If you are pulling your hair out trying to find an affordable video game system, you should consider the Nintendo Gamecube. It’s the system that Nintendo made prior to releasing the Wii console. The Wii “brain” is still the Gamecube engine, in fact. But in order to market its new video game system, Nintendo scrapped the Gamecube. That doesn’t mean it isn’t still a great starter system for beginning gamers, and you can’t beat the price!
Right now, you can find the Gamecube available on sites like eBay and Amazon for amazingly low prices – $35 to $50 for the console and controllers. The games are also available everywhere for about $10 – a long way from the $50 price tag for new Wii games. These games are mostly used, as are the systems, but you can find systems in such excellent shape it’s like having new.
Especially if you are on a budget, the Gamecube makes sense. If you don’t want to spend a fortune for a game system, or if you have young children who want to get started and you don’t want to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars, finding a Gamecube is a perfect solution. Even better, when you do upgrade to a Wii, the Wii will play all of your old Gamecube games. Not only that, but video game rentals like GameFly still offer Gamecube games online, and you can buy the ones you like after you try them.
The Gamecube might be off the market officially, but for under $75 you can have a really fun gaming system that will last for years.
