Gah...twenty years. I'm trying to remember what "killer app" drove me to get the GC, I can't remember. My friends and I chipped in to get one and then I got one for the first wife and I. I picked up Animal Crossing after a conversation or two (maybe even here, I can't recall) and soon after we got it, my ex got laid up with kidney stones that wiped her out. So for a week she was loaded on Vicodin and played AC and was hooked. I soon got hooked into it and then we set up another memory card so we could travel. That game definitely became the "killer app", giving the system the affectionate name of "Animal Crossing Cube".

I still have that game, complete and with the memory card containing our town. Months back I modded one of my Wii systems to accept an external hard drive (my original Wii couldn't drive the system but the one I bought used could-go figure). I transferred the data from the card to the system as a back up and saved it to my PC to run off Dolphin. I got some chills when I saw the four houses, with my ex's fish weather vane spinning on top. It felt like I was visiting a tomb when I walked in, seeing the tissue box she earned for getting a million bells in the bank, the furniture all tightly packed in the main room and the basement full of seasonal stuff she'd pull out on the holidays.

Even though the end was a loveless marriage along with a relationship full of mistakes on both sides, I don't destroy the house or the town. I can't. It's a place I'll bring our daughter to when I can peel her away from Roblox when she comes over. I'll have to fire this up this weekend when she's over.

Beyond that, I sunk a lot of time with Prince of Persia, which is IMO the best playing version out of the three systems. I also got baptized into the Resident Evil series by playing Number 4 but never played another again. I felt that Metroid Prime was an abomination until I actually sat down and made myself PLAY it and found it a helluva good time. Echoes didn't fare as well for me, maybe because I played it too soon after finishing the first MP. Super Mario Sunshine was a slap in the face to me after entering the 3D world with Super Mario 64.

Reading all the above, I should really get my second Wii U hackerized to see if I can get some good stable GC play on it.