You were in the 8th grade, with a block busters around the corner, I was in the military. Major difference. All of my personal property needs to nicely fit in a small space, hence the necessity in focusing on one console.
You buying your own shit at 8th grade sounds cute. I didn’t have mom and dad to give me an allowance or get birthday money from my aunt and uncle, I had to budget my funds from my paychecks.
You didn’t get to play your N64 because you might of gotten grounded for a week, I didn’t get to play my PS1 as it was locked in a storage locker while I was deployed somewhere half way around the world for months at a time. And I am sure my priorities at the time was completely different than yours in the late 90s.
But I am not here to play that pissing contest. I just sharing all that to show what my life style ways compared to yours and my world out look was completely different. My norm was not yours and vise versa.
But seriously though your rational is just as laughable, you assume everyone else here is in elementary or grade school with the exact same conditions you were in.
What game titles that appeal to your 13 year old self didn’t appeal to my 19 year old self. At that time if we meet on the street our opinions of each other would not be what they are now.
What was the 4 or 5 actual titles you owned during the N64 hay day? No seriously, not your top 5 now, but the 5 you owned back then.
Da fuck? N64 had a decent line up. Mario 64,Zelda,Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2, Star Fox 64, Wrestlemania,No Mercy,Smash. A shit ton of games to keep you preoccupied.
It’s amazing to me that I can say “Don’t project your situation/taste/whatever onto other people” and you can somehow spin this to me saying “You’re all in the same situation as I am so don’t tell me blah blah.” My comment about Blockbuster and talking to people was about the majority. We didn’t need the internet to find good stuff.
I also never had an allowance growing up. I once asked my dad for money to mow the lawn and he asked “Why? You should just mow the lawn.” I then failed completely in weasling out mowing the lawn lol. I had to go out and find teenager type work to make money with. The only birthday money I got was my grandfather from time to time and his philosophy was you got double the age you turn so during those times I was getting like 23 bucks. Tough to buy games with that kind of scratch. You say you’re not interesting in a pissing contest…but kinda feels like you are. shrug
The whole point of my post was not to take what you hold to be a self evident truth and force it on others. We agree completely, why are you arguing with me about this?
Anyway I owned Golden Eye, OOT, Majoras Mask, Star Fox 64, and Perfect Dark. In fact I still own these very copies of my N64 games heh.
Mario 64, Legend of Zelda OoT, Majora’s Mask, Conkers, Mario Kart, Mario Part
I know right? people acting like their word on consoles is the word of God. Everyone knows my word is the word of God, and God says anyone who hates the N64 is going to hell.
Let me tell you whats wrong with your rhetoric, my old self during the late 90s would of laughed in your face with your examples.
I am of course speaking of my outlook back when the N64 was available in retail. This is the same guy who grew up on Atari 2600, NES, SNES and Sega Genesis. The Genesis almost won me from the SNES because it’s more mature arcade titles but Nintendo manages to provide games for the SNES that still held my interests.
In the late 90s Pokemon Stadium, Mario 64, Smash that was the very kind of kiddy shit I was trying to distance myself from at the time. Its easy to look back now, hind sight is 20/20. Now that I am more mature and my taste are boarder but my self at 19 avoided most of the stuff many of you see appealing. I not going into the Wrestling games but that a different bag altogether (by the way I still think the N64 wrestling games are terrible).
I (as well as anyone else who I worked with at the time) picked on coworkers who admit to watching Digimon on Saturday mornings, the only exception is if you had kids.
Okay I admit that is a respectable list of games (both now and then).
It wasn’t uncommon for people to have an N64, especially after the SNES. Most parents would go with a Nintendo brand if it’s something for the kids as well. I knew a few kids regretted it later, though. My mom bought my siblings a Wii eventually, and actually liked that there were only a handful of games they liked, as it got them out of the house more.
I had the Saturn as the 3-n-1 deal was more appealing, as well as being a SEGA fanboy thanks in part to my cousin (who owned the Master System, while I owned the NES), and the Genesis. I loved that thing a lot of it for the controller, and that I had SEGA’s 3D offerings at home, along with Capcom’s fighters. I wasn’t a big fan of shoulder buttons for fighters, thanks to playing SF2 on the SNES.
I’d still choose the Saturn over the N64 in less than a heart beat any day and to this day. If I was doing retro consoles now the N64 would be with the 3DO and Atari Jaguar, as drunk-as-fuck-purchase.
EDIT: Actually Treasure’s offerings would make me get it actually. I was reading about the original S&P and how Treasure used the N64 in one of the ways it was intended to be used.
Yea I rented pretty much everything before I bought back then. Majora’s Mask is the only one I bought without renting first (I got OOT from my mom on my B-day). I knew I was going to like it. My copy of Star Fox 64 is the one from the blockbuster I must have rented at least 15 times, if not more, eventually they just sold it to me.
N64 is also the first console I ever purchased myself. I got my older consoles as hand me downs from my cousin. I really like my classic collection. The NES, SNES and Genesis have all been replaced at some point, but I still have all my original games, and I still have my OG N64 and PS1. Everything after that tho man…they just don’t make em like they used to. I have 4 Dreamcasts because they die often enough that I just buy em when I find em for a cheap price.
Oh I would to for sure. The Saturn has a crazy amount of really good shit for it, and like the Dreamcast was THE place for mutli-player games imo. I still wouldn’t put the NG64 down with the 3DO or Jag tho lol. There’s a pretty good amount of fun on it that is fun to play. Treasures other N64 game Mischief Makers is really fun to.
And that is why your outlook for the N64 is the way it was. I was not trying to pick on your for how you paid for your own things when your in 8th grade.
But it changes up from how you earned money at middle school and when you buy games when you have stuff to worry about such as groceries and bills.
And I not going to knock you (any more) for liking the N64 as that is the first console you paid for with your money that you have earned.
It is a similar deal to my brother in-law, the N64 was his first real console that was his and his alone.
I agree, I right now ordering replacement parts for my broken PS2. I had to repair my Dreamcast 3 times. My first Xbox 360 had 3 separate rebuilds and most of its parts aren’t even original. I replace my PSP once, my DS quite a few times and I am on my 2nd PS3. Out of my later gen consoles only my Game cube haven’t crapped out on me. Only old consoles I really had to repair was the NES.
I remember putting embarrassing amounts of time just into those little mini games that Pokemon Stadium had alone
Let’s just ignore the fact that the N64 also had shit like Goldeneye, Donkey Kong, Banjo-Kazooie, Ocarina of Time and MM, Starfox, Paper Mario, Conker, Mario Kart, Turok, Yoshi’s Story, and MOTHERFUCKING GLOVER.
…still think the Gamecube is Nintendo’s best console tho, at least in terms of its library. Fight me.
I have owned both the N64 and GC and played them the least of their generations.
I dunno, games that come out on their consoles are just rarely my speed. I mean, they do have some cool stuff, for sure, and WiiU has Bayo2 and all, but in general Sega and Sony got the most play from me both as a 4yo and now as an adult
*Well no not really. I mean I do understand there is a nostalgia attachment to a console, especially one you purchased…but I’m capable of being objective about it, which is what I was being when I responded to Negative Zero and you at the beginning of this conversation. Comments like “you’d be bored of it in 1 day” simply tell me you weren’t looking. Your military story backs me up, you weren’t looking you where far to busy serving, you couldn’t look. So yea I know I have a special nostalgia going on here…but it’s not getting in the way, I’m being objective. The N64 had a pretty decent library of stuff. Now that stuff being your cup of tea is a different matter entirely.
I do wanna chime in and say that I agree with you on those the look of those early games, I always thought a lot of N64 and PS1 games looked fucking terrible. OOT imo is a pretty ugly ass game. MM’s mask fared much better. I still think Star Fox 64 looks really good tho, for some reason that game turned out pretty well graphically.
*Yea my PS2 just died as well, it wont spin discs. I dunno how to fix it, nor do I have the tools to sadly.
Same here, for me I probably put more time into the PS2 than I have any other console even to this day. The library on that thing is just insane even compared to today’s standards.
I come off as angry on the net too much, even when I don’t mean to.
If you are looking in to a replacement PS2, the Slimline consoles (SCPH-70000 or SCPH-90000 series) work better than the fat models (SCPH-39000).
Besides for being a newer model, they fix a few flaws in the dvd/laser assembly. The original PS2 was the first time Sony made a dvd drive that uses the same laser for both CD and DVD reading.
Also avoid putting your system vertically, it wore out the DVD motor alot faster.
