Anyone who actually saw the N64 when it was released can confirm that it was truly mind blowing. The first time seeing mario 64 was truly a jaw dropping moment and a huge turning point in video game history
I hated n64 because all the games were children's games except goldeneye,. No blood, swearing or gore, unlike PlayStation and Dreamcast games with swearing and blood
My cousins family was hip to everything Nintendo and always had the latest stuff as soon as it came out. I remember seeing the N64 and Mario 64 right after launch and it was amazing. They had a gigantic tv and our families all played the game for hours. My family got one eventually and I went on to games like ocarina of time, majoras mask, goldeneye, star fox 64, and many many others. I still play a lot of those games to this day
WebVMan I have played any games in years but I watch videos about them all the time. I don't own a tv, but I own an snes, a wii, and a bunch of games for both. I can't part with them. Some day I'll be able catch up on all the games I've wanted to play that came out in the last few years, in the meantime, videos are where it's at.
I might have to agree with you. I lost my mind when Super Mario went 3D. And managed to beat out its predecessors. There will never be a better Super Mario-themed game than Super Mario 64. Never. It's still a phenomenon that the entire gaming industry has yet to surpass, in my opinion. That game is 24-Years-Old. Crazy. Still blows my mind. I need to play an updated version of that game on an updated version of The NIntendo 64, somehow.
1996, the year i was 10 years old. my dad died, and the N64 was the gift he purchased, but never got to give me for christmas. over the past 2 decades i've had consoles come and go or break down, but i still got that N64
i never had a dad, he decided that chasing women was more important then raising children, so i can only image how hard to have a good one and lose him. I try to be a good dad, but i worry all the time about dying before they're grown. :(
We have a similar past. My dad died of cancer in 1998 so my mom gave an N64 to me and my brother to keep our minds of of it. It still works perfectly to this day.
Omg the same thing happened to me. My dad was hit by a DD on Christmas eve. My dad was a manager at Kmart so he stashed one (yes he could of been fired). He also got my sis a tickle me Elmo which was another hot item. His store got 2 n64 systems a month. Someone offered two grand to him in the parking lot. God I miss my dad, I was 12.
Being born in 80 was an awesome time as a game player. We got to get blown away constantly by games thanks to the innovations in tech, especially since we didn't have the internet to show us videos. First..playing Super Mario Bros on the NES coming from Atari. Then seeing Super Mario World for the first time at the store on the SNES. Then, the jump from 2D to 3D witnessing Super Mario 64. It would be nice to feel that experience again. I'd have to say the closest I came to that was playing with a HTC Vive when it first came out and being wowed. But those times are much more rare now. Sucks getting older.
I was born in 1980 too. We had the amstrad cpc 464 for starters. Then a master system. Snes. Then I've had every playstation. It was a great couple of decades to be growing up.
Agreed! We also got to see the evolution of technology in movies. I remember the experience of seeing Jurassic Park in the theater summer of ‘93. No movie has had the same effect on me since.
And what do we get now? Forced politics and inclusion in every AAA title and then some. It's all political now if you look in just about any direction. Not even FF7 is safe. It's a different time now when all of this political stuff is shoehorned by cynical means. We need to go back.
I'm 38 and these episodes are like how I used to reread gaming magazines over and over I get a lot of replay value out of these videos thank you. And I really don't even play anymore but I just like this especially the read-throughs of the magazines don't ever stop doing those please.
Same here, I saw it at Walmart, and spent like an hour just running around the castle yard trying to figure out how to make Mario move, climbing trees, etc.
I remember plugging in 4 controllers to play Mario Kart 64 all day every day for months. We had never had that many players at once... then Goldeneye... it was mind blowing.
Golden eye open the flood gates for internet gaming by being the second after Mario kart to play with 4 players at one time best times when that gaming console was made.
@@kw.5778There were already games on the PC at that time that supported 8-16 players over the network. At the time, I wasn't tempted to play the console with only four players on one screen.
I cashed out my 14th birthday for an N64 with a copy of Mario 64 at launch. I told my family keep the cake, candles, and all that jazz just give me the green for the 64 bit machine. No regrets.
JebaJebaJemeh Completely mindblowing. I'm 32 and have been gaming since I was 6 (on the Mega Drive). To this day, I still consider Super Mario 64 the biggest technological leap ever in videogame design. It was way ahead of everything being done at the time.
My parents got one for me and my siblings as a surprise . They had no idea it didn’t include a game in the package. We were without a game for a week or so 😢🎻 just staring at the box day dreaming of the fun that was yet to come. That was the longest week of my life.
I got a PS2 one Christmas and we were at my grandparents who had an old tv and well we didnt have the right wires to connect the ps2 to the tv. Since all the stores were closed I had to wait till the next day to play it. Such a bummer. Not a week but still sucked
Yes. Holy crap I remember everyone lining up around the TV at walmart to get a look at Mario 64. I used to love going to walmart with my parents just so that I could hopefully have a turn at playing Mario 64. It was so smooth and bright. Just making him run around and jump was incredible.
Remember in high school how everyone had a PlayStation, a few kids had Nintendo 64s, but there was always the one sad kid that had a SEGA Saturn? I still think about that kid sometimes. I wonder if he ever made it through.
I wanted a Saturn for my 13th birthday. I got a GEN instead, but was promised a Saturn for Christmas that year. I didn't get one. Next Christmas, I got a 32X and Sega CD. I later bought a Saturn as an adult and was disappointed in the 3D graphics and price of the games. I enjoyed my GEN, 32X, and Sega CD far more than the single Saturn console.
I owned a PS1 and Sega Saturn back in the day (still own them really). For a 2D fighting game fan like me (or 2D gaming in general) the Saturn was the best console at the time if you invested on a Pro Action Replay cart and imports. I was definitely happier since I couldn't really care for 3D platform games. The PS1 had me covered on 3D fighters, RPGs and just every possible genre really. I actually remember N64 owners being the sad ones due to not getting many games and not getting RPGs or [good] Fighting games at all. Of course it was harder to own all 3 systems back then, so we had to make choices. Nowadays we can all enjoy the best all 3 systems have to offer.
I remember when a friend got the first N64 in like the whole town, and in the afternoon there was a huge gathering in his living room with like 50 people (and it was a tiny townhouse) all waiting the unveil of Super Mario 64, we were all tripping, it seriously felt so surreal.
I remember my dad being impressed by the quality of the music on mario 64 when I was a kid. This was in like 2000-2001 but he was pretty clueless about video games and just thought of things like pac man and the OG mario bros. So when he heard the music playing in bowsers levels in mario 64 he loved it and would hum the music constantly 😂
Brandon Bowman, it simply can't be the same for kids nowadays. Sure the next new console has better everything, but it's not a new world like it was back then. Like I know RDR2 is far superior to RDR in both graphics, physics and content, but my brain still just thinks "oh, another RDR game to play".
@@JohnSmith-fk4yj For children it's always a huge thing when they get a new console. For nowadays children, growing up with a Switch for example, the games will define their childhood in the same way and they will remember these games in the same way when they're older. It's funny to think that today's kids will play top modern games in the future with the same nostalgia as we play SNES or N64 games today. For them, N64 games will be like Atari 2600 games for me :)
Same. Jeez. Nothing will replace that feeling. I was never as crazy about any other console than I was at the ripe age at 7 when I first received that console.
I remember playing it at Toys R Us quite some time before the system came out. They convinced me to trade in my SNES and games. To this day, I have my original NES and N64, but no SNES.
I had both the PS one since lunch and then the Nintendo 64 I got a 1998 but both were amazing game systems and some of my greatest memories and gaming!! I was 13 to 14 years old at the time I got the 64 I was 11 when I got the PS one!!
Wow wasn’t expecting this. It’s like a mini-documentary on the n64! Very well written and all around entertaining presentation. Love the retro look of all these classic game advertisements too haha.
One of the most underrated games of all time in my opinion, is Wayne Gretzkys 3d hockey. I'm not even a hockey fan, but that game was so simple and insanely competitive. Theres not many games like it.
YES!! Me too! I’ve never liked sports games either unless you consider racing sports(Gran Turismo/Forza/Assetto) but games like NFL blitz and Wayne Gretzky hockey I played countless hours off with a good friend of mine when the 64 came up!!
The world was in such a different place what I wouldn’t give just to go back and just feel the energy of 1996 or even further back in kind of fixated on stuff like this
Me too!! Things had a more inspirational and magical feel to them back then.. I a lot of ways the Internet ruined Expectation for gaming… Now when a game you’ve been looking forward to finally comes out, you most likely have already been watching vids for it for the past year or so, prior to its launch and.. well, that kinda Kills the Wow factor for the First impression you could have got, had the Internet not been there to Take that pt away.. The Internet is great and all, but man.. sometimes I feel the negatives just far outweigh the positives..
Elgan Bruner, it's amazing the quality you can get on some youtube videos. A lot of them are almost at the level you would see on a TV documentary. I hope this guy makes some decent money of these videos.
The Nintendo 64 was the first system that I played as a kid that left a deep impression on me. My dad had the original NES and PS1 laying around, but nothing quite compares to going over to my older cousins' house in the late 1990s and playing Super Mario 64 and being absolutely mesmerized by it. It's a game that I still plug in every so often and that feeling has never gone away even after almost 25 years.
I still remember opening my N64 on Christmas Day back in 1996. Got Mario 64, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, and Cruis'n USA along with it. Good times.
Super Mario 64 is a masterpiece that still holds up today! And it was even more impressive at launch when there was nothing else like it. For being almost completely the first of its kind, it really nailed everything about that style of game and can truly be called a revolutionary and era defining game. Few games had the impact and historical significance of Super Mario 64.
Diddy Kong racing on N64 was just as memorizing! The good years of gaming when everything was ground breaking and jaw dropping! We were all in awe of how things kept advancing.
Diddy Kong Racing had some really cool features, even games nowadays miss... coop... adventuring outside the race tracks and finding bonus stages. Going back to already beatn tracks to get some special items and finding some more secrets (the red coins, the keys, ...). Finding even more bonus levels ... unlocking a totaly op character in the end (TT). Also one of my favorite games of this console. But there were so many good games were the developers just put lots of love into their game (blast corps -> also extra and extra levels, just the whole of OoT and MM, ...)
That's a good point. I wasn't able to put it into words until now but that's exactly it. Everytime you bought a new game you didn't know what surprise you were in for.
Diddy Kong racing was my favourite above even Mario kart 64 . Loved everything about that game . Wish they would bring all the RARE games onto the switch in their original form 👍
If you love the Nintendo 64, you've got to check out Math Manent's comprehensive book on the history and game library of the system! It's a must-own! amzn.to/2qwKAEQ
Classic Gaming Quarterly Hi there. Just wanted to say that I had never seen your channel up until today, but gave this video a look when it popped up in my feed. I was 10 when the N64 came out and it was a huge staple of my childhood. Today I belong to a game development team and honestly have Nintendo to thank for a lot of it. I really enjoyed your video, keep up the good work! TL;DR: I subbed.
Lots of good information there, but heavily biased and with many grammatical errors. But still an good resource for all things N64. Buyer beware though.
I'm old, so I was great at pinball in my youth, and started playing video games in arcades when they first appeared. My mate, Gary Walker, who lived up the street, had an Atari 2600. My father used computers at his typesetting business - so he loved Space Invaders when it came out - and he had a 'luggable' computer, with a tiny screen, that he would bring home on weekends, on which I could play a version of Space Panic, which had 'graphics' that consisted entirely of ASCII characters. After I studied electrical engineering, I got a job in which I used an original IBM PC, when it came out in the 1980's - before clones were available - to design printed circuit boards with an application called P-CAD. I also played video games on that PC, after hours, which meant things like King's Quest and the other Sierra games. Then, when I could afford my own PC at home, I eventually ended up playing Lemmings and Prince Of Persia in the early 1990's, both of which were mind blowing when they came out, but then I pretty much stopped playing video games, as work became more involved and I had less free time. When I started seeing the woman I ended up marrying, in the late 1990's, I hadn't played - or even seen - video games since the early 1990's. She is a doctor - though she now has a PhD in genetics and runs a genetics lab nowadays - but back then she was the Registrar in a private hospital, and she would work Christmas Day because it was quadruple pay, there are hardly any patients in a private hospital over Christmas here, and her father celebrated Christmas in early January because he was part of some Orthodox Christian Church, while my family lived overseas. The point of all this being that I would go to the hospital with her on Christmas Day, and one year - probably 1997 - she suggested that we rent a Nintendo 64 from Blockbuster for the day, and play with it in the Registrar's room while we sat around waiting for the hospital's Christmas Lunch to be served (which was a Turkey dinner, and pretty yummy as it turned out, being a private hospital and all!). So we rented the Nintendo 64 - and a copy of Super Mario 64 - on the way to the hospital, and I set it up on the TV in the Registrar's Room, and *MY. MIND. WAS. BLOWN.* I couldn't believe what video games now - or, rather, then - had become. I bought a Nintendo 64 that week, and I have been a Nintendoid ever since. More than 20 years later I am just starting to play Breath Of The Wild again on my Switch, having recently finished Link's Awakening. It never ceases to amaze me that people go nuts over Steve Jobs, when Shigeru Miyamoto makes him look like an rank amateur, given the sheer number of things which he has done for the gaming industry. Breath Of The Wild is just the most amazing game in history, but I will never forget the Nintendo 64 and the day it changed my life. Waiting for Ocarina Of Time, then when it finally came out, misunderstanding and thinking it was asking me for a name for my save file, when it was in fact asking me for my character name, which is why my character name in Link's Awakening was "At Last", as it is in all the Zelda games I gave played on my Nintendo 64, my Gamecube, my various 3DS consoles (I STILL play my New 3DS XL), my Wii, my Wii U, and my Switch, though you can't supply your own name in Breath Of the Wild. :-( Nintendo rules. The Switch rules. ALL of Nintendo's consoles rule, or have ruled. Even the Wii U still rules, despite what many people say, and between it and my Switch, I can play EVERY Zelda game. However... _TO ME THE NINTENDO 64 IS THE ONE CONSOLE TO RULE THEM ALL AND IT WILL ALWAYS HAVE A VERY SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART, SO THANK YOU FOR THIS EXCELLENT WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE; I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT._
You are right! The N64 was a mindblowing console , Ocarina of time and mario 64 are experiences I will never forget just due to the advancements in gaming technology that was showcased by Nintendo back then. I never even looked at the gamecube I was so enamoured by the N64, I eventually did buy a Wii but was ultimately unimpressed.. IMO the N64 was the greatest gaming console of the 1990s but strangely I find myself going back to a link to the past for my retro Zelda fix these days, still such a beautiful game even now it holds up well and thats a testament to how great the SNES was too!
If you’ve never played it get a PS4 or either a Xbox one and play the Witcher3 Wild hunt!! I recommend getting the complete edition or either buying the base game and then both DLC expansion as it is the most amazing game I have ever played and I have beat it twice on the Xbox one and once on the PS4 and have a game currently going again on the base version of the Xbox one game with all the DLC and other words I’ve bought the game three times and the DLC I have bought twice!!
Phil -- that's a cool story, thanks for taking the time to type it out and share it. My grandfather studied EE too, and went on to become VP of a major power company. I wish you and your wife all the very best 64-bit blessings!
This is one of the highest quality TH-cam videos I've ever seen. Love the quotes, love the script, love the clips used, love the audio quality - everything is A+. Thanks for your hard work!
Thank you for this. Some of my best childhood memories include the N64. Got a bit older and sold mine. Now I'm even older and trying to buy it all back. Again, thank you for the time and love you put into this. I appreciate it.
The N64 was the most groundbreaking and amazing gaming experience I’ve ever experienced.. wave race looked so damn amazing coming from Super Nintendo it seemed magical as a kid lol
The water presentation in Mario 64 and especially in wave race were 2nd to none back then. There is so much love in all Nintendo exclusives. Unfortunately there was no Street Fighter or Tomb Raider for the N64, but there were no Loading screens either.
I was 18, senior year of high school when my little brother got a N64 for his birthday. It was the coolest thing after growing up on Nintendo and Super Nintendo.
When I was 7 a friend invited me over to play Mario 64 in his brand new N64... I remember we played on the 1st stage and the snow stage, trying to figure out each star without instructions (we didn't speak english), it felt like going into a whole new universe, a totally new experience, where posibilities were endless, in every corner there was a new adventure to be discovered!... since that day I was begging for a N64 for MONTHS... Santa Claus finally got one for me, best day ever.
When I was a child during the SNES & Sega Genesis era, I dreamed of a game where you were in a world and you could drive over the road tracks even drive the train or a motorcycle or an 18 wheeler and I remember in the dream may being amazed as the train went by on the railroad tracks and I was on the road in an 18 wheeler and driving over the railroad tracks and there was really bumps in the road and everything!!! When I woke up I remember thinking “ wow I wish games were like that..” In all honesty I think I dreamed of 3-D Grandtheft auto before it ever came out?
kevinhesspschamp Hey man, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your comment. There are a million ways I could answer that but the short is answer is, I became happy. We all need a friend sometimes, feel free to drop by my channel if you want. Happy new year bud :)
@@kevinhesspschamp8889 looks like he became one of those 3am priests asking for money from old people snoring on the couch with these revolutionary revelations.
I remember all of this. The first Ultra 64 arcade cabinet I got to play was Crusin USA and it blew my mind. The next was Killer Instinct, but I gravitated back to Crusin. My best friend and I basically eat, breathed and slept everything we could find about the Ultra 64 home console. When the first demo systems were put out at Walmart I was ecstatic. I was lucky and when the system was released I got it and Mario 64. I still have the console and all the games to this day
My 64 story. All of my friends had prepaid for the system and gotten on a waiting list. It was expected that they would sell out immediately everywhere which they pretty much did. Myself, I figured I could wait a few months for the new to wear off. A couple days after the initial release I just so happened to be in a Walmart browsing in the electronics and they had 4-5 sitting on the counter. I snatched one up and paid for it right away. My friends could not believe that I had gotten one that easy while they still were waiting for theirs. Just a part of being in the right place at the right time I guess.
Most Walmarts don't have pre-orders or wait lists, you just need to be there at the right time. I got my SNES classic that way last year. I went into the store for other stuff, and they were just sitting there, regular price. Meanwhile the GameStop across the parking lot had a 50 person waitlist.
zudemaster it was that way when i bought a switch for me just came out. Believe it or not some dude at gamestop was cool enough to hold it for me even though they werent supposed to at the time. I was a pretty regular customer though. Went there 2-3 times a week. But i still couldnt believe i got my hands on one right away
my younger brother got a 64 for his birthday. they'd only been available for a short time; we were the first kids in the neighborhood that had one. that was an epic birthday. even the nongamers in the group were impressed by the 64.
Nongammers being impressed isn't anything special. They have even a smaller frame of reference. The n64 was a total commercial failure and absolute dogshit compared to everything else. Consider for a moment that one of the best games on the N64 was Golden Eye 007. Half-Life came out within a year of that. Half-Life, where you can actually aim, runs at more than 15 frames per second and doesn't have nearly any of the same problems.. The N64 was a diarrhea machine with a few gems on it. There's a reason its lifespan was so short: and most people returned the console to stores by 1998.
@@BoydTheMilkmanX holy shit. How many comments did you shit on in this video? Dude. What the hell? Did your dog die or something? Not only did you reply to this comment trying to explain why the n64 was a failure, but other comments too saying the same thing... on the same video! The n64 died out a long time ago. I don't know what you're campaigning for. These people are just trying to express nostalgia and you're basically telling them that they shouldn't feel happy emotions when reliving their memories of the n64. I'm sorry, are you a nostalgia Nazi? Don't get excited either, you're too stupid to be called the gaming nostalgia critic.
I still have my Nintendo 64 from Christmas of 1997. It's of sentimental value to me, because of my senior year of high school. I got it for Christmas of 1997, when I LEAST expected. Now Fast Forward to 2021, when Nintendo announces the N64 games for the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack service. The graphics and animation have been smoothened out and they added ONLINE PLAY. I remember playing GoldenEye 007 with 3 others, and now you can play the said N64 game online!
The fact that I was born in 2003 and didn't experience any of these consoles like the NES, SNES and Nintendo 64 but that yet I feel like I need to discover everything about them is actually amazing to me.
Goldeneye isn't a historically significant game. It was an early FPS neither the first nor particularly innovative. Just an early example. It was good at the time but aged very poorly.
Waking up on a cold Christmas morning in 1998 to see Santa had left me a N64 is one great memory I have. Hours upon hours were invested in Ocarina of Time, Star Fox, Mortal Kombat, all the different versions of Mario and a bunch of other games. Great times.
I was so pissed they never brought out the original Arcade version of KI1 to the N64..especially after the arcade bragging on how it would be coming soon to the Ultra 64. Instead we got the severely stripped down version on the SNES
N64 will always be kind of bittersweet for me. Mom bought me one shortly after the Christmas it launched. Mom and Dad had not intended to get me one that Christmas because they where scarce here, and I had an SNES that I enjoyed. Dad passed away Dec 18th of that year, and she was desperate to try and find something a very depressed 11yo could do.
kyndal anne I'm so sorry to hear that. I understand that weird bittersweetness, I went through a hard time 2002 - 2007ish and nearly all videogames I played then are weird to me now.
Apple dumpling Gang Thank you. Was a rough time in my life, but the best thing you can do is remember the ones you lose, and hope they'd be proud of you.
I love my N64! I still play it ALL the time..I have so many great memories of playing 'Goldeneye 007' with my friends. We would have sleep overs and play all night long. There would be about 8 of us, so we have tournament style matches. We did the same thing with 'Smash Bros.', 'Mario Kart' & a few others.. I also spent countless hours playing 'Duke Nukem 64', 'Doom 64', 'Turok', 'Wave Race', 'Star Wars', 'Pokemon' & 'Donkey Kong'.. Some of my personal favorites are 1. Both Zelda games released 2.Star Fox 3.Perfect Dark 4. Super Mario 64 5. Banjo-Tooie 6. Ken Griffey Jr. Slugfest 7.1080° Snowboarding 8.Starcraft 64 9. Blitz 10.Goldeneye 007 I could go on and on, as there were sooooo many amazing games released for the N64..I still have my original N64, original controllers(plus my Madcatz controllers that I made my "friends" use lol) and all of the games I got when I was a kid. I hope it lasts me another 20+ years!!
I totally agree about this list!! I also had the resident evil two port when they made that game for and 64 which was an amazing feat of overcoming-technological shortcomings at the time!!
First time I played N64 was at my rich cousin's house and it was the best sensation ever. I was amazed by the graphics, playing mario 64,I will never forget.
Fantastic episode, man! This one really takes me back. I was always lukewarm on the system in the late '90s, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't blown away by my first impressions of the system (Mario 64, mainly). It was one of the largest noticeable leaps in the medium for me, and asides from the Dreamcast, I haven't seen a leap like that since.
That leap is so true. I remember my first 3D game, TUROK. I started the game and I walked and suddenly this guy came charging at me with a knife. I think I shot him lol. I was blown away because I had played linear all my life.
Right?? Even for SNES fans (over Genesis) it was tough taking in the full 3D thing, since Playstation had really great hybrid 3D games as well as 3D games at the time. Also as I recall, although I may be wrong, everything was more expensive about N64? Like the games for sure I recall being 60-70 bucks, when the PS one games were like 40-50. Also the system was like 250 I want to say, compared to Playstation's 175? Maybe it was 200...that was a long time ago and we're not that young anymore haha.
Man this message spoke to me! I loved my n64 coming from the sega and skipping the saturn. When Mario 64 was coming to the states it was so big it was on the school news channel alongside the war at the time. The jump was so big and maybe its because a lot of us skipped the saturn but boy was it incredible. I hate that a lot of people skipped out on the dreamcast because it was so beautiful. The launch date and everything was just so perfect. Fighting games like powerstone were just amazing. The ps2 came out and just crushed its soul. In comparison to this video the Dreamcast was like a Starfox 2 that saw its release date.
bowser is not gay , in super mario bros 3 on the nes Bowser has 7 children known as the koopalings and the koopalings appear later in super mario world , Bowser he is never gay
Thank you for another amazing launch video! I like, how you mention a lot of details, that are just absent in other's videos! Again, one can immediately see the love, passion and effort, you put in those kinds of videos!
This came out on my 10th birthday and I still remember that night. I've been gaming since and this system still holds the best for launch titles. Goldeneye, Mario, and the star wars game...nothing has come close.
The dreamcast was their last ditch attempt sadly they would fail because Nintendo countered with the GameCube and sega just said screw this I cant imagine what a sega console would be like in 2018 now sega is just a third party that's alright though because I have the genesis and that is good enough for me rip sega you didn't miss out this gaming generation is crap the only console I would consider is the wii u
@@zeldafreak5766 It would be a dream to have a company like Sega push a console out nowadays. The market has grown stagnant in my opinion, so an inovation of any sort would be a god send
@@zeldafreak5766 Nope. At that point, Sega main adversary was Sony Playstation. Nintendo Gamecube was non-existent until 2001, and by then Sega already out of hardware business since early 2000.
It think it boiled down to whether or not each of the developers (Nintendo, Sega, Sony) possessed the foresight to know what the next evolution in gaming would be, and pursuing it. Sega was clearly lacking in this respect, and often seem to be "Johnny Come-Lately." Nintendo understood that that the 2D era was coming to an end with the SNES on it's death bed. The next logical step would be to build upon what SNES did with StarFox, Stunt Racer, & other Mode 7 games. We see early attempts with the short-lived 32-bit Virtual Boy, but as the system showed, the processing power wasn't there. Thus, a 64-bit hardware would be the goal. Specifically, TRUE 3D environments where players could roam freely, no longer confined to "rails" or "linear movements." One of the most mind-blowing things I remember about the N64 was the ability to "go anywhere I wanted." By today's standards it sounds silly, but in 1996 that kind of freedom was revolutionary. Unfortunately, Nintendo has lost this foresight in the last 2 decades. Ever since the GameCube, they've stopped being the leaders in modern technology and instead falling into the same trap Sega did 30 years ago.
I remember when I was like 8 or 9 and played Mario64 in the local walmart for the first time. It completely blew my mind and I spent the next year trying to figure out why I couldn't play it on my snes, before I realized it was on n64. The good news is that I mistakenly had my parents get me mario rpg for my snes, which ended up being awesome
I was 8 in 1996. I do not remember ever hearing of the Playstation, but I got a VHS from Nintendo in the mail about the N64. I remember being absolutely blown away by that VHS. I remember renting an N64 from blockbuster and playing games like Star Fox 64, Pilot Wings, Super Mario 64 and the best Zelda game of all time, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. And eventually my parents bought me an N64, and I moved on to games like Goldeneye 64, Buck Bumble, Army Men, Beatle Adventure Racing, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. To this day I still love that system. I eventually got a playstation and.....hardly remember a single title for it other than Courier Crisis or Tomb Raider, and all I remember is how clunky and unplayable Tomb Raider was (again I was 8-9 at the time) and how funny Courier Crisis was. The N64 will always maintain a soft spot in my heart. The Gamecube had some great titles, and then as I grew Nintendo did not. They released the Wii and I had already moved on to the original Xbox and then the 360. And now I'm on PC gaming playing Stardew Valley on a machine that is capable of playing BF1 at 60fps at 4k ultra, wondering what the fuck happened to Nintendo. Where they went so wrong? (the Wii is the answer) Edit: Oh my god how did I forget Blast Corps.?
Trik Stari You're wondering where Nintendo went wrong? Well... apart from minor setbacks like the Virtual Boy and the Wii U... they didn't! (Hardcore gamers might not like the motion controls of the Wii very much, but it was immensely successful.) Nintendo has just released another milestone in game consoles with the Switch. And yeah... other consoles might have "more power", but has that really *ever* mattered? (Sega bragged how they "do what Nintendon't" but where are they today?) Yeah, the other consoles have superior graphics, sometimes, but apart from the usual EA and Ubisoft crap, bland run-of-the-mill sports titles, same-old-same-old racing games and shitty shooters, what do they offer? Nintendo has always been where the fun is. And that's where they are today as well. Of course, I could go play the fourteenth CoD, BF, Fifa or NFS game, but why should I waste my time with that crap when there's Mario Odyssey? When there's Zelda: Breath of the Wild? And Metroid Prime 4 coming up? Heck, I'll choose Pilotwings Resort on the 3DS over any non-Nintendo game any day.
Trik Stari I was 5 years old in 1996 and I was in elementary school that same year after getting my immunization shots getting ready school getting that education.
I thought I was the only one who played Courier Crisis lmao! My mom hated watching me play that game 😂 I still have that goofy game on hand. Blast Corps was definitely one to remember, powersliding a giant dump trunk all over town taking down buildings!? Heck yeah! Liquid Slam!! The N64 was a whimsical, awe-inspiring experience as a kid to say the least. The Ps1 offered a different feel altogether, but definitely had its' memorable titles. Xenogears was my first very own rpg, it was pretty amazing especially since I was into Gundam Wing at the time lol. I remember playing a game called Downforce quite a bit, but I think it was on a demo disc 🤔 ...wait a minute, what about the Goemon games? One was some type of side-scroller iirc, both are a blast though!
@@SonataFanatica yea i get u but what about stuff like witcher 3, dark souls 3, rdr2, re7, dues ex, batman(any), skyrim, doom, gta,....the list goes on. I know breath of the wild is there and some others but you cant say that ps4/xbox only has shitass copypaste titles Edit; and i get it. Nintendo has has more animated, not so angry and violent type of setup which is a breath of fresh air today. But still there are many great titles on the other systems, including pc. Also for the record im with you on cod. Its become so stale. The only value it has is that so many ppl play it so the mp is alive and well..for now
It is without question, that the 80's-90's were the best times to grow up as a kid in human history. The advancements of video games in literally just spans of years, took what was thought to be impossible, and brought it into everyones' living rooms. And no smartphones or social media either. Just good old gameplay with friends, classic titles, fun gameplays, and parents could afford to buy these systems for their kids since housing, utilities, education, and health insurance were more affordable to the average american family so there was more room in the budget for this stuff.
Star Fox was such a fun game. Killer instinc, Turok, Conquers Bad Fur Day and Golden Eye 007 were all amazing games. Mario 64 has to be one of the top 5 games ever made.
1:50 - through the use of polygons give an approximation of the real world (footage proceeds to show a car doing a loop on hard driving, lol). Video is awesome, just thought this was funny!
Mario 64 is the Father of the 3-D adventure game. Possibly one of the greatest games of all time. If not the top, because it innovated. As a teenager when I saw this console enter my house I was blown away by the sheer jump from the 2D to the three dimensional. It is a work of art to the true gamer and without this we would not be where we are at.
Super Mario 64 wasn't the first 3D platformer, Alpha Waves (PC, 1990), Jumping Flash! (PS1, 1995), Bug! (Saturn, 1995) and Jumping Flash! (PS1, 1996) preceded Super Mario 64 by either years, a year, or several months.
Disagree, found it dull at the time and unplayable today and this is from a guy who can play C64 games still, I grew up gaming even had a 32X and a Sega CD by the time the N64 came out, and was playing early 80s games happily, so tell me how im not a true gamer when I have every Nintendo console to this day, including backlit GBC, GBA, GBASP, the Wii U, the Switch even Gamecube component cables.
I was 16 in 1996. I wanted the N64 badly, though I already had a PS1 my dad had gotten me for my birthday a year prior. My dad was annoyed and didn't understand that there was a significant difference between the two systems. He told me in no uncertain terms that he was not investing another penny in vidya after a decade straight of putting up with my incessant need for a new game every two months or a new system every two years. I had to get myself a part time job. I worked my butt off to save $400 - a decent month of work back then - and then went searching for the N64. You guys who were 8-11 at the time might not remember it because you weren't trying to buy it, but the friggin' N64 was impossible to find in late 1996 at release. After about 6 weeks of dead end searching, I FINALLY got one in Chinatown for $350. Remember, you had to call or show up back then. The internet was in its infancy and you couldn't just pop on reddit or sit on an amazon link with a bot, you had to go to the store.
Yep, Im your age and I remember. Back then it was the first time I ever experienced a video game system "Selling out". I ended up getting a PS1 instead..which Im glad now. But I wanted a N64 badly. Back then, the only way to get one was look in the Classified section of the Newspaper (yeah, try explaining that to kids now lol). It was also the first time I've seen price gouging.
Dreyness He says "So long-a Bowser", with the "-a" part being like his accent. But screw it, "So long, gay bowser" will always be the canon phrase for me, same as "NICE OF THE PRINCESS TO INVITE US OVER FOR A PICNIC, GAY LUIGI"
It's pretty crazy when you consider how great Mario64 was considering it was Nintendo's first true 3D game. The controls were so tight and intuitive, and still hold up perfectly well to this day. The graphics were mind-blowing for the time and the music was absolutely incredible. They absolutely knocked it out of the park in every aspect of the game.
With all the game systems out now that have such amazing graphics, kids these days have no idea just how mind blowing it was when the Nintendo 64 came out. I remember getting it for Christmas in 1996, and me, my two brothers, and parents were just like “oh my god, I can’t believe we have something like this in our house!” It truly was a much better time
The N64 was mind blowing and completely revolutionary at the time of its release. I remember getting up at 7am on weekends to play 007, parents weren't entirely happy but I was. :) I'm 27 now but even to this day most of my fondest gaming memories were on that system second only to Halo and Halo 2 system link parties.
I suppose any mind blowing going on is entirely subjective, but the system was in no way even close to being revolutionary. It's only legacy is popularizing the analog thumb stick.
How about the maturity of the 3D platforming genre? Mario 64 was to 3D platforming as Doom was to FPS, and Doom was certainly revolutionary. Before Doom (and to a lesser degree Wolfenstein, which was basically proto-Doom), there was nothing significant in the genre, and then bam! The N64 - especially the control pad - was basically engineered around the task of bringing true 3D home console gaming to maturity across all genres, with unrestricted open-world platforming undoubtedly being the greatest challenge, and they pulled it off right off the bat. I honestly don't think 3D platforming ever really got any better on the system than it was with that launch title, which says a lot about how revolutionary it was. Obviously 3D platforming was going to happen eventually and there was always going to be a company to do it properly first, but Nintendo jumped a generation ahead in the design of the N64 controller and flagship title.
I LOVE watching this documentary, it’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since the N64’s release, seems like just the other day my friends from the neighborhood and I would all get together for marathons of playing Goldeneye 007 (still the greatest shooter game of all time in my opinion) over the weekends. I’d have a sleep over and we’d play all night long!! Fun times when life was much simpler. Now I’m almost 36, I’m a fully disabled combat veteran who deployed multiple times to “The Sandbox” and I yurn for the days of being a kid and playing video games with my friends without a care in the world. Oh yes kids, we used to have to actually go to someone’s house if we wanted to play video games together, imagine that huh? LMFAO!! Now I sound like a boomer, which to most younger people I might as well be, I’m a Generation Y kid though and NO despite what the clowns who make up the rules for generations say I AM NOT A MILLENNIAL I REFUSE TO BE LUMPED IN WITH THOSE PEOPLE!!! GREAT VIDEO ONCE AGAIN SIR!!
Brings back a ton of good memories! I spent months of my life playing Mario 64, StarFox, Off Road Challenge, Wave Race 64, Golden Eye, etc. loved them all!
I had to rent a 64, cause I couldn't wait! Mario 64 was the first game I played, and the graphics blew my mind! The first Christmas following the 64, I got it!
So releasing a balanced platform that was very easy for developers to produce games on, powerful for its release day (Japan 1994), used CDs for cheaper production and more storage, was the worst thing? False, it was the best thing to allow the 5th generation to be a success. The Saturn was too complicated for its own good making development difficult and costly, it was more expensive for consumers to buy ($399), and the N64 wasn't developer friendly either. The Ps1 saved the 5th generation as well as I'm concerned. The Ps2 is kind of a different story though...
That's what happens when you have a legendary game on launch day. Nintendo did the same saving Zelda Breath of The Wild for the Switch release. In a few years people will look back and think: "Daaaaaaamn, remember when we played that massive open world Zelda game back in 2017? Those were the days" It's not really the "console launch" that matters, but what games are available at. I think the DC launch in the US with Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure was also mind-blowing.
Murphy08 I was 20 when goldeneye was released 😭😭 my god I feel old lol. But it was good times back then. Get 3 of your buddies and a big screen tv, and it was a lit night
Anyone who actually saw the N64 when it was released can confirm that it was truly mind blowing. The first time seeing mario 64 was truly a jaw dropping moment and a huge turning point in video game history
I hated n64 because all the games were children's games except goldeneye,. No blood, swearing or gore, unlike PlayStation and Dreamcast games with swearing and blood
Mario Kart and now revenge... Along with golden eye some of the best games ever
Nwo*
Well started with wcw vs world
My cousins family was hip to everything Nintendo and always had the latest stuff as soon as it came out. I remember seeing the N64 and Mario 64 right after launch and it was amazing. They had a gigantic tv and our families all played the game for hours. My family got one eventually and I went on to games like ocarina of time, majoras mask, goldeneye, star fox 64, and many many others. I still play a lot of those games to this day
The good ole 90s back when everyone had to come over to your house to play video games together.
In a lot of ways, it was better that way
Oh man i miss those days!
Yeah.. Bunch of leaching bastards. Glad that shit is over with.
I miss the LAN parties from the mid 00s.
Bro straight up. Playing goldeneye and smash bros with your boyz was the shit.
I swear I spend more time watching videos about video games anymore, than I do playing video games.
WebVMan Same. Adult problems.
WebVMan I have played any games in years but I watch videos about them all the time. I don't own a tv, but I own an snes, a wii, and a bunch of games for both. I can't part with them. Some day I'll be able catch up on all the games I've wanted to play that came out in the last few years, in the meantime, videos are where it's at.
lol, I thought I was the only one with that issue, I thought it was a weird thing no one would understand.
Absolutely the same with my case.
WebVMan I thought I was the only one!
The release of the N46 was I believe the highlight of my childhood. To be alive when Mario went 3D was absolutely mind blowing.
PositronicReflex n46?
I might have to agree with you. I lost my mind when Super Mario went 3D. And managed to beat out its predecessors. There will never be a better Super Mario-themed game than Super Mario 64. Never. It's still a phenomenon that the entire gaming industry has yet to surpass, in my opinion. That game is 24-Years-Old. Crazy. Still blows my mind. I need to play an updated version of that game on an updated version of The NIntendo 64, somehow.
@@brianchan8 haha sorry. I'm not going to edit it, I hate doing that. Lol
PositronicReflex you should edit it to say n69
N46????
1996, the year i was 10 years old. my dad died, and the N64 was the gift he purchased, but never got to give me for christmas. over the past 2 decades i've had consoles come and go or break down, but i still got that N64
i never had a dad, he decided that chasing women was more important then raising children, so i can only image how hard to have a good one and lose him. I try to be a good dad, but i worry all the time about dying before they're grown. :(
We have a similar past. My dad died of cancer in 1998 so my mom gave an N64 to me and my brother to keep our minds of of it. It still works perfectly to this day.
Omg the same thing happened to me. My dad was hit by a DD on Christmas eve. My dad was a manager at Kmart so he stashed one (yes he could of been fired). He also got my sis a tickle me Elmo which was another hot item. His store got 2 n64 systems a month. Someone offered two grand to him in the parking lot. God I miss my dad, I was 12.
All these stories are so touching 😭
I graduated high school in 96. Damn I’m getting old.
Man the amount of hours spent playing Goldeneye, Mario Kart, Perfect Dark, Starfox 64 reached stupid levels. Those were the days.
Def 💯💪 WCWvsNWO Revenge too was dope!
@Jonas Johnson yeah man for sure 💯 def get into it play as Goldberg, DDP, Booker T, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Steiner etc...best roster man
@Jonas Johnson bet
Amen....Perfect Dark was the last game i played on it at University in 2002. I think i sold it. I regret that bitterly.
Same for me for all those games, but also banjo kazooie and tooie
Being born in 80 was an awesome time as a game player. We got to get blown away constantly by games thanks to the innovations in tech, especially since we didn't have the internet to show us videos. First..playing Super Mario Bros on the NES coming from Atari. Then seeing Super Mario World for the first time at the store on the SNES. Then, the jump from 2D to 3D witnessing Super Mario 64. It would be nice to feel that experience again. I'd have to say the closest I came to that was playing with a HTC Vive when it first came out and being wowed. But those times are much more rare now. Sucks getting older.
I was born in 1980 too. We had the amstrad cpc 464 for starters. Then a master system. Snes. Then I've had every playstation. It was a great couple of decades to be growing up.
Your story almost exactly mimics mine it's scary lol. Including the HTC Vive part.
Agreed! We also got to see the evolution of technology in movies. I remember the experience of seeing Jurassic Park in the theater summer of ‘93. No movie has had the same effect on me since.
Its like when you get older the past was just a fantasy
And what do we get now? Forced politics and inclusion in every AAA title and then some. It's all political now if you look in just about any direction. Not even FF7 is safe. It's a different time now when all of this political stuff is shoehorned by cynical means. We need to go back.
I'm 38 and these episodes are like how I used to reread gaming magazines over and over I get a lot of replay value out of these videos thank you. And I really don't even play anymore but I just like this especially the read-throughs of the magazines don't ever stop doing those please.
I’ll never forget the first time I saw Mario 64 on demo display at Blockbuster. Blew my mind.
Same here, I saw it at Walmart, and spent like an hour just running around the castle yard trying to figure out how to make Mario move, climbing trees, etc.
@@neoasura I remember everytime I went with my mom to Target I'd go straight to the electronics department and play Goldeneye. Blew my mind back then.
My best friend in 3rd grade was the first person to show me it. I was so jealous lol
Kurt D. Same here. I had the same experience, my dad had practically pry my hands from the N64 controller.
True, games now a day don't have this magic anymore.
I remember plugging in 4 controllers to play Mario Kart 64 all day every day for months. We had never had that many players at once... then Goldeneye... it was mind blowing.
Same!
Golden eye open the flood gates for internet gaming by being the second after Mario kart to play with 4 players at one time best times when that gaming console was made.
@@kw.5778There were already games on the PC at that time that supported 8-16 players over the network. At the time, I wasn't tempted to play the console with only four players on one screen.
Some of us didn’t even have 4 friends until we got an N64
@@thestarseeker8196 😂
I cashed out my 14th birthday for an N64 with a copy of Mario 64 at launch. I told my family keep the cake, candles, and all that jazz just give me the green for the 64 bit machine. No regrets.
nice
KWKBOX I was too young to appreciate it, but Super Mario 64 at that age must have been mind blowing.
JebaJebaJemeh Completely mindblowing. I'm 32 and have been gaming since I was 6 (on the Mega Drive). To this day, I still consider Super Mario 64 the biggest technological leap ever in videogame design. It was way ahead of everything being done at the time.
At the moment of writing this, exactly 64 likes on your post. I'd like to like the post, but I'd hate to break the nice figure on it. :)
Patrick Barry Birthdays are not complete without *sex. There fixed that for you
My parents got one for me and my siblings as a surprise . They had no idea it didn’t include a game in the package. We were without a game for a week or so 😢🎻 just staring at the box day dreaming of the fun that was yet to come. That was the longest week of my life.
Aw, man. That really sucks.
Dumb parents lol.
Ahahahahahahahaha omg this shit is so funny,I can totally relate 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I got a PS2 one Christmas and we were at my grandparents who had an old tv and well we didnt have the right wires to connect the ps2 to the tv. Since all the stores were closed I had to wait till the next day to play it. Such a bummer. Not a week but still sucked
Thats about as bad as getting a christmas present that needed batteries and your parents never bought any for it to play with on christmas
The production quality on these videos is superb, they have a real professional quality.
Thanks!
ill second this. the amount of effort put into research and in the overall video really shows and is appreciated
Pyropuncher nice little bit of History of 3D Game graphics
How are you here. Alot of my youtubers know eachother i see.
Indeed. It feels like a successor to G4 Icons. If that channel had more content like this, maybe it would still be around.
Christmas 1996....best ever if you were a lucky kid. Super Mario really did seem like magic...
Yes. Holy crap I remember everyone lining up around the TV at walmart to get a look at Mario 64. I used to love going to walmart with my parents just so that I could hopefully have a turn at playing Mario 64. It was so smooth and bright. Just making him run around and jump was incredible.
I got mine for my Birth day..October 96...I was 6 years old..Best gift ever..Thank you Witta Blanca ;)
I got a playstation with twisted metal 2 that year. Good times 😊
I got my 64 on Christmas and it came with Goldeneye, which I've always had a soft spot for more than SM64.
Not to be dramatic but Goldeneye was totally the gateway into FPS'.
Remember in high school how everyone had a PlayStation, a few kids had Nintendo 64s, but there was always the one sad kid that had a SEGA Saturn? I still think about that kid sometimes. I wonder if he ever made it through.
NFVGZ If they knew what they were doing, they had a collection of imports that made everyone else freak out.
I wanted a Saturn for my 13th birthday. I got a GEN instead, but was promised a Saturn for Christmas that year. I didn't get one. Next Christmas, I got a 32X and Sega CD. I later bought a Saturn as an adult and was disappointed in the 3D graphics and price of the games. I enjoyed my GEN, 32X, and Sega CD far more than the single Saturn console.
If DeviantArt is any indication, I'm sure all those kids are just fine. >_>
MissAshley42 wouldn't say they are mentally fine
I owned a PS1 and Sega Saturn back in the day (still own them really). For a 2D fighting game fan like me (or 2D gaming in general) the Saturn was the best console at the time if you invested on a Pro Action Replay cart and imports. I was definitely happier since I couldn't really care for 3D platform games.
The PS1 had me covered on 3D fighters, RPGs and just every possible genre really.
I actually remember N64 owners being the sad ones due to not getting many games and not getting RPGs or [good] Fighting games at all.
Of course it was harder to own all 3 systems back then, so we had to make choices. Nowadays we can all enjoy the best all 3 systems have to offer.
I remember when a friend got the first N64 in like the whole town, and in the afternoon there was a huge gathering in his living room with like 50 people (and it was a tiny townhouse) all waiting the unveil of Super Mario 64, we were all tripping, it seriously felt so surreal.
wow man, it sounds surreal, what an experience!
I remember my dad being impressed by the quality of the music on mario 64 when I was a kid. This was in like 2000-2001 but he was pretty clueless about video games and just thought of things like pac man and the OG mario bros. So when he heard the music playing in bowsers levels in mario 64 he loved it and would hum the music constantly 😂
"tripping" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I feel you man
I like that! I remember those days. I remember people.did thr same thing when ocarina of time came out
When I got my first apartment I had a 64 and my roommate had a ps1. We spent hours smoking shitty weed and playing 007 or tekken. Good times!
That sound fun....even the shitty weed 😂
That Mexican brick was mad consistent though lol
Funny stuff
CE4891 😭🤣🤣🤣😭
@Kenzie Jean It would have been around 1996 to 1999
Will never forget opening my n64 on Christmas 1997, such a magical time
Brandon Bowman, it simply can't be the same for kids nowadays.
Sure the next new console has better everything, but it's not a new world like it was back then.
Like I know RDR2 is far superior to RDR in both graphics, physics and content, but my brain still just thinks "oh, another RDR game to play".
@@JohnSmith-fk4yj For children it's always a huge thing when they get a new console. For nowadays children, growing up with a Switch for example, the games will define their childhood in the same way and they will remember these games in the same way when they're older. It's funny to think that today's kids will play top modern games in the future with the same nostalgia as we play SNES or N64 games today. For them, N64 games will be like Atari 2600 games for me :)
Same here
Are you the Nintendo 64 kid? Lol
That comment made me cry.. So true
Waverace 64, the waterphysics is still amazing today.
Synthusiast damn str8
Are* "the water physics ARE still amazing today"
.... I'm sorry
All your grammar are belong to us!
Waverace is so underrated and isn’t talke about nearly enough. It’s one of the best games on the system in my opinion.
Synthusiast that game was nice
The happiest time of my life was when N64 came out. I so miss that time period.
Same. Jeez. Nothing will replace that feeling. I was never as crazy about any other console than I was at the ripe age at 7 when I first received that console.
Yea it was an amazing generation of games. I loved the 64, Saturn and PS1 all releasing awesome games
robotron 64 = great game
Your bringing back my child hood
Times really change
I remember going to Toys-R-Us & seeing the N64 display, for the first time... It was a
mind-blowing experience
I remember it too, imagine if the TV's were as good back then???? THAT WOULD BE FREAKIN' SWEET!!!
Toys R Us..lol where they at now
GoldenEye was my fav still got it!😀😀😀
I remember playing it at Toys R Us quite some time before the system came out. They convinced me to trade in my SNES and games. To this day, I have my original NES and N64, but no SNES.
Never trade in shit. Thats a bigger scam then buying in the first place.
The N64 is one if the greatest memories of my childhood!
Samee
Nintendo. Outsourcing parenting since 1996
Ps1 for me because I was richer
GoldenEye 😊 I don't know how many nights we spend
I had both the PS one since lunch and then the Nintendo 64 I got a 1998 but both were amazing game systems and some of my greatest memories and gaming!! I was 13 to 14 years old at the time I got the 64 I was 11 when I got the PS one!!
Wow wasn’t expecting this. It’s like a mini-documentary on the n64! Very well written and all around entertaining presentation. Love the retro look of all these classic game advertisements too haha.
One of the most underrated games of all time in my opinion, is Wayne Gretzkys 3d hockey. I'm not even a hockey fan, but that game was so simple and insanely competitive. Theres not many games like it.
Amazing game. I played it for hours and hours (and I am a hockey fan).
Oh boy I loved that game too lol something about the turbo that fills in that triangle of color
That was the first game i had got with my 64 lol.
YES!!
Me too! I’ve never liked sports games either unless you consider racing sports(Gran Turismo/Forza/Assetto) but games like NFL blitz and Wayne Gretzky hockey I played countless hours off with a good friend of mine when the 64 came up!!
The world was in such a different place what I wouldn’t give just to go back and just feel the energy of 1996 or even further back in kind of fixated on stuff like this
Then Bush did 911 and we all didn't give a shit anymore
Trump 2020
@@dhk1467 You still think popularity contest winners rule their countries? Lmao dude.... Was all your education regulated?
Me too!!
Things had a more inspirational and magical feel to them back then..
I a lot of ways the Internet ruined Expectation for gaming… Now when a game you’ve been looking forward to finally comes out, you most likely have already been watching vids for it for the past year or so, prior to its launch and.. well, that kinda Kills the Wow factor for the First impression you could have got, had the Internet not been there to Take that pt away.. The Internet is great and all, but man.. sometimes I feel the negatives just far outweigh the positives..
Not really I was raised poor .Im.living my best years now
I don't understand how you don't have millions of subs. This is GOLD!
Elgan Bruner, it's amazing the quality you can get on some youtube videos. A lot of them are almost at the level you would see on a TV documentary.
I hope this guy makes some decent money of these videos.
I remember my brother and I saving up our weekly allowance and doing chores around the house to finally purchase the 64. This was back in 1999.
Us too!
Just shy of 2 years for the Gamecube to arrive 😲
Me and my younger sister did the same thing. Saved up and bought it spring break 1999
The Nintendo 64 was the first system that I played as a kid that left a deep impression on me. My dad had the original NES and PS1 laying around, but nothing quite compares to going over to my older cousins' house in the late 1990s and playing Super Mario 64 and being absolutely mesmerized by it. It's a game that I still plug in every so often and that feeling has never gone away even after almost 25 years.
I still remember opening my N64 on Christmas Day back in 1996. Got Mario 64, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, and Cruis'n USA along with it. Good times.
Super Mario 64 is a masterpiece that still holds up today! And it was even more impressive at launch when there was nothing else like it. For being almost completely the first of its kind, it really nailed everything about that style of game and can truly be called a revolutionary and era defining game. Few games had the impact and historical significance of Super Mario 64.
Mario 64 is best game I ever played, watching this brought back so many memories, I remember racing that mamma penguin
Wow what a pfp
Diddy Kong racing on N64 was just as memorizing! The good years of gaming when everything was ground breaking and jaw dropping! We were all in awe of how things kept advancing.
Runs like shit.
Diddy Kong Racing had some really cool features, even games nowadays miss... coop... adventuring outside the race tracks and finding bonus stages. Going back to already beatn tracks to get some special items and finding some more secrets (the red coins, the keys, ...). Finding even more bonus levels ... unlocking a totaly op character in the end (TT). Also one of my favorite games of this console. But there were so many good games were the developers just put lots of love into their game (blast corps -> also extra and extra levels, just the whole of OoT and MM, ...)
That's a good point. I wasn't able to put it into words until now but that's exactly it. Everytime you bought a new game you didn't know what surprise you were in for.
Diddy Kong racing was my favourite above even Mario kart 64 . Loved everything about that game . Wish they would bring all the RARE games onto the switch in their original form 👍
If you love the Nintendo 64, you've got to check out Math Manent's comprehensive book on the history and game library of the system! It's a must-own! amzn.to/2qwKAEQ
Classic Gaming Quarterly Hi there. Just wanted to say that I had never seen your channel up until today, but gave this video a look when it popped up in my feed. I was 10 when the N64 came out and it was a huge staple of my childhood. Today I belong to a game development team and honestly have Nintendo to thank for a lot of it. I really enjoyed your video, keep up the good work!
TL;DR: I subbed.
Lots of good information there, but heavily biased and with many grammatical errors.
But still an good resource for all things N64. Buyer beware though.
streamline6666
"The Launch of Playstation 2 History" PLEASE?!? 😊
I hope they someday make a book like this for the Gamecube
I'm old, so I was great at pinball in my youth, and started playing video games in arcades when they first appeared. My mate, Gary Walker, who lived up the street, had an Atari 2600. My father used computers at his typesetting business - so he loved Space Invaders when it came out - and he had a 'luggable' computer, with a tiny screen, that he would bring home on weekends, on which I could play a version of Space Panic, which had 'graphics' that consisted entirely of ASCII characters.
After I studied electrical engineering, I got a job in which I used an original IBM PC, when it came out in the 1980's - before clones were available - to design printed circuit boards with an application called P-CAD. I also played video games on that PC, after hours, which meant things like King's Quest and the other Sierra games. Then, when I could afford my own PC at home, I eventually ended up playing Lemmings and Prince Of Persia in the early 1990's, both of which were mind blowing when they came out, but then I pretty much stopped playing video games, as work became more involved and I had less free time.
When I started seeing the woman I ended up marrying, in the late 1990's, I hadn't played - or even seen - video games since the early 1990's. She is a doctor - though she now has a PhD in genetics and runs a genetics lab nowadays - but back then she was the Registrar in a private hospital, and she would work Christmas Day because it was quadruple pay, there are hardly any patients in a private hospital over Christmas here, and her father celebrated Christmas in early January because he was part of some Orthodox Christian Church, while my family lived overseas.
The point of all this being that I would go to the hospital with her on Christmas Day, and one year - probably 1997 - she suggested that we rent a Nintendo 64 from Blockbuster for the day, and play with it in the Registrar's room while we sat around waiting for the hospital's Christmas Lunch to be served (which was a Turkey dinner, and pretty yummy as it turned out, being a private hospital and all!). So we rented the Nintendo 64 - and a copy of Super Mario 64 - on the way to the hospital, and I set it up on the TV in the Registrar's Room, and
*MY. MIND. WAS. BLOWN.*
I couldn't believe what video games now - or, rather, then - had become. I bought a Nintendo 64 that week, and I have been a Nintendoid ever since. More than 20 years later I am just starting to play Breath Of The Wild again on my Switch, having recently finished Link's Awakening. It never ceases to amaze me that people go nuts over Steve Jobs, when Shigeru Miyamoto makes him look like an rank amateur, given the sheer number of things which he has done for the gaming industry. Breath Of The Wild is just the most amazing game in history, but I will never forget the Nintendo 64 and the day it changed my life. Waiting for Ocarina Of Time, then when it finally came out, misunderstanding and thinking it was asking me for a name for my save file, when it was in fact asking me for my character name, which is why my character name in Link's Awakening was "At Last", as it is in all the Zelda games I gave played on my Nintendo 64, my Gamecube, my various 3DS consoles (I STILL play my New 3DS XL), my Wii, my Wii U, and my Switch, though you can't supply your own name in Breath Of the Wild.
:-(
Nintendo rules. The Switch rules. ALL of Nintendo's consoles rule, or have ruled. Even the Wii U still rules, despite what many people say, and between it and my Switch, I can play EVERY Zelda game. However...
_TO ME THE NINTENDO 64 IS THE ONE CONSOLE TO RULE THEM ALL AND IT WILL ALWAYS HAVE A VERY SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART, SO THANK YOU FOR THIS EXCELLENT WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE; I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT._
You are right! The N64 was a mindblowing console , Ocarina of time and mario 64 are experiences I will never forget just due to the advancements in gaming technology that was showcased by Nintendo back then. I never even looked at the gamecube I was so enamoured by the N64, I eventually did buy a Wii but was ultimately unimpressed.. IMO the N64 was the greatest gaming console of the 1990s but strangely I find myself going back to a link to the past for my retro Zelda fix these days, still such a beautiful game even now it holds up well and thats a testament to how great the SNES was too!
Wow. I think this is the longest commentary I've ever read.. Good stuff
Thank you for sharing your life experiences with us 😊
If you’ve never played it get a PS4 or either a Xbox one and play the Witcher3 Wild hunt!!
I recommend getting the complete edition or either buying the base game and then both DLC expansion as it is the most amazing game I have ever played and I have beat it twice on the Xbox one and once on the PS4 and have a game currently going again on the base version of the Xbox one game with all the DLC and other words I’ve bought the game three times and the DLC I have bought twice!!
Phil -- that's a cool story, thanks for taking the time to type it out and share it. My grandfather studied EE too, and went on to become VP of a major power company. I wish you and your wife all the very best 64-bit blessings!
This is one of the highest quality TH-cam videos I've ever seen. Love the quotes, love the script, love the clips used, love the audio quality - everything is A+. Thanks for your hard work!
Wow, thanks!
This is a quality vid. Agree.
@@CGQuarterly Yeah bro, I really appreciate all the info and the work too. Thank you, I know you´ve made the day to so many people.
I got mine on the 26th, it was possibly the highlight of my childhood. Super Mario 64 was pure magic at the time.
I remember watching someone play it at my friends house I couldn’t believe what I was seeing
Thank you for this. Some of my best childhood memories include the N64. Got a bit older and sold mine. Now I'm even older and trying to buy it all back. Again, thank you for the time and love you put into this. I appreciate it.
The N64 was the most groundbreaking and amazing gaming experience I’ve ever experienced.. wave race looked so damn amazing coming from Super Nintendo it seemed magical as a kid lol
The water presentation in Mario 64 and especially in wave race were 2nd to none back then. There is so much love in all Nintendo exclusives.
Unfortunately there was no Street Fighter or Tomb Raider for the N64, but there were no Loading screens either.
I agree, the N64 and PS3 specifically were both great technological leaps in gaming
excellent documentary
I was 18, senior year of high school when my little brother got a N64 for his birthday. It was the coolest thing after growing up on Nintendo and Super Nintendo.
Back then i couldn't wait to get the N64 just because of Mario 64. I even dreamed about it before having it :-).... good times
When I was 7 a friend invited me over to play Mario 64 in his brand new N64... I remember we played on the 1st stage and the snow stage, trying to figure out each star without instructions (we didn't speak english), it felt like going into a whole new universe, a totally new experience, where posibilities were endless, in every corner there was a new adventure to be discovered!... since that day I was begging for a N64 for MONTHS... Santa Claus finally got one for me, best day ever.
Now what do you think of the Switch
When I was a child during the SNES & Sega Genesis era, I dreamed of a game where you were in a world and you could drive over the road tracks even drive the train or a motorcycle or an 18 wheeler and I remember in the dream may being amazed as the train went by on the railroad tracks and I was on the road in an 18 wheeler and driving over the railroad tracks and there was really bumps in the road and everything!!!
When I woke up I remember thinking “ wow I wish games were like that..”
In all honesty I think I dreamed of 3-D Grandtheft auto before it ever came out?
These are the BEST retro gaming vids ever produced
I remember skipping school, catching the bus across the city, made my way to toys r us to wait 6 hrs for my copy of Mario 64. #WORTHIT
What did you end up becoming?
kevinhesspschamp Hey man, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your comment. There are a million ways I could answer that but the short is answer is, I became happy. We all need a friend sometimes, feel free to drop by my channel if you want. Happy new year bud :)
@@kevinhesspschamp8889 looks like he became one of those 3am priests asking for money from old people snoring on the couch with these revolutionary revelations.
Cool still have it
Super nes and n64 will always be better than Sega don't care much for sega
I remember all of this. The first Ultra 64 arcade cabinet I got to play was Crusin USA and it blew my mind. The next was Killer Instinct, but I gravitated back to Crusin. My best friend and I basically eat, breathed and slept everything we could find about the Ultra 64 home console. When the first demo systems were put out at Walmart I was ecstatic. I was lucky and when the system was released I got it and Mario 64. I still have the console and all the games to this day
My 64 story. All of my friends had prepaid for the system and gotten on a waiting list. It was expected that they would sell out immediately everywhere which they pretty much did. Myself, I figured I could wait a few months for the new to wear off. A couple days after the initial release I just so happened to be in a Walmart browsing in the electronics and they had 4-5 sitting on the counter. I snatched one up and paid for it right away. My friends could not believe that I had gotten one that easy while they still were waiting for theirs. Just a part of being in the right place at the right time I guess.
Do you remember how much you paid?!
Where did they reserve it? My parents reserved mine at Toys R Us and I got it 3 days before the official launch date, here in the States.
Most Walmarts don't have pre-orders or wait lists, you just need to be there at the right time. I got my SNES classic that way last year. I went into the store for other stuff, and they were just sitting there, regular price. Meanwhile the GameStop across the parking lot had a 50 person waitlist.
give me the lottery numbers.. please
zudemaster it was that way when i bought a switch for me just came out. Believe it or not some dude at gamestop was cool enough to hold it for me even though they werent supposed to at the time. I was a pretty regular customer though. Went there 2-3 times a week. But i still couldnt believe i got my hands on one right away
15:58 love that footage of the father of Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi, playing Super Mario 64
my younger brother got a 64 for his birthday. they'd only been available for a short time; we were the first kids in the neighborhood that had one. that was an epic birthday. even the nongamers in the group were impressed by the 64.
Nongammers being impressed isn't anything special. They have even a smaller frame of reference.
The n64 was a total commercial failure and absolute dogshit compared to everything else. Consider for a moment that one of the best games on the N64 was Golden Eye 007. Half-Life came out within a year of that. Half-Life, where you can actually aim, runs at more than 15 frames per second and doesn't have nearly any of the same problems..
The N64 was a diarrhea machine with a few gems on it. There's a reason its lifespan was so short: and most people returned the console to stores by 1998.
@@BoydTheMilkmanX holy shit. How many comments did you shit on in this video?
Dude. What the hell?
Did your dog die or something?
Not only did you reply to this comment trying to explain why the n64 was a failure, but other comments too saying the same thing... on the same video!
The n64 died out a long time ago. I don't know what you're campaigning for. These people are just trying to express nostalgia and you're basically telling them that they shouldn't feel happy emotions when reliving their memories of the n64.
I'm sorry, are you a nostalgia Nazi?
Don't get excited either, you're too stupid to be called the gaming nostalgia critic.
@@chadd990 Nostalgia Nazi!! Gonna steal that one... also +1 on everything you said
@@isabella-a-a-a I was a little rude tbh
I still have my Nintendo 64 from Christmas of 1997. It's of sentimental value to me, because of my senior year of high school. I got it for Christmas of 1997, when I LEAST expected. Now Fast Forward to 2021, when Nintendo announces the N64 games for the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack service. The graphics and animation have been smoothened out and they added ONLINE PLAY. I remember playing GoldenEye 007 with 3 others, and now you can play the said N64 game online!
The fact that I was born in 2003 and didn't experience any of these consoles like the NES, SNES and Nintendo 64 but that yet I feel like I need to discover everything about them is actually amazing to me.
Born in 1979 and experienced the consoles YOU mentioned. Still sticking to Nintendo with my Switch.
I will never forget when this came out. Mario, Zelda, super smash, and golden eye. Games that made history.
madsonic13, those games were the Mt. Rushmore to N64.
Goldeneye isn't a historically significant game. It was an early FPS neither the first nor particularly innovative. Just an early example. It was good at the time but aged very poorly.
Waking up on a cold Christmas morning in 1998 to see Santa had left me a N64 is one great memory I have. Hours upon hours were invested in Ocarina of Time, Star Fox, Mortal Kombat, all the different versions of Mario and a bunch of other games. Great times.
The moment WWF No Mercy came out....I never played another game on the N64. That cartridge is still sat in my N64 today in 2023. Absolute masterpiece.
Loved my N64. Killer instinct was the shit!
richiepaidsotv Still to this day I have never played Gold..
Best fighting game on that system.
Saberwolf was my dude! 🐶
I was so pissed they never brought out the original Arcade version of KI1 to the N64..especially after the arcade bragging on how it would be coming soon to the Ultra 64. Instead we got the severely stripped down version on the SNES
You need to remove the word "the"
Most legendary console ever, spent years on this thing !!!
N64 will always be kind of bittersweet for me. Mom bought me one shortly after the Christmas it launched. Mom and Dad had not intended to get me one that Christmas because they where scarce here, and I had an SNES that I enjoyed. Dad passed away Dec 18th of that year, and she was desperate to try and find something a very depressed 11yo could do.
kyndal anne I'm so sorry to hear that. I understand that weird bittersweetness, I went through a hard time 2002 - 2007ish and nearly all videogames I played then are weird to me now.
Apple dumpling Gang Thank you. Was a rough time in my life, but the best thing you can do is remember the ones you lose, and hope they'd be proud of you.
I'm trully sorry.
I’m glad you made it through that rough time.
Still one of my favorite video game consoles to this day. So many great memories.
Hearing Charles Martinet as Mario say "Thank you so much for playing my game" will always fill my heart with warmth
Remember when James bond goldeneye came out and blew us all away with multi-player split screen!?!?!
I love my N64! I still play it ALL the time..I have so many great memories of playing 'Goldeneye 007' with my friends. We would have sleep overs and play all night long. There would be about 8 of us, so we have tournament style matches. We did the same thing with 'Smash Bros.', 'Mario Kart' & a few others.. I also spent countless hours playing 'Duke Nukem 64', 'Doom 64', 'Turok', 'Wave Race', 'Star Wars', 'Pokemon' & 'Donkey Kong'..
Some of my personal favorites are
1. Both Zelda games released
2.Star Fox
3.Perfect Dark
4. Super Mario 64
5. Banjo-Tooie
6. Ken Griffey Jr. Slugfest
7.1080° Snowboarding
8.Starcraft 64
9. Blitz
10.Goldeneye 007
I could go on and on, as there were sooooo many amazing games released for the N64..I still have my original N64, original controllers(plus my Madcatz controllers that I made my "friends" use lol) and all of the games I got when I was a kid. I hope it lasts me another 20+ years!!
I totally agree about this list!! I also had the resident evil two port when they made that game for and 64 which was an amazing feat of overcoming-technological shortcomings at the time!!
First time I played N64 was at my rich cousin's house and it was the best sensation ever.
I was amazed by the graphics, playing mario 64,I will never forget.
OMG! thank you for another 30 minutes of pure entertainment!!
Thanks Bruce Buffer
Fantastic episode, man! This one really takes me back. I was always lukewarm on the system in the late '90s, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't blown away by my first impressions of the system (Mario 64, mainly). It was one of the largest noticeable leaps in the medium for me, and asides from the Dreamcast, I haven't seen a leap like that since.
Thanks, man!
That leap is so true. I remember my first 3D game, TUROK. I started the game and I walked and suddenly this guy came charging at me with a knife. I think I shot him lol. I was blown away because I had played linear all my life.
Bringer of Unpleasantries well my first game was the n64
Right?? Even for SNES fans (over Genesis) it was tough taking in the full 3D thing, since Playstation had really great hybrid 3D games as well as 3D games at the time. Also as I recall, although I may be wrong, everything was more expensive about N64? Like the games for sure I recall being 60-70 bucks, when the PS one games were like 40-50. Also the system was like 250 I want to say, compared to Playstation's 175? Maybe it was 200...that was a long time ago and we're not that young anymore haha.
Man this message spoke to me! I loved my n64 coming from the sega and skipping the saturn. When Mario 64 was coming to the states it was so big it was on the school news channel alongside the war at the time. The jump was so big and maybe its because a lot of us skipped the saturn but boy was it incredible. I hate that a lot of people skipped out on the dreamcast because it was so beautiful. The launch date and everything was just so perfect. Fighting games like powerstone were just amazing. The ps2 came out and just crushed its soul. In comparison to this video the Dreamcast was like a Starfox 2 that saw its release date.
So long gay Bowser
bowser is not gay , in super mario bros 3 on the nes Bowser has 7 children known as the koopalings and the koopalings appear later in super mario world , Bowser he is never gay
I love that has Nintendo ever confirmed what he said?
smertrius McGarry he's joking. When you throw bowser in mario 64, that's what it sounds like mario says.
"big" "So long big Bowser!"
27:58
Take me back to 98 for one more weekend with the boys, the 64, Pizza Hut some cold Surge! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I still have my N64 in my collection. Ocarina of time is my game!
The music brought me right back.
Holy crap my feels.
Thank you for another amazing launch video! I like, how you mention a lot of details, that are just absent in other's videos! Again, one can immediately see the love, passion and effort, you put in those kinds of videos!
This came out on my 10th birthday and I still remember that night. I've been gaming since and this system still holds the best for launch titles. Goldeneye, Mario, and the star wars game...nothing has come close.
oh man, I might have to take my pants off for this one... growing up in the 90s was a very epic and special time
I hear u, I'm a 80s baby and a 90s teen! dam, i feel old! lol
Sega dropped the ball so many times, I'm surprised they lasted so long in the hardware industry.
The dreamcast was their last ditch attempt sadly they would fail because Nintendo countered with the GameCube and sega just said screw this I cant imagine what a sega console would be like in 2018 now sega is just a third party that's alright though because I have the genesis and that is good enough for me rip sega you didn't miss out this gaming generation is crap the only console I would consider is the wii u
@@zeldafreak5766 It would be a dream to have a company like Sega push a console out nowadays. The market has grown stagnant in my opinion, so an inovation of any sort would be a god send
@@zeldafreak5766 Nope. At that point, Sega main adversary was Sony Playstation. Nintendo Gamecube was non-existent until 2001, and by then Sega already out of hardware business since early 2000.
Brian Fantana the Dreamcast was discontinued in March of 2001 so it wasn’t that long before the GameCube launched.
It think it boiled down to whether or not each of the developers (Nintendo, Sega, Sony) possessed the foresight to know what the next evolution in gaming would be, and pursuing it. Sega was clearly lacking in this respect, and often seem to be "Johnny Come-Lately." Nintendo understood that that the 2D era was coming to an end with the SNES on it's death bed. The next logical step would be to build upon what SNES did with StarFox, Stunt Racer, & other Mode 7 games. We see early attempts with the short-lived 32-bit Virtual Boy, but as the system showed, the processing power wasn't there. Thus, a 64-bit hardware would be the goal. Specifically, TRUE 3D environments where players could roam freely, no longer confined to "rails" or "linear movements." One of the most mind-blowing things I remember about the N64 was the ability to "go anywhere I wanted." By today's standards it sounds silly, but in 1996 that kind of freedom was revolutionary.
Unfortunately, Nintendo has lost this foresight in the last 2 decades. Ever since the GameCube, they've stopped being the leaders in modern technology and instead falling into the same trap Sega did 30 years ago.
I remember when I was like 8 or 9 and played Mario64 in the local walmart for the first time. It completely blew my mind and I spent the next year trying to figure out why I couldn't play it on my snes, before I realized it was on n64. The good news is that I mistakenly had my parents get me mario rpg for my snes, which ended up being awesome
Mario rpg was my favorite game ever for my super Nintendo
Must have been a really dumb kid.
The best controller ever and it’s not close. One of the best systems ever. Some of the best games ever. I feel lucky to have been there for it all.
And still Mario 64
......still holds up til this day
play it once every other year
Me too on the pc emulator lol play it every now and then
I try to play it every time I drop acid.
On Wii u virtual console though. My 64 copy works, but doesn’t look as great these days.
Before you even ask... Yes!!!!
Ehhhhhh
I remember calling the stores asking if they had the Nintendo Ultra in stock. (that's what it was called in the magazines, man I miss the magazines)
I was 8 in 1996.
I do not remember ever hearing of the Playstation, but I got a VHS from Nintendo in the mail about the N64. I remember being absolutely blown away by that VHS. I remember renting an N64 from blockbuster and playing games like Star Fox 64, Pilot Wings, Super Mario 64 and the best Zelda game of all time, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.
And eventually my parents bought me an N64, and I moved on to games like Goldeneye 64, Buck Bumble, Army Men, Beatle Adventure Racing, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. To this day I still love that system.
I eventually got a playstation and.....hardly remember a single title for it other than Courier Crisis or Tomb Raider, and all I remember is how clunky and unplayable Tomb Raider was (again I was 8-9 at the time) and how funny Courier Crisis was.
The N64 will always maintain a soft spot in my heart. The Gamecube had some great titles, and then as I grew Nintendo did not. They released the Wii and I had already moved on to the original Xbox and then the 360.
And now I'm on PC gaming playing Stardew Valley on a machine that is capable of playing BF1 at 60fps at 4k ultra, wondering what the fuck happened to Nintendo. Where they went so wrong? (the Wii is the answer)
Edit: Oh my god how did I forget Blast Corps.?
Trik Stari You're wondering where Nintendo went wrong? Well... apart from minor setbacks like the Virtual Boy and the Wii U... they didn't! (Hardcore gamers might not like the motion controls of the Wii very much, but it was immensely successful.)
Nintendo has just released another milestone in game consoles with the Switch. And yeah... other consoles might have "more power", but has that really *ever* mattered? (Sega bragged how they "do what Nintendon't" but where are they today?) Yeah, the other consoles have superior graphics, sometimes, but apart from the usual EA and Ubisoft crap, bland run-of-the-mill sports titles, same-old-same-old racing games and shitty shooters, what do they offer?
Nintendo has always been where the fun is. And that's where they are today as well.
Of course, I could go play the fourteenth CoD, BF, Fifa or NFS game, but why should I waste my time with that crap when there's Mario Odyssey? When there's Zelda: Breath of the Wild? And Metroid Prime 4 coming up? Heck, I'll choose Pilotwings Resort on the 3DS over any non-Nintendo game any day.
Trik Stari I was 5 years old in 1996 and I was in elementary school that same year after getting my immunization shots getting ready school getting that education.
I thought I was the only one who played Courier Crisis lmao! My mom hated watching me play that game 😂 I still have that goofy game on hand. Blast Corps was definitely one to remember, powersliding a giant dump trunk all over town taking down buildings!? Heck yeah! Liquid Slam!!
The N64 was a whimsical, awe-inspiring experience as a kid to say the least. The Ps1 offered a different feel altogether, but definitely had its' memorable titles. Xenogears was my first very own rpg, it was pretty amazing especially since I was into Gundam Wing at the time lol. I remember playing a game called Downforce quite a bit, but I think it was on a demo disc 🤔
...wait a minute, what about the Goemon games? One was some type of side-scroller iirc, both are a blast though!
@@SonataFanatica yea i get u but what about stuff like witcher 3, dark souls 3, rdr2, re7, dues ex, batman(any), skyrim, doom, gta,....the list goes on. I know breath of the wild is there and some others but you cant say that ps4/xbox only has shitass copypaste titles
Edit; and i get it. Nintendo has has more animated, not so angry and violent type of setup which is a breath of fresh air today. But still there are many great titles on the other systems, including pc. Also for the record im with you on cod. Its become so stale. The only
value it has is that so many ppl play it so the mp is alive and well..for now
It is without question, that the 80's-90's were the best times to grow up as a kid in human history. The advancements of video games in literally just spans of years, took what was thought to be impossible, and brought it into everyones' living rooms. And no smartphones or social media either. Just good old gameplay with friends, classic titles, fun gameplays, and parents could afford to buy these systems for their kids since housing, utilities, education, and health insurance were more affordable to the average american family so there was more room in the budget for this stuff.
I love these episodes, great to listen to while cleaning the house. Which i just so needed to do today.
Star Fox was such a fun game. Killer instinc, Turok, Conquers Bad Fur Day and Golden Eye 007 were all amazing games.
Mario 64 has to be one of the top 5 games ever made.
1:50 - through the use of polygons give an approximation of the real world (footage proceeds to show a car doing a loop on hard driving, lol). Video is awesome, just thought this was funny!
The arcade version had a gearbox and clutch. We loved it . Also if you went off road and hit the cow it would let out a mooo.
Got mine Xmas of 96 when I was 10. It was the greatest day ever ❤😁
Mario 64 is the Father of the 3-D adventure game. Possibly one of the greatest games of all time. If not the top, because it innovated. As a teenager when I saw this console enter my house I was blown away by the sheer jump from the 2D to the three dimensional. It is a work of art to the true gamer and without this we would not be where we are at.
No. While it certainly blew minds back then, it's aged in the modern era.
Super Mario 64 wasn't the first 3D platformer, Alpha Waves (PC, 1990), Jumping Flash! (PS1, 1995), Bug! (Saturn, 1995) and Jumping Flash! (PS1, 1996) preceded Super Mario 64 by either years, a year, or several months.
Disagree, found it dull at the time and unplayable today and this is from a guy who can play C64 games still, I grew up gaming even had a 32X and a Sega CD by the time the N64 came out, and was playing early 80s games happily, so tell me how im not a true gamer when I have every Nintendo console to this day, including backlit GBC, GBA, GBASP, the Wii U, the Switch even Gamecube component cables.
Well fortunately almost every other gamer disagrees with you. This game is loved.
Hector, it plays fine today. Camera can get wonky but that's the only drawback.
I was 16 in 1996. I wanted the N64 badly, though I already had a PS1 my dad had gotten me for my birthday a year prior. My dad was annoyed and didn't understand that there was a significant difference between the two systems. He told me in no uncertain terms that he was not investing another penny in vidya after a decade straight of putting up with my incessant need for a new game every two months or a new system every two years. I had to get myself a part time job. I worked my butt off to save $400 - a decent month of work back then - and then went searching for the N64.
You guys who were 8-11 at the time might not remember it because you weren't trying to buy it, but the friggin' N64 was impossible to find in late 1996 at release. After about 6 weeks of dead end searching, I FINALLY got one in Chinatown for $350. Remember, you had to call or show up back then. The internet was in its infancy and you couldn't just pop on reddit or sit on an amazon link with a bot, you had to go to the store.
Yep, Im your age and I remember. Back then it was the first time I ever experienced a video game system "Selling out". I ended up getting a PS1 instead..which Im glad now. But I wanted a N64 badly. Back then, the only way to get one was look in the Classified section of the Newspaper (yeah, try explaining that to kids now lol). It was also the first time I've seen price gouging.
SO LONG, GAY BOWSER!
Dreyness
He says "So long-a Bowser", with the "-a" part being like his accent. But screw it, "So long, gay bowser" will always be the canon phrase for me, same as "NICE OF THE PRINCESS TO INVITE US OVER FOR A PICNIC, GAY LUIGI"
There are some websites out there with the audio sample available to play/download, it sounds much clear
I thought it was "So long, eh bowser!"
But Long-a makes more sense.
I thought he said “so long Big Bowser”
This has bugged me since i was a kid. I ALWAYS heard "Columbie Mountain!" I STILL HEAR IT and im almost 30. Somebody please agree with me
This is so incredibly heartwarming. Brings me back to my days playing this game as a kid.
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I clicked on this immediately. N64 is one of my favorite consoles. As always thanks for covering it.
It was so far ahead of it's time, still don't know how the PS1 remained competitive in terms of sales after the N64 launched
Because it was out 2 years longer. That's it.
Damn, a lot of that proto 3-D actually still looks really good.
It was amazing what the SNES and Genesis could do towards the end of their lifecycle.
It's pretty crazy when you consider how great Mario64 was considering it was Nintendo's first true 3D game. The controls were so tight and intuitive, and still hold up perfectly well to this day. The graphics were mind-blowing for the time and the music was absolutely incredible. They absolutely knocked it out of the park in every aspect of the game.
Some of my best memories as a kid were renting games from blockbuster and playing N64 on my shitty little TV. N64 had the sickest controller.
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Thanks, Jeff.
With all the game systems out now that have such amazing graphics, kids these days have no idea just how mind blowing it was when the Nintendo 64 came out. I remember getting it for Christmas in 1996, and me, my two brothers, and parents were just like “oh my god, I can’t believe we have something like this in our house!” It truly was a much better time
I'm glad i live in a video game world, i couldn't dream for a Better life.
Thank's for this video.
The N64 was mind blowing and completely revolutionary at the time of its release. I remember getting up at 7am on weekends to play 007, parents weren't entirely happy but I was. :) I'm 27 now but even to this day most of my fondest gaming memories were on that system second only to Halo and Halo 2 system link parties.
i played 007 usually right after i woke up all the time
I suppose any mind blowing going on is entirely subjective, but the system was in no way even close to being revolutionary. It's only legacy is popularizing the analog thumb stick.
How about the maturity of the 3D platforming genre?
Mario 64 was to 3D platforming as Doom was to FPS, and Doom was certainly revolutionary. Before Doom (and to a lesser degree Wolfenstein, which was basically proto-Doom), there was nothing significant in the genre, and then bam!
The N64 - especially the control pad - was basically engineered around the task of bringing true 3D home console gaming to maturity across all genres, with unrestricted open-world platforming undoubtedly being the greatest challenge, and they pulled it off right off the bat. I honestly don't think 3D platforming ever really got any better on the system than it was with that launch title, which says a lot about how revolutionary it was.
Obviously 3D platforming was going to happen eventually and there was always going to be a company to do it properly first, but Nintendo jumped a generation ahead in the design of the N64 controller and flagship title.
I LOVE watching this documentary, it’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since the N64’s release, seems like just the other day my friends from the neighborhood and I would all get together for marathons of playing Goldeneye 007 (still the greatest shooter game of all time in my opinion) over the weekends. I’d have a sleep over and we’d play all night long!! Fun times when life was much simpler. Now I’m almost 36, I’m a fully disabled combat veteran who deployed multiple times to “The Sandbox” and I yurn for the days of being a kid and playing video games with my friends without a care in the world. Oh yes kids, we used to have to actually go to someone’s house if we wanted to play video games together, imagine that huh? LMFAO!! Now I sound like a boomer, which to most younger people I might as well be, I’m a Generation Y kid though and NO despite what the clowns who make up the rules for generations say I AM NOT A MILLENNIAL I REFUSE TO BE LUMPED IN WITH THOSE PEOPLE!!! GREAT VIDEO ONCE AGAIN SIR!!
Brings back a ton of good memories! I spent months of my life playing Mario 64, StarFox, Off Road Challenge, Wave Race 64, Golden Eye, etc. loved them all!
I still have my N64! Goldeneye, Mariocart 64 and Perfect Dark are timeless titles which I still think are great games even for today's standards!
I had to rent a 64, cause I couldn't wait! Mario 64 was the first game I played, and the graphics blew my mind! The first Christmas following the 64, I got it!
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Funny how the playstation sold more, but the n64 release launch was/is more memorable and magical for everyone.
I am really into video game audio. Blood Omen's use of red book audio floored me. Shadow Tower with head phones is something almost undescribable.
Debatable
Fuck psx worst thing to ever happen to games
So releasing a balanced platform that was very easy for developers to produce games on, powerful for its release day (Japan 1994), used CDs for cheaper production and more storage, was the worst thing?
False, it was the best thing to allow the 5th generation to be a success. The Saturn was too complicated for its own good making development difficult and costly, it was more expensive for consumers to buy ($399), and the N64 wasn't developer friendly either. The Ps1 saved the 5th generation as well as I'm concerned. The Ps2 is kind of a different story though...
That's what happens when you have a legendary game on launch day. Nintendo did the same saving Zelda Breath of The Wild for the Switch release. In a few years people will look back and think: "Daaaaaaamn, remember when we played that massive open world Zelda game back in 2017? Those were the days"
It's not really the "console launch" that matters, but what games are available at.
I think the DC launch in the US with Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure was also mind-blowing.
LOVE N64!!!! It was the console i was most fond of and played the most when i was a teen
The N64 reminds of one game, and one game only.....Goldeneye
Agreed, there is no question.
For me it's Golden Eye and Star Wars Rogue Squad, the 90's were a different time for gaming (sigh)
Murphy08 ahhh yes, the good old days 😔
Murphy08 I was 20 when goldeneye was released 😭😭 my god I feel old lol. But it was good times back then. Get 3 of your buddies and a big screen tv, and it was a lit night
Naw Mario 64 was the game or Zelda games