Topic: The N64 Thread

@Zuljaras Very nice

@F-ZeroX Here it is I have visually "modded" my US N64 console

No comment besides upvote.

@jump Thank you so much!

How long does the battery last on switch v2 playing on n64 app?

Donkey Kong 64 was my favourite N64 Game, i wish we could get a HD Version like the Wind Waker got !

@F-ZeroX Congrats on the C&C for 64 It is on my list!

StarCraft 64 really struggles when the screen is busy but that is part of the fun!

@NeonPizza have much of the same thoughts as you. I was 10 in 97, but I still fully remember the golden eye parties, or mario party-parties. No cell phones, great shows, good music, and no one was worried about how much sugar was in your cereal! Great times man, great times. I'm old now.

I was only 5 years old in 1997, so I didn't have exposure to game parties back in the Nintendo 64 era. But I definitely played the heck out of my N64 at the time. Got mine for Christmas that same year I've mentioned. Games like Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie were fantastic, I rented the latter many times before I eventually got to own it. And while Donkey Kong 64 had some... frustrating parts, I do kind of have a soft spot for it. I also liked Yoshi's Story despite its mixed reception, and not gonna lie, I still kinda like it. Partially because I played it as a kid, lol. Kirby 64 was the first Kirby game that I've played, and it already started to turn me into a Kirby fan.

I had quite a few racing games, too... I've had Mario Kart 64 and Diddy Kong racing like everyone else, and those were great. But I also had F-Zero X, San Francisco Rush (and its sequel, Rush 2) and the Cruis'n games, those were also a blast to play for kid me... just speeding through all these courses! It's no wonder I liked cars when I was a kid, lol. It did help that my dad had the original F-Zero for the SNES, too. I do like Wave Race 64 as well.

A few more games I had include Star Fox 64 and Super Smash Bros., those were great. I didn't have the Zelda games back then, unfortunately... I wish I at least had Ocarina of Time back in those days! I didn't try it until I got it the Wii Virtual Console, and I played more of the game via the 3DS remake. Took me a good while for me to get into Zelda as a result, but better late than never. OoT is fantastic, of course. I did also play Majora's Mask via the 3DS remake, but I didn't get into it. It's a shame because I know a lot of people put MM in a very high regard. As for Mario Party, the first one I've played was Mario Party 5 for the GameCube, so I didn't play the N64 ones until much later.

Outside of some Mario Party, I didn't do a ton of multiplayer, just enough that I didn't ignore it either. Smash Melee and the first 2 Halos were far more the peak of playing with various friends and classmates for me. Which was also funny because it felt like PS2 had no presence in my town despite it selling so much more than the competition.

N64 was the first console we had that was still relevant when we got it and outside of Pokemon Snap, we were a bit slow to get into any of the classics. Started with more B-tier games and sports games and the like, only playing a lot of the games everyone remembers from then either from renting or a friend. I distinctly remember getting Glover because Mario 64 was still full price while (I learned decades later) a really stupid thing caused Glover to become super cheap, but then thankfully it was at the local video rental place so I could at least play Mario 64 for the weekend. But I think of the games we actually owned were from the last 2 years because of that and wanting to focus on new games when out parents would buy them for us. Eventually Mario 64 and Diddy Kong Racing would be the exceptions and I'd only finally own a copy of games like Banjo Kazooie and Ocarina of Time and Star Fox 64 a while after the Gamecube was out. And thanks to the magic of...divorce, N64 became my secondary console to play every other weekend for the next 10+ years, which often meant slowly going through whatever games I was able to find for cheap, mostly games I had fond memories of from when I rented or borrowed them.

Despite being a huge fan of N64, to this day I do not own Mario Kart or Yoshi's Story, and I only played F-Zero X when it came out on NSO. Which is not the biggest deal in the grand scheme of things (that moment when Yoshi's Story is my favorite of those three), but it is funny with how much time I've spent not owning them when I likely could have. It's funny to think how much time I spent on it but haven't played quite a few games or played them very little, and not just because I couldn't find a copy. So many of these games can be deceptively time consuming, especially when doing 100% runs, and enough of the rest are really easy games to justify replaying.

After too long I am making good progress on Mario 64 thanks to NSO. For some reason I never had this one. I have no idea why, as I rented it plenty. I think it was because basically most of my N64 games HAD to be multiplayer, and Co-op if possible, because if you could only get 2 or so a year, I wanted things I could play with my brother. There were exceptions - Paper Mario, Yoshi's Story, Mystical Ninja, Mischief Makers....but never Mario 64! I can't be sure why.
Anyway, it holds up remarkably well to me. I love the N64 app.

Oh, I forgot to mention one thing. Does anyone remember the promo tapes that Nintendo would make back in the 90s? I actually had three of those, all from the N64 era... ones for Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie, and Donkey Kong 64 (that one also featured Jet Force Gemini). I think they would've been made before the games I've mentioned each came out. They were pretty much the precursor to the Nintendo Directs of today.

I also wish I had Paper Mario back when it came out. At first I thought it was kind of a silly title for a game... gosh I was missing out. I did play Thousand-Year Door back in the GameCube days though, and I eventually got to play the N64 original when it came out on the Wii VC. I'm normally not into RPGs, but I do love the first two Paper Mario games.

@Mana_Knight Sounds like me with Banjo-Kazooie in that I've rented it plenty of times, but not owning it as a kid. That promo tape I've mentioned in this post was the next best thing for me if I wasn't able to play the actual game!

@MarioVillager92
Are you talking about the promo vhs tapes like "feel everything" and "the new dimension of fun" ? If so, I saw them last year and I was amazed and felt like a little kid again. Easily better than a Nintendo direct. Simply more soul. And it made me want to play the games again. Seriously, the 90s were ALIVE.

@MarioVillager92 I think I remember one tape, but not as vividly as I remember a Gamecube one that came with CUBE magazine before the launch of the system.
Paper Mario was just so special. Still is!

@Jhena Yep! That's cool, the ones I grew up with make me feel like a kid again as well. I'm from the US so I didn't have those tapes you've mentioned. Agreed on the 90s... makes me glad I was born in that same decade.

@Mana_Knight Nice, that's cool. The last Nintendo promo tape I had was the one for Jet Force Gemini and Donkey Kong 64, I didn't have any GameCube promo tapes/DVDs. Agreed on Paper Mario... just talking about it makes me wanna play it again!

@F-ZeroX It definitely did. I recall that it had a lot of sports games as well, with Nintendo branding them as "N64 Sports," at least here in the US. Never was into sports games though, the more realistic ones to be more precise. Of course F-Zero X is your favorite one... your username gives it away, lol! I like your N64 collection pictures, by the way.

@F-ZeroX Ah yeah Mario Tennis is a really good one. Mario Power Tennis on the GameCube was also a good time. My dad was a huge baseball guy and he did have that same MLB game with Ken Griffey Jr. I think I played that once or twice as a kid? I don't remember. Surprisingly, I didn't have Nintendo Power magazine until 2002. It was cool reading what was coming out for the GameCube and GBA at the time though.

@NeonPizza When I saw that box, the first thing that came to mind is "Where's that N64 Mini Nintendo promised?"

Would really love to see it in action. I've been using the SNES and NES Mini regularly.

@markmarkmark
Did Nintendo actually promise or hinted at one? I don’t recall they ever did.