My GameCube Buying Is Done

[Rogmeister]

It wasn't that long ago (probably sometime during the first half of 2007...or maybe the latter part of 2006) that I bought what was my 100th title for the GameCube. Originally I planned to end my collection at 100 titles for this system but I soon decided there were still some titles left that I still wanted. Now I've reached 150 titles and have decided that's enough for this system. There just aren't that many titles left that interest me. I'm happy with my collection and have lots to play and don't feel I need to own every game ever brought out for the system. For the record, I bought my GameCube on its Launch Day and the two games I bought that day were All-Star Baseball 2002 (which I no longer have) and Stars Wars: Rogue Leader--Rogue Squadron II (which I do). My 150th and final game purchase was Sonic Heroes.

Oh yes, in case anyone wonders if there's a chance I might still buy something in the future if I come across a really good game I've not come across before...it's possible. All I'd h ave to do would be to then get rid of another game to keep the collection at 150 titles (I like round numbers). The game I'd get rid of would be one of my lesser games. I'm not sure what that would be...but I do have that copy of P.N.03...
:above me:

[s1lence]

150 Gamecube titles isn't a bad number. I think it would be cool to have a complete GC collection some day.

[Cloud121]

but I do have that copy of P.N.03...
You dare make fun of one of the greatest games of all-time? Second only to Super Metroid, I might add.

[DigitalSpace]

I'm at 66 Gamecube games and I'm pretty much done too. There are a couple games I'll probably add to the collection sooner or later, and after that, any Gamecube pickups will be whatever I saw on the cheap that was too good of a deal to pass up, so I may hit 70 someday.

[Sothy]

Rog I think theres some hella ADD going on if you have 150 titles and if you get a new one have to get rid of one to keep it even...

[Leo_A]

Luckily for me I was able to finish at 30. :)

Nice collection.

[Sanriostar]

Rog I think theres some hella ADD going on if you have 150 titles and if you get a new one have to get rid of one to keep it even...

Psst.. that's OCD. I have to tell everyone that when they make the mistake....

Gotta go wash my hands now.

[Mayhem]

150 Gamecube titles isn't a bad number. I think it would be cool to have a complete GC collection some day.

//waves in Silence's direction ;)

But 150 is a good number Rog, personally that's just over a quarter of the total set and probably will have all the must-have games in there :)

[Rogmeister]

Towards the end I was making a list of games to look for and among the titles on that list I wound up not getting...

Bomberman Generation
Various Sonic games (Sonic Heroes being the only one I did get)
Ultimate Muscle
Worms 3D (I got Worms Blast instead)
Ribbit King
Chibi-Robo (I had it once but gave it as a gift in our last Secret Santa exchange)
Prince of Persia 2 & 3
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters

Would you consider any of those must-have titles?

[DigitalSpace]

If you really want something to replace that PN 03 with, I'd go with Chibi-Robo or Sonic Adventure DX (if you have a Dreamcast, stick to that version of Sonic Adventure 2 - the GCN version was somewhat of a weak port).

Also, if you're up for posting it, I'd love to see your full list of Gamecube games.

[Lerxstnj]

I have most of the GC must-haves. There are still a few Mario games to get. The new Zelda will probably be the last one for me. Still waiting for a price drop... Yikes!

[Rogmeister]

Here is the complete list of my GameCube library. You will obviously notice some omissions, I imagine. I am not a big hockey or basketball fan so you won't find any of those here...and I'm also not a huge RPG guy so most of those are also missing. Now, the list...

1. 1080 Avalanche
2. Aggressive Inline
3. Alien Hominid
4. All-Star Baseball 2004
5. Animal Crossing
6. Backyard Baseball
7. Batman Begins
8. Batman: Vengeance
9. Battalion Wars
10. Beach Spikers
11. Beyond Good & Evil
12. Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
13. Bloodrayne
14. Burnout 2: Point of Impact
15. Call of Duty: Finest Hour
16. Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
17. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
18. Crazy Taxi
19. Dark Summit
20. Dead To Rights
21. Defender
22. Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat
23. Donkey Konga
24. Dr. Muto
25. Dragon?s Lair 3D
26. Eternal Darkness: Sanity?s Requiem
27. F-Zero GX
28. Fantastic 4
29. Freedom Fighters
30. From Russia With Love
31. Go! Go! Hypergrind
32. Gun
33. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
34. Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
35. Hulk
36. Ikaruga
37. The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
38. The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminder
39. James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
40. James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
41. James Bond 007: Nightfire
42. Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2
43. Karaoke Revolution Party
44. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: Legend
45. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
46. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
47. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
48. Luigi?s Mansion
49. Madden NFL 07
50. Major League Baseball 2K6
51. Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
52. Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
53. Mario Party 4
54. Mario Party 5
55. Mario Party 6
56. Mario Party 7
57. Mario Power Tennis
58. Mario Superstar Baseball
59. Medal of Honor: European Assault
60. Medal of Honor: Frontline
61. Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
62. Mega Man Anniversary Collection
63. Mega Man X Collection
64. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
65. Metroid Prime
66. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
67. MLB SlugFest 2003
68. MLB SlugFest 2004
69. MVP Baseball 2004
70 MVP Baseball 2005
71. Namco Museum 50th Anniversary
72. Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
73. Need For Speed Underground
74. NFL 2K3
75. Odama
76. Outlaw Golf
77. Pac-Man Fever
78. Pac-Man World 2
79. Pac-Man World 3
80. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
81. Peter Jackson?s King Kong
82. Pikmin
83. Pikmin 2
84. Pitfall: The Lost Expedition
85. P.N.03
86. Pool Paradise
87. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
88. Puyo Pop Fever
89. Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
90. Red Faction II
91. Resident Evil
92. Resident Evil 4
93. Resident Evil 0 (Zero)
94. RoadKill
95. Serious Sam: Next Encounter
96. The Simpsons: Hit & Run
97. The Simpsons: Road Rage
98. The Sims: Bustin? Out
99. The Sims 2
100. The Sims 2: Pets
101. Sonic Heroes
102. Soul Calibur II
103. Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
104. Spider-Man
105. Spider-Man 2
106. Splinter Cell
107. Spyro: A Hero?s Tail
108. SSX On Tour
109. SSX 3
110. SSX Tricky
111. Starfox Adventures
112. Starfox Assault
113. Star Wars: Jedi Outcast
114. Star Wars: Rogue Leader
115. Super Bubble Pop
116. Super Mario Strikers
117. Super Mario Sunshine
118. Super Monkey Ball
119. Super Monkey Ball 2
120. Super Monkey Ball Adventure
121. Super Smash Brothers Melee
122. Swingerz Golf
123. Tak and the Power of Juju
124. Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams
125. Tak: The Great Juju Challenge
126. Tetris Worlds
127. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
128. Time Splitters: Future Perfect
129. Time Splitters 2
130. Tony Hawk?s Pro Skater 3
131. Tony Hawk?s Underground 2
132. True Crime: New York City
133. True Crime: Streets of L.A.
134. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
135. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue
136. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan
137. Vexx
138. Viewtiful Joe
139. Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo
140. Wario Ware, Inc.: Mega Party Games
141. Wario World
142. Wave Race: Blue Storm
143. Worms Blast
144. WTA Tour Tennis
145. WWE Day of Reckoning
146. X-Men Legends
147. X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse
148. XIII (Thirteen)
149. Zapper
150. Zoocube :puppydogeyes:

[icbrkr]

Towards the end I was making a list of games to look for and among the titles on that list I wound up not getting...

Bomberman Generation
Various Sonic games (Sonic Heroes being the only one I did get)
Ultimate Muscle
Worms 3D (I got Worms Blast instead)
Ribbit King
Chibi-Robo (I had it once but gave it as a gift in our last Secret Santa exchange)
Prince of Persia 2 & 3
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters

Would you consider any of those must-have titles?

Ribbit King is a lot of fun actually, and good if you have a few people over to play with you. Hitting frogs as a golf ball? Yeah, weird but cool idea.

The wife loved Chibi Robo and played it consistantly until the end.

[Kitsune Sniper]

If you want to add more titles, but don't want to get rid of the ones you have... ditch some that were multiplatform and get them for another system.

For example, those Prince of Persia games, the Simpsons games, and Tony Hawk. Just get 'em for the PS2 or XBox if you have one. :)

That's a pretty good collection. I only have six GC games. I'd have more but most of the local Gamestops got rid of their good stock recently. -_-

[Rogmeister]

Since I did the GameCube stuff, I decided to go over my Super Nintendo games as some of them needed to be put away. It turns out I have exactly 200 of those...I did have two copies of one game (Super R-Type) and am not sure how that happened. I'm not including the extra copy among my count of 200. I think I also have around 200 PS1 games but may have to do some searching to find all of those.

[Steven]

Cool Rog, I know what it feels like to be satisfied and "done" with a collection, it's a great feeling and as someone once said nicely, the great thing is having the luxury of playing any of them whenever you want. Show me a coin collector who dumps his old coins into a pop machine or a stamp collector who uses one of those stamps to mail out a letter. One of the things that is so great about this hobby and "collecting" for it.

I rarely post in Modern Gaming, but I saw this "Done with Collection" type post and can't help but pop in, as it brings me back fondly to the day I recall sitting back, looking at my Saturn/SNES collections and going "Hell yeah. I'm pretty much done."

[Rogmeister]

Well, I just had a thought and checked...and I actually have 201 different SNES games. I forgot I still had a game plugged into my SNES deck...Mr. Do! I don't think I'll get rid of one just to have an even 200. I'll have to learn to live with a final total of 201 SNES games...

[vincewy]

Here is the complete list of my GameCube library. You will obviously notice some omissions, I imagine. I am not a big hockey or basketball fan so you won't find any of those here...and I'm also not a huge RPG guy so most of those are also missing. Now, the list...


13. Bloodrayne

20. Dead To Rights

32. Gun

49. Madden NFL 07
50. Major League Baseball 2K6

69. MVP Baseball 2004
70 MVP Baseball 2005

74. NFL 2K3


127. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004

130. Tony Hawk?s Pro Skater 3
131. Tony Hawk?s Underground 2
132. True Crime: New York City
133. True Crime: Streets of L.A.

145. WWE Day of Reckoning

If you need to get rid of some the above is what I recommend, you can either get them from other consoles or they simply have no replay and/or collecting values (I can't believe you have no love for RPGs, else you can add a lot more).

My recommended additions include (my favorites but may not be yours, just in case you forget):

Gotcha Force (Gamedude and GQD have them now)
Rayman Arena
Capcom vs SNK 2 EO
Goblin and Commander
Viewtiful Joe 2
Viewtiful Joe Red Hot Rumble
Rave Masters
Kirby Air Ride
both Bombermans (Jetters and Generations)
Zoids
all 3 One-Piece titles
Resident Evil 2 (Gamedud has 4 new in stock)
both Zatch Belle titles (Mamodo Fury and Battles)


For me, I have slight above 100 sealed games along with many doubles at this point, my collecion binge has slowed down considerably after I got most of the good games from GC's library, the rest (of the decent titles I like) are either too expensive/too hard to get, or I simply can't get them new or at decent conditions, even with close proximity to Gamedue and GQD right now, I don't feel motivated to add more titles at this point, well, this saves me a lot of $$.

[outsider]

Towards the end I was making a list of games to look for and among the titles on that list I wound up not getting...

Bomberman Generation
Various Sonic games (Sonic Heroes being the only one I did get)
Ultimate Muscle
Worms 3D (I got Worms Blast instead)
Ribbit King
Chibi-Robo (I had it once but gave it as a gift in our last Secret Santa exchange)
Prince of Persia 2 & 3
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters

Would you consider any of those must-have titles?

Chibi-Robo is a great game, you should definitely consider it. Otherwise, nothing on the list looks like a GC must-have IMO.

[slapdash]

I think it would be cool to have a complete GC collection some day.
//waves in Silence's direction ;)


I'm only a few shy...

Animal Crossing (yeah, waited on the origingal too long, don't want Player's Choice)
Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix
Madden 08
Mario Power Tennis (didn't want the "Best Seller" version)

...and the Game Boy Player, and a few games I only have Player's Choice/Best Seller versions but want originals, and a few Interactive Kiosk Discs too.

My biggest problem is that I've been trying to buy them all new, and for the most part, not to spend over $20 (unless they have extra hardware). I've done okay, but left a couple stumpers there.

[koster]

Towards the end I was making a list of games to look for and among the titles on that list I wound up not getting...

Bomberman Generation
Various Sonic games (Sonic Heroes being the only one I did get)
Ultimate Muscle
Worms 3D (I got Worms Blast instead)
Ribbit King
Chibi-Robo (I had it once but gave it as a gift in our last Secret Santa exchange)
Prince of Persia 2 & 3
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters

Would you consider any of those must-have titles?
Another recommendation for Chibi-Robo. Ribbit King is a fun, cutesy game, but I think it is more of an acquired taste.

Two more games you may want to consider (if you haven't already ruled them out) are Killer 7 (a 'love it or hate it' game - I personally thought it was great) and Cubivore. I also liked Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku, but I seem to be in the minority on that one. :)