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11 unusual facts about GameCube


Chaenostoma cordatum

It is notable as the source of a breed marketed as "The Pikmin Flower", after the GameCube game Pikmin.

Fujimoto Yae

Fujimoto Yae (referred to as Yae) (born December 14, 1975), is a singer, mainly known outside Japan for having performed the theme songs for the GameCube role-playing video game Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.

Hiroya Hatsushiba

Hatsushiba partnered up with Monolith Soft to develop Baten Kaitos, which became one of the more successful games for GameCube.

Hucho perryi

In the Nintendo GameCube videogame Animal Crossing and subsequent sequels, Hucho Perryi (under the name Stringfish) is a rare fish that can be caught in the river, and sold for 15,000 bells - one of only four fish that can be sold for that amount.

Ken Hoang

When Super Smash Bros. Melee was released for the Nintendo GameCube, Ken initially did not enjoy it, but the game grew on him after a period of a few months.

Media Design School

The school also includes console video game development in its game development course curriculum, with access to Sony PlayStation Portable and Nintendo GameCube development kits.

November 2001

The Nintendo GameCube is released in the United States with 13 launch titles.

Shawn Handyside

The story revolves around a recent college graduate, his college roommates, a talking basketball who plays GameCube and an evil 90 MHz computer trying to enslave humanity.

Towelie

The name of the Okama Gamesphere video game console is a take on the Nintendo GameCube, which was to be released shortly after the episode was written.

Zeta Ceti

:Baten Kaitos is also the name of a role-playing game for the Nintendo Gamecube

Zhaytee

In 2002 he briefly gained widespread attention when the gaming news site IGN discovered and publicized the demo song ZhayTee had recorded as part of a declined bid to compose the music for the GCN game Metroid Prime.


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Asobo Studio

During the following years, the studio developed several games for various platforms (the studio has PC, MAC, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, Wii, XBOX360 and PS3 development experience), until being chosen by publisher THQ to create the video game adaptation of Pixar Animation Studios Oscar-winning motion picture Ratatouille.

Atomic Planet Entertainment

Titles in development at this time included Jackie Chan Adventures on PS2 for Sony Europe, Miami Vice on PS2, Xbox and PC for Davilex, The Guy Game on PS2 for Take 2 Interactive, Gametrak: Dark Wind for In2Games, and the Mega Man Anniversary Collection on PS2, GameCube and Xbox.

Classic Controller

The Classic Controller can navigate through the Message Board, settings menus, and Wii Shop Channel (the Nintendo Gamecube controller, however, cannot).

Dolby Pro Logic

Pro Logic II system also features a mode designed specifically for video gaming, and it is frequently used in game titles for Sony's PlayStation 2, Nintendo's GameCube and Wii as an alternative to digital surround formats such as Dolby Digital, or DTS.

Finest hour

Call of Duty: Finest Hour, first-person shooter for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube by Spark Unlimited

Game Boy Advance Video

Unlike Sony's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox video game consoles, the Nintendo GameCube cannot output Macrovision gain-control copy distortion signals.

Haruka Kuroda

She works extensively as a voice-over artist like in the Gamecube's 2000 Battalion Wars as the Solar Empire empress.

Hot Wheels Velocity X

One review by Chris Roper gave it a 4.7 out of 10, criticizing the game's sound design, controls, and the unstable framerate, but praising the multiplayer mode of the GameCube version and the voice overs during the FMV cutscenes.

Major Dodge

As a Model he has appeared in ads for the NFL, Abercrombie and Fitch, Panasonic "Pretty Tough", Mountain Dew, Absolut Vodka, Captain Morgan Rum, Nintendo Gamecube, Verizon Wireless, Remote Possibilities, the board game Princes and Frogs, and on a billboard in New York City's Times Square for Conde Nast Publications.

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is a fighting game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, DS, and PSP, which ties into the "Marvel Nemesis" comic book series.

Mega Man Anniversary Collection

The PS2 version features the original Ruby-Spears Mega Man cartoon pilot episode, while the GameCube version has an interview with Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune.

Nintendo tumbler puzzle

As a tribute to the deceased creator of the puzzle and former Metroid series director, Gunpei Yokoi, the puzzle made a small cameo appearance in Metroid Prime for GameCube, Samus Aran would have to use her morph ball form and charges to interact with it, once completed would allow her spider form morph ball entrance to a higher level of the chamber.

P.N.03

The game is part of Shinji Mikami's Capcom Five, a group of five Capcom games intended to be exclusive for the GameCube.

Play, The Videogames World

Displayed on 1300 square meters, it showed over 300 videogames starting from the 1961 Space War to the latest hits for PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube.

Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

In March 2005, Nintendo of America executive Reggie Fils-Aimé said that Pokémon XD would be a new GameCube game, but not a sequel to Colosseum.

Puzzle Collection

Nintendo Puzzle Collection, a collection of puzzle video games by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube home console

Rayman M

David Gasman as Rayman, Dark Rayman (Rayman Arena - Mac OS X/Xbox/GameCube version)

Robin's Big Date

Kate and Tony leave and the stunned Dynamic Duo decides to go to Aquaman's house to play his GameCube.

Rogue Leader

Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, a video game sequel released on the Nintendo Gamecube

Rust Epique

Their song,"Can't Stop" was featured in two of the WWE's video games in 2004, WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW (PlayStation 2) and WWE Day of Reckoning (GameCube).

Shanelle Workman

She provided the voice of Caren Velázquez from the video game Dino Crisis 3, Pasadena O'Possum in Crash Tag Team Racing, Jennifer Willis in Splatterhouse (2010), as well as the leading role as the voice of Milliarde in the GameCube game Baten Kaitos Origins.

Songs Not to Get Married To

The song "Get Well Soon" is featured on the Xbox 360 game Saints Row, and an altered version of "Take Me Home, Please" was used in the Gamecube edition of The Sims 2.

Soulcalibur II

The home versions of the game feature Necrid, a new character created by Todd McFarlane, and one of three platform-exclusive characters: Heihachi Mishima from Tekken on the PlayStation 2, Link from The Legend of Zelda on the GameCube and Spawn from the comic book series by McFarlane on the Xbox.

Umibōzu

In the video game Pikmin 2 for the GameCube, an mysterious watery ghost known as the Waterwraith is known as Amibōzu in Japanese.

Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble

In North America, the GameCube version of the game was included as part of promotion by the Johnny Rockets restaurant chain.