Ode to the N64

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I love the N64. I remember getting it as an 10 year old in Christmas 1997; and spending hours on Mario Kart and Mario 64. It's only now that I'm starting a good-sized N64 game collection; many games are cheap, but my holy grails are the Mario Party games.

Does anybody have any fond memories of the N64?

I just have games I wish I had played and games I want to play again now that I'm older and can understand them better/in more depth.

I played mario party 2 and it wasn't a bad game but I didn't love it. I enjoye super mario 64 as well but I feel no nostalgia for it.

The thing is that I was younger than you when the N64 was available. I was born in 1993 and I think I got my N64 in 1999 when I was 6. I was still too young to be into gaming the way I am now. I watched my father play super mario 64 before I worked up the courage to play it myself. At the time I was afraid of the bowser laugh that plays when you die. Eventually I learned to enjoy it.

I missed out on the legend of zelda games. I missed out on two other games because I was given the choice between the two of them and I couldn't decide so I got neither.

Basically, I want to play games that I never got to play when they were in stores. That's not just N64 games. There are games that were on the playstation and playstation 2 that I want to play as well. There are some franchises that I also want to trace back to their NES roots so I plan on finding a console and some games that were before my time.

I have gone back and replayed paper mario though. I did enjoy the N64. I still wanted a Super Nintendo more at the time. I fell in love with the side-scrolling super mario type game in daycare before I even had a console of my own. I'm not as disappointed as I was back then that I got an N64 instead.

Ah, the N64. Back when Rare was still relevant before Microsoft overpaid for them and got nothing but Xbox 360 Avatars out of the deal.

But man, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Jet Force Gemini, loved those games. I unfortunately missed out on ever playing Blast Corps though I heard good things about it.

Such a durable console. I must've played my N64 to death in my earlier years and constantly swapping and replaying games. Yet later one when it was gathering dust and being passsed from family member to family member the thing would still work perfectly without issue. Have no idea where it is now, shame as I would've liked to play Duke Nukem on it again.

I love the Nintendo 64! Remember playing BattleTanx: Global Assault and Mario Kart 64, but now the N64 is a special interest of mine. I collect games for it too

I loved the N64 too. Playing Mario and Zelda in 3D for the first time was an amazing experience.

I love the N64! It was home to so many great classics. Sure, the Playstation had more games, but the N64 classics were unmatched in quality during their time.

I was just playing F-Zero X on my N64 yesterday. Such a fun game. It's even more awesome if you have the Expansion Kit, but unfortunately, that was only released for the failed 64DD add-on, which I have.

Probably my favorite controller. A fantastic d-pad that was criminally underused.

I've managed to get a few games for the system, like Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey.

I played Zelda to death. One of the only games in the world that seriously did make me forget about the real world and took me into the fantasy.

I've had a few games do that for me but Zelda was definitely one of them. Not only that but majora's mask is so beautifully dark. I'm currently playing it and I'm loving it as a game, a story, and a piece of art. It's probably one of my all time favourite games. I even like it better than the more popular Orcarina of Time for many reasons. Orcarina of Time has more dungeons but Majora's mask is just "wow".

I've still got my N64 plugged into the tv.