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You might find a $25 GameCube at Target

by Candace Savino on May 31st 2008 9:00PM

Before you read this, keep in mind that Target sales are often labeled as "your mileage may vary," meaning that they're not universal to all Target stores. Now that that's out of the way, Aeropause is reporting that the retailer has marked down new GameCubes to a mere $25 in order to liquidate their stock. Since that's less than the cost of a standard DS game, it's definitely a great deal.

Of course, as we're assuming that most of you have Wiis, there is the tiny problem of not really needing a GameCube. If you get creative, though, you could always use it to make a fun case-mod, and we'll even make a joke about duct taping two together to make a Wii, just so that you don't.

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Reader Comments (38)

Cool, I can buy it, and take the GameCube controller, and trow away the rest :)

not too bad of a deal there

Or you can keep just the controller and use it for Smash Bros.

You can buy two and duct... oh...

I lol'd.

If I could I would buy one just for the controller.

Damn good deal, but I still have my GC and for two reasons: GameBoy Player and my Resident Evil 4 GC skin.

I still use my GC for the Game Boy Player.

Perhaps I'll finally achieve my dreams of a GameCube lunchbox.

Maybe I'll get one and get working towards that big FFCC reunion I wanted to do with my buddies for so long now XD;;

At the Target in Dallas TX NW Hwy they still have the Gamecube selling for $50. But its still on "Clearance" hence being on the clearance rack.

I found a copy of Twilight Princess for the Gamecube a few weeks back for $25 on clearance.

Of course I bought it.

The Wii can fry Gamecube Memory Cards... somehow. I've had TWO burn out on me, but fortunately most of that stuff was backed up. I might pick one of these up, just to have one.

And I thought I was the only one! Most of my GC save files mysteriously got "corrupted" after placing them in my Wii.

I assumed it was coincidence, and the second time I thought Nintendo was making the memory cards cheaply now. I called tech support on another issue, and they said it's a known issue, but they don't know what causes it... they guess it could be overheating.

Huh, my GC memory card has been fine, and it's third party too. Still wish they'd let you back up GC saves to the Wii's memory and have some sort of virtual memory card emulation for Gamecube games, but Nintendo really doesn't seem to want to add features to their software as much as the other console manufacturers. That and they don't seem to be catering as much to core gamers, who are more likely to still play some Gamecube games, whereas the new casual crowd likely has never had a console before Wii, or probably had a PS2.

My first Wii frackin' blew up because of a memory card. That was an awful 2 weeks till my new one arrived. I think the same memory card had wrecked my 'cube about 2 weeks earlier, but I never put 2 and 2 together.

Yeah, I'd recommend Gamecube fans hang on to the Cube. I'm not using the Wii as a backup anymore myself, because I don't like playing through the few games that can't be backed up again (mostly those Pokemon games). This could be something that only affects some Wii's though, but (for me) it's better safe than sorry.

Hmm...interesting.

I've kept two GameCube memory cards (a 256 and 1019) in my Wii since launch and haven't had any issues.

It's the 1019s. My 1019 has had "corrupted" files whereas my many 256 memory cards have been fine. Just search "1019 corrupted wii" or some other such similar query on Google and see.

My Wii corrupted my Melee file off of my 3rd-party 64 MB memory card, but i had it backed up on PC, so i got it back

Only compatibility trouble i've had so far

Odd my 1019 has had no problems and 've been using thee wii for gamecube games since 2007.

My Melee Dyed too! I'll get one to paint it and sell it on ebay. It won't look like the Lost in Blue DS, I swear!

Seriously, we should buy them up and donate them to Penny Arcade's Child's Play program. Sick kids don't give a damn what system they are playing, they'll just be happy to get one.

Am I wrong?

HAY I AM A SICK CHILD AND I TAKE OFFENSE TO THAT.

(j/k)

Hmm, a GC controller (for brawl or whatever) costs $25 by itself, so this really isn't that bad of a deal. You could pick up a used copy of Melee and keep the GC in another room or something.

Or you could just buy it and throw away the GC, if for some odd reason you actually *want* a purple controller...

Well, you might just get a platinum one instead. Also, it might be fun to hack and stuff I suppose.

Or you get get 3, and duct tape all 3 together.

HA!

The real opportunity here is to duct tape a couple of gamecubes to your Wii, thus making it into Nintendo's next console before they even think of it! Right?

Isn't two GC's taped to a Wii four GC's taped together? Just duct tape two Wiis together!

or you just get one as a spare I still have my GC and a wii...and honestly I'm still tempted...a game system for the car, or for travel..I bet you could pick up the battery pack/ lcd screens built fo it pretty cheap now that everone is so hyped about the wii

I'm not sure what the logic behind buying one these Gamecubes to get the controller and throw out the system is, as the price of a controller is also $25 (or less).

wait, this is less than a cube controller itself, i may just get one, and mod it into a dvd player or something

My old 'cube finally died, but unfortunately it died on the friend I sold it too. This deal could help.

It's a good offer, but my GC is still here, though it hasn't seen the light of day since November 19, 2006

However, one day i will get that Broadband Adapter off my friend, and get on to a Private Server for PSO, and thus put that game back into my circulation

PSO for free. Though it's likely to be flooded with hackers.

hey maybe I can find this offer and then finally be able to use the gameboy player. ever since I lost my power cord I have been wanting to use my gamecube for my GBA games.

been wanting to get a GCN for someone who helped me move into the place I am living in now... He was a huge RE fan, and I figure that REmake and RE4-GCN would be selling on the cheap nowadays too.

I was in Target today, and the lone GameCube was $70.

If they make it to $25, I'll probably buy it. I already have two, but I figure twenty years from now I can upload a YouTube video of the unboxing.

I could buy 3 and 3 more copies of Double Dash and 4 broadband thingies and have massive Mario Kart Double Dash parties for cheap. Maybe. I don't know if Nintendo actually ever made the broadband adapters.

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