My first system was a Gamecube. It was a present for the family from mom and dad, and we got Super Smash Bros: Melee, Mario Kart: Double Dash, and the Legend of Zelda Collector's Disc (containing Legend of Zelda, Legend of Zelda: Adventure of Link, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and a 20-minute playable demo of Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker).
Mom picked it because most of the games were family-friendly, and there were a lot of multiplayer and co-op games. She didn't want us to play anything violent, graphic, or promotional of drugs, alcohol, etc, and if we were going to play videogames she wanted it to be a social thing; no sitting by ourselves playing.
I am so glad she got it at launch so we got the Zelda Disc; there's no guarentee I would ever have discovered Adventure Games or become a gamer if she hadn't. The other games were good, but in my head they still take second place to a good ARPG, and mom wouldn't have chosen a pack of single-player games if it hadn't been included. The salesman, she said, was also a fan of the zelda games and told her that the collector disc was a big reason this launch was going to be so big; there was probably a way she could have bought just the console and saved money, so thank you so much, games sales guy, wherever you are!