Released in 2001, Nintendo GameCube (codenamed Dolphin during development) is a video game console, developed and marketed by Nintendo.
Unfortunately, the font used for “Nintendo” at the top is unidentified. With its round E, Handel Gothic is similar, but wider (and the Compressed style too narrow). Here’s hoping that someone else will do a better job than me and find it.
“GameCube” is based on Bank Gothic, thickened and modified, featuring a unique A along with a modified M and small changes towards the bowl area of B, see the comparison below.
Some stretching and thickening of the letterforms was needed to match the exact proportions.
The controller is designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, it uses an embossed Futura Condensed for Start/Pause texts and possibly also the buttons.
The official packaging for cables uses Japanese letters that follow quite closely the style of Bank Gothic. Since Bank Gothic doesn’t offer support for Japanese characters, it’s thinkable that Nintendo designed its own. Or maybe it’s just a different typeface with similar characteristics.
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I think you’re right about Handel Gothic Compressed for Nintendo part. If you stretch horizontal scale to around 160%, convert the type to outlines, thicken up the horizontal strokes by shifting those points up/down, and then expand the N, T, E, and D to better match width of the O, you get something very close. They probably also split and mirrored right half of D to create the slightly squarer O. Similar to the modification of Bank Gothic letterforms for Gamcube part.
Patrick, it was Florian who suggested it’s Handel Gothic Compressed so that’s his credit. I was thinking about the O as well just never fully convinced unless proven otherwise. On my end, I still couldn’t come with any possible match so yea, this font is the only thing that might come close for now. Thanks for the comment.