Today is N64's 18th birthday. Share your favorite memories.

God, I loved that fucking system. I played it soooo much and still missed out on lots of great games.

Driver, Crash and Tekken suck ass though.

the last good thing nintendos done. 4 players in wrestlemania 2000, nba hangtime and mario kart led to physical fights on a daily basis

When N64 games came out they shocked the world. It elevated above gaming--it had a cultural impact maybe more than any other console in history.

I don't totally disagree.. but I believe the PSOne had a bigger impact than the N64. It sold twice as much and made gaming a casual's paradise (more so than the N64 did if you can believe that..).

No. N64 has had the biggest impact since the NES, and pong before that. It changed the way games were made, who the focus was, where videogames were appropriate, and introduced concepts never done practically. It did all this not through advertising, but through gameplay and word of mouth. The console became a legend amongst college students--it spread like a virus, and there will likely never be something else like it.

The N64 is the Star Wars of the videogame industry.

Again I don't totally disagree, but the PSOne reached a much larger audience and had a much larger Library of games (Better or Not remains subjective).

Definitely.

On topic: No special story here. I bought the console with Ocarina of Time and it was too amazing for words. It might have been my happiest time as a gamer.

Those games you laugh at are the highest rated games of all time as well so yeah... seriously. You say that the nintendo did nothing good..... besides the best 3 games ever

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1v3ing my brother and my two best friends on WWF: No Mercy repeatedly.

To which he will reply "corrupt mainstream media". Same tired old shtick.

No point in arguing with him since it's just a joke role that he likes to play. It used to be amusing, but ran its course a long time ago.

For me it was mario kart and goldeneye we must have played them thousands of times easy. Really we would play till our eyes burned. Guys was betting money and talking reckless. I had 4 sticks and 10 to 17 of my friends waiting in line waiting doing side bets. Sure smash was cool and later perfect dark but we always came back to the two megatons.

Goldeneye and Ocarina of Time (still the best Zelda game to date). Those are the two games I have fond memories of.

Classic

I was wowed more by Wave Race 64 than Mario 64.

*Sniff* They grow up so fast.

Games arent done this well anymore. Since I got my n64 back I'm actually starting to think it might be the greatest console of all time. It has classics on a Pacman level.

Wave Race 64 was the bollocks, loved goldeneye and rogue squadron too.

I gotta ask if I'm the only one that preferred the synth based audio, over that of "cd quality"?

Happy B day I suppose..... Banjo 1 & 2 remain the best 3D platformers - why oh why MS / Rare refuses to make a modern one along with a new Conker is a mystery and a disappointment.

Perhaps X1 will get the love, we shall see.

I've never owned an n64 but I did emulate a few games on pc, and If I were to pick the best game I'd say Mario 64

2 memories I have:

1. In college playing Madden 64 with friends as a drinking game. Touchdown was a shot. Fieldgoal was swig of beer. I sucked at the game so by the end of it I could barely play Mario.

2. Playing Goldeneye with 1 shot kills with pistols < how skilled players played.

Untrue. One shot kills made for a more even playing field with unskilled players.

My siblings, and cousin, found that the best way to play was -4 health. What this does is adjusts the damage so that one shot to the head is a one shot kill, a couple shots to the chest, and so fourth. Yes, we tried everything. lol.

B/c you're not suppose to circle jerk like with auto weapons and run around like a chicken with your head cut off.

You have to actually play cat and mouse and get a vantage point on the opponent. Hence the true skilled Goldeneye players played this way.

The peak out of the corner technique actually became useful in mulitplayer....b/c again...one shot and you were dead.

Not understanding how to play the mode....makes me think more that it's only for the skilled players.

AHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAH

Maybe I'm not understanding what you are saying. There is no correct way to play. If a new player wants to run arround with a p90(if i remember correctly) then so be it. Skilled players adjust to the situation. That was the beauty of goldeneye. -4 allows for a tad full of luck, but I can remember how when we would play the specific one shot kill matches that getting a foot shot was bullshit on even the winning players side--we all thought that. If you can't get that headshot then its a no go.

@Renegade_Fury:

I can agree with the aged terribly comment. I recently played goldeneye which was incredible at the time. Thought I was garbage.

I was one of the four people (if all prizes were accounted for) in the country that won an N64 and Mario 64 from the Kellogg's cereal box contest, Apple Jacks for the win.

It's only been like.. 6 years, but i have fond memories of playing Mario Kart 64 and Mario Party with a smaller relative.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Wii have a 60 HZ mode? Sure, SMB 25th (and VC games) using 50 HZ might be horrible (though to be fair, that collection sucked ass in comparison to the Kirby's Dream Collection, which for some reason, NoE did not want to release in Europe), but every Wii game I've gotten since I've started living in the UK has a 60 HZ mode.

Some Wii U VC games like F-Zero are also in 60 HZ too (not sure if every later release followed though).

Mortal Kombat Trilogy - Best fighting game ever

NFL Blitz - Best sports game ever

:P

EDIT: ... and how could I forget those WCW games.... great wraaaastling

I remember it as the most awefully looking consoles ever with nothing else to play but Mario 64, Mario Cart and Goldeneye. RIP useless piece of plastic.

I guess mine would be owning a Sega Saturn and PS1 instead of an N64. I finally owned a Nintendo console when I bought my girlfriend a Wii.

Yeah it does, but that's not the point. On other consoles, once you're in 60Hz mode, that's it. With this some games 60Hz, some aren't. Even the VC games, Nintendo could work harder to give us 60Hz versions, it's the least they could do, it's just really lazy. When a game goes to PSN or XBLA, you don't even question if it's 60Hz, because that's the least they've done in the port among a ton of other stuff. Nintendo just dump stuff on the VC like it's an emulator and roms off the the internet.

That aside how could they be so lazy with the Mario 25th edition game? It should have been a special thing, a fan service. A 25th edition Mario or Zelda package should have be an iconic and celebrated moment for gaming and Nintendo.

The n64s shooters were overrated as ****.

Any positive they did came with an asterisk: for consoles, because in an era that saw Half Life, Doom1-2, Wolfenstein, Quake, Unreal, System Shock, AVP2, Deus Ex, Rise of the Triad, Shadow Warrior, Tribes, Counterstrike, Team Fortress, No One Lives Forever, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, so many more sophisticated shooters from a gameplay perspective with way better controls that its laughable that Perfect Dark and Goldeneye were considered great.

Admittedly fun as **** with a group of friends, but mostly because you didn't know of substantially better playing shooters that are more than playable today in a way that Goldeney and Perfect Dark aren't.

Eh, fair enough. Although in my time here since I started getting PAL games for the GameCube, Wii, and PS2, I haven't really noticed the difference (outside of some content on some games, like DBZ: Budokai having Japanese audio and a different opening, while the NA version used the FUNimation voice actors and an opening that sticks closer to the show, other than that, they both ran the same to me) on those systems.

Ya got me on why they screwed up on the Mario collection (just a repackaging of the SNES cart), but dude, take a look at Kirby's Collection. Every mainline game on the Game Boy, NES, SNES, and N64 made it to that collection. True, some spinoffs (like Dream Course and Tilt and Tumble) would have been nice, but it was still a far better package than what Mario got.

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True

But N64 had some great classics.

Lol strong bait, but atleast those games were better than anything on Xbox.

I love the N64. It's my favourite system of all time.

Favorite memory was actually getting the system. Another favorite is getting DK64 with the expansion pack. Such a great system.

I was a freshman in high school when this came out, and I was so excited. It ended up having some awesome games.

The time my dog took a crap in the cartridge slot

did you blow the cartridge slot?

was curious....

Oh yeah totally fixed it

i had a saturn during that time and any time i tried a n64 it made my eyes hurt with its so called smooth textures :(

Rest in Peace.