In 2004 and 2005 I was tasked to design GameCube 2-pack bundles to help promote the sale of some excess inventory that my company had on-hand from Nintendo. Each bundle was set to feature one game that was near the end of its lifecycle as far as sales go, and the other was a title still desirable to gamers at the time. An incentive purchase to encourage the buyer with a deal. Kind of like a Buy One, Get One deal.

Flash forward twenty years and the story of these bundles has become their own little legendary tale. Not knowing at the time, but because of these being small print runs we had create some of the most desirable and allusive GameCube games in the industry. There’s nothing unique about the games inside the packaging, it was the outer packaging that created this mythical like untold story. Until recently there was little detailed history about these titles, like where and when these were created. How many were printed of each bundle was the question everyone was asking. Well, of course I had the answers that plagued these collectors for the past two decades.

• Sonic & Monkey Ball DUO PACK (2005) Only 7500 of these sleeves were ever printed.

• Sonic Adventures 2-Pack (2005) had three print runs, a total of 22,284 units.

• Super Monkey Ball 2-Pack (2005) resulted in a total of 14,819 units.

• Pure Evil 2-pack (2004) first run total of 12,600.

• Pure Evil 2-Pack (2005-2007) print total of 12,458 units.