I always imagined this cube as like the beginning of a world, slowly duplicating itself and building the world based off of your disc, but when there's nothing, this is it.
That is actually a very smart way to think of it! Considering each game on the Memory Card does take a certain amount of ‘blocks’, which was their unit of storage.
@@helow8714 After reading your comment, I decided to pay attention to the song’s mood as I listened to it and…yeah. Now that you mention it, it feels like a comforting kind of creepy, like you’re in a creepy, dark place, but you have many friends with you so you’re not alone. I used to just hear the relaxing notes and not pay attention to the mood.
For all the boys that miss the nostalgia, need help sleeping, or just need a comforting tune; this is for us. I hope you all have prosperous lives, and come back every once in a while to hear this
life's been stressful, challenging.. lonely, lately. I was born just 6 months before the gamecube, and I frequently come to this video to help chill out, or usually to fall asleep at night. and yet through it all I keep breathing hope to see you on the other side mate ✌
I don't know. For some odd reason, this has the same effect on me as any liminal space image. As kid, this menu screen was eerie but intriguing at the same time, and I remember messing around with rolling the cube. Even if the void itself seemed cold and ambient, looking at the sprites for the different games on the memory card was like standing outside looking into a window seeing all the goings on inside the building, especially if there was no game inserted. And I knew once I popped that disc, the eerieness would be gone, and I was now the game's world. Now looking at this, having long lost our old gamecube, not only can I not escape the screen just by inserting the game and pressing play, but I'm not longer able to interact with the screen itself. It's just there, no longer a portal to a world of fun, but an inaccessible relic of the past. A bleak, lifeless husk of what it once was. Not helping is the calendar, which may be set to today's date, 20 years after the console's release, after all the innovations gaming and technology have made that have long since surpassed it. There was life here too, in this dark, drifting, digital void. And that just makes it all the more eerie. OK, so it may not be that deep. But it's just the feeling I get looking at this menu screen after all this time. Same thing goes for the PS2 menu screen.
For me I just loved the different sounds overall. The menu music was nice, the sound when moving the cube was great, the sound when choosing an option was nice, overall it was just a very pleasant menu.
@Jason Smith yeah the PS3 and Xbox 360 were the last good and normal consoles. I can only think of one major game from that gen that was rushed for money and that’s Skyrim. Nowadays every games rushed and unfinished
This music is amazing. It's the only one that says, "Hey. It's okay that you're here right now. It may seem creepy, but nothing will harm you. Just stick a disc in and enjoy yourself."
It's more of a mix between isolated purgatory, and a place full of meditation, peace, safety, and isolated comfort, to help you relieve yoru stress, anxiety, and worries of the present, and come to this menu, free from judgement, anger/hatred, and most of all, problems in your life, in favor of a place of solitude, pleasure (in a good way not sexual), and most of all, fun, AND, we'll be here for all mankind, even if we're shutoff on December 31st, 2099 into the 22nd century.
Yeah, especially 2011-2014, those favorite three years in elementary school growing up, those were a much simpler times before Covid hit, before Covid became a pandemic and before TikTok became an application, Corona was just a drink and TikTok was just a song
It's crazy how simple game consoles menues were back then. Looking at this makes now in days home screen just feel really bare but it also goes to show how little we had back then vs today and how companies were more customer driven.
Born in 2000. This is still beautiful to listen to since 2004/2005 before the hype of the Wii. Nostalgia can hit hard sometimes, but this hits a different level of nostalgia.
Born in 1993, seeing/listening to this gamecube menu calming music makes me remember going over to another kids place (circa 2003?) sitting on his foldable futon and watching him play Super Mario Sunshine.
Man this shit is better than the minimalistic thing going around video games today man kids don't know what they're missing nowadays. Please bring it back one more time.
FRRRR consoles these days just feel like lifeless husks, designed to play games and nothing else. i miss when they actually felt alive, when it felt you were looking at a living thing. i miss all the little easter eggs they used to hide away to people who were curious enough. and most of all, i miss the music. that's the sole reason i'm here on this video lol.
@@nickalvizo Yeah. Unless devs out there know how to program/code and create video games on older 5th, 6th, and even 7th generation console development kits, we may never get a ton of games for these consoles ever again.
The childhood time for me when I could escape the abuse I went through with such a heart warming song. The Gamecube was everything to me back then and I would listen to the background music over and over again. It reminds me of a few things that gives me flash blacks in those interesting times.
I left this comment on another video but I wanted to share the memory 🥲 I still play my gamecube very regularly but this music means a lot to me. when my dad first bought a gamecube for my older sister and I for Christmas, he hilariously thought the games were built into the system and didn't realize he had to buy any. so we had no games. my sister and i were so excited and thankful to have a gamecube anyway that we'd just spend hours spinning the menu screen everyday lol. later when we saved up enough for games we realized we had no memory card so we had to leave the gamecube on while playing sonic adventure 2 battle so we didn't lose our progress for another few months lmao. then finally when we got the memory card we could hear this music again. wow I'm so nostalgic for that time.
I’m very happy that you and your sister would just feel grateful for having a gamecube just to spin the menu cube, at least you found some entertainment even with no games 😊🤣 Saturday, June 5, 2021 10:50 PM
I remember that we had like a very small memory card at first. We couldn't play the sims bustin out because it needed space on the card just for system files or something like that.
The GameCube was always sort of a mythical console to me. I had one when I was really little, and played some games on there for a while. Then a few years later I ended up getting a Wii, and I never saw that GameCube ever again. It’s like even though I had the console, I had it when I was so young that my memories of it are just a blur. So as a kid with no internet, the GameCube always felt like this special console that I never see in stores or on TV yet it still exists. Whenever we’d go into somewhere like those hotels for theme parks and they’d have GameCubes in the rooms I’d always play them and feel really special. (Then I’d get in trouble because they charge a fee for playing it) Hopefully I can buy a GameCube for myself one day.
Damn dude. I should snatch a $50 TV from Goodwill and buy a GameCube online so I can experience what was an amazing home console. I hope you were able to buy that GameCube. They are less that $100 on eBay if you couldn't get it.
I still have my gamecube all the way from launch in 2001 back when I was just 14 but it sadly doesnt work anymore. Stopped workin around 2013, 2014 I think and I couldn’t fix it. It’d been used heavily to it’s death lmao. We use the family Wii for gamecube games now though instead but id rather play them on an actual gamecube so im hoping to get another some day too
The cube is lore in it of itself, staring at the cube, listening to the calming sounds, your inside a dark black void, stranded with nothing but the cube, or maybe even outside of the space time flow itself, when you put a disc in, your no longer alone, transported to the world of the disc, then when you take it out here you are, back at the same empty void with the bluish transparent cube, waiting for its next disc to manifest its world into reality, this menu music hits different
Fun fact: the music is actually the slowed version of the famicom start up which was only released in Japan but speed it up and you should hear it but not on youtube because it won't be fast enough but just search up nintendo gamecube menu music sped up and look around one of the videos or shorts will be of a sped up version of the gamecube menu music
I remember those times when I called my brother to play Mario Party 7, and he always took a while to go upstairs. While waiting, I was enchanted by this music. And then, when he reached our room to play, it always took some time for me to start the game😂 Heh, I miss those good old days as a kid...this console will always have a special place in my heart. I had really good memories with it. Well, when I was a kid, the GameCube wasn't in any shop anymore, because the Wii took its place (another factor of nostalgia, but the GameCube is a lil' more nostalgic to me). With that, I say that Nintendo is part of the best childhood I can ever ask for. If you're reading till this point, I wish you a good day, I really appreciate your attention. May God bless you. See ya around comrades.
This. This right here. This is the ACTUAL gc menu music. Every single other video of the music always has the notes fade in and fade out and not how the music ACTUALLY SOUNDS like this one! Props to you!
Something about watching the dancing cube and the music makes you think of the old times when you played with friends and family. Then makes you wonder if there will ever be another time where you get together and play it one last time.
This is a good example of how nostalgia can be so emotional and beautiful but also very lonesome and sometimes even dangerous. So ebjoy it in small doses and move forward with life.
I often played the GameCube with my brother, as it was one of the first gaming consoles we had as kids. Once we started middleschool we didn't have much time for videogames let alone the time to ensure it was stored correctly. As I started high school soon after, I had a sudden urge of nostalgia rush over me and I wanted to experience this exact screen again, being able to move it around, and watch as messed with its options before a play session. Unfortanetly my mother had gotten to it first and admitted to giving it away a couple years ago as a donation. All my games, all my memories, all my time was just swept away in an instant without even me knowing. Gosh, I bawled my eyes out every night knowing I might not ever experience the same feelings I once did with my Gamecube. After seeing a couple videos like these years later, it helps satisfy my nostalgia and most importantly puts me at ease knowing another kid probably experienced everything I did with it and is probably thanking me despite my mother giving it away. To whoever owns that indigo Gamecube that was once mine, I hope you had great memories with it and I hope you love and cherish it as much as I did.
I bought my black GameCube in 2006, almost at the end of the console's cycle with money from my first job. In the past, the company Gradiente manufactured Nintendo consoles here in Brazil. I had games from Mario Kart DD, Resident Evil 4 (the best for me), Super Mario Sunshine and so on. Nowadays, every second of that menu gives me enormous nostalgia. May everyone have a great adult life, and take care of yourselves!
Beautiful! You can glare off into the voids and it will stare back at you. Calm relaxing and gives mindfulness at the same time. Kinda makes you wonder if there is a hidden servers or games in that game cube.
No matter how many newer Nintendo consoles there are nowadays, the GameCube is still my favorite console to play on now. I got my GameCube a while after it was discontinued (2013) but I was pretty young at the time so most of my memories are very nostalgic since I was 9 almost 10 when I got it. Luigi's Mansion and Double Dash are still my favorites for the console.
Brings me back to when I was 11, in my Mom's apartment, staying up all night in the living room and looking at all the interesting animated save icons in the memory card section of this menu.. such nostalgia
The music is nostalgia, because I still have a Gamecube since release, but the menu theme is EXCELLENT for getting yourself to sleep. Fun fact: This is actually the Famicom Disk Drive theme at a very slow speed.
This theme suddenly transported me to my childhood when my dad purchased my GC 19 years ago. I remember when I played masterpieces like RE Remake/3, Mario Kart Double Dash, Sushine and Luigui's Mansion.
Today marks the 20th Anniversary for the GameCube here in the US. I'm so glad I got to grow up with his console, and I spent way too much time fiddling with this UI back in the day.
Its bitter sweet to hear so many of you talk about lost memories of cubes gone by. I still play my gamecube and not just every once in a blue moon, shes my daily driver, granted I'm a very old school retro gamer and dont really enjoy anything past wii/ds as a rule. But still, I think even my more open minded and modern gaming bros can appreciate their formative years and the nostalgic awesomeness that is the gamecube... God bless and for those of you who still have a working cube, dont be afraid to plug her in and get back in touch with all the great games we grew up with :)
Before my GameCube dies, I will boot up the menu and just watch the cube in the void with the eerie but calming music and say my final goodbyes to one of my favourite consoles I ever got.
I have a bunch of consoles and none of them have died, it sounds like you don't look after your consoles at all. so if it died its probably your own fault
I remember I used to actually like it when it didn't read the disc right (or we hadn't put one in yet) and brought us to this menu. I enjoyed the music, the sounds, the whole vibe. I'll always love the GameCube. ☺️
I remember accidentally discovering this for the first time as a kid... I was weirded out, but it was awesome. I liked the noises the cube made as I turned it. And this music is so soothing
I fell asleep to this as a kid, after trying to get an old game working way past my bedtime, right on my bean bag. Dont think ive ever felt more at peace in my life ngl
I was 8 when I got the gamecube in 2004 what a year to be born. So many good memories wish I can relive this Era when life was simple no stress nothing just having fun playing gamecube in my room sonic, zelda, Mario, smash etc. 25 now I actually have a nintendo wii that's modded with digital gamecube games still play with with my original gamecube controller that I had when I was a kid the nostalgia never gets old. My friends will never understand how sick the gamecube was. But life will never be the same as it was back then, I'm successful now with my own place and everything but stress will always follow and I prefer being a kid because there was no such thing as stress just full of joy and happiness playing countless of gamecube ✨ well see you guys on the other side hopefully we can one day relive this moment
This was really a different time, back before Console UIs had basically everything and learning to navigate it became part of the process of owning one. For those unaware, the four options on the cube were accessed by tilting the analog stick in a certain direction. Left allowed you to mess with the volume control or the menu, Right let you set the date and time, Down let you manage data on Memory Cards plugged into Slot A or B, and Up brought you to a game boot screen after you put a disc in, useful for jumping right back in if you didn't know which memory card had your game's save data on it, if you wanted to clear data so you could save a new game, or if you were just plain ol' time traveling in Animal Crossing. The PS2 and Xbox had similar features but they worked with static option lists that sent you to a different menu screen. The Gamecube was so slick, so clean that it didn't even need to load a different screen, you just tilted, pressed A, and bam, you were there. It probably sounds silly to have nostalgia for a menu screen, but boy, in 2002, this was magical.
I was born in 1998 in the early 2000s we used to play the best games mario kart Godzilla mario sunshine luigi mansion and more miss the early 2000s child hood days where the best never let them die out 💯
Every time i hear this, it reminds me of those days when my Resident Evil 4 or Super Smash Bros Melee Disc didn't work because of how badly damaged those were
I never had a GameCube in my life, due to being born 1 year after the Wii. But somehow, this sounds really nostalgic. Maybe I had a GameCube in my past life. Or maybe my dad just had a GameCube when I was just a baby and he played it in front of me. When you're thinking about the past, play this. It really gives off that timeless vibe.
I was born in 2005. 4 years after the game cube came out. So it was still pretty popular when I was a toddler because it was one of the latest systems Nintendo had out at the time, and both my moms brothers and lots of their cousins play video games so I’m sure there was a game cube laying around somewhere. That’s probably why I get nostalgic over it.
This gives me such indescribable feelings. Every time I turn on the Gamecube I leave it on this menu for a bit just to listen to the gentle tones and watch that little cube hover in that blank dark void. It's mysterious, wondrous, comforting, and melancholy all at the same time. I love the Gamecube so much. It will be a sad day when mine dies
Sonic mega collection, nfs hot pursuit 2, mario sunshine and mario party 5 were my childhood. I remember having so much fun with these four specific titles with my older brother. I'll never forget the countless hours we spent on this one console.
You still can play GC with your past self, just have to rediscover that part of yourself. As we grow older our brains and the way we think becomes crystalized, and we forget how to look at the world with fresh eyes again. Reignite your childlike wonder through acknowledging the multiple layers of personality which you are comprised of, and cross-reference each version of you to give them some level of representation in your outward personality.
Honestly as unsettling as this can be, it really did make the GameCube stand out from the rest of the consoles released around the time. Behind all the bright cheery colors of the games, the GameCube felt like some sort of alien device.
This here, yeah, this one? This one hits deep for me and probably a lot of people out there. I LOVE this freakin' console! It's my Number.1 console of all time! I even still OWN my childhood GameCube and it's still working properly after all these years! This music? It reminds me of when I was like, really young, I would mess around with the cube on this bios screen. I would change the time over and over again (Even though I shouldn't have done that since nowadays my GameCube will think that it's like [It's currently September as I'm editing this comment.]January or something, since the time is so off-track. It's really annoying, but I know my confused GameCube is trying.), switching my memory card into the other slot over and over again trying to get them both to appear on both sides even though that is not how it works, going into the settings, moving the screen around (with the screen position setting) and changing the audio type to Stereo and Mono over and over again. Young me for some reason had a much weirder sense of humor. I also remember going into the memory card setting just to look at the sprites on the mini-cubes. I'm honestly surprised that young me didn't know that the memory card cubes are just the main cube but shrunken down and used for memory card saves. I remember not even playing the games to do what the task was, I just messed around and had fun. ESPECIALLY in 'Mario Kart : Double Dash!!'. I'm glad I moved on from that phase. To be fair, my GameCube DOES get a little stubborn sometimes, but not often enough to classify it as 'broken'. It's just because most of my discs are scratched from young me. That's my commentary, you may move on from this comment now
My Nanna died a few months ago. I remember as a kid when I stayed at my Grandparents house she would let me plug in the GameCube for an hour or 2. I'd play Mario Cart Double Dash, Time Splitters 2, Metroid Prime or Luigi's Mansion. It's crazy how a game consoles theme can bring back so many memories you'd never have thought about otherwise. They all seem so long ago now, sad really.
This console meant a lot to me. I remember how excited i was when my mom gifted me the Nintendo GameCube. Games were expensive so I instead stuck with the Blockbuster game pass rental membership. Super Smash Bros Melee was going to be my first game to rent but it was all rented out at every local Blockbuster, so my first game ended up being The Simpson’s Road Rage. But before i put the disc inside the GameCube, I was mesmerically entranced by this soothing menu background track. It’s so mysterious, magical and futuristic with an ominous touch of sadness. This transparent cube...It’s like, what the beginning of time might have looked like, with each surface of the cube representing a different dimension. This is my imagination. Thanks for reading.
The memories I often think back to this theme. Remembering that time that I've left this screen on at night and just laid there, listening to the ambience.
Imagine one second if the GameCube had 1080i output out of the box. The shading on the games already made the models so round and perfect. A game like Super Monkey Ball played on Dolphin is GORGEOUS! We have to celebrate the system as much as possible.
Not quite the same, but this was recorded with the GCHD MK-II HDMI adapter, which is a super easy plug and play solution with no modding. Highly recommended!
The PS2 and Xbox were clearly the most popular due to their capabilities of playing DVDs let alone anything else. But yeah, the Gamecube is an underrated and overlooked console of that era.
I had a Wii and played Gamecube games on that. It's funny, I never really got into Mario games until 2010, when I was 10, but I mostly have nostalgia for the Gamecube era of games. Luigi's Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, and Wario World were like a holy trinity for me. And of course Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door was great too.
But it's only thanks to recently using Dolphin that I've been able to see this screen often. Of course, you need to download the BIOs separately on that. But it's worth it.
One time, when i had this video on my TV all day until when i got back home at night, my mom pranked me by turning on my actual gamecube to this screen😂 I love you, mom❤ Gamecube was my first console i had on my 5th birthday, and after 12 years later, i always had fun with gamecube as a kid and still now
It is 2002 i was 13 years old, I woke up early at around 2AM to continue playing Luigi’s Mansion, Resident Evil & Monkey Ball .. it was a school day and till now my parents don’t know this secret. That time every game is 10/10
i just dig how you began the video with the "rolling block" startup jingle that Transitioned into this menu, instead of just abruptly starting at the menu music... alternate video ideas are now possible, too-- like starting up the Gamecube with 'Z' held on a controller (or perhaps on All Four controllers for yet another easter egg)
Thanks for noticing! I do this with all my ambience videos where possible, to make it feel like you're actually booting up a system or game yourself. It helps that they are all recorded with the game or hardware itself, and not looped!
Thank you for all the memories. I couldn't ask for anything more. I will make my mark here, just so I can watch myself age. - Levi Roberson November 12, 2021 2:44 PM
My favourite video game console of all time. I got it for my 10th birthday the 25th of May 2002, I'll never forget it. Luigi's Mansion was the first game I ever booted up on it followed by Sonic Adventure 2. The Gamecube was the best system of all time. So many amazing games but sadly it didn't sell very well so is still underrated compared to PS2 but in my opinion it's better. This music makes me emotional. Those were the best days of my life.
The “Why isn’t my game working?” music
The "where is my god damn game" music
The "Couldn't read a disc? Common dammit!" Music
The “lemme empty some of my data to add more” theme
the “dammit the disc is scratched” music
the also “calming” music
Admire this guy's dedication. He left his GameCube on for ten hours straight.
And I’d do it again
lol
He was unlocking Mewtwo in melee
He was beating all cup tour in double dash.
He was playing super Mario sunshine on hardmode
I always imagined this cube as like the beginning of a world, slowly duplicating itself and building the world based off of your disc, but when there's nothing, this is it.
So it's like a framing device for every single game?
it's a gaming console it's not that deep bruh 😭
@@boiwhat5421 Do you not know how to imagine?
@@boiwhat5421 Why even comment this? What a waste.
That is actually a very smart way to think of it! Considering each game on the Memory Card does take a certain amount of ‘blocks’, which was their unit of storage.
The ambience sounds very beautiful, depressing, and creepy all at the same time. This music has always stuck with me.
How is it creepy or depressing?
@@bubbajames2157 its mysterious and empty, and unknown
@@helow8714 After reading your comment, I decided to pay attention to the song’s mood as I listened to it and…yeah. Now that you mention it, it feels like a comforting kind of creepy, like you’re in a creepy, dark place, but you have many friends with you so you’re not alone. I used to just hear the relaxing notes and not pay attention to the mood.
@@bubbajames2157 it’s void of anything, just pure emptiness
@@nighthawk9532 That sounds more fitting for World of Nothing from Super Paper Mario.
For all the boys that miss the nostalgia, need help sleeping, or just need a comforting tune; this is for us. I hope you all have prosperous lives, and come back every once in a while to hear this
Likewise, man. See you around ✌🏼
life's been stressful, challenging.. lonely, lately. I was born just 6 months before the gamecube, and I frequently come to this video to help chill out, or usually to fall asleep at night. and yet through it all I keep breathing
hope to see you on the other side mate ✌
Likewise brother
2002 gang
Likewise ✌️
I don't know. For some odd reason, this has the same effect on me as any liminal space image. As kid, this menu screen was eerie but intriguing at the same time, and I remember messing around with rolling the cube. Even if the void itself seemed cold and ambient, looking at the sprites for the different games on the memory card was like standing outside looking into a window seeing all the goings on inside the building, especially if there was no game inserted. And I knew once I popped that disc, the eerieness would be gone, and I was now the game's world.
Now looking at this, having long lost our old gamecube, not only can I not escape the screen just by inserting the game and pressing play, but I'm not longer able to interact with the screen itself. It's just there, no longer a portal to a world of fun, but an inaccessible relic of the past. A bleak, lifeless husk of what it once was. Not helping is the calendar, which may be set to today's date, 20 years after the console's release, after all the innovations gaming and technology have made that have long since surpassed it. There was life here too, in this dark, drifting, digital void. And that just makes it all the more eerie.
OK, so it may not be that deep. But it's just the feeling I get looking at this menu screen after all this time. Same thing goes for the PS2 menu screen.
For me I just loved the different sounds overall. The menu music was nice, the sound when moving the cube was great, the sound when choosing an option was nice, overall it was just a very pleasant menu.
This spoke to me.
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I appreciate this man you articulated just how this makes me feel
@Jason Smith yeah the PS3 and Xbox 360 were the last good and normal consoles. I can only think of one major game from that gen that was rushed for money and that’s Skyrim. Nowadays every games rushed and unfinished
This music is amazing. It's the only one that says, "Hey. It's okay that you're here right now. It may seem creepy, but nothing will harm you. Just stick a disc in and enjoy yourself."
Thats the best description of it.
It's more of a mix between isolated purgatory, and a place full of meditation, peace, safety, and isolated comfort, to help you relieve yoru stress, anxiety, and worries of the present, and come to this menu, free from judgement, anger/hatred, and most of all, problems in your life, in favor of a place of solitude, pleasure (in a good way not sexual), and most of all, fun, AND, we'll be here for all mankind, even if we're shutoff on December 31st, 2099 into the 22nd century.
thats what she said
Believe it or not, it's just the Famicom (Japanese NES) boot music VERY slowed down. If sped up by 19x you can see that it is
Nah that's not how I saw it as a kid, this shit scared me way worse than the PS2 Red Screen of Death ever did
These were happy years, i miss that era
Yeah, especially 2011-2014, those favorite three years in elementary school growing up, those were a much simpler times before Covid hit, before Covid became a pandemic and before TikTok became an application, Corona was just a drink and TikTok was just a song
I gave you a like in your comment
@@mikhaelgonzalez8815 ikr :(
@@mikhaelgonzalez8815 god I miss 2015 man.
@@TheBadElf I mean like early 2015
I sleep fine with this overnight
Exactly.
Same
Same reason I'm here
That happened to me once.
A I d n o '' leap _s
The music kinda creeped me out as a kid but it’s so nostalgic now. It feels kinda ethereal and reminds me of good times. Sounds a bit sad too.
It's crazy how simple game consoles menues were back then. Looking at this makes now in days home screen just feel really bare but it also goes to show how little we had back then vs today and how companies were more customer driven.
0:08 I ALWAYS loved that spin when I was little. I still like it to this day.
Me too
it scared me LOL
Dododo, dododododo, (Or Something like That)
Love it!
This menu is so zen even the control stick animation is chill. It wants your attention, but not too much. Not so much that it disturbs you.
Born in 2000. This is still beautiful to listen to since 2004/2005 before the hype of the Wii. Nostalgia can hit hard sometimes, but this hits a different level of nostalgia.
I was born 1987 i remember gettin the gamecube around launch when I was 14 it’s still my favourite to this day
You and me both, bud.
Me too man, born in 2000
Born in 1993, seeing/listening to this gamecube menu calming music makes me remember going over to another kids place (circa 2003?) sitting on his foldable futon and watching him play Super Mario Sunshine.
Born in 99 here, and forever grateful that I grew up in the GameCube era
Man this shit is better than the minimalistic thing going around video games today man kids don't know what they're missing nowadays. Please bring it back one more time.
FRRRR
consoles these days just feel like lifeless husks, designed to play games and nothing else. i miss when they actually felt alive, when it felt you were looking at a living thing. i miss all the little easter eggs they used to hide away to people who were curious enough. and most of all, i miss the music. that's the sole reason i'm here on this video lol.
I’m sad that video games will never be the same as they were 20 years ago, especially something as great as the Gamecube
@@nickalvizo Bold of you to say 'never' like that. The sovl will eventually win over whatever's going on right now
@@nickalvizo Yeah. Unless devs out there know how to program/code and create video games on older 5th, 6th, and even 7th generation console development kits, we may never get a ton of games for these consoles ever again.
This is still somewhat minimalistic, but how it should be done, instead of the flat stuff
The childhood time for me when I could escape the abuse I went through with such a heart warming song. The Gamecube was everything to me back then and I would listen to the background music over and over again. It reminds me of a few things that gives me flash blacks in those interesting times.
flashbacks.
I liked your comment and I hope you get better, god bless your heart and soul!
So sorry about what you had to go through.
I'm glad this gave you a moment of comfort when it could, and also sorry for what you went through. I hope you are living in a much better place now
I am also a victim of abuse. I had my playstations and wii to help me. I'm so sorry you had to deal with that.
I left this comment on another video but I wanted to share the memory 🥲
I still play my gamecube very regularly but this music means a lot to me. when my dad first bought a gamecube for my older sister and I for Christmas, he hilariously thought the games were built into the system and didn't realize he had to buy any. so we had no games. my sister and i were so excited and thankful to have a gamecube anyway that we'd just spend hours spinning the menu screen everyday lol. later when we saved up enough for games we realized we had no memory card so we had to leave the gamecube on while playing sonic adventure 2 battle so we didn't lose our progress for another few months lmao. then finally when we got the memory card we could hear this music again. wow I'm so nostalgic for that time.
I’m very happy that you and your sister would just feel grateful for having a gamecube just to spin the menu cube, at least you found some entertainment even with no games 😊🤣
Saturday, June 5, 2021 10:50 PM
same.
wasn't it easier to buy a memory card instead of leaving the Console running for days ? Electricity costs more money .
@@HediDev most people's parents could care less and I'm pretty sure they don't have to pay the bills of there house
I remember that we had like a very small memory card at first. We couldn't play the sims bustin out because it needed space on the card just for system files or something like that.
The GameCube was always sort of a mythical console to me. I had one when I was really little, and played some games on there for a while. Then a few years later I ended up getting a Wii, and I never saw that GameCube ever again. It’s like even though I had the console, I had it when I was so young that my memories of it are just a blur. So as a kid with no internet, the GameCube always felt like this special console that I never see in stores or on TV yet it still exists. Whenever we’d go into somewhere like those hotels for theme parks and they’d have GameCubes in the rooms I’d always play them and feel really special. (Then I’d get in trouble because they charge a fee for playing it) Hopefully I can buy a GameCube for myself one day.
Literally same!! I had the games but only the Wii after we ditched the GameCube when I was very little, and I always wanted the OG console back so bad
im willing to give my gamecube away for your nostalgia
Damn dude. I should snatch a $50 TV from Goodwill and buy a GameCube online so I can experience what was an amazing home console. I hope you were able to buy that GameCube. They are less that $100 on eBay if you couldn't get it.
I still have my gamecube all the way from launch in 2001 back when I was just 14 but it sadly doesnt work anymore. Stopped workin around 2013, 2014 I think and I couldn’t fix it. It’d been used heavily to it’s death lmao. We use the family Wii for gamecube games now though instead but id rather play them on an actual gamecube so im hoping to get another some day too
@@bls3746 i can see if i can fix it my dude, whats the issue with it.
This screen always creeped me out, honestly. Gave off a "you took a wrong turn, you're not supposed to be here", vibe.
This actually scared me as a kid. Not to the point of crying, but it definitely unnerved me. Especially when I played GameCube at night
Speed this up 16 times
@@Giveme100ksubs Famicom disk system
@@Nintentoni ikik u dont have to say it
The cube is lore in it of itself, staring at the cube, listening to the calming sounds, your inside a dark black void, stranded with nothing but the cube, or maybe even outside of the space time flow itself, when you put a disc in, your no longer alone, transported to the world of the disc, then when you take it out here you are, back at the same empty void with the bluish transparent cube, waiting for its next disc to manifest its world into reality, this menu music hits different
That sounded very poetic, how you describe the GameCube menu!
Fun fact: the music is actually the slowed version of the famicom start up which was only released in Japan but speed it up and you should hear it but not on youtube because it won't be fast enough but just search up nintendo gamecube menu music sped up and look around one of the videos or shorts will be of a sped up version of the gamecube menu music
I remember those times when I called my brother to play Mario Party 7, and he always took a while to go upstairs. While waiting, I was enchanted by this music. And then, when he reached our room to play, it always took some time for me to start the game😂
Heh, I miss those good old days as a kid...this console will always have a special place in my heart. I had really good memories with it.
Well, when I was a kid, the GameCube wasn't in any shop anymore, because the Wii took its place (another factor of nostalgia, but the GameCube is a lil' more nostalgic to me).
With that, I say that Nintendo is part of the best childhood I can ever ask for.
If you're reading till this point, I wish you a good day, I really appreciate your attention. May God bless you.
See ya around comrades.
This. This right here. This is the ACTUAL gc menu music. Every single other video of the music always has the notes fade in and fade out and not how the music ACTUALLY SOUNDS like this one! Props to you!
I was 14 when this thing launched. Now I’m 35. Time really does fly
Any advice to a 25-year-old guy?
@@Skitlless what do you mean? Advice on what ?
@@Skitllesspay off all consumer debts & save up an emergency fund before getting house, if you have a house already still do those
12 and 33 here 🙋🏻 Played all the Nintendo Consoles, own most of them still, the GC is still my favorite one.
This music gives me so much memories
same
me as well
Yup.
Between its appearance and its ambient music, this is easily the best user interface of any game console ever made.
MIX THIS WITH THE PS2 AMBIANCE AND YOU WILL DEFINITELY GO TO SLEEP FASTER THAN USUAL.
... if there's those two...
What does the Xbox one sound like, if it has one
@@L1M.L4M I think it made subtle sounds of electrical and radio equipment
@@Keith-rd2uh along with mixes of modified Apollo recordings from an Atari ST synthesizer
Remember to not mistake the menu ambience with the RSOD, or you will have nightmares for a couple weeks
@@L1M.L4M don't do original xbox.. its actually scary and intimidating.
I could legit meditate to this. It's so relaxing. And makes me feel young. Or at least, remember slightly what it felt like to be young.
💯💯
Something about watching the dancing cube and the music makes you think of the old times when you played with friends and family. Then makes you wonder if there will ever be another time where you get together and play it one last time.
This is a good example of how nostalgia can be so emotional and beautiful but also very lonesome and sometimes even dangerous. So ebjoy it in small doses and move forward with life.
I often played the GameCube with my brother, as it was one of the first gaming consoles we had as kids. Once we started middleschool we didn't have much time for videogames let alone the time to ensure it was stored correctly. As I started high school soon after, I had a sudden urge of nostalgia rush over me and I wanted to experience this exact screen again, being able to move it around, and watch as messed with its options before a play session. Unfortanetly my mother had gotten to it first and admitted to giving it away a couple years ago as a donation. All my games, all my memories, all my time was just swept away in an instant without even me knowing. Gosh, I bawled my eyes out every night knowing I might not ever experience the same feelings I once did with my Gamecube. After seeing a couple videos like these years later, it helps satisfy my nostalgia and most importantly puts me at ease knowing another kid probably experienced everything I did with it and is probably thanking me despite my mother giving it away. To whoever owns that indigo Gamecube that was once mine, I hope you had great memories with it and I hope you love and cherish it as much as I did.
So nostalgic. Sometimes I’d just sit and listen to the music for a while before I loaded up my game.
Gosh, this takes me back to being 8 years old. So glad I grew up with this and not… I dunno… TikTok…
TikTok sucks. It’s owned by China and so those people have Communist China spying on them.
I grew up with the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista and DvDs
Resident Evil 4 ❤
Take me back to a time where it wasn’t obnoxious TikTok influencers nowadays and it was just little me, my GameCube, and my copy of Mario Sunshine 😢
I bought my black GameCube in 2006, almost at the end of the console's cycle with money from my first job. In the past, the company Gradiente manufactured Nintendo consoles here in Brazil. I had games from Mario Kart DD, Resident Evil 4 (the best for me), Super Mario Sunshine and so on. Nowadays, every second of that menu gives me enormous nostalgia. May everyone have a great adult life, and take care of yourselves!
This is so creepy yet calming
The word you're looking for is "ethereal".
Beautiful! You can glare off into the voids and it will stare back at you. Calm relaxing and gives mindfulness at the same time. Kinda makes you wonder if there is a hidden servers or games in that game cube.
No matter how many newer Nintendo consoles there are nowadays, the GameCube is still my favorite console to play on now. I got my GameCube a while after it was discontinued (2013) but I was pretty young at the time so most of my memories are very nostalgic since I was 9 almost 10 when I got it. Luigi's Mansion and Double Dash are still my favorites for the console.
Brings me back to when I was 11, in my Mom's apartment, staying up all night in the living room and looking at all the interesting animated save icons in the memory card section of this menu.. such nostalgia
The music is nostalgia, because I still have a Gamecube since release, but the menu theme is EXCELLENT for getting yourself to sleep.
Fun fact: This is actually the Famicom Disk Drive theme at a very slow speed.
This theme suddenly transported me to my childhood when my dad purchased my GC 19 years ago.
I remember when I played masterpieces like RE Remake/3, Mario Kart Double Dash, Sushine and Luigui's Mansion.
There were so many great games released for GameCube. My favorites are Pikmin 2, Mario Sunshine, Animal Crossing, Smash Bros. Melee, etc.
Don't forget the mario kart double dash
@@adam009ss5 goated game. Just got mine resurfaced
@@adam009ss5 and Mario party games (4-7)
Resident Evil 0, Remake, 4
Go! Go! Hypergrind is my favorite GameCube game.
Though I'd say it does cost a kidney.
Today marks the 20th Anniversary for the GameCube here in the US. I'm so glad I got to grow up with his console, and I spent way too much time fiddling with this UI back in the day.
My childhood this is my first console I had ever owned takes me all the way back to the good old days
Its bitter sweet to hear so many of you talk about lost memories of cubes gone by. I still play my gamecube and not just every once in a blue moon, shes my daily driver, granted I'm a very old school retro gamer and dont really enjoy anything past wii/ds as a rule. But still, I think even my more open minded and modern gaming bros can appreciate their formative years and the nostalgic awesomeness that is the gamecube... God bless and for those of you who still have a working cube, dont be afraid to plug her in and get back in touch with all the great games we grew up with :)
Before my GameCube dies, I will boot up the menu and just watch the cube in the void with the eerie but calming music and say my final goodbyes to one of my favourite consoles I ever got.
Did it die?
I have a bunch of consoles and none of them have died, it sounds like you don't look after your consoles at all. so if it died its probably your own fault
@@SlavicUnionGamingI have two just in case.
I remember I used to actually like it when it didn't read the disc right (or we hadn't put one in yet) and brought us to this menu. I enjoyed the music, the sounds, the whole vibe. I'll always love the GameCube. ☺️
I remember accidentally discovering this for the first time as a kid... I was weirded out, but it was awesome. I liked the noises the cube made as I turned it. And this music is so soothing
I fell asleep to this as a kid, after trying to get an old game working way past my bedtime, right on my bean bag. Dont think ive ever felt more at peace in my life ngl
This gives me the vibes of a world that’s corrupted as it’s not loading up. You’re stuck here forever with the sound of corrupted music.
I was 8 when I got the gamecube in 2004 what a year to be born. So many good memories wish I can relive this Era when life was simple no stress nothing just having fun playing gamecube in my room sonic, zelda, Mario, smash etc.
25 now I actually have a nintendo wii that's modded with digital gamecube games still play with with my original gamecube controller that I had when I was a kid the nostalgia never gets old. My friends will never understand how sick the gamecube was.
But life will never be the same as it was back then, I'm successful now with my own place and everything but stress will always follow and I prefer being a kid because there was no such thing as stress just full of joy and happiness playing countless of gamecube ✨ well see you guys on the other side hopefully we can one day relive this moment
You made me tear up 😢
@@cheezeplayz5234 sorry 😞
I got the GameCube for my 8th Birthday back in 2004 & my 1st game was Mario Kart Double Dash. So much Nogistia
@@ZonerHODHC it was the time to be in
This was my childhood right here, I miss this so much
Same
If you didn't know, speeding this up a bit is the same melody as the Famicom startup.
Everyone involved in the creation of the Gamecube main menu was simply built different. It was more than just an IPL. It was art.
This was really a different time, back before Console UIs had basically everything and learning to navigate it became part of the process of owning one. For those unaware, the four options on the cube were accessed by tilting the analog stick in a certain direction. Left allowed you to mess with the volume control or the menu, Right let you set the date and time, Down let you manage data on Memory Cards plugged into Slot A or B, and Up brought you to a game boot screen after you put a disc in, useful for jumping right back in if you didn't know which memory card had your game's save data on it, if you wanted to clear data so you could save a new game, or if you were just plain ol' time traveling in Animal Crossing. The PS2 and Xbox had similar features but they worked with static option lists that sent you to a different menu screen. The Gamecube was so slick, so clean that it didn't even need to load a different screen, you just tilted, pressed A, and bam, you were there. It probably sounds silly to have nostalgia for a menu screen, but boy, in 2002, this was magical.
Doing my homework late, this song helps sooo much, it releases stress but aslo give you chill energy, truly a masterpiece !
Hey dude, how was that homework?
@@the.inverted.pyramid. idk
A lot of people don’t know this but the sound effect is the super famicon sound effect slowed down
It wasn't the Super Famicom's sound effect. It was the Famicom Disk System iirc
I was born in 1998 in the early 2000s we used to play the best games mario kart Godzilla mario sunshine luigi mansion and more miss the early 2000s child hood days where the best never let them die out 💯
Every time i hear this, it reminds me of those days when my Resident Evil 4 or Super Smash Bros Melee Disc didn't work because of how badly damaged those were
You can hear the famicom disk system startup music if you turn the speed up to 16x!
This and the Wii Menu will always be timeless, as they strived to be more than just video game consoles.
Fun Fact: the GameCube menu music is the famicom startup song slowed down 16 times
Thank you captain obvious
@@mikhaelgonzalez8815 ur welcome. Some people might not know
@@Owen-pf7dn I was joking
@@Owen-pf7dn And also I’m leaving a like on your comment
There, I did
This music complemented Thousand Year Door really well, very dreamlike and ancient
I never had a GameCube in my life, due to being born 1 year after the Wii. But somehow, this sounds really nostalgic. Maybe I had a GameCube in my past life. Or maybe my dad just had a GameCube when I was just a baby and he played it in front of me. When you're thinking about the past, play this. It really gives off that timeless vibe.
I’m born in 2009 and I Have nostalgia with GameCube cuz I would play SSBM on it
I was born in 2005. 4 years after the game cube came out. So it was still pretty popular when I was a toddler because it was one of the latest systems Nintendo had out at the time, and both my moms brothers and lots of their cousins play video games so I’m sure there was a game cube laying around somewhere. That’s probably why I get nostalgic over it.
‘06 here.
I remember both having a Wii and a GameCube, but can’t remember all the games I had for it. Good time
@@BeautifullyBalanced-MAIN yep 👍🏻 good times indeed. They don’t make consoles like this anymore
@@Owen-pf7dn I now have a 3DS and a Switch. I feel bad for losing my good old NGC
This music…it’s so…so beautiful. So soothing… it really hypnotizes me into a good sleep too.
My heart is in absolute peace with this.
💙
This gives me such indescribable feelings. Every time I turn on the Gamecube I leave it on this menu for a bit just to listen to the gentle tones and watch that little cube hover in that blank dark void. It's mysterious, wondrous, comforting, and melancholy all at the same time.
I love the Gamecube so much. It will be a sad day when mine dies
Well.. it seems my gamecube and wii died and idk how.. maybe those new tvs got something to do whit it
Major Nostalgia, thank you for being my very first nintendo console i ever owned. Thank you for the memories
2008-2019
this was the best idea ever
Sonic mega collection, nfs hot pursuit 2, mario sunshine and mario party 5 were my childhood. I remember having so much fun with these four specific titles with my older brother. I'll never forget the countless hours we spent on this one console.
This music gives me hope that I get reborn like 6 years before this life and meet my past life self and play gamecube with them
You still can play GC with your past self, just have to rediscover that part of yourself. As we grow older our brains and the way we think becomes crystalized, and we forget how to look at the world with fresh eyes again. Reignite your childlike wonder through acknowledging the multiple layers of personality which you are comprised of, and cross-reference each version of you to give them some level of representation in your outward personality.
@@VLADPowder W inspiration
I used to love moving the menu left and right in time with the music. IT had such a cool sound effect.
i Love this, takes me way back to when i was about 9 years old playing Smash Bros Melee and MKDD all night instead of doing my homework.
14 years of playing this… I can’t stop playing on the GameCube.. it’s so nostalgia to me that I cannot stop..
The definition of nostalgia brought me here.
I loved this music!! Knocks me to sleep in mins!!
Honestly as unsettling as this can be, it really did make the GameCube stand out from the rest of the consoles released around the time. Behind all the bright cheery colors of the games, the GameCube felt like some sort of alien device.
This here, yeah, this one? This one hits deep for me and probably a lot of people out there. I LOVE this freakin' console! It's my Number.1 console of all time! I even still OWN my childhood GameCube and it's still working properly after all these years!
This music? It reminds me of when I was like, really young, I would mess around with the cube on this bios screen. I would change the time over and over again (Even though I shouldn't have done that since nowadays my GameCube will think that it's like [It's currently September as I'm editing this comment.]January or something, since the time is so off-track. It's really annoying, but I know my confused GameCube is trying.), switching my memory card into the other slot over and over again trying to get them both to appear on both sides even though that is not how it works, going into the settings, moving the screen around (with the screen position setting) and changing the audio type to Stereo and Mono over and over again. Young me for some reason had a much weirder sense of humor.
I also remember going into the memory card setting just to look at the sprites on the mini-cubes. I'm honestly surprised that young me didn't know that the memory card cubes are just the main cube but shrunken down and used for memory card saves.
I remember not even playing the games to do what the task was, I just messed around and had fun. ESPECIALLY in 'Mario Kart : Double Dash!!'. I'm glad I moved on from that phase.
To be fair, my GameCube DOES get a little stubborn sometimes, but not often enough to classify it as 'broken'. It's just because most of my discs are scratched from young me.
That's my commentary, you may move on from this comment now
This and windwaker is my childhood, I'll love this forever ❤
Thank you for uploading this!
You're welcome!
My Nanna died a few months ago. I remember as a kid when I stayed at my Grandparents house she would let me plug in the GameCube for an hour or 2. I'd play Mario Cart Double Dash, Time Splitters 2, Metroid Prime or Luigi's Mansion. It's crazy how a game consoles theme can bring back so many memories you'd never have thought about otherwise. They all seem so long ago now, sad really.
This console meant a lot to me. I remember how excited i was when my mom gifted me the Nintendo GameCube. Games were expensive so I instead stuck with the Blockbuster game pass rental membership. Super Smash Bros Melee was going to be my first game to rent but it was all rented out at every local Blockbuster, so my first game ended up being The Simpson’s Road Rage. But before i put the disc inside the GameCube, I was mesmerically entranced by this soothing menu background track. It’s so mysterious, magical and futuristic with an ominous touch of sadness. This transparent cube...It’s like, what the beginning of time might have looked like, with each surface of the cube representing a different dimension. This is my imagination. Thanks for reading.
Dont be sad that its gone, smile because it happened.
The memories
I often think back to this theme. Remembering that time that I've left this screen on at night and just laid there, listening to the ambience.
This theme scared me as a kid and even now a days it gives me a weird feeling. Tho it calms me now.
You were a wimp as a kid
Hearing this makes me miss the old Nintendo.
Agree
Imagine one second if the GameCube had 1080i output out of the box. The shading on the games already made the models so round and perfect. A game like Super Monkey Ball played on Dolphin is GORGEOUS! We have to celebrate the system as much as possible.
Not quite the same, but this was recorded with the GCHD MK-II HDMI adapter, which is a super easy plug and play solution with no modding. Highly recommended!
mario kart double dash...resident evil 4...killer7...what a phenomenal console, it's a shame it didn't perform as well as they expected.
The PS2 and Xbox were clearly the most popular due to their capabilities of playing DVDs let alone anything else.
But yeah, the Gamecube is an underrated and overlooked console of that era.
This brings me back childhood memories,I love the gamecube
I had a Wii and played Gamecube games on that. It's funny, I never really got into Mario games until 2010, when I was 10, but I mostly have nostalgia for the Gamecube era of games. Luigi's Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, and Wario World were like a holy trinity for me. And of course Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door was great too.
But it's only thanks to recently using Dolphin that I've been able to see this screen often. Of course, you need to download the BIOs separately on that. But it's worth it.
R.I.P. Nintendo GameCube (2001-2007).
One time, when i had this video on my TV all day until when i got back home at night, my mom pranked me by turning on my actual gamecube to this screen😂
I love you, mom❤
Gamecube was my first console i had on my 5th birthday, and after 12 years later, i always had fun with gamecube as a kid and still now
❤️
I remember when I first got this for Christmas, with Smash bros, starfox, sonic 2 and sunshine waiting. I was so excited to embark on a new adventure.
I was in kindergarten when I got my gamecube. It was 2004. God I miss being a kid.
I was in Preschool or Pre-kinder in 2004! We both had GameCubes! Ayyyyyy!!!!! 😹😹😹😹😹
It is 2002 i was 13 years old, I woke up early at around 2AM to continue playing Luigi’s Mansion, Resident Evil & Monkey Ball .. it was a school day and till now my parents don’t know this secret. That time every game is 10/10
I still remember buying Star Fox Adventures like it was yesterday and it will forever be my favorite video game of all time!
Need to get back to that - bit of a hidden gem!
i just dig how you began the video with the "rolling block" startup jingle that Transitioned into this menu, instead of just abruptly starting at the menu music...
alternate video ideas are now possible, too-- like starting up the Gamecube with 'Z' held on a controller (or perhaps on All Four controllers for yet another easter egg)
Thanks for noticing! I do this with all my ambience videos where possible, to make it feel like you're actually booting up a system or game yourself. It helps that they are all recorded with the game or hardware itself, and not looped!
Thank you for all the memories. I couldn't ask for anything more. I will make my mark here, just so I can watch myself age.
- Levi Roberson
November 12, 2021
2:44 PM
My favourite video game console of all time. I got it for my 10th birthday the 25th of May 2002, I'll never forget it. Luigi's Mansion was the first game I ever booted up on it followed by Sonic Adventure 2. The Gamecube was the best system of all time. So many amazing games but sadly it didn't sell very well so is still underrated compared to PS2 but in my opinion it's better.
This music makes me emotional. Those were the best days of my life.
GameCube was my first console, i remember playing Double Dash, Ultimate Spiderman, Spiderman 2, and Rouge Squadron 2.