Luigi's Mansion

Luigi's Mansion gave Nintendo’s famously nervous brother the spotlight when it launched for GameCube in Japan in 2001, followed by North America later that year as a console launch title. Developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo, it traded the Mushroom Kingdom’s running and jumping for a haunted-house mystery: Mario has disappeared, and Luigi’s suspiciously acquired mansion is full of ghosts. It was an unusual introduction to Nintendo’s new hardware, built around atmosphere, expressive animation, and a hero who clearly wanted to be somewhere else.Armed with Professor E. Gadd’s Poltergust 3000, Luigi stuns ghosts with his flashlight before wrestling them into his vacuum. The mansion’s interconnected rooms mix exploration, environmental puzzles, and portrait ghosts whose habits reveal how to catch them. Luigi’s trembling calls for Mario and nervous humming make the sound design as memorable as the ghost-catching. Its relatively short length drew criticism at release, but its distinctive personality helped establish a series with a very different rhythm from Mario’s platformers.This US GameCube copy includes the box and game and is an uncommon find in our shop. It was inspected, cleaned and tested by hand at Broad Street Exchange in Woodbury, NJ.