No it was the 4.77 MHz 8086. It beeped and it hummed, providing much needed warm air to my room - the only insulation of which was nkotb posters.
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Dreamcast.
Gotta give some of its still exclusive games a go, like Napple Tale
Original Xbox and the duke. Full computer, can install xbmc, basically the steam box of it's time but sold way under cost.
mfw someone calls nintendo "based" 🤢
Wasn't the Wii objectively better since it could also play GameCube games?
Yeah, the original Wii revision with the ports for GC controllers and memory cards had legit GameCube hardware right on the motherboard, much like the OG "fat" PS2 had built-in PS1 hardware.
In fact, some custom Gamecube builds eschew the GC motherboard altogether in favor of a cut-down Wii motherboard, modified to boot directly into GC mode. It's pretty cool.
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Maybe, but the GameCube was really riding a particular techno aesthetic, both externally and in the menu design. It was really the very tail-end of the "just because we can!" breed of design.
The Wii went all nice and soft white, rounded buttons, happy and family-friendly, which was absolutely the correct move for Nintendo commercially to make it mass-market, but it lost something at the same time.
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animal crossing on the gamecube had a lot of "microtransactions". part of the functionality of the game was tied to having a gba/gamecube link cable. another part was tied to having an e-reader, along with several series of cards you had to collect in almost a "gacha" like sense.
Simply put, yes. This reminds me, I have to look into using the GameCube startup animation for booting my computer