Intro to TV Games (First Experience)

General
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Pachinko :laughing::sparkles: did they let kids in there back then? I wish I met your father! He sounds cool! I never heard this story before.

I guess I will play shogi with you even though I know I am going to loose.

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We are all young at heart!

Thanks! I love the GameCube to this day, I still have my original one sitting next to my television! It is So. Much. Fun!

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I sometimes was allowed to shoot the beads accompanied by my father only then. I helped him carry home the canned foods that we won. Mostly Peach Cans.

Yes! Match ON! Shogi Time!

Because the prediction probability of you loosing calculates to 99.9999% the requested prize of winning is this item:

https://item.rakuten.co.jp/don-online01/20250314-02/

The Match Begins next Friday at 19:30 at my house. Earthquake and Power outage do not count as a winning match point.

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Pass!

I will bring beer but what is up with that super expensive spirits? Why does it have spikes and just why?

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Thank you very much!
I am accepting be called old. It is no problem when you get older and you have nice experience.

I do have to explain that having used the Famicom back in that time was very magical! :man_mage:t3: Television Stations stopped broadcast at night and we had video games. I really believed it was a product of magic :magic_wand: and a gamepad made it move round!!

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My best possible North American Accent:

Oh you! :rofl:

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People consider gamecube a failed console? (alright guys but just sayin where did mario sunshine come from?)

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It’s Nintendo’s second worst selling home console, roughly 25M iirc (Wii U was 13M).

I think it goes roughly in this order in terms of home console sales. I’m not entirely sure about sales numbers so these are rough estimates.

  • Wii U (~13M) (it outsold Sweden though)
  • GameCube (~25M)
  • N64 (~36M)
  • SNES (~45M)
  • NES (~64M)
  • Wii (~101M)
  • Switch (~151M)
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It is a failed console, at least commercially, as @GamersInternatio shows. But commercial failure really doesn’t say anything about it being a failed console overall, because the commercial success stems from not only quality of console and/or games, but also price at the time, time of release, competition and more. The GameCube flopped because it came to the market 1 and a half years later than the PS2, which unlike the GameCube also had DVD Video, at a lower price than DVD players at the time. But GameCube was a better console in almost every way except commercially and maybe storagewise as Mini-DVDs were, well, mini.

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My first memory playing a tv game… I think i was about 5 / 6 years old, and i was playing Crash 3 Warped in my psOne :slight_smile:

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I agree and a lot of the time, when people say “oh that isn’t a good console or that game isn’t good.” It ends up being one of my favorites. I thought the game cube had a great collection of game soft and add-ons. There was an actual, but really expensive GameCube that played DVDs but it was a novelty.

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I have seen it at a used game shop before but it is just too expensive.

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Yeah, the Panasonic Q is stupidly expensive afaik (US$500+?)

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My first video game I ever played was New Super Mario Bros. Wii when I was 6 years old.

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my first console was a Wii U (call me a newgen idc :skull:) i loved nintendo land, especially mario chase, its addicting and fun.

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A Wii U honestly is a great start console for that time. It’s great!

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I feel like it is almost worth it. I mean, who doesn’t want a sleek GameCube with DVD and CD support and a beautiful shine?

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“Perfection may come at a fortune, yet to receive such is to earn it back”.

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