David Hayward recalls a wonderful console from the noughties
In between the Nintendo 64 and the Wii, there was, in my opinion anyway, the best Nintendo console ever released: the GameCube.
This odd looking, purple paint job, lunch box carry handle console was powered by a 500MHz PowerPC processor, had 43MB of memory and a 162MHz ATI Flipper GPU with 3MB of memory on chip. It was amazing. And with it came some of the best Nintendo based games I had ever played.
Assault, Tales of Symphonia, Soul Calibur 2, Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime and of course The Legend of Zelda: Wind Walker. In fact, as soon as I’m done with this article, I’m off to plug my GameCube back in and get some gaming done.
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