Happy Birthday Nintendo 64 (United States)

[alec006]

Well its September 29,2005 and 9 years ago in the United States the N64 came out. June 23, 1996 in Japan, September 29, 1996 in North America, and March 1, 1997. Well i would like to celebrate this great birthday by playing Super Mario 64, Goldeneye 007 and Super Smash Brothers. Happy 9 Years N64.
Why not trow a commercial in there to. :)
(Requires Quicktime or Windows Media and its 17MB)
http://www.gaming-age.com/specials/adspecial2/Commercials/N64/n64promo.mpg

[Mayhem]

On a similar note, it's actually 10 years today that the PS1 was released in Europe...

[MegaDrive20XX]

Odd, I thought it was Sept 30th? Anyways, Happy Birthday N64! :)

[THATinkjar]

Why not trow a commercial in there to. :)

Could Body Harvest's clip be ANY shorter?

[Aussie2B]

Happy birthday, N64! Hard to believe it's been so many years. I got my N64 a day early, so I guess it's been 9 years and one day for me. :) And she still looks and plays as well as ever.

[dieourumov]

Got my N64 in october, and my parents wouldn't let me play it until Christmas. it sat in the closet for THREE FREAKIN MONTHS!

[syd]

I got my first N64 only earlier this year, it took me that long to realize how great a system it was. It wasn't the best system ever made, but it definitely had it's share of great games.

[Ernster]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY N64 :D The 2nd best system ever made, better than PS1, PS2, XBOX, GC IMO.

I loved it so much, no other console made a leap like the N64 did, months before it was launched you could see how awesome this thing was going to be. Shame the PS1 bet the N64 in the end, a DAMM shame, but life goes on, and N64 was no means a failure. Fantastic time to be a gamer *sniff* :(

[Slipdeath]

I love you 64! Even with all your catridge based games! :P

[PentiumMMX]

My N64 turns 8 in November. Hard to belive, even after (Out of frustration. Told you Bowser is one mean b@stard!):

- Ripping Carts out of it with Power on
- Throwing Controlers at it
- Otherwise Beating the living crap out of it

...and it still works! 8-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY N64! (and Windows 95, Still using Win95 after 10 years!)

[Xexyz]

Happy birthday to the least favorite console I happen to own.

[s1lence]

Great another system that makes me feel older. :(

[VACRMH]

Happy birthday to the least favorite console I happen to own.

[CreamSoda]

Happy Birthday N64!!!

One of the best system's ever right here.

I'm going to celebrate by playing: Goldeneye, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Body Harvest, ect.

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Cmosfm]

I'm still trying to figure out how the hell I lasted from September until Christmas to play Super Mario 64. :(

I'll write a happy poem entitled "Tugging On My Heart":

Happy Birthday Nintendo 64
Oh I love you so
You touch me in my special place
I hope you never let go

Tug on it you shall
Make me scream and howl
No one is as good as you
When you jerk my like you do

yay for impromptu suggestive poetry!

[YoshiM]

9 years already. In two months I'll be married that long :D .

I remember that fateful launch day. Buddy of mine and I got up early and drove to Fond du Lac to stand outside Toys R' Us before they opened to find out that they had a small shipment and the preorders took them all (if memory serves). We walked over to Target and picked up Mario 64 (as they didn't have the consoles out or in yet) and as a last ditch effort we went to ShopKo to see if they had systems. The gal at the electronics counter had no clue what an "Enn sixty-four" was but we spotted a whole shelf full of them.

Happy Release-Day, N64! :bday:

[GameNinja]

Happy Birthday! :bday:

The N64 was actually my first own console that was strictly MINE. I got it for Christmas (there was actually a semi-interesting story about that Christmas and I posted it here awhile ago)

As for the video, I never knew that Kirby's Air Ride was originally an N64 game... :embarrassed:

[Jumpman Jr.]

Man, 9 years? I am getting old. I remember buying it a few weeks after launch after seeing it at my cousins house. I fell in love with Super Mario 64.

[boatofcar]

The 64 was the beginning of my disenfranchisement of current systems. That lasted all the way until FF9 came out, which I bought a PS2 to play. Now I go back and play the 64 all the time, but it marked for the the first period when I could go to the store and see row after row of games that I had absolutely no interest in.

[PDorr3]

I loved my N64, and many of its game will be among some of my top 10 and top 20 games of all time. Mario 64 changed the way I would look at and play games forever, smash bros and goldeneye brought whole new meanings to the word multiplayer, and zelda defined what games are really about, fun.

[joshnickerson]

Happy birthday N64! You were the first console I saved up for and bought myself. I still boot it up from time to time, if only just to run around the castle grounds in Mario 64.

[davepesc]

I never even considered an N64 9 years ago. Finally picked one up this year to play Paper Mario.

Now, it's mostly used by my daughter to play Yoshi's Story, Mario 64, Kirby Crystal Shards, Tigger's Hunny Hunt and the Elmo games.

[EricRyan34]

I <3 N64

[zerohero]

Thank you N64 for giving me 1 out of 3 games I still enjoy to play today. Specifically "Zelda Oot".

[Sothy]

sup

[Streetball 21]

Happy B-Day Nintendo 64. It was awesome back in the day, and it's still awesome today.

Thanks for providing Mario 64, Goldeneye, Zelda, Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing etc. etc. I could go on and on but i won't.

[swlovinist]

As a token of my love for the system, I will play one of my favorites tomorrow, Super Mario 64. This is truly one of my favorite systems to collect for. After 9 years, I still love to play the system. Although the N64 is most known for "the system that did Nintnedo in", it was far from a failure and far from being non playable.


On a side note, I am now down to just 11 boxes to have an entire boxed US N64 set!

[zerohero]

sup
Sup 8-)

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