What are your thoughts on the N64?

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The system had a thin library and it was a dessert for RPG fans, but what it did have was absolute bangers. Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Banjo Tooie(and especially Kazooie!), Mario Kart, and Smash Bros are a few that come to mind. Quality over quantity.

What were your favorite games and memories of the N64? This machine was a multiplayer beast with Smash Bros and Mario Party. Even though some of the minigames in MP can fuck your hand up lol
 
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I played a lot of N64 games on Wii VC and thought it was cool. But then I bought one for myself (with Everdrive) and realized they look and play much worse than VC. I barely used it ever since.
 
Best video game console ever. Had the best games ever, never has a system had the many historically relevant games measured against such a tiny amount of releases. Literally everything that's popular on Switch nowadays had its roots there:

- Ocarina of Time
- Mario 64
- Smash Bros
- Mario Kart 64
- Pokemon Stadium
- Mario Party
- Perfect Dark
- Turok
- and so on

The only omission were jrpgs.

So many afternoons spent with this system, so many days where friends and me would just go straight to my home and we'd play Smash all day long.

This was a true nextgen
 
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I had one when I was a kid, but outside of Mario 64 and Rogue Squadron I don't remember playing anything on it. Just a 'meh' console for me.
 
teezzy said:
Yeah it's kinda like the Saturn tbh
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I didn't know a single kid that had a Saturn back in the day.

My brother and I were fortunate enough to have a N64 and a PSX. The PlayStation got way more use.
 
Loved it! For sure their were no where near as many games as the PlayStation and they cost on average $10 more. But it had more than enough games that were great to make it worth having. And the multiplayer! Four player local play was so awesome and how me and friends wasted many weekends.

We probably put 500 hours into each of these:
Mario Kart 64
WCW vs NWO Revenge
Golden Eye
 
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I'm almost exclusively a single player gamer and I wish I'd had a PS1 instead, honestly. It had SM64, OoT and MM, Rare games (with -Tooie and especially DK64 being borderline), Paper Mario, and later on I really liked Sin and Punishment on Wii VC. PS1 has a lot more classics and starts to series I didn't play until two gens later when I started having my own money. It's a little better than the Wii U, but lol.

I think devs tried to make more advanced games than it could handle too, often to the detriment of framerate. That is one of the few things I hate in old games. I actually like the older 3D graphics on both the N64 and PS1, but bad performance kills it.
 
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I loved it.

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Having friends/family be able to jump into a multiplayer game in seconds was great stuff. No other console's delivered the goods for 4 player splitscreen quite as well as N64 did.

A modern day version would be a dream machine, even if the only games it had were 4K/60fps+ remasters of the originals - preferably with controllers less expensive than $80/each.
 
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I'm certainly glad i got to experience Ocarina when it came out, but beyond that there are only a handful of games I'd be interested in playing today. But that's fine, the real terror was the seemingly all pervasive blur and low frame rates which messed up so many games. I would take the lower quality PS1 assets if I didn't have to suffer that. I also remember the shitty analog stick that grinded itself into dust.
 
Never liked the thing much tbh. I had a great time playing Goldeneye MP but that's about it. Mario and Zelda wowed people with graphics but the gameplay was such a step back from previous entries.
 
It's great. Many classics that have never been replicated in quality or flavor.

I love carts. Go ahead and try to collect for ps1, see how well those discs are holding up. Carts? Joy to collect for.

I even like the controller. Lotta mongoloids don't know how to hold it but, it works. My only gripe is the stick which should be far more durable.
 
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I like it it's got the some Of the best games of all time on it like 007, oot. mm, perfect dark ki2 Mario golf etc. To me in the long run it holds up much better than the ps1 did.

It wasn't the Best gen for sure there were problems with all the consoles like the ps1 being a piece Of junk that would take too long to load and the saturn being a good console that should've taken off but didn't due to sega being sega but overall i Like the libraries of the ps1 and 64 not a bad generation.
 
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I look back fondly on the 64. Games like Rogue Squadron, Shadows of the Empire, Turok, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Blast Corps, Ocarina of Time and its side story, Conker, Beetle Racing, Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Wave Race, 1080 Snowboarding, Paper Mario, Star Fox, Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie (which had one of the best end levels ever made)... I could go on but you get my drift. There were a lot of games that I had a blast with. A lot of them haven't aged spectacularly well, but they're still great games.
 
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Chozofication said:
I've seen those steel sticks before, probably will give em a go once mine get too loose. Have you used them?
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Yeah my main controller has the steel bowl and the normal actual stick part. I use Super Lube on that stick (as well as all other active N64 controllers). Feels really nice and it's tight as it should be.
 
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Chozofication said:
It's great. Many classics that have never been replicated in quality or flavor.

I love carts. Go ahead and try to collect for ps1, see how well those discs are holding up. Carts? Joy to collect for.

I even like the controller. Lotta mongoloids don't know how to hold it but, it works. My only gripe is the stick which should be far more durable.
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Really shows your IQ if you're collecting old games in this day and age lmao.
 
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The first Nintendo product that I thought felt cheap. A couple good games with an endless supply of blurry trash. Rumble pack, memory boost....yuck. Played Ocarina of Time and rented the other good ones and sold it about 6 months after I bought it.
 
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Chozofication said:
Bitch my 64 collection is almost complete and haven't bought any for a couple years. A lot of what I bought is worth double what I payed

Get your broke ass outta heah.
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I'm sorry you need to surround yourself with smelly old plastic garbage to remind yourself that you peaked at 8 years old. I spend my money on more adult things now. Keep funding the other neckbeards and incels.
 
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brap said:
I'm sorry you need to surround yourself with smelly old plastic garbage to remind yourself that you peaked at 8 years old. I spend my money on more adult things now. Keep funding the other neckbeards and incels.
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Admit it your just jealous you don't have a gayming collection of playstation visual novels and whatever other things a brap likes
 
I was definitely a PlayStation kid (and even had a Saturn before I got an N64), but it's a console that left me with some incredible memories, so it will always have a special place in my heart.

Mario 64 and Zelda OoT are of course the two must-play games and for a good reason, but man it had a lot of great titles to play with friends. So many great memories of late nights playing Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, 1080 Snowboarding, Perfect Dark, etc. with friends.

Considering how few titles relative to PlayStation were actually released on the console, it did have a lot of gems.
 
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N64 is part of the strangest generation. It was absolutely superior than the PS1 graphically, but its storage limitations ended up making hindering it. A system with N64's graphics and Ram expansion alongside the PS1's cd drive would have been a truly awesome system. Dropping the CD drive in console development hurt the N64 so much.
 
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Had some great games (Turok was awesome) but the controller is absolute positive dogshit.

Emulation has long taken care of that problem, though.
 
Never had it at the time but I love it. Played a lot of Mario 64 and other games at friend's and relatives houses. Seeing Wave Race running for the first time was something else.
 
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