Nintendo is usually very protective of their property, rarely letting other companies make games based on their licences. However, there are a few examples of other manufacturers being allowed to develop their own derivative Nintendo consoles. The Panasonic Q is one example of this. With Nintendo’s permission, Panasonic developed a hybrid machine that combined the Gamecube and a traditional DVD player. The system only ever released in Japan, selling too poorly to warrant an international release. It’s certainly an odd piece of Nintendo history, no doubt why The Gaming Historian decided to cover it in his latest video. Check it out below.
A Closer Look At The Forgotten Panasonic GameCube
I want one, King Dad!
Lol…. its kinda a cool its a part of Nintendo’s history. Man, I wish they announce gamecube games will be a part of the virtual console!!!
So ugly, what is it a jukebox?
Though it was an alternative to PS2, DVD players were so costly.
How is a home console that can play DVDs more technologically advanced then a home console you can take on the go?
? This is a GameCube not a Switch.
still more technologically advanced than the switch
Lol
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BOOM! Toasted!
How is a DVD player more technologically advanced then a handheld you can take on the go and it still can play console quality?
DVD players were a thing in the 90’s. They are not technically advanced in any way, lol.
Imagine a Switch existing in the 90’s. It would have looked like some kind of alien super tech from another world. Our lowly minds would have been blown.
The Switch is an amazing piece of hardware. Kids today are just plain spoiled fucking rotten.
I never knew about this. Japan gets things that never see the light of day anywhere else it seems.
China as well.
I owned one that was modded to play US or Japanese games. It looked even cooler in person than in photos. It’s one of the things that I wish that I’d never gotten rid of.
Lol this is funny I wish I could have bought one
I have one of these. It doesn’t read discs anymore, I am gonna sell it most likely.
Even as cool as this is, you still have to hook it up like 2 different units. The best video for the DVD part is S-Video and the best for the Game Cube part is the Digital cable. The best audio for the DVD part is Optical and the best audio for Cube is RCA cables… I like to show it off to customers and they all seem to drool over it.
That’s the early design for the GameCube.
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Smh .. Just big for no reason lol
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I got mine two years ago… it’s so beautifull!
It looks cool no doubt. I just hate that it says Panasonic on it instead of Nintendo. Kind of takes away from the collectibility of it.. at least for me.