The GameCube Archives

Super Monkey Ball U.S. Release Date: November 18, 2001 The GameCube Archives Score: 8.0/10 After I bought my GameCube and a copy of Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader , I was flat broke, living off of wheat bread and large cups of water (you can trick your stomach into thinking it is full!)in my dingy college apartment. That's what friends are for, though. During that time, around the point I 100%'d Rogue Squadron II , Jon, my jolly giant of a friend, called me one afternoon and said he had a surprise for me. He showed up with a Gamestop bag...containing  Super Monkey Ball . The first Sega game for a Nintendo console...and also the first Nintendo game sponsored by Dole Bananas? Super Monkey Ball was a budget title, though still a generous gift from a friend with no more resources than I had. According to a recent EDGE interview with Monkey Ball game director, Toshihiro Nagoshi, he wanted to prove he come make a fun game " with minimum resource, minimum

Lugi's Mansion U.S. Release Date: November 18, 2001 The GameCube Archives Score: 7.8/10 I've never been the type of person to buy three or four games in a month. That's because a. I've never really been the kind of person to have enough money to buy three or four games a month, and b. I am so OCD, I have to milk a game dry before I get to another's udders. In regard to a., video games used to cost about $70, and my childhood allowance was $3 a week. This meant it took me six months to save up for one...and you can bet, when I bought Ducktales for NES, I played Ducktales for NES until I could beat it blindfolded with my ears plugged. As for b., let's just say A Link to the Past never left my SNES until I had every heart, and Chrono Trigger until all my characters were sitting at level double-star (these are two affectations I've lost with time...I finally hit middle-class paydirt, and the ridiculous amount of time a modern game takes to complete ha