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... memory card unless you want to keep playing the same levels over and over again. Nintendo made three different sizes of memory card, 4MB, 16MB and 64MB. The smaller sizes will work for many adventure games but almost all sports games will require at least a 16MB and sometimes a 64MB card to save a season. I recommend a 16MB card for most people unless you are definitely buying sports games.

The Gameboy Player is completely optional but can be a great addition to the system. The player allows you to play any Gameboy, Gameboy Color, or Gameboy Advance game directly on your TV. It is great if you already have a Gameboy game collection but can be quite expensive. Nintendo made a few other accessories for the gamecube including a Network Adaptor for online play and a Gameboy Advance link cable but neither of these is supported by many games. Unless you are sure you are buying a game that uses one of these, you shouldn't buy them.

This list should have helped you choose the games, controllers, and accessories you want to buy with your gamecube. Now get out there and enjoy your new gaming purchase.

Nintendo's Plumber mario - A Short History of His Major Accomplishments

...In the beginning there was Pong. The masses were intrigued, poking and prodding at Pong in wonder, seeing what might be the future but was probably a fad. Pong was interesting, but Pong was soon forgotten. Until Pacman, and Space Invaders, and Caterpillar, and all the original quarter chomping cabinet games of old. The arcade game was born of ingenuity and the disposable income of an increasingly stagnant generation with money to burn.

Nintendos success in video games was born of a desire to cash in on these experiences, seeing the success of Space Invaders and Asteroids by companies like Taito and Atari. Nintendos prior history, nearly 100 years old in Japan, involved making household toys and playing cards. They saw electronic games as a major new market and were intent on being apart of it. The first product was Radarscope, pandering to the shoot and fly by action of existing games in the marketplace.

It was a massive failure and so Nintendo turned to Shigeru Miyamoto to craft something special that would appeal. It was Miyamoto who, after taking ideas from shows like Popeye (and a license that fell through for Nintendo) and utilizing the everyman hero, crafted Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong was released to eager quarter heavy pockets and Nintendo of America made nearly 100 million dollars in the first year alone.

Donkey Kong did many things differently that made it successful. Not only did it stray from the usual shoot-em up concepts of previous games, it introduced levity and light hearted music to the industry that it hadnt yet seen, with actual characters and a villain. Kids nationwide were willing to overlook the mistranslation of whatever it was the Japanese company was trying to call their barrel throwing ape, and sucked the game up eagerly. (There are theories that it was originally Monkey Kong, Kong for King Kong, and was misspelled somewhere along the waydoesnt really matter at this point though does it?)

And Mario? If you cant see the parallels to the Popeye license in the game, youre not paying much attention. A plucky working man must fight an apelike (or an ape) to retrieve his lady love, displaying super human strength. mario was yet to be named in his earliest outing, and as he wielded his hammer of justice, he found fans the world over. Ironically, the name of Nintendos mascot was originally Jumpman, a surprisingly practical name, n...more

Video Game Review Sites - Parasites of the Industry

...The Z-axis; the third dimension; a new depth. Video games changed by an immeasurable degree simply by adding a new direction to travel. Super mario 64 was, for myself and many others, a mind blowing experience. Moving the plumber around in all directions in a virtual world that felt real and familiar was like seeing the future right there in front of my eyes. From the first time I climbed a tree in the seemingly tangible world I knew that there would be some really amazing stuff produced in the video game industry during my lifetime.

Video games have come a great distance since the n64. Assassin's Creed shows us how games can have ...more

Nintendo Wii Increases in Popularity

...n, in the recent months Nintendo's own software called Super smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii became the best-selling software for the month in Japan, with remarkable 1.33 million units sold, the second place was pursued by the Wii Fit home fitness game, which sold 309,311 units in the four weeks.

Currently, the Wii has become a premier provider of the three-way game relieving a battle...more