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.
Low framerates, extremely close draw distances, and odd controller make it less appealing to most retro gaming fans that don’t have nostalgia for the system. That’s not to say you shouldn’t go ham on some Buck Bumble or Doom 64, but it does explain why it’s not as active as some other platforms.
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.
N64 was the couch coop king. There were so many to choose from. Me and my buddies would get together and destroy each other on several different games back then. It was a blast.
Although online games are pretty nice for me now since we all have moved on to different locations.
Spent many hours with friends playing N64 back in the day. Great console! I can’t enjoy it on an emulator using a modern gamepad. Nothing can substitute for that goofy original controller in my mind…
Sin & Punishment is one of my favorite games ever, the N64 stays hooked up
I love the N64 despite growing up with a PSX… I always was jealous of not having one when watching those Pokemon Stadium TV ads!
Love/hate relationship for me - much preferred earlier 2d versions of platformers like Mario, Donkey Kong and others (Mario 64 makes me nauseous). On the other hand, N64 games I do like - like GoldenEye (mostly for multiplayer), Mario Kart 64 (same) and Star Wars Episode 1 Racer all have a special place for me. So I guess overall I’m not a huge fan, not nearly as much as the NES, SNES, Game Boy, and later, the Wii, but the system does have some really good picks for me, just not the platformers I love.
Overall Nintendo is my favourite, but for that generation, at least the PlayStation still had a decent selection of 2D and 2.5D games.
If any one game made and still makes me nauseous its definitely golden eye…
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.
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.
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.
I feel like it’s just overpowered by Playstation and maybe even X-box, I sure remember drooling over all the Nintendo exclusive releases back then, having grown up with NES and SNES games. I’ve been playing Ocarina of Time (my first 3D Zelda, after a lifetime of playing 2D) for the first time this past year (I’m slow and I fucking hate the water temple) and I just absolutely love it. Can’t wait to get into Majora’s Mask, Banjo Kazooie and others I missed out on as a kid. Super Mario 64 didn’t entirely convince me some years ago, but after I’m done with Zelda I might give it a try.
Edit: to say I’m surprised how well Ocarina of Time has aged despite the blocky polygon graphics. Once you get immersed in it, it actually plays very well in my opinion, but then again I’m honestly more used to older games than new and I still constantly play OG Silent Hill and games from that era.
Xbox was a later generation, so definitely overpowered.
PlayStation, N64, and Saturn were generation 5.
PS2, GameCube, Dreamcast, and Xbox we’re generation 6.
Yeah I wasn’t really talking about tech specs, well aware of that, but thanks. Sorry maybe I worded it awkward, I was wasted last night. Point was that by the advent of Playstation and X-Box Sega and Nintendo kind of faded into the background a lot. I mean if people (rightfully) feel like N64 didn’t get much attention, GameCube and Dreamcast got even less. The past and the present affect the future. I’m just glad we still have Nintendo and Zelda and Metroid and such even if I’m quite a long time of savings away from playing the newer games.
Did anyone play Road Rash 64? It’s absolutely my guilty pleasure. The fact the the entire island existed and you could just drive off course for miles blew me away. The wrecks were ridiculous, and the jankiness had a charm to it.
Didn’t know it was on the 64, played road rash on the 3DO my friend had and loved it tho, must have been better on the 64 though
With the classic 3DO game and the playstation games, everything was sprite-based. With Road Rash 64, everything was modeled in 3D polygons. If you crashed, you’d go FLYING off the course and end up in some field somewhere. When you crossed the finish line, your character would slow to a stop, and if you’re lucky enough to have an NPC end up right next to you, you could smack them until the fell off their bike as the leader board rolled out. My friend and I laughed so much back in the day.
That sounds so awesome, in modern day gaming maybe they wouldn’t be the greatest games but back then it was so fund beating on the other drivers haha.
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
