Need a reminder of your frail mortal shell? Well, fellow olds, here it is: young folks don’t recognize the Nintendo GameCube in Unpacking.
Unpacking is an indie game about moving into a new home and arranging all your stuff in the appropriate places — dishes in the kitchen and toilet paper in bathrooms, that kind of thing. It’s a chill, zen-like puzzle game where failure isn’t really a thing for the most part. Though if an item isn’t in the correct location, you can’t progress.
Well, developer Witch Beam included a Nintendo GameCube among the many objects to sort through in Unpacking — and younger younger fans are getting stuck because they are struggling to identify the 20-year-old console. Wren Brier, an artist and designer on Unpacking, claims many youngins are reaching out about the GameCube.
“We have gotten so many messages asking what it was,” Brier said via Polygon. “Very often, the screenshot they send us has the console in the kitchen as they thought it was an appliance of some kind.”
Take a look at Unpacking’s GameCube for yourself below.
Remember all those memes about things that make you feel old and decrepit? Enjoy these tweets.
I am dead. pic.twitter.com/EGGH2T8kPB
— Sanatana Mishra (@SanatanaMishra) November 2, 2021
Yup, this confirms it: recognizing the GameCube means you’re old. It’s all about the Nintendo Switch these days. If you can find one, that is.
Unpacking takes place in the late 90s and early 2000s, so the inclusion of a GameCube makes sense. “The main character’s age is right in the middle between my age and my co-creator Tim Dawson’s age,” Brier said via Polygon.
Buddy 2007 was 15 years ago. High school today kids were just being born then. Todays college kids weren’t even born yet when the GameCube launched let alone remember or care about it.
— sean (@sharkerteeth) November 2, 2021
Put me in a retirement home, please. It’s the only place where these weary millenial eyes may gaze upon Resident Evil Remake and Super Smash Bros. Melee free of youthful judgment.
