The Gamecube is a neat system for a few odd reasons:

- The discs are really small and are just weird...kinda in a "neat weird" sort of way
- The system is really portable, especially with the nifty handle
- The suckers last a long damn time - just like the N64, SNES, etc.
- The games are cheap
- The Gamecube controller is actually really comfortable, even if it isn't a good setup for many games (especially console ports)
- Some neat games came out for it (Pikmin comes to mind mostly)


The N64 was better overall though in my mind, simply because its great games did a lot more for their respective genres and back in the late 90s, Nintendo hadn't driven all these franchises into the ground like the Gamecube unfortunately did.