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 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.
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 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. 😩
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 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.
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
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!
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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
"They had to change the name due to copyright problems." I know this is Japan, but are you sure you don't mean trademark? Copyrights and trademarks are two different things. A trademark (in the US, anyway) is usually your brand title and logo. Copyright is everything else.
I always thought the N64 sold fine in Japan?!? Over 2/3rd of the console’s were sold in America?!?!?Thats crazy! No wonder the N64DD was a massive failure that never left Japan.
That would probably also explain why The Legend Of Zelda isn’t that popular in Japan. Because OOT and MM were both huge games in America… its crazy finding this stuff out. Thanks DYKGAMING. Yall taught me so much. 😅
The Nintendo 64 sold 5.54 million units in Japan, compared to the Super Nintendo which sold 17.17 million units, meaning that the Nintendo 64 sold less than 1/3 of the Super Nintendo's sales in Japan. The Nintendo 64 sold so badly, that it was outsold by the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine (5.84 million units) in Japan and only sold 2.2 million units more than the Wii U which sold approximately 3.34 million units in the region.
@@travisjordan3853 them numbers are insane. The SNES is my favorite console of all time, but I always thought the N64 was a powerhouse that sold good everywhere. Im guessing the PS1 sold better than the N64 in Japan as well?
What a shame the N64 didn't sell better. While I adore the GameCube, part of me really wishes the N64 era lasted a few more years and gave us some more titles.
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
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
I was 10 years old when the N64 came out and while yes, I did have one and I enjoyed it, even at the time it was new I recall consistently feeling many of the games coming out for N64 were not of the same quality as games that came out for the Super Nintendo and ended up feeling let down when titles like Yoshi's Story and Donkey Kong 64 were just nowhere near as good as their 16-bit predessors. Games were expensive and my allowance could only cover a new game every so often, so I actually found myself at that point buying SNES and NES games which were much cheaper and also much more satisfying. In the grand scheme of things, the N64 is my least favorite Nintendo console. For all its flaws, I even like the VirtualBoy more than n64. Virtualboy had one of the best platformers of the 90s in VirtualBoy Wario Land. Hot take, but I like it more than Mario 64.
I lived in a city with lots of Japanese descendants in Brazil and that had relatives living in Japan, so I managed to know a bit of stuff that were in Japanese N64s, but I could never imagine foreigners had more stuff In addition to the others, there was also Tony Hawk 3 for N64 to rent in old rental stores here
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.
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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
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.
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
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 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.
N64 news when Banjo-Tooie releases. Wonderful
I've been playing and noticed zero lag 🤩
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!
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.
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.
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That is so old and tired, bro.
...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?
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.
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.
4:50 link walking towards the camera in the great fairy mask is the scariest part
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
The entire ending to the video radiated the same energy of: Next time on Dragon Ball Z
lmfao 🤣🤣🤣
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!
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
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.
7:11 To skip the ad
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!! ❤
I cried for Japan when I learned that they never got to enjoy the pinnacle of gaming that is Gex
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.
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...
The N64 era was a great time for gaming. I'm glad I got to experience it as a kid.
hearing these videos still start with the phrase "did you know..." after all these years puts a smile on my face
Such an awesome video - I love what DYKG does for gaming history!
That mask trailer for majora’s mask would’ve scared tf out of me as a kid that is vile work lmao
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.
I wish Nintendo had a charismatic spokesperson again
Now they just let their lawyers do the talking
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.
I love anything you post n64 related. Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work
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.
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.
Being a rookie, make Ubiquiti your best friend. I went off on my own and ended up finding them and redoing everything. I didn't like paying twice, but i couldn't be happier with the outcome now. 1 wifi 7 network wireless network and a full 10g wired network with a 25g fiber from building to building spread across 3.5 buildings and 2 acres or property all at amazing speeds.
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!
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
The N64 are always more fun to learn about. The fun machine
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 😆
Full vintage commercials hit the spot
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.
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?
13:53 all the characters: *look cool or have special message*
dk: DONKEY KONG =)
I love these N64 game facts!
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.
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.
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!
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...
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.
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..
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...
I really like these deep dives like this
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.
Of course even Majora's Mask commercials traumatized children lol
This deserves way more views!
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!
This is the first video ever where the narrator sounds MORE normal when played back at 1.25x
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.
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.
Hylian was in A Link To The Past, wasn't it? That's why you needed the book to translate it.
If you guys haven't played Durak, I highly recommend it w/ friends or family.
Its really fun.
11:40 Maybe this is why the final F-Zero game is named F-Zero CliMAX
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.
"They had to change the name due to copyright problems." I know this is Japan, but are you sure you don't mean trademark? Copyrights and trademarks are two different things. A trademark (in the US, anyway) is usually your brand title and logo. Copyright is everything else.
9:13 or for 10 minutes continuously for no discernable reason, at times!
I always thought the N64 sold fine in Japan?!? Over 2/3rd of the console’s were sold in America?!?!?Thats crazy! No wonder the N64DD was a massive failure that never left Japan.
That would probably also explain why The Legend Of Zelda isn’t that popular in Japan. Because OOT and MM were both huge games in America… its crazy finding this stuff out. Thanks DYKGAMING. Yall taught me so much. 😅
The Nintendo 64 sold 5.54 million units in Japan, compared to the Super Nintendo which sold 17.17 million units, meaning that the Nintendo 64 sold less than 1/3 of the Super Nintendo's sales in Japan. The Nintendo 64 sold so badly, that it was outsold by the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine (5.84 million units) in Japan and only sold 2.2 million units more than the Wii U which sold approximately 3.34 million units in the region.
@@travisjordan3853 them numbers are insane. The SNES is my favorite console of all time, but I always thought the N64 was a powerhouse that sold good everywhere. Im guessing the PS1 sold better than the N64 in Japan as well?
thats why Majoras mask is my favorite scaring the hell out of little kids and me when i was youger
I will never get sick of n64
1:41 I mean, that title wouldn't necessarily be inaccurate.
I started playing with NES but I believe N64 was the greatest system.
What a shame the N64 didn't sell better. While I adore the GameCube, part of me really wishes the N64 era lasted a few more years and gave us some more titles.
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.
Did you know these devs were jerks for not telling western press any of this information back in the day?
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.
That moon twin tower forshadowing!!
Awesome stuff :D
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
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
never seen that predictive programming for 911 and I've seen hundreds
Awesome content, as always! Thanks for sharing
Enjoyed every second vid! You did great!
I was 10 years old when the N64 came out and while yes, I did have one and I enjoyed it, even at the time it was new I recall consistently feeling many of the games coming out for N64 were not of the same quality as games that came out for the Super Nintendo and ended up feeling let down when titles like Yoshi's Story and Donkey Kong 64 were just nowhere near as good as their 16-bit predessors. Games were expensive and my allowance could only cover a new game every so often, so I actually found myself at that point buying SNES and NES games which were much cheaper and also much more satisfying.
In the grand scheme of things, the N64 is my least favorite Nintendo console. For all its flaws, I even like the VirtualBoy more than n64. Virtualboy had one of the best platformers of the 90s in VirtualBoy Wario Land. Hot take, but I like it more than Mario 64.
5:32 Nickname Nidoqueen looking exactly like what shiny Nidoqueen should have been... wtf
I lived in a city with lots of Japanese descendants in Brazil and that had relatives living in Japan, so I managed to know a bit of stuff that were in Japanese N64s, but I could never imagine foreigners had more stuff
In addition to the others, there was also Tony Hawk 3 for N64 to rent in old rental stores here
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.
Thanks for the video. What's the game with the train at 15:43?
Famicom Bunko: Hajimari no Mori
So the US was the place to be for N64 fans, but Japan was the place to be for all the Saturn fans.
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
NGL, I never realized the N64 sold so poorly outside of North America...
The Snail won't be happy until all of humanity has premium time and at least one premium vehicle
It’s Do- rock. Durak is a card game. Mad fun
Nice cliffhanger!