Nintendo Game Cube On (Limited) Preview In 12 Cities

psxndc writes: "Nintendo has set up "Cube Clubs" at various US cities that allow you to go in and play (mainly first party) Game Cube games. Cube Clubs exist in Boston, San Francisco and Minneapolis, with plans to run in a total of 12 cities. I went to the Boston one today. Most games were disappointing, but Rogue Leader and suprisingly Luigi's Mansion were a lot of fun. More info on Cube.ign.com. A recap of the SF one is also there." Anyone else with first-hand reactions from this?

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Re:Played it in Minneapolis

[astrosmash]

Of course, Nintendo had everything running under the best possible conditions-- you have to wonder what the games will look like on regular televisions, instead of the HDTV screen they had up. The remarkable detail crammed into Rogue Squadron could easily get lost.

I heard a nasty rumor that the Game Cube needs an HDTV set to get 60 fps; regular sets will only get 30 fps. If that's true, Nintendo blew it big time -- IMO the most impressive aspect of the PS2 is it's fluid 60fps animation in practically all situations.

I saw a Game Cube demo in Seattle in August. I didn't get to play it, but the graphics looked amazing (on an HDTV set) and these little kids (6-8 yrs old) were going berzerker over that "Super Monkey Ball" game -- they just couldn't get enough of it! As for myself, at the ripe old age of 26, I just didn't understand...

I was at Boston today

[Pzykotic]

More specifically it's in Cambridge, right near Technology Square. It seems to be in some boiler-making company's building, very odd.

Panasonic was there with Nintendo, and provided about 15 HDTVs. They looked amazing, and the following games were there:

Madden 2002
Luigi's Mansion
Star Wars game (The name escapes me at the moment)
Monkeyball
Super Smash Bros Melee
WaveRacer
NBA game (dunno the name of this either)
Pikmin

There were also 2 small booths with larger HDTVs and surround sound, to enhance the experience. The two games on display in those were Pikmin and Luigi's Mansion.

I would have taken pictures, but my camera was confiscated at the door :)

My favorite game is a tie - Super Smash Bros Melee and Pikmin both rocked my world. The graphics on all the games were amazing - Madden 2002 looked like an actual TV broadcast of an NFL game (But there were 2 guys hogging it the entire time, playing a full game. The bastards. :P)

Loud music, even a coulple "Booth Babes", and loads of free junk (Nintendo Power, foam cubes, tattoos, contests to enter...)

It was pretty cool, but I wish they had had SSX there, or some more killer multiplayer games. I urge anyone that can to check it out, it's at 275 Third Street, in Cambridge. That's right near the Kendall Square stop on the T, and sandwiched in between MIT and Harvard (as is everything in that city :P)

Any questions, just reply, I'll be keeping an eye out!

-Luke

Re:Slight correction on Xbox demo unit problems

[Anonymous Coward]

If thats true, then explain why the demo disc only contains video of halo, a playable version of part of the oddworld game is what you get to play with, not Halo.