Happy 13th Birthday Nintendo 64 (9-29-96)
Today marks the 13th anniversary of the Nintendo 64. Released today September 29, 1996. Argued by critics as one of the least popular of the Nintendo systems, the nintendo 64 lived up to its name back in the day. With titles such as Mario 64, and LOZ: Ocarina Of Time this was surely a revolution!
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..."The One And Only"
Least popular? I think everyone I know who stil has there N64s from back in the day LOVED it. If any Nintendo is the least popular it would be Virtual Boy.
NES, Atari 7800, Genesis, SNES, Saturn, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Atari Flashback 2, Limited Edition Red Wii, PS3 Slim, GBC, GBA, GBASP, DS Lite, and PSP 3000.
Seriously...who thinks the N64 is unpopular?
I love my N64, and I know I'm not alone. In terms of sales figures, the GameCube is the least popular console (not counting VB). Plus, I *still* play the damn thing. BlastCorps FTW!
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Woot! Welcome to the teenage years, my trusty N64!
I personally treasure my SNES as my gaming godfather, but the n64 is not without it's classics. Zelda 64, Super Mario 64, and Star Fox 64 are among my faves.
GameCube was of equal greatness, IMO.
not counting portable systems. regular consoles, the n64 ranks the lowest. the snes is the highest with the nes short after. don't get me wrong i loved the n64 but most critics criticized it for the weird shaped controller. many people have begged for a normal ps2 type controller for their n64's. hell i wish i had one. but the system was very revolutionary at the time like i said.
..."The One And Only"
Unpopular? Back in elementary school, it seemed everyone had an N64, and they all loved it...
I love the N64, though I prefer playing the PS1 over it anyday. It had many great games, and I spent a lot of time playing it recently. Happy birthday, N64!
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Thirteen years already?!
Well...actually I'm surprised it didn't come up sooner. The system has been feeling old a while. I still get lots of fun out of its library though - should pick up some more cheapies while I can.
I cant believe the N64 is 13. Its my favorite console of all.. So many great memories. Feels like just yesterday that I opened it on Christmas and pulled a Nintendo 64 kid freakout.
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while not as bad as virtual boy its not as good as super nes nes or even the wii. Might be better than the gamecube. I loved and played my 64 a ton.
"Unpopular" for a mainline Nintendo console is a relative term. It was unpopular compared to the enormous market penetration of the NES and SNES, but it was still a raging commercial success relative to, say, the Saturn.
The N64 is my favorite piece of Nintendo hardware, as it represents the period wherein I really became a serious gamer. I can't believe it's been 13 years since I first played Super Mario 64.
I was playing it yesterday, actually. There's your staying power.
The N64 will forever be thought of as home to some of the greatest and most revolutionary videogames of all time. Aside from potentially the NES, the 1st party N64 library is the best example of Nintendo's ingenuity and creativity in software design.
Zelda and Mario existed before, but their formulas were really reinvented from the ground up on the N64. Smash Brothers was created on the system, and it finally allowed F-Zero to come to real fruition.
I completed Ocarina of Time for the first time a few weeks ago. I missed out on the N64 the first time around (traded it in after a month for a PlayStation back in 97).
I've been slowly making my way through Super Mario 64, which I had shunned back in the day because I was "tired" of Mario. Big mistake!
These console birthdays from after I graduated high school are really making me feel old. I'll just keep playing video games and feel young!
Last edited by Gentlegamer; 09-30-2009 at 10:24 AM.
Happy 13th Birthday Nintendo 64 I remember like was yesterday
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Hi all! first post...
The N64
One of the best consoles ever but spoiled by its very poor third party support nintendo shot itself in the foot by thier refusal/greed to step into the new age and use a CD based system prefering to use the old pay them to use thier cartriges ruse.
It also seemed very hard to programme games for (remember Superman 64?) again only nintendo and Rare seemd to really be able to make it do great things.
They never really recovered with the Gamecube despite its great library of games they where still living of the memories by some publishers of the older days and they also didnt have that continuation thing where a third party game series would contiue on the newer systems (Eidos tomb raider on PS1 and then PS2)
The remarkable success of the Wii is great but nintendo seems to have lost that drive to make those amazing groundbreaking games of before and third part support has followed this with far to many simple party themed games.
Factor 5 did some amazing things on the N64.Originally Posted by Damiean Dark
Happy birthday, my favorite console ever.
True that, especially Star Wars: Rogue Squadron...Other non-Nintendo/Rare games I was fond of were Body Harvest, Mischief Makers (although published by Nintendo, it was a Treasure game), Mystical Ninja 64 (though I'm a hardcore Mystical Ninja fan), and of course the first Turok.
While the VAST majority of non-Nintendo/Rare games did in fact stink, the quality of the N/R stuff as well as those above mentioned games more than compensated.
At 30 Million units sold, I'd say the N64 was a pretty successful and popular system. It did have some great games, especially from Factor-5.
Saturn is the one that was least-popular.
Saturn was not of Nintendo stable (sorry couldn't resist ;-)
But yes, N64 was pretty awful with gaming quality, it was non-existant. Recently played Pokemon Stadium, it looks so washed out (I don't wanna hear any 'get a decent monitor' crap), the US voices are terrible....ugh, basically N64 had crap graphics and a very little replay value gaming library..
Perfect Dark is excellent though, playing it right now. Well, right now I'm typing but you know what I mean.
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