20 Years Later, A Cube Top 20
As of the day of this writing (September 14, 2021), the Nintendo GameCube is now officially 20 years old. It remains one of my favorite video game consoles: it was a powerful and reliable piece of hardware, its controller was comfortable, and most importantly, it had a whole lot of games I really, really liked. To that last point, I want to honor the GameCube’s 20th anniversary with my own list of my 20 favorite games for the console (in order). Perhaps unsurprisingly for a Nintendo console, over half of these games were exclusives to boot, but it’s sobering just how many great exclusives the Cube had. And compared to most Nintendo consoles, it maintained decent third-party support too. As such, limiting this list to 20 certainly couldn’t contain all of its worthwhile games; give a shout-out to any favorites I didn’t squeeze in here.
So, happy birthday GameCube. Here’s to you <3