The sense of speed they managed to achieve here is unparalleled. Developed by then-Sega subsidiary Amusement Vision, who was responsible for the Super Monkey Ball series (which you can be sure we will cover in a future article), it featured insanely fast arcade racing action which remains unrivalled by anything in the hovercraft racing space. Released towards the end of 2003, this white-knuckle thrill ride was the love child of a burgeoning relationship between Nintendo and Sega. The list of neglected Nintendo franchises includes illustrious members such as Advance Wars, Wario Land, Earthbound and many others, but perhaps none hurt more than F-Zero and its most recent console entry F-Zero GX.į-Zero GX remains something truly special to this day.

There’s no better place to start than the granddaddy of all GameCube titles lost to history. It’s unclear when or if we will ever see Gamecube games released via Nintendo Switch online, some type of Virtual Console or maybe even a Mini-Classic release, so in the meantime, we’re going to talk about them until Nintendo remembers they exist. Heck, even Mario’s only outing still took almost two decades to get another look. The GameCube library has countless forgotten masterpieces, as well as plenty of oddities and hidden gems, and unless it featured Zelda it’s probably still stuck there. To pay respect to the purple lunchbox, each fortnight I’m going to be taking a look back at a different GameCube game, focusing on titles that have never received a port or remaster to more recent consoles. Sure, the classic titles from the NES and SNES library have received 347 ports to every system imaginable, and the N64 has seen a respectable rehash of its most renowned hits, but one system seems to be regularly left to the annals of history – the Nintendo GameCube.Įnter – Boxed Away:, a GameCube retrospective series.

For a company with such an impeccably rich back catalogue, Nintendo is often surprisingly hesitant to delve into it.

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