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.
Absolutely!
Im excited for 8bitdo n64 controller internals to turn the controller into Bluetooth for Android and Linux. And switch & windows i guess too.
So many games for n64 feel like fever dreams to me. Mystical Ninja was where it was at. Also Hey Pikachu…. Conker… Zelda… goldeneye… banjo kazooie…
Love me some N64
Did you ever play Glover? When I think “weird n64 games” I think Glover.
Oh wow yes! That unlocked a memory
Space Station Silicon Valley
Ooh, never heard of this one, but I know what I’m doing after work now.
I have tried playing banjo kazooie again with the Switch emulator and that game is hard
Absolutely love the 64. Was just playing Mario Kart, Battle Tanx, and Cruisin USA with my wife on Sunday night. Only downside is the system is slowing down and it takes 4-5 attempts before I can get most cartridges to boot up now.
I have a file with all the n64 roms, it wasn’t very big. I’ll use them in an emulation station at some point.
I think the best games for it now are the rom hacks, especially the Super Mario 64 ones.
I enjoy having some games people often don’t know about, such as Starcraft, Rainbow Six, the South Park fps game, the second 007 game, and Quake.
Oh nice I love Mario 64. Will have to check out these hacks
WCW vs. nWo: World Tour = best game.
No love for WCW nWo Revenge? I remember sinking so many hours into that when I was growing up.
I do love it though I have more more memories with World Tour only just because I wasn’t watching it as much during 98 :V
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.
DOOM 64 BABY! Love the N64, so much memories attached to it
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.
WWF no mercy and WCW nWo revenge were my favourite games on N64
WrestleMania 2000 was a blast.
That was really good too
Always love me some N64. Unfortunately, it hasn’t aged as well as some of the other retro consoles since the dips in framerate was pretty common for that machine even back when it was new. In comparison, the SNES still outputs a clean 60fps, as it was more of a priority back then.
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.
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”.
The N64 is amazing. I remember needing to get that red thing so that it would run Majora’s Mask.
Also Doom 64 is the best OG Doom game, mostly.
Mario Kart 64 is still my favorite of the series.
Honestly, it was the perfect mix of random party and skill. I don’t think any Mario Kart since has captured that balance. It’s my favorite one, too!
Orcarina of Time just rocked my world back then. I think I had the gold cartridge that had the original Fire Temple music and symbol on the mirror shield.
