I would definitely start with the original NES and then go with the SNES and then Sega Genesis if I were to rebuild my retro gaming stash from scratch. There are so many games I wish I still had that I need to get back into the collection! In particular this NES:
I grew up with the NES, but personally I think of the three the N64 has aged by far horribly and the SNES due to the advanced visual and audio qualities, plus the more refined games it has learning from the 8bit era really would be your best option by far. It's classic, but doesn't feel old or aged badly(n64.) The SNES has the most quality library to look into especially if you add in imports which play fine on it without adapters. The N64 library while having some good is super lacking and small, not much variety as third parties turned their backs to it so it totally lacks some types of games.
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NES and SNES were awesome then Nintendo really screwed up with the N64 and never recovered in the home console space.... You had to feel bad for those early N64 adopters who thought they'll be getting an experience similar to the SNES only to see franchises they strongly associated with the SNES to such as Final Fantasy, Mega Man and Street Fighter to completely jump ship to Playstation.....
Which is why i went with the PSX Instead, at least in the beginning.
N64 remains as the worst Nintendo Console, by a land slide. Even then, that 16-bit '3D 32-bit transition was rough for the post. There were only a handful of truly great titles. Unfortunately the PSX got a lot more and had far more variety and diversity in it's selection. If you were into Fighters(then again N64 had Smash Brosand hehe..clayfigher), RPGS, 2D Games and Sprite based 32-bit games and had an N64....You were screwed.
The N64 did have a couple of 2D games. Yoshi's Story and Mystic Makers comes to my mind.
It's funny saying the N64 was the worst Nintendo console, but I would say the only thing I was not a fan of was the controller. The PlayStation being similar to the SNES was a plus and much easier to hold. The console itself however had 4 controllers built in, which meant there were some some excellent 4-player games. This meant you didn't need a multi-tap and developers could easily program 4 players. Basically the opposite for the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2 (which there was no excuse at this point).
While what I'm about to discuss is not that impressive today, the N64 actually 4MB of RAM. Plus the Expansion Pack allowed an extra 4MB of RAM (8MB in total) which helped improve stuff like the resolution and textures (see Star Wars: Pod Racing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cCHkR1E490). The PlayStation only had 2MB, and this did cause some issues with developers.
Now while cartridges were expensive to produce by that time, it did meant there were no loading times and are still cool to own. However, they could only store around 4-16MB, compared to the CD of 700MB. SO you can see while developers jumped on to programming for the PlayStation. True, there were more titles, but it also had a lot more crap on there as well (Bubsy 3D, Sony can have garbage ).
Can't forget the Transfer Pack. While it didn't get much support, the ability to transfer data from Pokémon, Mario Golf and Mario Tennis was impressive and still is today.
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