My Life and Davey Crockett Q:D

I have heard many bad things about the GameCube. I have heard the controller is bad. I have heard the games were bad. I have heard that a purple cube was the worst idea for a console ever made. Of course, I didn’t believe this, and I might have the most beaten up GameCube of all time. Over the course of my ownership of said GameCube, it has fallen numerous times from a few feet onto the floor. Luckily, nothing has ever happened to it. I consider the GameCube the toughest console of sizth-generation consoles. Until one day.

It was Christmas 2005 and what else does my extended Italian family of 80 do but stuff themselves into a small house owned by my grandmother and exchange presents for 3 hours. (That’s right, it takes 3 hours to open presents.) But the party is 5 hours long, so I bring my GameCube to play the first 2 hours. For some reason, my grandma had her carpet floor changed to a hard smoothened tile floor. And she put in this 4 foot desk for the TV. Eeh. You can see where this goes. Put a GameCube up there with a controller cord partially lying on the ground and 7 kids under the age of 10 running around. It fell. And hard. Crap. Something happened. Now my GameCube clicks, has long loading times, and sometimes, kills the game with an “An error has occured. Please restart the system.” messages. Meh. But I still love it. Due to the pain my GameCube has indured, my friends have dubbed this the “Ghetto GameCube”. But I don’t care. It’s still my favorite system in my room (betweeen it and my PS2).

Now you’ve heard the story of the GameCube that got Beaten Up. I will share the powah. Some might say that the Xbox is the greatest multiplayer system from the 6th generation era. Disagree. I’ve been to my school’s Network Gaming Club. They have Xboxes hooked up everywhere playing 16 player Halo. Though I see some people having fun, I see some people disatisfied. These are the kids getting beaten up, due to their lack of experience. I’ve felt that pain before. First time I played Halo was between 2 of my friends who have probably had the game for three years each, and another friend who has played tha game a couple times in life. At that time, I had never touched an Xbox controller. The scores ended up something like this. 25-20-3-0, 25-21-4-0, 25-20-4–1 (I jumped off a side one time, and got negative pointage. That was probably the most fun I had.) As you can see, I sucked. Bad. The controllers weren’t that friendly to me. Now lets take that game, the best game on the Xbox according to the gaming world, and compare it to the best game on the GameCube according to the gaming world, Super Smash Bros. Melee.

This started last Sunday, World Cup day (by the way, go Italy!). After the game, 2 of my friends (who I invited over to watch the game) and I decided to play GameCube. The first game was Melee. I was the most experience, one friend played it on and off, and one friend never touched a GameCube controller in his life. (He’s a PS2 and PC player.) Though, he had fun. He thought the controls were fairly easy (after we showed him what the C-Stick can do,) and he got some kills, thanks to items like Pokeballs and Hammers. Thanks to those qualities, he wasn’t shit outta luck like I was when I first played Halo. We also played Super Mario Strikers, which his hella fun. They got their kicks out of pushing Y over and over again to head-butt the opposing team and push them into the electric fence that surrounded the playing field. They both also said it was the most comfortable controller they’ve ever played with (then went along and bashed the weirdness of the N64 controller Q:P). Due to this, I will say that the GameCube, though small in Third-Person support and low on graphics (which shouldn’t matter in a videogame anyway), is the best 6th generation system out there. Oh the powah. Oh yeah, and the entire time, they bashed the squeaking and slow load times of my GameCube. Whatever. They still loved it.

Songs I listened to while making this:
Death Cab for Cutie - State Street Residential
Ben Folds - Give Judy My Notice
Cake - Daria
Rage Against The Machine - The Ghost of Tom Joad
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole

I need a drink. Moose.