I'm buying a Gamecube.

I have a $75 gift card to Best Buy (girlfriend's parents are great), so I think $75 for a game system is pretty damned good. I was going to sell my Tivo and upgrade to a series 2 with the card so I could use broadband, but instructions on the Tivo forum have come up on how to use serial to connect to another PC and connect that way. I don't have a problem with that.

So as soon as I can, I'm going to good ol BB and picking up a GC, a wavebird, and one game. But which one is my question. What do you guys suggest as the first game I get for this thing?

Sorry, Tony, I'm not really interested in Rogue Leader. Drakino you suggested these as standouts:


Smash Brothers is out
Ethernal Darkness is out
Resident Evil is out
Resident Evil (the next one can't remember the name) will be soon
Starfox is not, but should be soon
Mario will be out in a month
Metroid by christmas
Zelda early next year


Smash Brothers is a good possibility, because people are really raving about how fun it is. That's what I'm looking for. Fun. I don't care about realism (FOX made good points about this).

Frankly, my favorite games are: Final Fantasy II/IV (that's 2 slash 4 ), Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, and the first Mega Man X game. Those games stand out to me as the most pure fun games I have ever played. I'm still amazed at how playable that Mega Man game is. I wonder if it says anything that these were all on SNES? Oh well.

Anyway, that's the question. What game to buy?

ps-am I the only one who couldn't care less about online gaming with these consoles?