Welcome to GameCube World!!
Welcome to GameCube World!! (also known by the informal name Peach's Castle) is a tech demo for Nintendo GameCube. In 2001, Nintendo sent various developers an interactive Tech Demo in order to show them the…
Welcome to GameCube World!! is a simulator developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development, released 31 December 2001 on Nintendo GameCube.
What Welcome to GameCube World!! is
Welcome to GameCube World!! is a simulator game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and released in 2001. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Welcome to GameCube World!! (also known by the informal name Peach's Castle) is a tech demo for Nintendo GameCube. In 2001, Nintendo sent various developers an interactive Tech Demo in order to show them the graphical capabilities of their new console as part of the Nintendo GameCube Software Development Kit. In this demo, the player controls a red arrow that can go through various places in Peach's Castle from Super Mario 64. In different rooms it shows different graphical effects, which includes the following: large textures, bumps and shadows, anti-aliasing, local lighting, projection textures, environment mapping, and maximum polygons. The castle is referred to in the game as Peach…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Welcome to GameCube World!! is the 260th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Luigi's Mansion in 2002.
What it launched against
Welcome to GameCube World!! launched on 31 December 2001, within three weeks of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, Ikaruga and Sonic Advance.
Released around the same time: Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, Ikaruga, Sonic Advance.
Official trailer
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