Have you ever heard of Game diceIs it squeaking? Perhaps we are revealing an embarrassing gap in our collective knowledge My city by admitting that we didn’t do it, but now we did. And we tested it scientifically. There’s a bizarre start-up Easter egg for the year 2001 Nintendo console, and it makes everything sweet.
Yes, after 23 years we bring you everything The hottest Nintendo console newsby reporting that with just a press of the controller’s Z button, a GameCube’s home screen sound effects change from the familiar xylophone ditty to what sounds like a baby’s squeaky toy, complete with children’s laughter.
My city encountered this phenomenon for the first time in the Tiktok video from Secret castle toys and games– a retro gaming store based in Kentucky – was posted just hours before the time of writing.
I’ll be honest: I thought it was a hoax. Of course I could have googled it, but for some reason I felt compelled to test it myself. So I dug out my GameCube and remembered that I haven’t had a TV with a SCART socket since the Middle Ages. Luckily, in a bizarre twist, it turns out that our pretty new 60-inch flat screen has RCA jacks on the back! The best consoles ever running on a stupidly big screen, and a 9 year old at that educate. But before that I held down the Z key.
If you watch the video above, you’ll understand why it feels like it should be fake. It might as well have been the two people in the video fooling around with a baby toy off camera and a creepy child laughing. But no, it’s confirmed!
Admittedly, we didn’t test the second half of the video’s claims with four controllers connected at once, as it turns out I only own a single GC controller, although I could find multiples of everything else from the Atari 2600 joysticks to the house-sized ones Dreamcast gamepads.
Secret Castle’s Tiktok has almost half a million followers. So don’t expect this reveal to impress too many people for too long. Plus, this store looks amazing. If you’re in Owensboro, Kentucky, you probably already know.
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