Upon its release in 2001, the GameCube became Nintendo's first console to use optical discs, specifically a miniDVD-based format, as its primary storage medium instead of ROM cartridges. Nintendo publicly announced the console under the code name 'Project Dolphin' in a May 1999 press conference. Its earliest development began with the 1997 formation of ArtX, a computer graphics company later acquired by ATI, which would go on to produce the console's GPUs. As Nintendo's entry in the sixth generation of video game consoles, the GameCube competed with Sony's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's original Xbox. It is the successor to the Nintendo 64, which released in 1996, and predecessor of the Wii, which released in 2006. Simply, download an emulation software and play cool roms on your PC, Android or iOS device.Nintendo GameCube is a home video game console developed and released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14, 2001, in North America on November 18, 2001, and in PAL territories in 2002. Nintendo GameCube roms( GameCube ISOs) games are available for free on this page. This feature allows the system to exchange game data, open additional levels in similar games like Metroid Prime – Metroid Fusion on one or another system, finishing mini-games in GBA. GameCube system has the ability to connect to the portable Game Boy Advance system. Some games had to be released on two discs, as they couldn’t fit the allotted space. Disc size of 3” (8cm) – is less than a regular CD or DVD, the capacity reaches up to 1.5 GB.

The system uses a unique optical discs, a proprietary format developed by Matsushita (Panasonic). At the time of its launch in the US players could buy one of the 12 games: All-Star Baseball 2002, Batman Vengeance, Crazy Taxi, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2, Disney’s Tarzan Untamed, Luigi’s Mansion, Madden NFL 2002, NHL Hitz 20-02, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, Super Monkey Ball, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 & Wave Race: Blue Storm.īy its form the console really resembles a cube. Nintendo GameCube, also known as GC, was the most compact and the cheapest among the consoles of its generation. A GameCube was released in Japan on September 14, 2001, in the United States on November 18, in Europe 3rd of May 2002 and 17th of May in Australia.

It was presented to the public together with the GameBoy Advance and several games on Nintendo’s Space World 2000 exhibition, held from August 23 to 27 in Japan. GameCube console, was developed under the codename Dolphin, belongs to the 128-bit era or sixth generation of video games consoles (with the Dreamcast, PlayStation, Playstation 2 and Xbox).

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