I don’t see many posts here about the N64 and it doesn’t look like there is an N64 community on lemmy.world It’s the console I have the most nostalgia for and I have over 130 games in my collection. I’m currently playing a ROM hack called SM64: Beyond the Cursed Mirror. It has some pretty challenging platforming but it is fun.
N64 was the couch coop king. There were so many to choose from. Me and my buddies would get together and destroy each other on several different games back then. It was a blast.
Although online games are pretty nice for me now since we all have moved on to different locations.
N64 was the couch coop king
That’s what actually supporting four controllers does for you, I still have no idea why PlayStation held on to only 2 controller ports for so long!
Wave Race, both Zelda games and Perfect Dark were my most played games for sure. Perfect Dark was awesome with bots if you had the expansion pack.
We were a Wave Race and Diddy Kong Racing household. Everyone use to fight over who got to be the pink racer because she was “faster.” I don’t think any of us actually confirmed that.
Goldeneye was the best fps game I’d played up to that point, especially for same room multiplayer. Like it was one of those games that was head and shoulders above the rest at the time and really stood out.
Then Perfect Dark came along and made Goldeneye almost unplayable because it was just better in every way.
Though all of this was while game devs were still figuring out controls for FPS games. I think Halo was the one that figured it out decently for controllers. Nintendo still had Metroid Prime in its future during the N64 era, which is an interesting game in that I consider it one of the best out there but the controls were awful.
I feel like it’s just overpowered by Playstation and maybe even X-box, I sure remember drooling over all the Nintendo exclusive releases back then, having grown up with NES and SNES games. I’ve been playing Ocarina of Time (my first 3D Zelda, after a lifetime of playing 2D) for the first time this past year (I’m slow and I fucking hate the water temple) and I just absolutely love it. Can’t wait to get into Majora’s Mask, Banjo Kazooie and others I missed out on as a kid. Super Mario 64 didn’t entirely convince me some years ago, but after I’m done with Zelda I might give it a try.
Edit: to say I’m surprised how well Ocarina of Time has aged despite the blocky polygon graphics. Once you get immersed in it, it actually plays very well in my opinion, but then again I’m honestly more used to older games than new and I still constantly play OG Silent Hill and games from that era.
Xbox was a later generation, so definitely overpowered.
PlayStation, N64, and Saturn were generation 5.
PS2, GameCube, Dreamcast, and Xbox we’re generation 6.
Yeah I wasn’t really talking about tech specs, well aware of that, but thanks. Sorry maybe I worded it awkward, I was wasted last night. Point was that by the advent of Playstation and X-Box Sega and Nintendo kind of faded into the background a lot. I mean if people (rightfully) feel like N64 didn’t get much attention, GameCube and Dreamcast got even less. The past and the present affect the future. I’m just glad we still have Nintendo and Zelda and Metroid and such even if I’m quite a long time of savings away from playing the newer games.
I’m just not ready to call the N64 ‘retro’. I mowed lawns for months to buy that thing.
Based on the meaning of “retro” when the N64 came out (stuff from the 70s was considered retro in the 90s), it is. But in the almost 30 years since it came out, the meaning of retro might have changed.
Relative and absolute time frames are a bit of a bitch. Like the modern age has come and gone (ok, this isn’t exactly agreed on, either the modern age ended with WWII or we’re in the late modern age right now, but it started back in 1500 and things have changed a bit since then) but we still use “modern” to refer to current things, even when talking about an information age replacement of an earlier modern age product.
Should “retro” refer to <current year> - <range of retro years>, or should it refer to a specific time and a new name be given to the timeframe 90s kids are nostalgic about? My own mind thinks of things from like the 50s to the 80s when it sees “retro”.
I have so many fond memories of playing Superman 64 (and it’s multiplayer) and wave race with my dad.
I miss him so much.
I like seeing fond memories and Superman 64 in the same sentence. It feels like an oxymoron, but I totally get it. Even the worst games become great memories with great people.
Yeah the game as a whole was absolutely terrible but I could fly around and used my imagination. So many epic battles. But the main part of my memories is playing the multiplayer with my dad. It was really basic (just vehicles and dropping mines) but we laughed and yelled. I miss him a lot.
Absolutely!
Im excited for 8bitdo n64 controller internals to turn the controller into Bluetooth for Android and Linux. And switch & windows i guess too.
The ‘64 was my first console and remains one of my all time favorites. My love for it is definitely coupled with the final days of analogue tv and the end of my childhood but man—what a great system.
I love N64, it was one of the first console’s I bought with my own money, still play it today. I actually played F-Zero this afternoon.
I was a PlayStation kid but I had friends who had the n64. Overall I had a lot of fun playing mario 64, dk64 multiplayer, Mario kart 64, and Star Fox 64 at friend’s houses. We always did a win a level or die then it’s the other person’s tern rule on single player games.
But ultimately the single player experience on PlayStation was better. The rpgs and horror genres really left a lot to be desired on the Nintendo end.
I’m glad I have them both now. As a side note I never heard of the Saturn back in the day, but it’s the best for arcade ports of the era. If people are looking to get into mid to late ‘90s gaming.
Spent many hours with friends playing N64 back in the day. Great console! I can’t enjoy it on an emulator using a modern gamepad. Nothing can substitute for that goofy original controller in my mind…
Paper Mario, Mario 64, Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Donkey Kong 64, Banjo-Kazooie, even some lesser known gems like Mischief Makers and Pilot Wings. I fucking loved my N64 growing up.
I still have my N64 from back in the day, bought an RGB-modded one a year ago and recently another in clear blue. So yeah, I think I have some love for the N64.
Played the CRAP out of Ocarina of Time, Starfox, and Perfect Dark.
Now an Ocarina-wielding pilot assassin. ;) /s
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DOOM 64 BABY! Love the N64, so much memories attached to it
