Nintendo has so many games stranded on old consoles. We haven’t seen the DS and 3DS get the attention they deserve, but there is no excuse on the Gamecube front thanks to Nintendo Switch Online.
We’ve written about what games need to come to the service before, but here are even more titles if Nintendo needs help deciding. We all know they must throw darts at a board of names — there’s no logic or reason to their decision making whatsoever. Gaming nihilists.
Already Confirmed RPGs ‘Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance,’ ‘Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness’ and ‘Pokémon Colosseum’
I will champion the weird Pokémon spin-offs that didn’t ever get follow-ups, and the sole Gamecube “Fire Emblem” entry. People love these franchises, and these oddball entries shouldn’t be lost to history just because only 22 million Gamecubes were sold worldwide.
But since these are already confirmed, lets speed it up a bit, huh? Big N, are you listening?
Action: ‘Wario World’ and ‘Star Fox: Assault’
The obvious one I won’t talk about is “Sunshine” because it’s a mainline Mario game, it was on that limited collection “3D All-Stars,” and it’s the most famous game to not be on NSO yet. Instead, I want to focus on the weirder ones. These are the oddities that I’d love to see brought back, from two characters whose franchises are dead and buried. Star Fox and Wario deserve better — especially for games in their respective series that are good but didn’t sell well or give way to sequels. They didn’t deserve to die on a horrible selling console, so let tens of millions of gamers experience these on Switch 2, god damn it!
Sports: ‘Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour,’ ‘Mario Power Tennis,’ ‘Mario Superstar Baseball,’ ‘1080 Avalanche,’ and ‘Wave Race: Blue Storm
The early 2000s were the last time Mario sports games were good. Hell, they were the best in this era. No motion controls, no watered down sequels like “Mario Tennis Aces” meant to sell copies without adding anything new. Just pure excellence from Camelot.
On top of those, the Gamecube era was also the last time non-traditional sports and racing games were being made at a healthy clip. Combat racers, MTV or ATX games, extreme sports, wave runners, snowboarding, and skiing; these games USED to come out every year and be fun, and now the biggest racing IP in the world is being axed.
Remember “Snowboard Kids?” Or “Diddy Kong Racing?” I do. Bring those back!
Weirdo: ‘Battalion Wars’ and ‘WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!’
I love the “Advance Wars” games, but never got to play “Battalion Wars.” Since we’ll never get a true follow-up after the soft sales of the remaster of “1+2,” I figure it wouldn’t hurt to throw us hardcore fans a bone.
And we need more “Warioware” titles on NSO. Every single one, please. Pure fun, pure joy incarnate. A sugar rush of mini-games and fast-paced non-stop action with enough nostalgia to please the most hardened nerd.
Fuck Fest: ‘Mario Party 4’ and ‘5’ — The ones without the microphone
I have zero idea how anyone would emulate “Mario Party 6 and 7” in any way without there being a microphone attachment. And since the Switch 2 doesn’t have that built into both Joy-Cons, the best we can expect is for Nintendo to give us the fourth and fifth “Mario Party” games so that we can get livid at our friends all over again.
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One response to “I Will Never Stop Complaining If Nintendo Doesn’t Re-Release These Gamecube Titles”
To this day toadstool tour is probably the best entry in the Mario golf series
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