Nintendo 64
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With the 64 bits power of Nintendo 64, players can explore breathtaking 3D worlds that explode with colour, dance with real-time lighting effects and light up your ears with CD-quality sound.

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?

  • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      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.