Gonna be PRICEY to pick up many of the Gamecube classics.
I'd say you're better off grabbing a cheap Wii, softmodding it (relatively trivial) and then just downloading isos to play via USB to be honest.
Good gamecube only games: Super Mario Sunshine, Chibi-Robo, Wario World, Eternal Darkness, Wave Race: Blue Storm, Mario Kart: Double Dash, P.N.03, Luigi's Mansion, Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat (One of the best 2D platformers around, needs the bongo controller), Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, F-Zero GX.
Good Gamecube games with enhanced Wii/Wii U releases that might be preferable: Metroid Prime & Metroid Prime 2, Pikmin & Pikmin 2, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
Good multiplatform games on gamecube: Resident Evil 4, Burnout & Burnout 2, Viewtiful Joe, TimeSplitters 2 & 3. Killer7, Ikaruga, Skies of Arcadia Legends, Second Sight, Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy, XIII, Beyond Good & Evil, Spider-Man 2, Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Alien Hominid (USA only), Metal Arms, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, Soul Calibur 2.
Not sure which games might be most appealing to a 5 year old, but I have bolded the ones that are probably inappropriate.
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