The GameCube Archives

Resident Evil U.S. Release Date: April 30, 2002 The GameCube Archives Score: 9.5/10 For the entirety of the Playstation/Nintendo 64 run, I had to hear about how awesome Resident Evil games were. As a Nintendo fanboy, I wanted to pretend I was too cool for Resident Evil games, but they just seemed so awesome, I'd let my Playstation-owning friends regale me of their glory for hours. When the Sony/Nintendo battle shifted to PS2/GameCube, suddenly the shoe was on the other foot. Capcom announced three Resident Evil Game's that would, at the time of their release at least, be GameCube exclusives: 2002's Resident Evil Zero , 2005's Resident Evil 4 , and a 2002 remake of the original 1996 Playstation release that started it all, Resident Evil . Director, Shinji Mikami, felt that this first Resident Evil game did not graphically hold up to subsequent Resident Evil releases, but that the powerful Nintendo GameCube could remedy the situation. However, this remake would not j...

Batman Begins U.S. Release Date: June 14, 2005 The GameCube Archives Score: 7.2/10 Baton Rouge has one locally owned video game store, Gameware, which has two locations in town. I've befriended the employees in the mall location because I've got to be one of the only people buying retro video games from them at this point. I enjoy that section of the store mostly being in stasis, as I can plan my game purchases far in advance. However, sometimes, I'll just buy a game on a whim. I'm not sure why my last my last purchase from Gameware before the COVID-19 Outbreak was a movie-licensed GameCube game from 2005. Maybe because I haven't seen Batman Begins since a memorable trip to the theater nearly 15 years ago, and I was looking for an excuse to watch it again. After playing through this game, I did watch the film again, and it is a pretty good flick...but how about it's GameCube adaptation? There used to be an old rule that any Batman game that was released wa...

The Simpsons: Hit & Run U.S. Release Date: September 16, 2003 The GameCube Archives Score: 8.0/10 The Simpsons premiered on television when I was in the second grade. Knowing full well this was an animated sitcom featuring a fourth grader with a potty mouth and an attitude problem, along with a frequently belittled dad, and adult humor, I didn't even attempt to slip it under the radar of my TV-strict mother. I watched with jealousy as my cousin, who could watch whatever he wanted, marched around in his "Don't Have a Cow, Man" Bart Simpson T-Shirt. Eventually, I forgot the show existed. Nearly seven years passed, and one day my little brother and I got home from school, popped on the TV, and low-and-behold, there was The Simpsons , now in after-school syndication, starting from the beginning. We made a couple bowls of ice cream, sat down, and laughed our heads off. With a full hour of The Simpsons , five days a week, we caught up in no time, then watched the...

Super Smash Bros. Melee U.S. Release Date: December 3, 2001 The GameCube Archives Score: 9.8/10 After the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate , my son has had Smash Bros. fever. He had the Wii U and 3DS iterations of the series, but for some reason, this new Switch Smash Bros. game just touched a nerve. He's had me take him to in-town Smash Bros. tournaments (where he's done okay, and I've been summarily destroyed), and also asked to see the older Smash Bros. games. At the top of his wish list to watch: Super Smash Bros. Melee . Oh, the geometry Despite its popularity with franchise fans, and despite the fact that I'd owned it for 17 years at that point, I'd never been able to deeply get into the Super Smash Bros. Melee . However, I'd put hundreds of hours into the original Nintendo 64 Super Smash Bros. In the Summer of 1999 and the years shortly after, my brother, two cousins who mirror our ages, and I played in four-player matches that sometimes ...