My Nintendo Gamecube came in via UPS a couple nights ago. The last console I owned was a Nintendo SNES, so I'm pretty excited to have a modern console, although I did have access to somebody PS1 for awhile.

Anyway, the system came with the Zelda collection, which consists of four games [The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Ocarina of Time & Majora's Mask], a demo of The Wind Waker and some little movie clips about the Zelda franchise. I've played the first two a long time ago, finished them both. The last two are totally new to me so it should be fun getting some Zelda action happening after so long. [that didn't come out right...] Unfortunately, the damn thing doesn't even come with a memory card so I was unable to do any serious gaming.

Yesterday, I rode down to Future Shop to get a memory card and of course, I just had to pick up a game for my new system while I was down there. I decided on the Prince of Persia/Splinter Cell double pack [two games for the price of one]. When I got home, I played a little Ocarina of Time [is that a stupid name or what?], very enjoyable so far. Then I fired up Prince of Persia, intending only to play a couple minutes to check out the gameplay style. An hour later, I was still at it! It's a very cool game, the graphics are very nice, the animation is very fluid, the gameplay is fun and easy to pick up, I love it. Maybe I'm just easily impressed because I haven't played any console games for so long. Splinter Cell seems ok, I was a little thrown off at first because you can't move your character at the very begining of the game. I thought the game was defective! But after you follow the tutorial's instructions and look around, it then allows you to move around. Doh!