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The GameCube (Japanese: ゲームキューブ Hepburn: Gēmukyūbu?, officially called the Nintendo GameCube, abbreviated NGC in Japan and GCN in Europe and North America) is a home video game console released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14, 2001; in North America on November 18, 2001; in Europe on May 3, 2002; and in Australia on May 17, 2002. The sixth-generation console is the successor to the Nintendo 64 and competed with Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox.

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What's the best way to get a Gamecube these days? (sh.itjust.works)
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I guess I could research but I thought I'd ask. I had a silver GC back in 2002-2004 and around 2009, my dork-ass brother mailed my GameCube to a friend across the country because he wanted to play an online game with him. Obviously I'm never getting it back, but I still have all the games and it would be cool to play them.

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[–] timo_timboo_ 2 points 10 months ago

Getting a GC is not always cheap these days. My recommendation is to look on local sites. It may take a while, but you could get lucky one day. It's probably still not gonna be cheap.

Like others have already said, the better solution is to get a Wii. Most models can play gamecube games, and they are incredibly easy to mod. I use my Wii to play tons of different games from multiple console generations. A modded Wii is an incredibly versatile device.

If you play digital copies of your GC games through Nintendont, games even perform a bit better.

And the there are of course the video cables. Getting component cables for your Wii is gonna be pretty damn cheap compared to the ones for gamecube.

I guess in the end you just have to choose: do you want the original, authentic experience from back in the day? Get a GC. Do you just want to play your games and get a better deal + many many extra features? Get a Wii.

There's no wrong choice.