
Silver was released after the first three colors. Melee and its appearances in various other Nintendo games. Indigo is the original color seen in advertisements, as well as the GameCube's trophy in Super Smash Bros.

The Nintendo GameCube was released in five colors: Indigo, Black, Orange, Silver, and Gold. It was also the first Nintendo home console since the Family Computer not to have a Super Mario game as a launch title, as Super Mario Sunshine was not released until a year after the system launched. The GameCube was the first Nintendo home console to have a startup screen in all international releases. The use of a proprietary format rather than the industry standard 12 cm DVD format is commonly believed to be both an attempt to curtail piracy and a way to avoid paying a royalty fee to the DVD Forum, of whom Nintendo's competitor Sony is a member.

The system uses proprietary 8 cm Game Discs based on the MiniDVD format that are able to hold up to 1.5 GB (1,459,978,240 bytes), making it the first Nintendo console to use optical discs as the primary storage medium. On the bottom are two serial ports and one hi-speed port for add-on expansions. It has three buttons on top: Open, Reset, and Power. The Nintendo GameCube has six ports on its front: four controller ports (like the Nintendo 64) and two memory card ports. The console's code name during preproduction was "Project Dolphin": this name is alluded to in many GameCube games, such as Wave Race: Blue Storm and Super Mario Sunshine. The Nintendo GameCube is a home console system developed by Nintendo, and released in late 2001 as the successor of the Nintendo 64.

For the treasure based off the system from Wario World, see List of treasures in Wario World § Pecan Sands. For the Battle mode stage in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! of the same name, see Nintendo GameCube (battle course). This article is about the video game system.
