Gamequbed Archives (August 2001)
Nintendo’s new Slogan for Nintendo Gamecube is….
Born to Play!
Also these are the games that are going to be showed off at Europe’s Nintendo Show in the U.K….
- Luigi’s Mansion
- Pikmin
- Super Smash Bros 2
- Wave Race: Blue Storm
- Star Fox: Dinosaur Planet
- Rogue Leader
Not much of a surprise, just the same titles as we’ve perviously seen at E3 and Spaceworld.
Posted By: StarFox
Date: August 31, 2001
Source: Planet Gamecube
Japanese release dates
September 14
- Luigi’s Mansion
- Wave Race: Blue Storm
- Super Monkey Ball
October 26
- Pikmin
November 21
- Super Smash Bros 2
December 14
- Animal Forest Plus
December TBA
- Eternal Darkness
- Universal Studios: Theme Park Creation
Fall TBA
- FIFA 2002 Road to FIFA World Cup
- SSX Tricky
Winter TBA
- Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II
- Rune
- Sonic Adventure 2
February 2002
- Star Fox: Dinosaur Planet
March 2002
- Doubutsu Bancho
- Batman: Dark Tomorrow
Spring 2002
- Virtua Striker 3 ver.2002
Summer 2002
- Mario Sunshine
Winter 2002
- The Legend of Zelda
TBA 2002
- Metroid Prime
- Disney’s Mickey Mouse
- 1080 2
- Donkey Kong Racing
- New Kyojin No Doshin 1
- Phantasy Star Online
- Bomberman Generation
- Soul Calibur 2
Posted By: StarFox
Date: August 31, 2001
Source: Gamecube XL
Let’s all give a warm welcome to StarFox, who knows alot about Gamecube. He’ll be helping us out with the news updating.
Posted By: CoolAsIce
Date: August 30, 2001
Source: Gamequbed
Here’s some bad news. Nintendo has announced at Spaceworld that extra GameCube controls will cost you $34.95 USD(in the US of course). It’s $15.00 more than the old set price of $19.95 USD. It’s not known how much Canadians will have to pay, but I’m betting it’ll be $44.95.
Now for some good news. Nintendo also announced the price of their Digicard(Memory Card 59). It will only be $14.95 USD in the USA.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 27, 2001
Source: Nintensity
‘Several Webmasters and writters from various sites have all given their thoughts on Mario Sunshine and Zelda cube. The article was done by Max Criden of N-Nation. His article can be found here. Somewhere near the bottom is my comments…
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 24, 2001
Source: N-Nation
TendoBox has some screenshots of the next Mario game(Mario sunshine) and Zelda cube. The Mario screenshot is located here http://www.tendobox.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=3&id;=998555042 while the Zelda one is located here http://www.tendobox.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=3&id;=998554684
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 23, 2001
Source: Tendo Box
North Americans will have a choice of either getting the Indigo or Jet Black colors of the Gamecube. The spice orange color/colour will not be available at launch.
What about the controllers? Well, 4 colours will be made available which include Indigo, “Indigo/Transparent configuration,” Jet Black and Spice Orange.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 23, 2001
Source: Tendo Box
Nintendo has delayed the GameCube until November 18(a day before my birthday) for us North Americans according to Nintendo’s Spaceworld Press Kit. The system was originally planned for a November 5 launch, which is 3 days before the launch of Microsoft’s XBOX(Nov 8).
After this announcement, Nintendo issued a press release stating that 700,000 GCN units will be in stores on launch day with two games to choose from. Luigi’s Mansion and/or Wave Race: Blue Storm. Pikmin comes out the next day and Super Smash Bros. Melee comes in December.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 23, 2001
Source: IGNCube
Mario will appear at spaceworld. In his next game, Mario Sunshine which will be introduced at Spaceworld this week. This is supposedly a 2-disk game and will have 2 player support(Maybe even 4?). It’s also supposed to be more of a sequel to Super Mario 64, a game that launched with the N64 in 1996. More will be revealed as Spaceworld comes…
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 22, 2001
Source: Tendobox
Here’s a list of games that are going to be present on the GameCube at spaceworld. TendoGamers has this list from a Nintendo magazine. You’ll notice that Sonic Adventure 2 is now on the list, and Universal studios is gone. Universal Studios does appear on Nintendo of Japan’s page though, so it’s likely that it will be present.
- Rune [working title] (From Software)
- Sonic Adventure 2 [working title] (Sega)
- Virtua Striker 3 Ver.2002 [working title] (Sega)
- Phantasy Star Online for GC (Sega)
- Super Monkey Ball (Sega)
- FIFA 2002: Road to FIFA World Cup (EA Square)
- SSX Tricky [working title] (EA Square)
- Bomberman Generation (Hudson)
- Super Smash Bros. Melee (Nintendo)
- Luigi’s Mansion (Nintendo)
- Pikmin (Nintendo)
- Wave Race: Blue Storm (Nintendo)
- Animal Forest Plus (Nintendo)
- Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet (Nintendo)
- Doubutsu Bancho (Nintendo)
- Eternal Darkness (Nintendo)
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 22, 2001
Source: TendoGamers
N-Nation has this information:
“Japan is exactly…
- 16 hours ahead of Pacific US Time Zone
- 15 hours ahead of Mountain
- 14 hours ahead of Central
- 13 hours ahead of Eastern
TIMES FOR SPACEWORLD: This covers all the Spaceworld days, including the Press Conference that is held at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center on Thursday. Friday, at the Makuhari Messe Convention Center, Spaceworld itself will begin but will be open to the press only. Saturday, however, will be open to the public as well as Sunday. See below for more information. Thanks.
Press Conference: Tokyo International Exhibition Center
Japan: Thursday, actual times yet to be announced.
USA…
- Unable to determine until official Japanese times are announced.
And now for Spaceworld itself: Makuhari Messe Convention Center
Day one (press only): Four Hours Long,
Japan: Friday, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
For United States…
- Pacific: Thursday, 9:00 PM to Friday, 1:00 AM
- Mountain: Thursday, 10:00 PM to Friday, 2:00 AM
- Central: Thursday, 11:00 PM to Friday, 3:00 AM
- Eastern: Friday (it’s midnight), 12:00 AM to Friday, 4:00 AM
Day Two: Seven Hours Long
Japan: Saturday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
For United States…
- Pacific: Friday, 5:00 PM to Saturday (midnight), 12:00 AM
- Mountain: Friday, 6:00 PM to Saturday, 1:00 AM
- Central: Friday, 7:00 PM to Saturday, 2:00 AM
- Eastern: Friday, 8:00 PM to Saturday, 3:00 AM
Day Three: Seven Hours Long
Japan: Sunday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
For United States…
- Pacific: Saturday, 5:00 PM to Sunday (midnight), 12:00 AM
- Mountain: Saturday, 6:00 PM to Sunday, 1:00 AM
- Central: Saturday, 7:00 PM to Sunday, 2:00 AM
- Eastern: Saturday, 8:00 PM to Sunday, 3:00 AM”
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 21, 2001
Source: N-Nation
According to Tendobox, this month’s issue of Nintendo kisds has a lit of Spaceworld games. Sonic Adventure 2 is on the list for the GameCube. Attendess might also want to keep an eye open for Mario and Zelda which both could appear in video form. That news came from Nintendo Dream and it’s mini spaceworld guide.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 21, 2001
Source: TendoBox
Gamespot says that Luigi’s Mansion and Super Monkey Ball will need at least three(3) blocks of memory on the GCN memory card while Wave Race: Blue Storm needs 12 blocks. Each GameCube memory card(the one’s from Nintendo) can store up to 59 blocks of data(and I mean saving). It’s selling for 1,400 yen, or $12 USD in Japan.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 21, 2001
Source: GameSpot
Lately we’ve been having some problems with our @gamequbed.com email address. This means that if you’ve sent an email to anyone on the staff using the gamequbed.com email address (@gamequbed.com), you probably didn’t recieve a reply: because the email didn’t come through. Rest assured, we’re working on this persistent problem, and we’ll let you know when you can email us using the @gamequbed.com email protocol again. We’re also sorry to those of you who may have emailed us and didn’t recieve a reply. In the meantime, you can still reach tom at neo_geo15@hotmail.com and Jed at jedcross2@aol.com.
Posted By: CoolAsIce
Date: August 20, 2001
Source: Gamequbed
GameQubed welcomes it’s latest Affiliate, Video Game Room 2000 into our list. They provide lots of content.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 16, 2001
Source: Video Game room 2000
In a recent chat I had with the owner of Gamecube.com, he told me that the guys over at NinGC.comjust set up the newsletter thing on gamecube.com and it was run off of Ningc.com’s servers. The webmaster at GameCube.com will be running it himself and perhaps he’ll have staff. When I asked him about when he’ll open the site up, he told me he wasn’t sure when. In case your wondering, Nintendo did not take the owner of gamecube.com to court.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 16, 2001
Source: GameQubed
I received an email from the webmaster over at NintendoNG and he told me he has found out who owns GameCube.com. It’s quite simple actually. If you signup for the newsletter at gamecube.com, you’ll be redirected to http://www.ningc.com/gc.com/cgi/mail.cgi and after that, it’ll redirect you back to gamecube.com. NinGC is currently one of GameQubed’s affiliates.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 15, 2001
Source: NintendoNG
I checked out a few more sites to see where they’d forward to and stuff like that. I checked Nintendogamecube.net and it forwards to pokemon.com. Ever since our Affiliate VGNation reported about them checking out nintendogamecube.com, I have decided to check out nintendogamecube.org and nintendogamecube.net. Both those domains forwards you to pokemon.com.
I went further, I thought that just maybe, if I typed in gcn.com, it would be a Nintendo site. Boy was I wrong. GCN.com is “Government computer News”. GCN.org and GCN.net do not work, although I haven’t checked out to see if they are registerd.
A quick summary for you guys:
GameCube.com–>not owned by Nintendo, owned by a guy that bought the domain in January 2000 when the GameCube was going by the codename “Dolphin”. Now under an agreement, GameCube.com must be a gaming site.
I have also received an email from a guy who I’ll call “Dallas”. He visited NGC.com and it appears to be a GameCube site not run by Nintendo. For those of you that don’t know this, NGC was going to be the old acronym for GameCube(Nintendo GameCube), but there seemed to be many companies that had NGC as their acronyms or something like that, so Nintendo went with GCN(GameCube Nintendo) instead.
GameCube.net–>Owned by Nintendo, forwards to Nintendo.com Gamecube.org–>owned by Nintendo, forwards to Nintendo.com Nintendogamecube.com–>forwards to Nintendo.com Nintendogamecube.net–>forwards to pokemon.com Nintendogamecube.org–>forwards to pokemon.com GCN.com–>not related to gaming at all, it’s a government computer site GCN.org–>not available GCN.net–>not available gamecube.co.uk–>unknown at this time, but it’s coming soon, and the logo looks cubicle. NGC.com–>Website not owned by Nintendo, but it’s a GameCube related site.[I’d like to thank “Dallas” for this information] NGC.net–>not a gaming site, has something to do with JAVAscripts or something.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 13, 2001
Source: GameQubed
We’ll see what will happen in November…
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 13, 2001
Source: VGNation
VGNation has found that many sites on the net are claiming that Konami will have a launch title for the GameCube. This could not be true however, but there may be a title before the end of the current year. The title is currently a secret.
-Jed
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 11, 2001
Source: VGNation
Our Affiliate, VGNation did a little more work on the domain situation of Gamecube.com. They simply typed in gamecube.org and gamecube.net and it forwarded them directly to Nintendo.com. I did more investigating.
I checked out gamecube.co.uk to see what site it would take me to. It wasn’t a Nintendo site, but it did have a cube at the top of the site. Why don’t you check it out Yourself?.
I checked to see if Nintendo owned the domain, but they didn’t.
-Jed
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 11, 2001
Source: VGNation and Some from me
Remember GameCube.com? It was already a registerd domain name before Nintendo announced the GameCube at spaceworld 2000 last year. There was a problem though. Nintendo did not know about the domain being owned. I recently checked out GameCube.com and it had a picture of Link holding a sword on the page. It said “coming soon”.
I checked Register.com to see if Nintendo had taken control of the site, but to my surprise, it was the same owner as before. Perhaps Nintendo and him are in an agreement?
I also checked other extensions and according to what I checked, Nintendo owns Nintendo.net .
I couldn’t check out the other domain extensions because I had checked 2 already, and I don’t think they allow more than 2 queries a day or so.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 9, 2001
Source: GameQubed
According to IGN, Nintendo has made it that the North American version of GameCube will not be able to play the Japanese software. The Japanese GCN won’t be able to play the American software. Nintendo has also taken steps to ensure that no mod chip will be made easily to play another countries software. Head on to IGNCUBE for more information regarding this.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 7, 2001
Source: http://cube.ign.com/news/37195.html
Our Affiliate TendoGamers has some information about Capcom at spaceworld. This is what I read on their site:
“According to the Japanese site GC Inside and NextGen Magazine, Capcom will not show Resident Evil 0 at Space World later this month.”
Capcom has said that they were working on GCN titles, but nothing really has been announced. Maybe the Street Fighter series are coming too?
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 7, 2001
Source: Tendogamers
Well, I myself would like to ask thee a question.
Or, to make it clear, I’d like to ask you a question…
Have you sent me an email(jedcross@gamequbed.com)and not get a reply? I have a feeling that some of you may have done so, so if your asking yourself, why didn’t Jed reply?
With my mail client(AOL), I sent jedcross@gamequbed.com an email, and it forwards to my AOL address, and to my surprise, it didn’t come to me, so this is kinda strange.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 6, 2001
Source: GameQubed
Nintendo is planning to ship 1.1 million GameCube units to the U.S for the launch in November. This is more than the current demand for the console. If your wondering how they will do this, then keep reading.
It’s very simple. The Japanese launch won’t be as big. They will only have 500,000 units at the September launch.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 4, 2001
Source: VGnation Gamecube
Sorry to VGNation. We didn’t get around to putting up the link to you guys in our affiliates list, but now it’s there. Check out VGnation. On another note, our release lists cannot be reached because of a wrong link. On our release lists page(GBA and GCN), they will link to http://www.gamequbed.com/gamelists/"something". Replace gamelists with games after clicking on the link. This should be fixed soon enough.
Posted By: Jed
Date: August 2, 2001
Source: VGNation