Complete Japanese Retail GameCube set

[Brickman | 3,983]

I'm happy to say I've finally obtained the remaining titles for a complete retail Japanese GameCube set! There are 279 or 276 titles depending on what you classify as retail.

276 titles were released in store or the Nintendo store while 2 were Nintendo Club exclusives (Pac Man Vs. & The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition) that you bought with Nintendo points. The other game is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Master Quest which was a pre order extra with The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

I plan to release some collecting guides soon (list of titles and hardest to find Japanese GC games).

Onto the pictures:

Complete Japanese retail set:

Breakdown of retail released games:

Edited June 12, 2023 by Brickman

[DoctorEncore | 3,691]

You don't see many complete JP sets around here, or really anywhere for that matter. Very cool!

Any JP exclusives you recommend?

Edited June 8, 2023 by DoctorEncore

[Brickman | 3,983]

1 hour ago, DoctorEncore said:

You don't see many complete JP sets around here, or really anywhere for that matter. Very cool!

Any JP exclusives you recommend?

Thanks

There are some decent exclusives for the GC. Some good ones are:

Hudson Selection series 

Kuruin Crush

Nintendo Puzzle Collection

Donkey Konga 3

Mr Driller

Radirgy GeneriC

Those are the ones I’ve played that are English friendly. There are a lot more but I haven’t played them so couldn’t say if they’re good.

@drxandy has made a list of all the exclusive games for the Japanese GC so have a look over that as well.

 

[OptOut | 8,883]

Congrats dude, I know you've been working hard on that set! Looking great! 

[Renmauzo | 1,200]

@BrickmanThat is a dope looking set, Brick! Sets don't normally do anything for me, but this one looks awesome and has a ton of character.

I'm very much looking forward to you putting together a guide for this...>_>

[Brickman | 3,983]

1 hour ago, Renmauzo said:

@BrickmanThat is a dope looking set, Brick! Sets don't normally do anything for me, but this one looks awesome and has a ton of character.

I'm very much looking forward to you putting together a guide for this...>_>

Thanks  I'm not really big on the look of the US/PAL GC cases but the Japanese GC cases have a lot of character and are also a lot smaller in height. They were the last Nintendo cardboard cases for the Japanese market too. They have a plastic case to hold the game and manual and a cardboard slipcase that goes over the top.

[fcgamer | 4,723]

Very nice, congrats! This is definitely one of the final sets I'd consider getting, I love the look of these and the small boxes are dope. Really enjoyed this era of 3D gaming 

[Brickman | 3,983]

2 hours ago, fcgamer said:

Very nice, congrats! This is definitely one of the final sets I'd consider getting, I love the look of these and the small boxes are dope. Really enjoyed this era of 3D gaming 

Most of the games are still reasonably priced although a few have gone up since I bought them. Notably the Disney sports games are slowly climbing in price (except for soccer).

I agree, it’s a great era of 3D. As much as I enjoy the N64 I feel like the GC got it just right. I was mostly a PS2 guy growing up so it has been fun exploring this library.

[SailingWiimote | 16]

I didn't know there were so few Game Cube games in Japan! It wasn't ever one of my favourite consoles, but I know it has a lot of fans.  

Nice work getting 'em all!

The weirdest part to me is that apparently Shark Tale was popular enough in Japan to justify a localization of the Game Cube game.

Edited June 8, 2023 by SailingWiimote

[DefaultGen | 5,401]

Awesome accomplishment my dude! I didn't know you were so faithful to the motherland

[Brickman | 3,983]

3 hours ago, DefaultGen said:

Awesome accomplishment my dude! I didn't know you were so faithful to the motherland

Thanks  the majority of my collection is Japanese (I can read it).

I do have a small collection of Switch games that are from Australia for my wife, although I do grab the Japanese version if it has the multi region option where it detects what language your Switch is set to. My wife never knows the difference 

 

5 hours ago, SailingWiimote said:

I didn't know there were so few Game Cube games in Japan! It wasn't ever one of my favourite consoles, but I know it has a lot of fans.  

Nice work getting 'em all!

The weirdest part to me is that apparently Shark Tale was popular enough in Japan to justify a localization of the Game Cube game.

Haha yeah and Cars as well. The more bizarre one is that on GBA they got one of the Kim Possible games! 

There are a few Nintendo consoles that have less games in Japan than the US. I know that the GB, GBA, N64 and GC all have less games than the US.

 

[drxandy | 3,225]

Heck ya! Congrats on finishing up, nice stuffff doooooood!!

[spacepup | 2,404]

Awesome collection!  Thanks for sharing and congratulations on the milestone!

[MegaMan52 | 2,445]

Beautiful collection. Congrats @Brickman.