#GameCube Collection

[christopherthewolf2000]

My GameCube Collection (all of the games are CIB/Complete in Box)

[thebunsquad]

Starfox Adventures is the best game in the franchise. I will die on this hill! 

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[nematodeneedles]

inspired by this

[sonichedgeblog]

Japanese Release 'Sonic Mega Collection' Gamecube Support us on Patreon

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[mvfm-25]

" All the jumps, thrills and loop-de-loops you'd expect from Sonic now in one speedy little package! " Nintendo Power Magazine n165 - February, 2003.

[angel-inbloom]

Spring of Awakening in Pikmin 2 running on my CRT monitor in 480p 🤍

[gruffdasmuff]

Sonic Gems

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Happy OctobRE4 Bude's!

[anactualfruit]

Tonight!! We finish Loogi Moogi's House of Horrors and Scares. Come hang out! 5:30pm CST twitch.tv/anactualfruit

[sonicwind62391]

My Sonic collection (A few games and comics are not pictured)

[lilithschosen]

Do you think gamer girl Rio would play Pikmin 3 on her Switch? I imagine the little whistle in the game driving Agatha insane. Rio just being like, "I need to get my Pikmin before the sun sets!"

YES SHE WOULD ABSOLUTELY PLAY THE SHIT OUT OF PIKMIN. i 100% bet she got it because she didn't know what else to get for the Switch after getting to year 3 in Stardew and doing everything and the little plant guys looked cute. then suddenly she's obsessed and Agatha hears the whistle in her sleep

(Rio inches ever closer to Agatha throwing the console into the sun)

[posthumanwanderings]

[ Sonic Mega Collection - Manuals Music ]

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A Japanese commercial for 'Sonic Mega Collection' on the Nintendo Gamecube. Support us on Patreon

[archoneddzs15]

Nintendo Game Cube - Sonic Mega Collection

Title: Sonic Mega Collection / ソニック メガコレクション

Developer/Publisher: Sega (Sonic Team) / VR-1 Japan

Release date: 19 December 2002

Catalogue Code: DOL-GSOJ-JPN

Genre: Compilation / Variety

You know of the first four Sonic games already - good platformers. These are presented in mostly their original form, except for a few graphical modifications. These do not affect the overall experience, and die-hard fans should not be put off. Sonic Spinball is a slightly mediocre game - imagine the pinball areas in the Casino Night levels of Sonic 2, with the difficulty upped and the gameplay quality lowered - this one's an acquired taste (I personally hated it as much as that Dinoland game from Wolfteam).

Mean Bean Machine is excellent - this is just Puyo Puyo with a Western twist, and the Sonic license slapped on to make it sell. Flicky may be off-putting due to the dated graphics (I'm not kidding - I played it 2 times on my Mega CD already) but is an addictive game which originally started back in the arcades in 1984. Ristar is the best game on the disc, but you probably didn't know that this was there. Do you know why? Because in Sega's infinite wisdom, the company has chosen to lock it out until you start every other game 50 times. Personally, I think that the people putting the disc together thought they were funny.

One HUGE scar on the surface of this pretty little optical disc - NO SONIC CD: the best 16-bit Sonic game ever (IMO) has been sadly not included in the compilation due to hardware emulation difficulties (the game was on the Mega CD; a port of the 1996 PC version would be included in Sonic Gems Collection). Knuckles' Chaotix (32X) is also missing, and while I miss it, I don't see this as a huge problem.

Visually, the games still look great. Of course, they have technically aged, with the possible exception of Ristar - its use of the Genesis hardware and its extreme colorfulness make it too hard to criticize. (Make sure you're using the RGB cable, or if you live in North America, the next best thing, is S-Video - or Component if you can afford it!) The audio's also hard to fault. Some of the menu songs on Spinball are so grating you'll wanna put your TV on mute (thanks a lot, GEMS sound driver!). But the catchy songs of the other games (Chemical Plant in Sonic 2, anyone? Starlight Zone in the original?) are still good after all those years.

Oh, and the Japanese disc also includes The Ooze and Comix Zone. I liked Comix Zone's music. Despite using GEMS, the music is strangely awesome.

Along with these classic games, Sonic Mega Collection has some extras up its sleeve. Remember the lovely Sonic CD anime intro which we also got to see in Sonic Jam on the Saturn? Well, you probably would, if that game was on this disc. On the Mega CD, the frame rate was poor, the video size was tiny, and the colors were nasty. But it was a stunning intro. The PC version of Sonic CD lets fans see the intro in its proper colors. Squashed into a tiny window and badly resized (read: pixilated!) Sonic Jam came closer, but Sonic Mega Collection finally lets us see the intro (and ending sequence) in broadcast quality, full screen, full speed. The sequence was animated by Toei Animation, who I believe is also to blame for "Digimon", and is stunning. This version (probably the American version I used to have) has the American music "Sonic, You Can Do Anything" dubbed over the original Japanese rap song, but in all honesty, I prefer the Japanese version as far as the one in this disc is concerned.

It's not perfect though. A graphical smoothing option on the emulator would have been nice like is available on PC emulators. The rest of the movies are cop-outs. Rather than giving us the selection of TV commercials on Sonic Jam, Sega has decided to give us advertisements for current and upcoming games. Oh, and a really bad "History of Sonic" video, nowhere near as good as Sonic Jam's museum section. There are also lots of comic cover scans, some of which are nice, but because these are the American Archie comics, some are painful too.

Overall, Sonic Mega Collection is worth picking up, considering how many titles you're getting on one disc. The fact that Sonic CD isn't included is a huge kick in the stones, but considering Ristar is here (albeit in a nearly impossible-to-unlock form), as well as other classic Sonic games, movies, and illustrations, it's hard not to recommend.