How many calls did Nintendo receive about the water temple. The staff must have been like "Hello? Yes there is a key you missed under the floating block in the room where you first change the water level. Stop calling."
For however long it was a thing, the Sega tip line had instructions on getting past "The Barrel of Doom" in Sonic 3 in their automated "your call is important to us, please hold" message.
Nintendo Force is really good. $5/month, and every other month they send one out. So $10 an issue. It's an indie unofficial thing on Patreon but it's well done and me and the kids enjoy it.
What people seem to forget about the cultural impact of the N64 is that it cant be understood just by reading the sales numbers. The N64 was by almost by design a party console, behind every sold console there was at least other 3 kids that didnt own it, but have fond memories of playing mario party/goldeneye/smash in sleepovers. That's why there is such a disparity between the sales numbers and how impactful people remember it to be.
The n64 had a much bigger impact in gaming culture than the ps1 at the end of the day. Zelda OoT alone is a much, MUCH bigger name than crash bandicoot, resident evil and Metal Gear Solid.
I like how in the future, we'll be able to tell what era online videos were from based on the sponsors, same as we can tell tv eras based on the commercials shown.
I'm actually surprised that the 64 didn't do well in Japan. It's my 2nd favorite console after my Original Sega Genesis with all the add-ons. Currently trying to rebuild my 64 game collection. Many games were lost between my brother loaning games without getting them back and my parents selling the old ones because I wasn't playing them anymore when I was little. 😩
Ah the times of going to friends house or to bring them over to play Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart and having pizza. Everyone is to busy to come over to play :(
TH-cam me ha borrado el comentario, en fin. Último intento. Yo recuerdo haber visto en la tele el anuncio del Majora's donde todo el mundo miraba la Luna caer.
I remember some TV ads for N64 and Gamecube games, but I also remember magazine ads and those were usually the ones that made me run to my parents to tell them about new games. It's interesting to see stuff from Japanese magazines from back in the day, the interviews with Nintendo employees and the creators of some of the most iconic games and hardware are fascinating. I really love the idea of playing GBA games on the N64.
I really am still in shock about how long DYKG has been doing such amazing game journalism I'm glad this channel is continuously using its resources to do alot of interesting gaming work
I think he means after the console launch. NA, TWPS3 released on October 30, two months before the GC launch (November 18, 2001). In EU, TWPS3 released in March, 2002.
The PlayStation was perhaps the better SNES successor, but the N64 had some of the best, most influential games ever and was a great partner to the PS1 if you could afford to support both
Yep, I feel sorry for all the poor ppl that couldn't afford to have both. All the ppl throwing shade at one console are just mad they couldn't have both as a kid. Sucks for them!
Sorry, I had to fact check this, as I grew up in Europe THPS3 was a NA exclusive, not a PAL exclusive. I remember owning the game as a kid, but I don't remember if we got it in England, or when we moved to the US. Somehow, we got a copy of Dr. Mario 64 in England, even though it was a NA exclusive. Must've been from the military base.
15:20 The N64 version of THPS3 was a US exclusive, not an EU exclusive! The last European N64 release was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 on October 12,2001, almost 2 months after the US release on August 21, and just shy of a full year behind the N64 port of THPS3.
Back in the NES and SNES days, the only real competition Nintendo games had for store shelf space was Sega which was never a big competitor for them. It was mainly b/c of the intense competition from Playstation consoles (and now Xbox and PC) that development for a Nintendo console now ends about as soon as the next console is announced.
Sega was a HUGE competitor in the West. The Genesis had a nearly even market share compared to the Super Nintendo in North America, while the Mega Drive was even more popular in Europe. It just didn't do that well, relatively speaking, in Japan. But then Sega made a bunch of mistakes with the CD, 32X, and Saturn; while the PS2's built-in DVD player killed the Dreamcast. (The PS2, which also included online play unlike the GameCube, also strangled Nintendo that generation, but Nintendo still had most of the handheld market and enough cash reserves to keep going by giving the GameCube a full lifespan and then focusing on experimental hardware features from that point on.)
i was just about to comment this exact thing. i bought a copy of thps3 because i wanted something to play on the n64 when my sisters came and hogged playing luigi's mansion on the gamecube
@@pokemonduck midroll sponsorships are the worst. I don't pay for TH-cam Premium so I already support channels by watching ads. A sponsorship segment at the beginning or end of a video I can accept. The video being interrupted by "a message from this video's sponsor" really disrupts the experience.
Congratulations, DYKG. You have gone to the primary sources (in this case, old Japanese magazines) to find out unknown Nintendo gaming facts from the right time (1990s) and place (Japan). Good historical and critical research you have done. Keep up the good work.
The Pokémon Stadium/Colosseum/XD series was such a fantastic bridge between casual way of brining competitive-level play to casual players. Specially Colosseum, where Protect+Earthquake and Surf+Rainy Day combos could decimate your entire team in a few turns.
this video is amazing, all these magazines are treasure troves of trivia an never-before heard information. Please keep it going as long as you want, guys, i'll never get tired of it
2:22 I would love to learn more about "Zelda dial." I couldn't find any info on it when I looked it up... just a bunch of walkthroughs of areas in LoZ where there are dials. Great videos!! ❤
5:07 I am sure most people who look at older Game Mags would have a look at the date the magazine advert was released, only to realize it was dated a year before that tragic event.
No tragic if planned. Not the first time: they tried to do it with Cuba in the 1960s to take out Castro. Until JFK intervened before any Miami citizens were killed.
To be honest, playing this game in 1997, I couldn't figure out the puzzles either. I may have been 7 at the time, but I think it was more about being used too used to 2-D games. Without the internet, I had to use friends or a player guide to get me through the 64 Zelda games.
I think the first appearance of the "Hylian language" was in the book of Mudora in Link to the Past, though their decision to invent it (again) for OOT is very interesting. It's funny that it works out as an explanation for the "ancient language" in LTTP.
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Pokémon Puzzle League, like Tetris Attack before were originally part of the Panel de Pon series in Japan but only rebranded for the Western audiences for marketing reasons, just as they did with Kirby Avalanche/Ghost Trap on SNES or Dr. Robotnic's Mean Bean Machine on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Puyo Pop. In the end Panel de Pon 64 was canceled in Japan, that's why it seems "Pokémon Puzzle League" never came out in Japan when in fact the original version was canceled.
@@NovaSaber @jonothanthrace1530 Ah, sorry, you're right. Mixed the two games up. But the mechanism was the same. They thought this cute anime characters wouldn't sell in the West.
Ironically, if the 64DD wasnt canceled and released outside Japan. It would have been successful and some things wouldve turned out very different for some games.
What I think Nintendo should've done as far as N64 hardware is concerned, is that they still were insistant on using cartridges, Nintendo should've put all the cartridge chips within the N64 console itself. All Nintendo would've had to worry about is focusing on ROM size productions. Games would've not only been way cheaper at retail, production times would've been reduced significantly by more than 2+ months, but we also could've also seen N64 ROM sizes go from 64mgs(as what would happen in our timeline) to 128mgs long term!
I mean it's easy to say that with 28 years of hindsight, lol. But you weren't the one there planning the console back in the day, and you don't know the full picture of what the cost/production side of it was or any other variables that they had to consider.
@@svenbtbhindsight allows us to avoid similar issues in the future. Sharing that hindsight is a public service. Don't silence people offering a public service. Thanks.
They probably used Japan as a test market and took into consideration the lower number of N64s in Japan when evaluating the performance of the 64DD and even then it was considered a failure
I just bought the N64 additional OoT Guidebook (500k copies). Thank you for mentioning it! This is a real rare item! Just found the one which was listed on ebay.
Mario Party's 1-3 all being on the N64 might be the factor for that...when you talk about the SmashBros. Series, you could have six different conversations based on which Console youre talking about, but only One was on the N64, so its "Smash64" colloquially...when you talk about Mario Party 2, or Mario Party 6, that Number already indicates the 'era'... ...on the other hand, ill also refer to "Zelda 64" as a Concept, if it applies equally to Both OoT and MM (like having a "fairy partner Z-Targeting system", compared to later games just using an Arrow to point at what Link focused on), even though Neither Game had the "-64" title fornat...
I like to call the original Paper Mario "Paper Mario Story" in my head, based on its Japanese title. I've also got to wonder if the reason why people _think_ so many Nintendo 64 games have "64" in their titles is because there were proportionately many, and a lot of those were first-party. I'm sure that there are more, say, DS games with "DS" in the title, but the console had _way_ more games overall.
Not going to lie, as a kid that owned the N64 I was originally very annoyed by how bad the library was due to how devoid the console was of RPGs compared to the glory that was the SNES. It wasn't until much later in the console's life that how great of a machine it was for other games clicked with me, and how many absolute bangers it has.
Day Who-Knows-What of asking DYKGaming to make a correction video for the Pokemon GS translation video they did where the translation was correct but the narrator completely misread what was said about Johto's etymology...
Wasn't your complaint that the voiceover gave a simplified version of the translation, while the full translation was onscreen as text, which you wanted voiced?
i had no idea the N64 actually had more games in america then it did in japan, thats just crazy for me to think about. sure, nowadays the usa sells more games then japan, but back in the 90s? crazy to think.
One of the ads for Majora was a lot more effective at setting a chilling mood than the other. There are so many little things about the "mask" advert that make it feel more campy than creepy. It's usually disturbing when Link screams and lurches back in pain, but the editing of this montage kinda turned it into a TH-cam Poop..
The N64 barely sold any units in some parts of the world, in my country they had a pretty aggressive add campaign yet almost nobody bought one, the PS1 quite simply destroyed it despite having very little marketing by comparison. It did better than the Saturn tho.
The N64 is the definition of a top-heavy console: it's great for high-quality first and second-party titles exclusive to the console but terrible for any decent third-party support whatsoever. The big reason for this was Nintendo's refusal to go with the CD-ROM format - younger people today don't realize just how baffling that decision was at the time. But for me, the biggest thing was the utter lack of RPGs on the N64... whereas the SNES was an RPG machine. Stopped me from getting an N64 entirely.
Wish the wideboy would have come out to the public, wonder if it would have boosted sales, especially with pokemon being big back then. N64 will always be my fav retro console. I grew up on ps2, but i do remember having an n64 back then, my cousin had one 2, so multiplayer was fun haha
For the next video, can you speak about Luigi's Mansion for the Gamecube. That game had a complex development and had a lot of unused content. Also, do a video about Sonic Colors covering its development and the Ultimate version, please.
Stop simping for mega-corporations. PS1 sold the best then, just like Switch sold the best now, just like PS2 still has the most console's sold, despite what Simpando fans claim.
@@JorgeLopez-qj8pu i am not simping? i am just pointing out there being lik "will the thing from the past work?" when we all have the facts that it won't. I'm being sarcastic if anything
Great work as usual! Although I do wonder how you guys got the numbers at 15:50 for the total number of games on the respective consoles, I'm assuming Famicom combines Disk System games in that total since the total amount of commercially released cartridges is 1042.
@@PeperonyChease I find that number really hard to believe, Wikipedia very likely is including expansion cartridges and other oddities like Datach in that number
I wanna see the video about canceled 64dd games you were talking about at the end, you should add links to the description (not covering up the video which is blocked)
5:05 They knew what was going to happen. This isnt even conspiracy anymore as there were other forms of media that foreshadowed that tragic event, for example The Simpsons.
How many calls did Nintendo receive about the water temple. The staff must have been like "Hello? Yes there is a key you missed under the floating block in the room where you first change the water level. Stop calling."
For however long it was a thing, the Sega tip line had instructions on getting past "The Barrel of Doom" in Sonic 3 in their automated "your call is important to us, please hold" message.
4:32 Mad respect to the kid for playing videogames while the world ends.
Truly ahead of their time. Existential dread is more a gen Z thing
that kid is a mood & a life goal
Nah, it's just a preview as to what life in the US will be like by next week, no matter who wins. :/
I miss the days of videogame magazines.
It was a very special kind of magic.
Nintendo Force is really good. $5/month, and every other month they send one out. So $10 an issue. It's an indie unofficial thing on Patreon but it's well done and me and the kids enjoy it.
I also include game manuals in this
This is an incredible undertaking. Anyone else just blown away by this channels research and curation?
I would love to give your comment a like but it has a perfect 64 likes... :D
What people seem to forget about the cultural impact of the N64 is that it cant be understood just by reading the sales numbers. The N64 was by almost by design a party console, behind every sold console there was at least other 3 kids that didnt own it, but have fond memories of playing mario party/goldeneye/smash in sleepovers. That's why there is such a disparity between the sales numbers and how impactful people remember it to be.
Said brilliantly. Some great memories with that console and the Dreamcast tbh
Fair, but some of us who grew up before were very underwhelmed to say the least.
Hell yeah, no Internet, just our dumb, smelly buds 🤘
how does that make it any different from the PS1?
The n64 had a much bigger impact in gaming culture than the ps1 at the end of the day.
Zelda OoT alone is a much, MUCH bigger name than crash bandicoot, resident evil and Metal Gear Solid.
I like how in the future, we'll be able to tell what era online videos were from based on the sponsors, same as we can tell tv eras based on the commercials shown.
*loud audible crack and pop* ouch my hip just popped out of place
We already can lol, there's some older videos I've seen that were sponsored by Netflix of all things
Agree
"This video is sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legeneds"
What year is it?!
@@jimbob3332I was actually coming to comment the exact same thing 😭
I'm actually surprised that the 64 didn't do well in Japan. It's my 2nd favorite console after my Original Sega Genesis with all the add-ons. Currently trying to rebuild my 64 game collection. Many games were lost between my brother loaning games without getting them back and my parents selling the old ones because I wasn't playing them anymore when I was little. 😩
Good luck, that's gonna be expensive to replace everything even cartridge alone if you had a sizeable library.
Ah the times of going to friends house or to bring them over to play Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart and having pizza.
Everyone is to busy to come over to play :(
I'm sorry friend, I hope you can find some extra gaming buddies!
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I see this comment; I click like
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That is so old and tired, bro.
4:06 I remember being scared shitless of the mask transformations in the mexican version of the commercials. I wanted to play them so bad.
4:50 link walking towards the camera in the great fairy mask is the scariest part
Those two TV ads would have sold games like hot cakes here in Spain...
whath maketh you think tho monorosa?👹
A demás de verdad
Yo recuerdo perfectamente el anuncio de Majora's Mask siendo el de mucha gente alrededor del mundo viendo la Luna caer.
TH-cam me ha borrado el comentario, en fin. Último intento.
Yo recuerdo haber visto en la tele el anuncio del Majora's donde todo el mundo miraba la Luna caer.
N64 news when Banjo-Tooie releases. Wonderful
I've been playing and noticed zero lag 🤩
I remember some TV ads for N64 and Gamecube games, but I also remember magazine ads and those were usually the ones that made me run to my parents to tell them about new games.
It's interesting to see stuff from Japanese magazines from back in the day, the interviews with Nintendo employees and the creators of some of the most iconic games and hardware are fascinating. I really love the idea of playing GBA games on the N64.
Nintendo: Makes ad showing Twin Towers.
DKYG: Prophetic.
Pfft, at least they were willing to make cool and memorable ads back in the day. Nowadays, all we get are "watching ppl play the game" ads. Woo...
I really am still in shock about how long DYKG has been doing such amazing game journalism
I'm glad this channel is continuously using its resources to do alot of interesting gaming work
...So what you're saying is that if Koume and Koutake's names were properly localized they'd be called Arsenic and Old Lace in the US?
From 小梅 and 小竹 so more like "little plum" and "little bamboo", actually.
@@NorkiNorkiGaming No. Most likely not since you're pointing out (literal) translations, and games get localized rather than simply translated.
@@IERServer I guess we'd need Titleknown's definition of "properly localised" to determine whether their suggestions are more appropriate, then.
Is this a reference to something?
How'd you find out my childhood nicknames?
Tony Hawk 3 was not a Europe exclusive. It came out stateside.
Yeah, they messed that up. Looks like it was actually a North America exclusive.
I came here to say exactly this. I owned it lol.
I think he means after the console launch. NA, TWPS3 released on October 30, two months before the GC launch (November 18, 2001). In EU, TWPS3 released in March, 2002.
@D.E._Sarcarean where are you getting that information. I don't think THPS3 had a PAL release at all.
He didnt say exclusive. He said it was one of the games released on n64 after the gamecube released. This being a port of the game for europe.
The PlayStation was perhaps the better SNES successor, but the N64 had some of the best, most influential games ever and was a great partner to the PS1 if you could afford to support both
Yep, I feel sorry for all the poor ppl that couldn't afford to have both. All the ppl throwing shade at one console are just mad they couldn't have both as a kid. Sucks for them!
The entire ending to the video radiated the same energy of: Next time on Dragon Ball Z
lmfao 🤣🤣🤣
Sorry, I had to fact check this, as I grew up in Europe
THPS3 was a NA exclusive, not a PAL exclusive.
I remember owning the game as a kid, but I don't remember if we got it in England, or when we moved to the US.
Somehow, we got a copy of Dr. Mario 64 in England, even though it was a NA exclusive. Must've been from the military base.
15:20 The N64 version of THPS3 was a US exclusive, not an EU exclusive! The last European N64 release was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 on October 12,2001, almost 2 months after the US release on August 21, and just shy of a full year behind the N64 port of THPS3.
Back in the NES and SNES days, the only real competition Nintendo games had for store shelf space was Sega which was never a big competitor for them. It was mainly b/c of the intense competition from Playstation consoles (and now Xbox and PC) that development for a Nintendo console now ends about as soon as the next console is announced.
Sega was a HUGE competitor in the West. The Genesis had a nearly even market share compared to the Super Nintendo in North America, while the Mega Drive was even more popular in Europe. It just didn't do that well, relatively speaking, in Japan.
But then Sega made a bunch of mistakes with the CD, 32X, and Saturn; while the PS2's built-in DVD player killed the Dreamcast.
(The PS2, which also included online play unlike the GameCube, also strangled Nintendo that generation, but Nintendo still had most of the handheld market and enough cash reserves to keep going by giving the GameCube a full lifespan and then focusing on experimental hardware features from that point on.)
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 came out in the United States 15:23...
i was just about to comment this exact thing. i bought a copy of thps3 because i wanted something to play on the n64 when my sisters came and hogged playing luigi's mansion on the gamecube
I remember seeing it at blockbuster
I think they made a mistake there. It didn't even get a PAL/European release.
@@PeperonyChease yeah I remember thinking it weird, it's such an American game no way they localized it just for Europe lol
7:11 To skip the ad
The real tea is the SponsorBlock browser extension
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Just what I want to hear smack dab in the middle of an N64 facts video...a War Thunder ad.
@@ShadowEl I get that it helps pay for the video but it is very jarring
@@pokemonduck midroll sponsorships are the worst. I don't pay for TH-cam Premium so I already support channels by watching ads. A sponsorship segment at the beginning or end of a video I can accept. The video being interrupted by "a message from this video's sponsor" really disrupts the experience.
Congratulations, DYKG. You have gone to the primary sources (in this case, old Japanese magazines) to find out unknown Nintendo gaming facts from the right time (1990s) and place (Japan). Good historical and critical research you have done. Keep up the good work.
The Pokémon Stadium/Colosseum/XD series was such a fantastic bridge between casual way of brining competitive-level play to casual players. Specially Colosseum, where Protect+Earthquake and Surf+Rainy Day combos could decimate your entire team in a few turns.
this video is amazing, all these magazines are treasure troves of trivia an never-before heard information. Please keep it going as long as you want, guys, i'll never get tired of it
I cried for Japan when I learned that they never got to enjoy the pinnacle of gaming that is Gex
2:22 I would love to learn more about "Zelda dial." I couldn't find any info on it when I looked it up... just a bunch of walkthroughs of areas in LoZ where there are dials.
Great videos!! ❤
Such an awesome video - I love what DYKG does for gaming history!
lmao Imagine your job is to sit there all day, waiting for some kid to call you asking you how to get past a puzzle in a video game.
5:07 I am sure most people who look at older Game Mags would have a look at the date the magazine advert was released, only to realize it was dated a year before that tragic event.
No tragic if planned.
Not the first time: they tried to do it with Cuba in the 1960s to take out Castro. Until JFK intervened before any Miami citizens were killed.
hearing these videos still start with the phrase "did you know..." after all these years puts a smile on my face
I love anything you post n64 related. Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work
The Zelda Dial must have received a ton of calls from people that had reached the Water Temple.
Yep, Nintendo knew what they were doing, those trolls...
To be honest, playing this game in 1997, I couldn't figure out the puzzles either. I may have been 7 at the time, but I think it was more about being used too used to 2-D games.
Without the internet, I had to use friends or a player guide to get me through the 64 Zelda games.
That mask trailer for majora’s mask would’ve scared tf out of me as a kid that is vile work lmao
The N64 era was a great time for gaming. I'm glad I got to experience it as a kid.
The N64 are always more fun to learn about. The fun machine
Pro Skater 3 came out on n64 in North America, but not in Europe at all. You got your regions mixed up on that one.
I think the first appearance of the "Hylian language" was in the book of Mudora in Link to the Past, though their decision to invent it (again) for OOT is very interesting. It's funny that it works out as an explanation for the "ancient language" in LTTP.
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Pokémon Puzzle League, like Tetris Attack before were originally part of the Panel de Pon series in Japan but only rebranded for the Western audiences for marketing reasons, just as they did with Kirby Avalanche/Ghost Trap on SNES or Dr. Robotnic's Mean Bean Machine on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Puyo Pop. In the end Panel de Pon 64 was canceled in Japan, that's why it seems "Pokémon Puzzle League" never came out in Japan when in fact the original version was canceled.
No. Kirby's Avalanche and Mean Bean Machine were Compile's Puyo Puyo reskins and completely unrelated to Panel De Pon.
Tetris Attack is the rebranded version of Panel de Pon on SNES.
@@NovaSaber @jonothanthrace1530 Ah, sorry, you're right. Mixed the two games up. But the mechanism was the same. They thought this cute anime characters wouldn't sell in the West.
@@jonothanthrace1530 I corrected the mistake. Thanks!
Ironically, if the 64DD wasnt canceled and released outside Japan. It would have been successful and some things wouldve turned out very different for some games.
I love these N64 game facts!
What I think Nintendo should've done as far as N64 hardware is concerned, is that they still were insistant on using cartridges, Nintendo should've put all the cartridge chips within the N64 console itself. All Nintendo would've had to worry about is focusing on ROM size productions. Games would've not only been way cheaper at retail, production times would've been reduced significantly by more than 2+ months, but we also could've also seen N64 ROM sizes go from 64mgs(as what would happen in our timeline) to 128mgs long term!
@@G.L.999 but that would have increased the cost of the console itself.
Go back in time, and tell Nintendo their mistake. Youll be rich.
I mean it's easy to say that with 28 years of hindsight, lol. But you weren't the one there planning the console back in the day, and you don't know the full picture of what the cost/production side of it was or any other variables that they had to consider.
@@svenbtbhindsight allows us to avoid similar issues in the future. Sharing that hindsight is a public service. Don't silence people offering a public service. Thanks.
Enjoyed every second vid! You did great!
I wish Nintendo had a charismatic spokesperson again
Now they just let their lawyers do the talking
That explains why the Nintendo 64DD was a critical and financial flop in Japan. If they released it in America, it would probably be a hit.
I highly doubt it ''buy one half of the console and then later buy the other half please!''
They probably used Japan as a test market and took into consideration the lower number of N64s in Japan when evaluating the performance of the 64DD and even then it was considered a failure
This deserves way more views!
13:53 all the characters: *look cool or have special message*
dk: DONKEY KONG =)
Full vintage commercials hit the spot
1:41 I mean, that title wouldn't necessarily be inaccurate.
Dang, who knew that that was why we even got the Hylian language?
Well, some people outside of Nintendo probably did. Great video as always!
I really like these deep dives like this
I just bought the N64 additional OoT Guidebook (500k copies). Thank you for mentioning it! This is a real rare item! Just found the one which was listed on ebay.
Zero regional differences is the way you should want to do it anyways.
They thought they could get away with tons of regional difference back in the pre-Internet days...
10:19 I'm pretty sure Super Smash Bros 64 and Paper Mario 64 now get a 64 in the title, I guess Mario Party 1 still gets no 64 in the title.
Mario Party's 1-3 all being on the N64 might be the factor for that...when you talk about the SmashBros. Series, you could have six different conversations based on which Console youre talking about, but only One was on the N64, so its "Smash64" colloquially...when you talk about Mario Party 2, or Mario Party 6, that Number already indicates the 'era'...
...on the other hand, ill also refer to "Zelda 64" as a Concept, if it applies equally to Both OoT and MM (like having a "fairy partner Z-Targeting system", compared to later games just using an Arrow to point at what Link focused on), even though Neither Game had the "-64" title fornat...
I like to call the original Paper Mario "Paper Mario Story" in my head, based on its Japanese title.
I've also got to wonder if the reason why people _think_ so many Nintendo 64 games have "64" in their titles is because there were proportionately many, and a lot of those were first-party. I'm sure that there are more, say, DS games with "DS" in the title, but the console had _way_ more games overall.
@@NitroIndigo there were quite a few "_ U" titles on WiiU as well...
The Japanese not getting Glover is a win for them. One of two times I ever took back a game I rented the same day.
I searched it up and google says 94% like this game lmao 😆
Thanks for the video. What's the game with the train at 15:43?
Famicom Bunko: Hajimari no Mori
This is the first video ever where the narrator sounds MORE normal when played back at 1.25x
If you guys haven't played Durak, I highly recommend it w/ friends or family.
Its really fun.
Not going to lie, as a kid that owned the N64 I was originally very annoyed by how bad the library was due to how devoid the console was of RPGs compared to the glory that was the SNES. It wasn't until much later in the console's life that how great of a machine it was for other games clicked with me, and how many absolute bangers it has.
Day Who-Knows-What of asking DYKGaming to make a correction video for the Pokemon GS translation video they did where the translation was correct but the narrator completely misread what was said about Johto's etymology...
Wasn't your complaint that the voiceover gave a simplified version of the translation, while the full translation was onscreen as text, which you wanted voiced?
i had no idea the N64 actually had more games in america then it did in japan, thats just crazy for me to think about. sure, nowadays the usa sells more games then japan, but back in the 90s? crazy to think.
The only 2 games that were missing in North America are 'Rakuga Kids' and 'Sin & Punishment'! Things could've been more complete!
One of the ads for Majora was a lot more effective at setting a chilling mood than the other. There are so many little things about the "mask" advert that make it feel more campy than creepy. It's usually disturbing when Link screams and lurches back in pain, but the editing of this montage kinda turned it into a TH-cam Poop..
The N64 barely sold any units in some parts of the world, in my country they had a pretty aggressive add campaign yet almost nobody bought one, the PS1 quite simply destroyed it despite having very little marketing by comparison. It did better than the Saturn tho.
16:10 really unfortunate that they chose to use Jynx’s old design for that mask
15:20 this is very minor but THPS3 came out in NA as well, in fact it was the last officially published game to release over here
It only came out in NA for N64.
Tony hawk pro skater 3 on N64 only being in Europe is wild since I had one as a kid in the USA.
It's a mistake it only came out in NA.
The N64 is the definition of a top-heavy console: it's great for high-quality first and second-party titles exclusive to the console but terrible for any decent third-party support whatsoever. The big reason for this was Nintendo's refusal to go with the CD-ROM format - younger people today don't realize just how baffling that decision was at the time. But for me, the biggest thing was the utter lack of RPGs on the N64... whereas the SNES was an RPG machine. Stopped me from getting an N64 entirely.
Pokemon Puzzle League’s … backgrounds? I thought everything was lifted from the anime.
Wish the wideboy would have come out to the public, wonder if it would have boosted sales, especially with pokemon being big back then. N64 will always be my fav retro console. I grew up on ps2, but i do remember having an n64 back then, my cousin had one 2, so multiplayer was fun haha
The Snail won't be happy until all of humanity has premium time and at least one premium vehicle
Awesome content, as always! Thanks for sharing
For the next video, can you speak about Luigi's Mansion for the Gamecube. That game had a complex development and had a lot of unused content. Also, do a video about Sonic Colors covering its development and the Ultimate version, please.
Will you guys cover the Pokémon teraleak? I’m not invested enough to look into it myself but I’d love to watch a video on it
Hylian was in A Link To The Past, wasn't it? That's why you needed the book to translate it.
I'm pretty sure we got the moon commercial in the west, don't remember if it played out exactly like the japanese comercial but i swear i saw it.
16:13 "did it even work?"
geee
*looks at the sales of n64 online next to the ps1"
i wonder
Stop simping for mega-corporations. PS1 sold the best then, just like Switch sold the best now, just like PS2 still has the most console's sold, despite what Simpando fans claim.
@@JorgeLopez-qj8pu i am not simping? i am just pointing out there being lik "will the thing from the past work?" when we all have the facts that it won't. I'm being sarcastic if anything
@@krewl1252 If you're "just making a joke" then why are you doubling down and getting angry? Sorry if I didn't get/catch the sarcasm?
@@JorgeLopez-qj8pu i didn't think i came off angry
reminder that sony had michael jackson assassinated
11:40 Maybe this is why the final F-Zero game is named F-Zero CliMAX
Of course even Majora's Mask commercials traumatized children lol
Great work as usual!
Although I do wonder how you guys got the numbers at 15:50 for the total number of games on the respective consoles, I'm assuming Famicom combines Disk System games in that total since the total amount of commercially released cartridges is 1042.
Wikipedia states 1376 releases across NES and famicom including FDS
@@PeperonyChease I find that number really hard to believe, Wikipedia very likely is including expansion cartridges and other oddities like Datach in that number
@Bro3256 all the titles are listed go have a look for yourself.
I wanna see the video about canceled 64dd games you were talking about at the end, you should add links to the description (not covering up the video which is blocked)
9:13 or for 10 minutes continuously for no discernable reason, at times!
THPS3 was only released in Europe? I remember THPS3 for N64 here in the United States. It had a black cartridge
It wasn't released in Europe they made a mistake.
It never ceases to amaze me how y'all keep finding so many interesting facts after so many years! They were just region locked the whole time 😂
Before there was The Ring, there was Majora's Mask.
Can someone tell me the game of the footage at 15:45
How do I have a copy of THPS3 for N64 if it only came out in Europe?
I will never get sick of n64
Does that mean you can play the true cups version on Japanese NSO?
5:32 Nickname Nidoqueen looking exactly like what shiny Nidoqueen should have been... wtf
5:05 They knew what was going to happen. This isnt even conspiracy anymore as there were other forms of media that foreshadowed that tragic event, for example The Simpsons.
thats why Majoras mask is my favorite scaring the hell out of little kids and me when i was youger
It’s Do- rock. Durak is a card game. Mad fun
Awesome stuff :D
Another amazing video 🎉❤
I started playing with NES but I believe N64 was the greatest system.