Well I've added two more games to my Gamecube collection: Super Mario Sunshine and Lego Star Wars II.

 
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Super Smash Brothers Melee almost made it in as well but I'm still on the fence as far as that purchase goes. I'll speak of that in another post though. For now I'll talk about these two great games.
Super Mario Sunshine is one of those games that I saw a few years ago and was really interested in. I had not thought about it much considering how my Playstation 2 was my main console for around 3-4 years. Around when I decided to buy my Gamecube I did what I've been doing for the past year and made sure to get informed on the game to make sure that I got my money's worth. One of the reasons for buying this game was how much I enjoyed Super Mario 64 DS on my DS Lite. Aslong as the gameplay was anything like the DS game then I knew I would have a good time. I haven't opened the game yet but I will once one of those times when I'm really aching to play a game comes about. It's one of those games that I'm not in a rush to play yet.
Now lets go on to Lego Star Wars II. I played the first Lego Star Wars on my PS2 and had a lot of fun playing with my sister and dad. The humor was well done and there was just something endearing of playing Star Wars in lego form. Star Wars has really never been a thing that I've really been interested in but Lego Star Wars gave it a great charm. I also did some research on Lego Star Wars II but I didn't have much to worry about considering how much I loved the first game. My only concern was if there were any changes inbetween system versions of Lego Star Wars II and I was glad to learn that there weren't any, atleast on last gen systems. I did play Lego Star Wars II for about 2 hours and I was able to notice that everything did look upgraded. The environments also seemed bigger and with more detail.
You may be wondering why I choose to buy Lego Star Wars II on the Gamecube instead of on the Playstation 2. One of the neat things is that you can use your old save file from the first game and import your old characters into the new game, but that wasn't something I really cared about. Another factor was availability. The only place that I knew of that had the Playstation 2 version of the game was Toys R Us and I didn't want to bother going there. Playing the game on the Gamecube feels pretty much the same as playing the first game on the Playstation 2. I seem to enjoy it more since I'm tending to favor the button layout of the Gamecube controler versus the Playstation 2 Dualshock.
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All in all I'm happy to say that I'm happy with my two purchases. Super Smash Brothers Melee is still a game that I do want and I probably will end up buying it sometime either this month or next. It's really about availability since I've noticed some places like Walmart taking out a good number of Gamecube games and leaving only a handfull behind. Other places like Best Buy though still have a good number of Gamecube games as well as a good number of systems.
Besides Super Smash Brothers Melee I'll have owned all the games that I was wanting from the get go along with some spur of the moment purchases. That list of games consists of:

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Super Mario Sunshine
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Sonic Hereos
Waverace: Blue Storm

Super Smash Brothers Melee will likely round out that list. To me it seems like a good fun list with a good variety of games.