Games played: Mario Kart 64 (0:05), Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (0:25), Goldeneye 007 (0:30), Super Mario Sunshine (0:58), Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (1:10), The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD (2:05), Mario Golf (4:25), Super Smash Bros. (6:10), Diddy Kong Racing (6:50), Super Smash Bros. (7:50), Viewtiful Joe (9:40)

People love when Retro Bird mentions bananas or Timmy, but I'm over here going nuts whenever he says "dirty dog."

Playing Mario 64 for the first time was a feeling that has not been matched since.  That was a magical experience.

Just wanted to say I appreciate the extra work you put in to capture games running natively on a CRT. All too often people capture from emulators or direct feeds which lose that cozy vibe you get, original controller in hand, sneakily playing by the glow of some cathode rays. Your extra effort does not go unnoticed!

The translucent green N64 still looks amazing to this day.

N64 is special to me because I’m endlessly fascinated by early 3d. Something about its limitations spawning creativity. The games were still funky and broken in a good way. I love GC too, but something about it (besides just the graphics) feels like a conventional, modern system.

You should really bring that hairstyle back

Solution: win the lottery and buy every console ever made so that you don't need to decide

The N64 walked so that the Gamecube could run. Just like how the Super Nintendo improved on the NES in almost every way, so did the Gamecube with the N64. Better controller, better third party support, and it could even play all 3 types of Gameboy games.

it seems to me that the gamecube's popularity took off as soon as the wii exploded in popularity.  suddenly all those people who didn't have the gamecube could play all those gamecube games

“You don’t deserve to Donkey Kong.”

We all missed you last week!
Thanks for this!! ☺️

GameCube introduced RE4. Enough said lol

Star Fox 64, Perfect Dark and Diddy Kong Racing for me. Not to mention the zaniness of the polygonal masterpieces that are the jank Zelda characters. The N64 didn't take itself too seriously but we got some unique classics like Wave Race 64, Doom 64, Conkers Bad Fur Day, WinBack. What a blast.

If Confucius was a video game nerd

i am guilty of hating the windwaker art style when it first came out. but yes, it has aged beautifully, and i was wrong.

Glad the dirty dog didn't do dirty deeds this week. I missed my weekly weekend Retro Bird last week.

Only the Duke could catch strays in a video about GC vs 64. What a monstrosity.

The most underrated moments in your videos are the masterfully framed gaming segments where you have the TV and controller in screen, highlighters via spotlight. I love those, way to flex also, lol. They remind me of some old film noir interrogation scenes or something. I love your videos man. You are the banana pudding of retro videos. Just sweet, sweet comfort dessert for my brain.

I mentioned in a post but I'll retype here since this is the video if yall don't mind :)
The GameCube was really the Super N64. It did the same thing the SNES did from the NES. The NES/N64 created staples in 2D/3D and the SNES/GCN refined those staples with better visuals and sound. Sure Zelda went from High Fantasy to Pirate Anime, but Final Fantasy went from High Fantasy to Steampunk Anime moving from the NES to the SNES. I don't think the Gamecube tried going a 'different' direction, They evolve just like every other company does, the only difference is Nintendo never moved away from having a focus on family friendly games, in an era where that was taboo for video games. So Nintendo never changed, everyone else did. :)

The N64  felt like it was missing something.  I had one and buying games for it was difficult. everyone I knew had the same few games