With news of various outlets who've taken pre-orders to date being quickly overrun with people any red-blooded Nintendo fan has to have begun to worry a little. Oddly enough, the store of choice for many gamers out there to date hasn't had any solid plans for if/when/how they would handle pre-orders. Now that has changed, and here's the skinny...

EB will begin taking pre-orders for the GameCube this coming Monday, October 15. To participate you'll have to put in $100 down and you'll also be agreeing to a $399 bundle deal. The elements in this bundle are as follows:

• Base GameCube system (Update Mixed reports on ability to specify color)

• 1 Nintendo memory card

• 1 InterAct controller

• Combination of any 3 of the following titles:

  • All-Star Baseball 2002

  • Luigi's Mansion

  • NHL Hitz

  • Madden 2002

  • Rogue Leader

  • Super Monkey Ball

  • Wave Race

• 1 year subscription to Ziff-Davis' GAMENOW

• 1 Copy of Gameover: History of Nintendo

Many thanks to PGC reader Paul for the heads up on the majority of the information