No Love for Network Adapters July 14, 2010

I tried selling my old Gamecube earlier today. I have a Wii already and since then the Cube has just been sitting on a shelf collecting dust.

Gamestop had no problem taking it, however what they wouldn’t take for some odd reason was my Gamecube network adapter. It just was no longer supported by the store for sale or trade in.

Yes, the Gamecube did support online and LAN play in some of it’s games, just not anywhere near as many as it should’ve. Games like Mario Kart Double Dash was the big network play seller, but it was LAN only. Games that really could have used it like Metroid Prime, had no multiplayer, and Metroid Prime 2 only supported split screen.

I’ve seen this before. A few years ago a friend of mine bought a used Dreamcast to use it to play the classic games, and even wanted to turn it into a web server. While the Dreamcast came with a built in modem, you could replace it with a network adapter. In 1999, only college kids had broadband. When my best friend asked the clerks about network adapters for Dreamcast, he just shook his head and said, “Good luck.”

Dreamcast network adapters are impossible to find and incredibly overpriced if you can find one. Is the Gamecube’s adapter destined for the same thing?