In the dying days of the GameCube's life, we present a look back at the games that never made it...

Back five years ago, Nintendo was readying its GameCube to unleash upon the world. Its a similar story now with the Wii. It really is just half a decade ago, though it doesn't seem that long. Here's a promotional video for the Cube advertising the "Nintendo Difference". Note the games like Raven Blade and Donkey Kong Racing which never made it in the end, and an early build of Kameo, which eventually ended up on the Xbox 360:

Individual game videos for the never-released Raven Blade, Dead Phoenix, Rebirth, StarCraft: Ghost and the Mario 128 tech demo can be found collected on Powet.tv here.

Thanks to R-E reader Piem@n for the heads-up on this!