Can't. Stop. Playing. Gamecube.

[Clark Nova]

My life, aiieee! Where did it go to? I bought a second-hand Gamecube a few weeks ago and I've been picking up cheap games for it here and there, I can't put the controller down! Over the last week I must have racked up about 40+ hours on the thing. I've been playing a lot of Pikmin 2 which really is a lot of fun. Yesterday I played about eight hours of Legend of Zelda (Wind Waker) and that is absolutely brilliant too. I've been playing F-Zero GX a bit as well, very tough but I love the F-Zero games so much I ended up paying about £600 just to play F-Zero X on the N64. I had a dabble on Resident Evil 4 for a while yesterday, that seems really good and so much better than the older ones but I decided not to play too much until I have finished Zelda.

I got my Gamecube because I wanted to play Wind Waker before the Wii came out because I was getting a bit excited about the new Zelda game on that. Now I've decided perhaps I'll just pick up lots of cheap Gamecube games instead and keep playing Gamecube.

I might get a Wii when F-Zero comes out for it but until then I think I'll stick with my little cube of joy

 

[Clark Nova]

How did you end up paying 600 for F-Zero X!?? Has the game become very rare?

(p.s Was it worth it? )

Well, being a massive F-Zero fan after playing the SNES version to death I was a bit overly excited when I found out that it was comig out in Japan about 9 months before the US/UK release. I went out and bought a US N64 that was converted to play Japanese games for about £200. I bought F-Zero X for a further £50 on import. I took it home, very excited, and plugged it into my TV only to find that my old TV couldn't display the 60hz signal so I had to go out and buy a new TV that could display it. I bought a Toshiba 28" for £400 so in fact I ended up paying £650 to play F-Zero X.

Yes, it was worth it. It was an absolutely stonking game. X Cup drove me insane sometimes but it was one of the best games I have ever played. F-Zero GX is almost as good but it lacks the X cup.