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Link to original post: [drupal=3901]My experiance with the Nintend 64[/drupal]
I never really got into Nintendo until the Game Cube. Sure, I played the NES and SNES when I was little but I didn't become a real Nintendo fan until last generation. Maybe it was because of this that the Nintendo 64 feels like one big inside joke being made at my expense. Sure, I played a little bit of it when I was younger but to me it was never this ground-breaking piece of pure gold with game packs made of diamonds.
The first time I played a Nintendo 64 was when my older cousin got one many Christmases ago. However, the only games he had that interested me were Ocarina of Time and Mario 64, both I played extensively at his place when we visited. A few years later a friend of mine whose house I never really visited invited me and my friends over to play some game called Super Smash Brothers that he had gotten for his birthday. I found the game fun, really fun, to the point where the only game I would play on his 64 was Smash whenever I was over. The game impressed my sever-year-old mind to the point where I suddenly had an interest in Nintendo. When I found out about this thing called the Game Cube from my cousin and that it would have Smash Bros on it I instantly started saving up for one. Eventually I bought one and played it extensively with friends and by myself.
It wasn't until years after the Game Cube's launch that I started getting involved with connecting with my fellow gamers through the power of the internet. To my surprise, I found many were claiming the N64 to be one of the greatest consoles out there. I found my opportunity to check out this amazing machine when I picked up a Nintendo 64 along with four controllers and Mario Party 2 from a yard sale for ten bucks (thank you parents who don't know the actual value of their kid's old stuff). I purchased many games for it ready to dive into some pure Nintendo bliss, only to be surprised that the console wasn't exactly what I thought it would be.
For those of you who could care less about the back story and just want my opinion, read on from here. I'll keep it short.
I bought and tried several games. Mario 64 I found enjoyably nostalgic but I couldn't deny that I had enjoyed Mario Sunshine more. Star Fox 64 was also fun, but again I found that I liked it's Game Cube successor (Assault) more. It was this way with many games, I liked GX more than X, Melee more than Smash 64 and Mario Party 4 more than 2. It felt that all of the console's greats were just... lacking and were unrefined when compared to later installments. Many games, if not the console as a whole, I found had been crippled by the hands of time. My friends and I all agreed that Golden Eye wasn't fun, Banjo Kazooie felt like just another platformer and most of the games didn't feel like they controlled well.
After trying game after game it just kind of ended up sitting in a box and collecting dust, forgotten by me due to the fact that I didn't have that much fun whenever I took the time to hook it up. I ended up trading it to a local used games store and got a good price on it. Glad I did because it was just taking up space anyway.
I never really got into Nintendo until the Game Cube. Sure, I played the NES and SNES when I was little but I didn't become a real Nintendo fan until last generation. Maybe it was because of this that the Nintendo 64 feels like one big inside joke being made at my expense. Sure, I played a little bit of it when I was younger but to me it was never this ground-breaking piece of pure gold with game packs made of diamonds.
The first time I played a Nintendo 64 was when my older cousin got one many Christmases ago. However, the only games he had that interested me were Ocarina of Time and Mario 64, both I played extensively at his place when we visited. A few years later a friend of mine whose house I never really visited invited me and my friends over to play some game called Super Smash Brothers that he had gotten for his birthday. I found the game fun, really fun, to the point where the only game I would play on his 64 was Smash whenever I was over. The game impressed my sever-year-old mind to the point where I suddenly had an interest in Nintendo. When I found out about this thing called the Game Cube from my cousin and that it would have Smash Bros on it I instantly started saving up for one. Eventually I bought one and played it extensively with friends and by myself.
It wasn't until years after the Game Cube's launch that I started getting involved with connecting with my fellow gamers through the power of the internet. To my surprise, I found many were claiming the N64 to be one of the greatest consoles out there. I found my opportunity to check out this amazing machine when I picked up a Nintendo 64 along with four controllers and Mario Party 2 from a yard sale for ten bucks (thank you parents who don't know the actual value of their kid's old stuff). I purchased many games for it ready to dive into some pure Nintendo bliss, only to be surprised that the console wasn't exactly what I thought it would be.
For those of you who could care less about the back story and just want my opinion, read on from here. I'll keep it short.
I bought and tried several games. Mario 64 I found enjoyably nostalgic but I couldn't deny that I had enjoyed Mario Sunshine more. Star Fox 64 was also fun, but again I found that I liked it's Game Cube successor (Assault) more. It was this way with many games, I liked GX more than X, Melee more than Smash 64 and Mario Party 4 more than 2. It felt that all of the console's greats were just... lacking and were unrefined when compared to later installments. Many games, if not the console as a whole, I found had been crippled by the hands of time. My friends and I all agreed that Golden Eye wasn't fun, Banjo Kazooie felt like just another platformer and most of the games didn't feel like they controlled well.
After trying game after game it just kind of ended up sitting in a box and collecting dust, forgotten by me due to the fact that I didn't have that much fun whenever I took the time to hook it up. I ended up trading it to a local used games store and got a good price on it. Glad I did because it was just taking up space anyway.
