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GameCube Emulators
The is a home video game console developed and released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14, 2001, in North America on November 18, 2001, and in PAL territories in 2002. It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 (1996), and predecessor of the Wii (2006). In the sixth generation of video game consoles, the GameCube competed with Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox (console), Xbox. Flagship games include ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'', ''Luigi's Mansion'', ''Super Mario Sunshine'', ''Metroid Prime'', ''Mario Kart: Double Dash'', ''Pikmin (video game), Pikmin'', ''Pikmin 2'', ''The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker'', ''Chibi-Robo! (video game), Chibi-Robo!'', and ''Animal Crossing''. Development was enabled by the 1997 formation of computer graphics company ArtX, of former Silicon Graphics, SGI employees who had created the Nintendo 64, and which was later acquired by ATI Technologies, ATI to produce the GameCube's GPU. In May 1999, Nintendo announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GameCube Controller
The GameCube controller is the standard game controller for the GameCube home video game console, manufactured by Nintendo and launched in 2001. As the successor to the Nintendo 64 controller, it is the progression of Nintendo's controller design in numerous ways. The contentious M-shaped design of its predecessor was replaced with a more conventional handlebar style controller shape; a second analog stick was added, replacing the C buttons with a C stick and the X and Y face buttons, last seen on the Super Nintendo controller, were reintroduced; the shoulder buttons were changed to hybrid analog triggers. A wireless variant of the GameCube controller known as the WaveBird was released in 2002. Though many elements of the GameCube controller's unique design were not embraced by many future twin-stick gamepads (such as the pressure-sensitive shoulder buttons and a face button layout that emphasizes one button over three others), some controllers adopted its staggered analog stic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
