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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin
Ha...was the joystick the gimick, or was it that stupid 3rd handle with the most useless joypad evvarrr? Nintendo did revolutionize gaming with their joystick.
Also, I thought Nintendo had the rights to Conker and Banjo for a bit (or still might). Goldeneye had to be remade, and I'm still not sure where those licensing rights lie (and who cares at this point). Starfox and Donkey Kong are forever Nintendo property, Diddy Kong Racing got tied up because of Banjo And Conker I believe. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is not Banjo-Kazooie or Banjo-Tooie.
I never had issues with the Gamecube hardware. It's a solid as fuck console with THE BEST controller for console games that are not FPS. The lack of DVD was considered an issue for some, but at that time I felt like having a dedicated DVD player was still the way to go. The lack of online support wasn't a big deal at the time because XBox Live was in its infancy. And the Gamecube has the best graphics after Xbox, I believe.
My beef with Nintendo during the Gamecube period was their lack of 3rd party support. And we did see 3rd party developers drop like flies. That was a good generation to own a PS2 and Xbox along with your Cube. In retrospect, some awesome 1st party titles came out on the Cube, including the retrospectively low-balled Mario Sunshine. The Gamecube was also padded by the fantastic Gameboy Advance, which is probably my favorite Nintendo handheld bar none. The SNES revival we saw with the GBA was fantastic.
Every 3rd party failing on the Cube was sort of remedied by the huge ass GBA game library. It was an okay time to be a Nintendo fan if you could dig their GBA.
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Well. Goldeneye is a case all in its own.
Because clearly the Bond license belongs to EON as a whole. And they shop that around (its been with EA and Activision over the past decade)
Goldeneye N64 as far as I know is currently a toss between Activision (Bond license), Nintendo (own some aspect) and Rare/MS
As for Conker/Banjo, fairly certain Nintendo has no rights to them, even though were created in a Nintendo spin-off game, which starred a character that Rare created.. er yeah..
Video game licensing can be weird at times.