Pick the Most Necessary from Each Console or Build Your Ideal Collection

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I was skimming thru the nintendo adverts on the local Craigslist when I realized that I was hitting more & more Gamecube collections. Folks were selling their entire systems, usually with 5-10 games. I noticed that for $200 or less, you could easily get the best & brightest of what the GC had to offer.

If you were going to select a group of games from each console that you'd hang on to, just for fun or to demonstrate what each console could do, what would you pick? If you could build a proper demonstrative library of each system, a collection that you could hand to someone and say "here ya go, this is what made this system so great," what would you go with? I guess this is effectively a POX or desert island games thread, but whatevs.

Here's my GC list to start:

Metroit Prime
Eternal Darkness
Pikmin
Harvest Moon/Animal Crossing (take yer pick)
Zelda: Wind Waker
SSB Melee
Viewtiful Joe
Resident Evil 4

I can't think of a memorable RPG that I played on that platform, tho. GBAs & PS2s were far better in that category.

So pick a platform or three, and what would you include? (We'll leave PC games for another thread)

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

PS2:

GTA:SA

― Boom Dershowitz (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

That's it, then?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

One of the SingStars, maybe.

― Boom Dershowitz (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, I'm just in a place where I don't seem to want to play anyfink on the PS2 anymore.

― Boom Dershowitz (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

Well yeah, but there's nothing you' throw in there as a proper example? my ps2 list would have stuff like Dark Cloud 2 or SSX Tricky along with GTA:SA.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

ICO
Guitar Hero
We Heart Katamari

― Boom Dershowitz (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

YR GAMECUBE ALL TIME NUMBER ONES POX

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

GC:
Resident Evil 4

PS2:
Shadow of the Colossus
both Katamari games
Burnout 2

both:
Prince of Persia
Mega Man Anniversary collection

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

Burnout 2

Why 2? Wasn't all that impressed with that iteration.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I have 3? I only have one of them but I couldn't remember which. It might be 3.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

ps2:
GTA2
Psychonauts
God of War
Shadow of the Colossus
FFXII
Both Katamaris
Virtua Fighter
SSX2

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

SNES:

Chrono Trigger
Super Smash TV
Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

GC:
Zelda: Wind Waker
Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes

PS2:
MGS2
MGS3
GTA:SA

SNES:
MARIO KART THE FIRST AND ONLY GAME EVER TO HAVE PERFECT CONTROL
Madden '95

― c('°c) (Leee), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

are BOTH katamaris really necessary? come on now.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:44 (eighteen years ago)

I think so.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

to demonstrate what the system can do? why? they're basically the same game!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:55 (eighteen years ago)

PS2: Wipeout Fusion. Not the best of the series but in zone mode is the FASTEST AND MOST ZEN VIDEOGAME OF ALL TIME

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

Megadrive:
Sonic 1
Fantasy Pinball
Desert Strike

Saturn:
Panzer Dragoon Saga

Dreamcast:
Soul Caliber

Playstation:
Silent Hill
REs Evil 3
Colin McRae

PS2:
Red Evil 4
GTA Vice City
GTA San Andreas

N64:
Zelda Ocarina
Goldeneye

XBox:
Half Life 2
Burnout 2

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

A lot of these wont exactly be original POXs... and most of it is just my favourites of my collection.

NES:
Mario Bros 1,2&3
Bionic Commando
Little Nemo: Dream Master
Turtles
Captain Skyhawk
Blaster Master
Castlevania
Ninja Gaiden

SNES:
Zelda: A Link to the Past
Street Fighter II Turbo
Super Mario World
Starwing
Pilot Wings
Super Bomberman
Earthbound
Super Turrican 2

N64:
Beetle Adventure Racing
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Goldeneye
Mario 64
WCW vs NWO: Revenge (Has to be this exact WCW vs NWO game)
Castlevania 64
Mario Party

Gamecube:
Zelda: Wind Waker
Mario Party 5
Metroid Prime

Gameboy/Color/Advance:
Play Action Football
Tetris
Super Mario Land
Kid Icarus
Pokemon Red/Blue and Sapphire/Ruby
Advance Wars 1&2
Chu Chu Rocket
Columns Crown
Wario Ware Inc
Zeldas: Oracle of Ages/Seasons and Minish Cap

DS:
Metroid Prime Hunter
Mario Kart
New Super Mario Bros
Trauma Centre
Clubhouse Games
Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
Advance Wars DS
Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow
Yoshi's Island

Playstation:
Final Fantasy VII
Resident Evil 2
Die Hard Trilogy
Cool Boarders

Playstation 2:
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Pro Evolution Soccer 4
Shadow of the Colossus
Ico
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Jak and Daxter
Gran Turismo 3
Metal Gear Solid 3
Ring of Red
We Love Katamari
Psychonauts
Dragon Quest VIII
Everybody's Golf

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sort of amazed no-one has picked Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy for the PS2.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Clubhouse Games? Really?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 7 January 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

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― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

OH NO

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

anyway... i am totally addicted to mahjong solitaire.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Clubhouse Games? Really?

I just like being able to play Koi Koi and bowling etc against people cross t'internet. :( I actually expected Cool Boarders to get the hate...

few xposts:
Never heard of Indigo Prophecy, though gamespot seems to like it...

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Monday, 8 January 2007 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

Indigo Prophecy is cool, but short. Like Trace Memory short. Way the fuck better than Trace Memory though.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 14 January 2007 06:29 (eighteen years ago)

I traded Trace Memory in to the local used store, got the GBA LttP for $4. Wheee.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 14 January 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

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