Product Description
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You get it all with this fabulous Super Mario Sunshine Game,
Nintendo GameCube and Memory Card Bundle. In his newest
adventure, Sunshine for Nintendo, Mario visits a tropical island
and is mistaken for a local outlaw. Use your new Nintendo
GameCube to hose down enemies and meet the locals in this
colorful, action-packed adventure set in sprawling 3D. The new
GameCube is the first video game console to access game data from
a disk, not a cartridge. The processor and disk drive perform
together at lightening speed to make load times imperceptible. To
top it off, you also get a Nintendo GameCube Memory Card. With
4MB of flash memory, you bring your saved characters, special
weapons, vehicles, high scores, levels and custom
settings with you wherever you go.
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This special Nintendo GameCube bundle includes the 3-D adventure
game Super Mario Sunshine. In Super Mario Sunshine, players chase
a vandal who has been spreading graffiti around an island
paradise and framing Mario for the misdeeds. The bundle also
includes a Memory Card 59 so you can save your progress through
the game.
Though it looks like a toy, don't be fooled: the Nintendo
GameCube is a powerful video game console that rightly deserves
its place among the other next-generation game systems. In fact,
its playful, appealing design and small size (the unit is a
not-quite-cubed 6 inches) aren't the only features that set it
apart from the others.
For starters, Nintendo has quite clearly made this a game-only
machine. It doesn't try to play your CD collection, run your
movies, read your e-mail, or store your MP3 files. The company
has concentrated its efforts on games. All the prelaunch titles
we've seen play smoothly, with bright, fast graphics and great
sound. Nintendo says its engineers have removed traditional
bottlenecks that have, in the past, slowed down processing. New
components designed by IBM and MoSys, as well as a large-capacity
secondary memory cache, keep instructions moving through the
system's microprocessor (MPU) at peak levels. In English: the
GameCube is optimized to push speed up while pushing costs down;
hence its position at the lower end of the price spectrum.
The GameCube is the first Nintendo video game system to use a
disc-based medium rather than cartridges for its games. Moving
the software to disc media generally means lower development
costs for the publishers, which, in turn, trickles down to the
consumer not only in price, but also in availability and quality,
as it's then easier to try out untested game ideas (Pikmin,
anyone?). While most other systems likewise have their games
stored on discs, the GameCube's 3-inch format is smaller than
everyone else's, and is so designed to fit in a shirt pocket as
much as to deter would-be software pirates.
Of course, the main advantage of the GameCube is that it's the
home field of one of the world's premier game designers:
Nintendo. While powerhouses Electronic Arts and Sega make games
for all systems (including this one), you can play Nintendo games
only on a Nintendo system. And Nintendo, you might recall, has
been hitting them out of the park since it started with Donkey
Kong. In fact, here's a roll call of characters and series you
won't find on the other consoles: Mario, Legend of Zelda, Perfect
Dark, Metroid, Kirby, and, of course, Pokémon. A few names that
the GameCube will share with the other guys: Madden, Tony Hawk,
Sonic, Batman, and Star Wars.
The system also comes with four built-in controller ports, so
you can easily plug in extra controllers and let friends join in
for the multiplayer games--it's even got a built-in handle so you
can easily move it to a friend's house. It comes with two memory
card slots for saving your progress through games, and there's
the capacity for future expansion into the world of online
gaming.
In short, the GameCube isn't an all-in-one entertainment system,
and neither is it the most powerful of the modern video game
consoles. But for video game enthusiasts who want to stick with
their favorite characters, its value cannot be beat. --Porter B.
Hall
Unit Specifications
* MPU (Microprocessor Unit): 485 MHz custom IBM PowerPC Gekko
* Graphics Processor: 162 MHz custom ATI/Nintendo Flipper
* Texture-Read Bandwidth: 10.4 GB per second (peak)
* Main Memory Bandwidth: 2.6 GB per second (peak)
* Pixel Depth: 24-bit color, 24-bit Z buffer
* Sound Processor: 81 MHz custom Macronix 16-bit DSP
* Sound Performance: 64 simultaneous channels, ADPCM encoding
* Polygon Performance: 6 to 12 million polygons per second (peak)
* System Memory: 40 MB
* Main Memory: 24 MB MoSys 1T-SRAM
* Disc Drive: 128 ms CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) system
* Data Transfer Speed: 16 Mbps to 25 Mbps
* Media: 3-inch, 1.5 GB capacity disc
* Controller Ports: Four
* Memory Card Slots: Two
* Audio-Video Output: Analog and digital
* Dimensions: 4.3 by 5.9 by 6.3 inches (height by width by depth)
From the Manufacturer
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One look at the Nintendo GameCube hardware and you know it's
different. The compact shape is not only practical -- the unique
design is symbolic of Nintendo's commitment to focus on creating
the world's most original and innovative video games.
The Nintendo GameCube Controller provides the crucial connection
between the player and the game. Two analog Control Sticks, a
built-in rumble feature and flawless ergonomic design ensure that
the Controller feels and plays perfectly. The WaveBird Wireless
Controller accessory allows players to feel the freedom of
cord-free gaming!
The Nintendo GameCube Game Disc holds an incredible 1.5
Gigabytes of information, but it has a diameter of only three
inches. The disc drive and processor work together with awesome
speed, which makes load times hardly noticeable.
Super Mario Sunshine for Nintendo GameCube is Mario's biggest,
most amazing adventure ever. When Mario, Peach and an entourage
of her loyal Toad friends set out for a tropical vacation on
lovely Isle Delfino, they're in store for much more than a
relaxing holiday. A mustachioed maniac has mucked up the entire
island, and Mario is accused of committing the crime. Armed with
a hi-tech water cannon called FLUDD (Flash Liquidizer Ultra
Dousing Device), Mario sets out to clean the island, clear his
name, and solve the mystery of the villainous vandal.
