The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.

[SkyMyl]

I'm not kidding. Watching the GameCube start-up is a lot like watching the trap play out in Mouse Trap. I could watch it until my eyes melt from their eye sockets and my eardrums implode on themselves. It's a magical sequence, and it's one of the reasons the GameCube is absolutely badass.

...that's what I like to think, anyway. It's entertaining, to say the least. Personally, I consider it the best start-up of any video game system of all time. I dare you to try to find a better start-up to a system than the GameCube.

The first person to post a video of the Xbox 360 will be violently face raped in the near future.

[Light]

There IS no better startup. Gamecube wins, hands-down. Especially with the hold-z effect:

TBH, I didn't know about the last one until I looked it up a few secs ago.

[Lotos]

I thought you meant it's launch selection, or at least at Christmas time.  Melee, Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion.  That's a nice selection there.

The Sega Saturn has a decent one.

I believe this is the Japanese start-up, Which is the best in my own opinion.

[Tupin]

Well, it DID come from the Famicom Disk System startup sound, so I guess it is good.

[Java]

I never really truly appreciated the GameCube start-up until now.

[JrDude]

I LOVED THE GAMECUBE THINGY!
I almost always pressed Z to do that
I also thought it would do different music depending on how many controllers did it, nothing, but I did end up trying every controller combination (1, 2, 3, 4 [all had the baby laugh thing at the end]) and found the weird sumo one though.
My favorite is the single Z hold.

[Zero]

Agreed. I still adore the GCN.

[Kayo]

Yes, I absolutely adored the GameCube, with all my heart.

brb playing gamecube

[FruitFlow]

Seeing this makes me wonder why Nintendo never even bother to give Wii a start-up.

[The Riddler]

I loved the Gamecube's startup sound, but I did quite love PS1's startup sound too.

Don't forget about Gameboy. The ba-ding! Will never get old.

[FruitFlow]

I loved the Gamecube's startup sound, but I did quite love PS1's startup sound too.

Don't forget about Gameboy. The ba-ding! Will never get old.

Oh, yeah.
I remember that.

The Nintendo logo would scroll downward, and as it hit the center of the screen it would make that ba-ding sound.

[Silverhawk79]

I miss my Gamecube.
I might take it to college with me if I can't take the Wii.

[SkyMyl]

Don't forget about Gameboy. The ba-ding! Will never get old.

Magical.

[The Riddler]

<3 BA-DING.

[Silverhawk79]

<3 BA-DING.

Or the DS.
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