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"How fantastic is the new Gamecube bundle?"

I know it's been discussed throughout the forum but this up and coming bundle is yet another prime example of Nintendo pushing the Gamecube in the west this Christmas. Advertisement campaigns, a price drop and loads of top quality software apparently isn't enough... Nintendo have to go and top Microsoft's console bundle as well.

For those that don't know Nintendo are releasing (like Zelda, Mario Sunshine and Metroid Prime) a special Mario Kart bundle pack in Europe. Nintendo are to bundle the upcoming Mario Kart: Double Dash!! with the Gamecube for a mere £99.99 which is a massive £20 saving...

But that's not all.

The recent obsession with free Bonus discs is appearing again this time with a special editon Zelda disc. No it isn't the crappy Master Quest bonus disc bundled with Wind Waker, but a far cooler collection of Zelda classics. They include:

The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda II: The adventure of Link
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Marjora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Demo

Right I'm ignoring the fact I already own all of the above games and still getting very excited. The thought of playing the greatest Zelda ever in the form of Majora's Mask once again is really exciting. I'm also going to ignore the absence of 4 other official Zelda games.

But this is a fantastic gaming deal and is sure to cause another surge in Hardware sales. Yes temporaraly but this will grow Nintendo's userbase and possibly secure a great Christmas position.

It'll be a Zelda christmas after all.

Dringo.

Zelda II was awesome, and I played it for many an hour.

I know the disk is only in the bundle to make people buy the pack- (duh!)
But if Nintendo slapped a £20 price tag on it and sold it like a regular game they would sell loads and make us very, very happy.

Bane wrote:
> *remembers playing Zelda II: Adventure of Link on NES almost 10 years
> ago*

That game sucked - awful, awful title.

All smacks of a last gasp act of desperation - rehash some old titles and cross your fingers. I really can't see if having that much of an effect, the majority of people that will get excited over the bonus disk will have bought a Gamecube long ago. Look at it from the parent's point of view... you go into a game store and see, for example, the Xbox and PS2 packaged with pretty much any game released in the last three years, and then the Gamecube with some decade old titles strapped on top - which to you pick?

And what's SUPAR ORIJANAL INNOVATVE NINTENDO's approach to Xmas - rehash some old titles for a bonus disk, rehash F-Zero and Mario Kart for some new titles, then pray rehashes of Mario and Zelda will pad things out a bit.

ot that ALL THE MEMORANDUMS are rubbish.

memoranRUBBISH, remember.

Or they might realise that ALL Zelda games are RUBBISH.

Belldandy wrote:
> And the Zelda games are ooooooooooooold.

Doesn't mean they're not brillaint games. Although people may realise that the old Zelda's are much better than Wind Waker.

If you don't like Zelda you're not going to like the bundle, are you?
But if you've never played Zelda, you're going to be interested, at least.

*5 games! 5 games! 5 games!*

Mongs are mongs :D

Until people ask what the 5 games are, to which the sales assistant replies:

"Well four of them are old Zelda's and one is the new Mario Kart. And the Zelda games are ooooooooooooold."

Yeah, but listen to this;

GC with 5 games - £99.99.

Works, does it not?