCube meme?!?! That's crazy. I've seen so many edits and recreations of it 😂

[carterucm]

What I love about this video (and I like all the LGR output!) is that there is just enough info for the casual observer who might have missed the GameCube at the time - but has no real desire to go out and experience it for themselves, but also enough to show those that DO want to have a go, what to get, what to look out for and how to do it.

[jonat_gabl]

So glad to have the Luke photo come full circle. I have to assume the full-size DVD case has to do with making sure it fit existing inventory space — the joys of the early 2000s and physical retailers.

[adamnaser]

The game cases in the US are from Clear-Vu. They were primarily used for DVD rental services. That square hole on the bottom allows a plastic locking mechanism to be inserted for shelf display at the store

Every Blockbuster and Hollywood Video I went to since DVDs became available used these style cases. They continued to use them until the businesses went bankrupt

[Derekthepersonable]

Fun fact about the GameCube menu music: sped up 16x it’s actually the famicom disk system startup music. There’s a few videos on YouTube showing this if you look around.

[TheCongressman]

It made me so happy that you enjoyed Metroid Prime. The controls can take some getting used to, and can be polarizing, especially nowadays. So it's cool how immediately it clicked with you. Totally one of my top 10 games of all time, I hope you continue to enjoy it.

[WildkatPhoto]

We were a dual PS2/GC house and what I find the most interesting about that generation is how well the Game Cube games have held up. Emulation has revealed that those games were actually WAY better than we thought. GC games upscaled to 4K are stunning and look like they could be modern releases.

[ScottyPlaysGames]

Clint, you're a gem :D your wholesome laugh at 19:50 when you immediately died in Rogue Leader had me rolling too! What a great video! I had a neighbor with one of these, and I remember playing on it a little, but not much. They definitely seemed like the fall-back option from an Xbox or PS2; I didn't have many hardcore Nintendo friends, though.