9 Launch Games That Singlehandedly Made Their Consoles Worth Buying

9. Luigi's Mansion - GameCube

A Nintendo console launch where its main man Mario wasn't present? Madness, we all thought - that is, until the brilliance of Luigi's Mansion washed over early adopters of Nintendo's royal purple cube, proving that Mario's svelt sibling had the chops to carry a console launch by himself.

Armed with the Poltergust 3000, Luigi mustered the courage to infiltrate his newly-owned mansion, promptly getting to work hoovering up the ethereal undead with the sort of gusto that would make Peter Venkman and his band of Ghostbusters proud.

That Mansion's small-screen sequel (Dark Moon) on 3DS managed to rack up so many sales and heaps of critical praise more than a decade later is a testament to how many Luigi fans hold a fond remembrance of the series.

Bring on the original's 3DS remake penned in for later this year. It'll be a corker.