June 23, 1996 saw the release of the Nintendo 64!
It also saw the release of Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 with the system. Did you play them back then? Or recently?
What are your favorite memories of this console and its games?
It’s also an extremely reliable system.
My original NES and SNES both have problems. The N64 still works flawlessly. My original Gameboy still works too.
Holy crap, it’s really been 30 years?
The Nintendo 64 and Super Mario 64 was my most anticipated game and console of my lifetime. And it lived up to my expectations. Super Mario 64 was a truly revolutionary gaming experience.
The transition into 3d was kind of rocky, and a lot of developers took some time to get up to speed. But Nintendo and Rare kept putting out banger after banger.
Had one as a kid. Time to get a AARP membership.
I never had one. My parents rented one from Blockbuster once when they saw you could play Cruisin’ World on it. I went to watch a movie with mom and afterwards we went to Target and as we passed the electronics section she looked at the prices and said maybe we could get one later. We got home to find that my younger brother and sister had fought each other until they were bleeding, over whose turn it was to play (Cruising World was a single player game, I think, or the rental only came with one controller). That ended all hope of a video game system for years.
I’ve thought off and on over the years about getting a used one, or one of those Analogue 3D systems. There were so many fun games to play with friends on there.
Have you thought about doing a software emulator?
Or is it that you want the console experience in the real world and real hardware?
One point against that is the pricing on some games, especially the more popular games. Go to a local retro store or check eBay and you’ll see some of the prices can be insane for some games you may want. I’m talking $100+. I remember one retro store having a game that was $200, but this was one of the more rare ones like Pikmin for GameCube. I’m not too familiar with N64’s catalogue, but I do remember some extreme pricing on some games like this. The stuff that’s under the glass counter. I want to say Conker may be one of those.
I’ve been looking around for a lightly used one 😅
I didn’t get a N64 as a kid so it’s about time now that my retro setup is finally coming together
To answer the question, I had a friend with an N64 and we spent hours playing Goldeneye and Lylat wars after we did the newspaper deliveries.
Picking Oddjob always earnt the offending player a dead leg heheh
