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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 8 2007, 07:59 PM (3,216 Views) | |
| dataDyne | Feb 11 2007, 02:57 AM Post #31 |
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Playing through Jet Force Gemini has rekindled my love for the N64.
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| Rapueda (retired) | Feb 11 2007, 09:40 AM Post #32 |
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Heh, glad to see you're liking JFG better this time around.
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| dataDyne | Feb 12 2007, 05:18 AM Post #33 |
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Heh, to be honest that's actually an understatement. I'm having an absolute blast with the game, I haven't had this much fun with my N64 since I bought Shadow Man last year. |
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| Rapueda (retired) | Feb 19 2007, 05:52 PM Post #34 |
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There's so many great memories too, like the first time I walked out of the treehouse in Zelda: OoT, or playing the dam level in GoldenEye for the first time. And those games somehow don't feel old.
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| stinger9142 | Feb 19 2007, 06:35 PM Post #35 |
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i remember just where i was when playing those levels for the first time too. i played zelda when my mom brought it home after christmas shopping. she went back out, so i openened it up and played it while i was alone. i deserved a lump of coal for christmas! i remember the dam level too. i couldn't believe how cool goldeneye was! |
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| dataDyne | Feb 20 2007, 01:24 AM Post #36 |
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I remember the first time I played an N64, it was Autumn 1997 and I played Shadows of the Empire at my friend's house. I couldn't believe how incredibly cool it was, I went home that day vowing to save up enough money to buy my own N64. Too bad I was only 7 years old and it took me 2 years to save up enough money. <_< |
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| stinger9142 | Feb 20 2007, 06:21 AM Post #37 |
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man, two years? that is determintation right there. mario, pilot wings, and shdows of the empire i think were the first ones i played. any of which would have made me want a 64 on its own. the 2 months i waited till christmas seemed like an eternity to me! |
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| Mop it up | Feb 20 2007, 12:24 PM Post #38 |
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I'm going to play the part of the N64 fanboy here. Every game on the N64 is the best game ever. You wouldn't think more than one game would be able to claim that title, but somehow, N64 games managed to pull it off. It doesn't matter that it has a small library, because every game is the best of its genre. The graphics are better than 95% of game released these days, and the sound quality is even better than CD's. The controller transcends use. The number 64 is more lucky than 7, cooler than 666, and sexier than 69. The 3D N logo boggles the mind. Even Superman 64 and Carmageddon are the best; they're the best worst games of all time! |
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| StYoung | Feb 20 2007, 09:51 PM Post #39 |
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It's definitely the memories for me. But I still dig the old 64', especially Banjo Kazooie, Zelda, Blast Corps, and Mario 64. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 24 2007, 09:34 PM Post #40 |
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The Nintendo 64 was the height of gaming for me, it's my gaming "golden age". Newer games have surpassed the N64 in almost every way but I've never been as excited and amazed by games as I was in the Nintendo 64's lifetime. That was also a great period in my life for many other reasons, and I'm sure that has as much to do with my great memories of the system as the games.
I don't believe the N64 is the be-all and end-all of gaming. I know it has faults. But, for me, the games just shine through. My love of this console and it's games is really because the N64 was THE console that made games truly 3D. Not just the look of games, but the whole experience; true 3D enviroments and true 3D gameplay. Super Mario 64, Goldeneye and Ocarina of Time were among the first truly 3D gaming experiences I had had (Doom on PC is the other notable mention) and I loved to be lost in their game worlds. And I still do.
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| dataDyne | Feb 24 2007, 09:42 PM Post #41 |
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My thoughts exactly, I have never been as excited about video games since when I only owned an N64. Getting a new N64 game was like a dream come true for me back then, placing a fresh cartridge in the console and booting it up just seemed so great, probably because I'd only get a new game around once a year. |
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| Kerr Avon | Feb 25 2007, 07:51 AM Post #42 |
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I started out with the ZX Spectrum in 1983 (British home micro, with some superb games), bought an Atari ST in 1990, then bought a PC. I'd never owned a console, but had played on a couple at friends' houses, but then I saw Goldeneye on an N64, so I had to by one. And WOW! I hadn't realised how much the PC had taken the fun out of gaming for me. See, with the Speccy and the ST, running games was no problem, but with the PC, I'd become so used to errors, hardware conflicts, driver problems and so on, that I began to expect it with all games. Then with the N64, I found that you plugged a cartridge in, turned the machine on, and the game worked!. No messing about trying to find out why there was no sound. No trying to caibrate the joystick. No unexplained black screen. No "Critical Error ar 0x000fce" error messages. In fact, no PC style problems at all. It was amazing... I rarely play PC games now, and usually only because it's a great game that I can't play on a console, such as Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex or No-one Lives Forever. Not so much because of PC related problems (XP is still a nusiance, but it's much better than Win95 for running Windows games), but because I don't like the keyboard and mouse controls, plus I prefer the convenience of consoles. On the other hand, my XBox is modded, which means that it runs emulators for the Speccy/SNES/NES/Atari ST/C64/MAME (arcade)/Neo-Geo and many others, including MS-DOS. All games (XBox and emulator) run from the hard drive (which I've upgraded to a 250GB drive), and it's fully menu driven. In fact, it has much of the power and flexibility of a PC, with almost none of the PC's disadvantages. You can even run Linux natively on it. You can also emulate the N64, but with some problems. On the plus side, the graphics are sharper, you can have a different controller pak for each game (handled automatically by the emulator, so you don't have to worry), you can run any version (PAL, NTSC, JAP) of a game, and you can snapshot a game anytime (so you can load and save any game at anytime). Sounds brilliant, doesn't it? And if it worked properly then it would be - we'd all throw our N64's in the loft, wire up the N64 controllers to the XBox, and play play play. The trouble is, N64 emulation still isn't perfect, and anyway the N64 emulators on the XBox are fairly old, lacking much of the improvements of modern N64 emulators (as opposed to many other XBox emulators, which are kept up to date). Plus there is some debate as yto whether or not the XBox is powerful enough to properly emulate the N64. Anyway, the upshot is that many N64 games won't run, or run jerkily, or have graphical problems, or crash. Some games, like Mario 64 and Zelda: OoT are supposed to run more or less perfectly. I've tried other games that seem to work OK, but both Indiana Jones, and Stunt Racer 64 crash at the start (I wanted to see these two as they aren't available on PAL, so I can't buy them). Perfect Dark looks beautifully sharp, but has some graphical problems, the colour effects on the menu don't work properly, and the game pauses for a half second or so sometimes when you press FIRE, which sort of makes the game unplayable...
Off topic there, sorry. Anyway, I love the N64 because it has many of my favourite games, it doesn't let me down, and it has many of my favourite games. Alright, so I listed the latter reason twice, but it's such a good reason, it deserves more air time And how can you not love a console with Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Mario 64, the Banjo games, Pilot Wings 64, Rocket Robot on Wheels, and Duke Nukem: Zero Hour? |
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| Rapueda (retired) | Feb 25 2007, 10:31 AM Post #43 |
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Yeah, that's why I don't play PC games. Too many headaches. |
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| Mop it up | Feb 25 2007, 11:02 AM Post #44 |
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It's like you took the words right out of my mouth, if I could speak coherently. |
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| dataDyne | Feb 26 2007, 03:04 AM Post #45 |
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PC games definitely cause some serious headaches when it comes to gaming, but some of the best gaming experiences I've ever had (e.g. Half Life, Baldur's Gate 2, StarCraft) have been on a PC. |
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| StYoung | Feb 26 2007, 01:39 PM Post #46 |
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N64 games don't always start right up. Sometimes you have to blow in them or maybe jam the cart down or something. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 26 2007, 01:46 PM Post #47 |
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It's better than having a PC crash though. :mellow: |
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| Mop it up | Feb 26 2007, 02:11 PM Post #48 |
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It's also better than living in constant phear of the blue screen of death. You know, that blue screen with the error messages? One time, I got one of them and the words were misspelled. I turned off the computer and came back a week later to try it. I turned it on and it gave me the message "It's now safe to turn off your computer." I got my hammer out and "repaired" it. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 26 2007, 02:34 PM Post #49 |
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I'd love to "repair" a broken PC in that way. I remember when my last PC died. I spent a lot of money trying to fix it but it was totally screwed.
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| dagoss | Feb 26 2007, 04:39 PM Post #50 |
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PC gaming can be frustrating when your system can't play the best games under the best settings. PC generations move a lot faster than console generations. My system was able to play games maxed out in 2004, but now I no longer meet system requirements. I really want to play Supreme Commander, for example, but that would call for a CPU, video card, and motherboard upgrade -- which would most likely cost me more than a PS3! Ouch! Unfortunately, some of the best gaming experiences are on PC. Games like Supreme Commander (or Neverwinter Nights 2, etc) don't really come out on consoles. And lets not talk about mods -- ! |
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| dataDyne | Feb 27 2007, 12:35 AM Post #51 |
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If you're a fan of RTS or FPS games, you simply can't afford to miss out on what PC gaming has to offer. I just hate the fact that I never have (and probably never will) be up to date with the latest PC games. |
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Give this man a fish, and he can throw it up eleven times -alxbly PSN: LifeIsPreachy Mario Kart Wii: 0088 - 2869 - 9843 | |
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| Mop it up | Feb 27 2007, 12:41 AM Post #52 |
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Compatibility issues, that's another thing I don't have to worry about with consoles. RTS and simulation games are definitely best on PC... but I've tried and tried and just can't get used to mouse control in a FPS. So I'm going to have to stick with console FPS's, as I'm better off not knowing what I'm missing on the PC. In case you haven't sized it up just yet, I really, really dislike PCs. |
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| dataDyne | Feb 27 2007, 12:45 AM Post #53 |
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I find that playing FPS games with mouse the best way to play an FPS. I think it is by far the most efficient way to play them, due to the excellent precision of a mouse and its maneuverability. Most console controllers seem to get the job done, but I'd take a mouse over a controller any day when it comes to playing FPS games. |
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Give this man a fish, and he can throw it up eleven times -alxbly PSN: LifeIsPreachy Mario Kart Wii: 0088 - 2869 - 9843 | |
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| Mop it up | Feb 27 2007, 12:54 AM Post #54 |
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Yep, it's all personal preference. I don't have what you'd can steady hands, so when you combine that with a finicky mouse, you get jerky movements. I also don't like dealing with installations, loading times, downloads, changing settings, blue screens, shutting down, restarting, rebooting, defragmenting, disk cleanup, safe mode, task bars, opening files, double-clicking... If I ever disappear from N64ever, it will be because I took a hammer to my PC. |
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| dataDyne | Feb 27 2007, 01:05 AM Post #55 |
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It is an undeniable fact that PCs, despite their many advantages, are amongst the most frustrating machines ever created.... |
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| Kerr Avon | Feb 27 2007, 09:12 AM Post #56 |
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>PC games definitely cause some serious headaches when it comes to gaming, but some of the best gaming experiences I've ever had (e.g. Half Life, Baldur's Gate 2, StarCraft) have been on a PC. Oh, granted. There are lots of fantastic games that are either PC only, or whose non-PC ports were less than satisfactory. Deus Ex, Half-Life, Carmageddon, Unreal Tournament, Alien vs. Predator and Alice, to name just a few (and if you include RPGs and strategy games, which I don't play, then the list increases exponentially!). Plus with PCs you get some fantastic mods for some games. Some people only play PC games, others only play console games, whilst many others prefer one or the other but play both. Myself, I'm almost entirely a console gamer now, but I do still play the occasional PC game, when I can't play it on a console. Swings and roundabouts, I suppose. >N64 games don't always start right up. Sometimes you have to blow in them or maybe jam the cart down or something. Well, never blow in them (your breath contains mosture that will help corrode the metal in the connector), but you do sometimes have to clean the cartridges. But this is very rare, and when the game does start, it runs fine. And there are no half-second pauses on a console, which you get on a Windows PC, as Windows adjusts it's virtual memory file, which tends to happen in a game just when you press [FIRE], or try to straf out of harms way, or something equally important >It's also better than living in constant phear of the blue screen of death. I HATE HATE HATE that
And the way Windows occasionally locks up almost totally, leaving the mouse pointer able to move, but you can't click on anything, or use [CTRL] + [ALT] + [DEL], or anything.>It is an undeniable fact that PCs, despite their many advantages, are amongst the most frustrating machines ever created.... That's largely because they are sold as consumer items, which they clearly are not. People think that since they can buy a PC in the same manner, and from the same shop, as a television, toaster or microwave, that the PC can be operated as simply and as easily, which is simply not true. If the only people who bought PCs were prepared for the necessary learning and maintanance that a PC requires, then things would be much simpler. PCs would still be problematic, but at least they'd only give problems to people who were capable of fixing them. Almost everyone nowadays has a PC in their house, but few of these houses have an occupant who understands how to fix even the simplist PC fault. PCs are more problematic than any other home computer, ever. And I'm going back to the times when computers used cassettes, and were as user unfriendly as possible. This is partly because PCs are so much more powerful, and also since they can do so much, and also because of the variety of hardware that can make up a PC. But mainly it's down to Windows. Windows is so unstable, so overly complicated (what with redundant code, legacy routines and entry points and so on), and so over-weighted with unecessary baggage that it's amazing that it works at all. I've worked in various places, and met many true computer experts, and they all detest Windows. I mention this as this thread references two seperate areas of reason for people like me to dislike PC gaming; hardware (I prefer a joypad and bed/TV for games rather than a mouse and keyboard and my desk and monitor) and software (crashes, unexplained errors, graphical, audio or speed glitcheson some games, especially older ones). And whilst even a confirmed Windows hater like me can't blame Microsoft for my keyboard/mouse ingame dislikes, it is true that Windows is responsible for most of the PCs software faults. And yes, Windows is getting more and more stable (though I haven't used Vista yet, so I can't judge that), but it's still far behind Linux or a console. Plus Windows idea of backwards compatability is at best hazy. Still, the N64 is hardly perfect. I've heard of people losing game saves, and I know from experience that Gamesharks are unreliable (to put it lightly). And I detest the way that some games use the controller pak to save. Not so much the fact that they do use the pak, but the way in which they do use it. For example, there is no way that Turok 2 contains so many ingame variables that it needs 70+ pages. No way at all. And why doesn't the N64 allow paks with more than 123 pages? You end up with three paks, which combined have 60 or more pages free, but you can't save a 45 page game save as none of the pakes have more than thirty pages free. This is perhaps understandable in a 123 page pak, but I have two controller paks with four banks each (so each pak has four banks of 123 pages each), but the N64 can only access one bank at a time, which implies that the N64 is explicitly limited to accessing 123 pages at a time. A real nuisance. And I hate the way that many N64 games that need the controller pak won't see when you've changed the pak, so you need to reset the N64 to force it to see the new pak. And of course, some N64 games do have serious bugs in them, though this seems very rare - the only four I can think of offhand are Perfect Dark (crashes in the Warehouse if you play with three players), Space Station: Silicon Valley, which has two bugs (you can't run the game if the expansion pak is present, and one item later in the game is uncollectable), Turok: Rage Wars (you can't complete the co-operative mode, or something), and No Mercy (which sometimes loses your game saves). The first three games I've listed are bugged only in their NTSC versions, and are fixed in the PAL versions (the first two definately are, I've heard that Rage Wars was fixed to), but the No Mercy fault is PAL only, and was fixed in later PAL cartridges, although the fixed version deliberately removes the blood for some reason. Still, when was the last time you saw the N64 crash when playing a game? |
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| Mop it up | Feb 27 2007, 11:50 AM Post #57 |
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When I played Perfect Dark with a 3rd-party Expansion Pak. And I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking that PCs could be so much easier to use, if they'd just stop coming out with new redundant versions of Windows and focus on getting it to run properly. BTW, whenever I see that the last post is by Kerr Avon, I go and make some popcorn. |
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| Rapueda (retired) | Mar 2 2007, 10:12 AM Post #58 |
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So what is your earliest memory of the N64? I remember the first thing I ever saw about the N64 was a video at a Toys R Us store that showed the Battle of Hoth scene from Shadows of the Empire where the snow speeder wraps up the legs of an AT-AT, and the video was specifically talking about the control stick makes that kind of 3D movement possible. |
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| Deleted User | Mar 2 2007, 10:33 AM Post #59 |
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Early Super Mario 64 screens are my earliest memory. I remember thinking the console looked very sleek when I first saw it. For some reason I thought it was much smaller than it actually is??? |
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| Kerr Avon | Mar 2 2007, 03:46 PM Post #60 |
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>When I played Perfect Dark with a 3rd-party Expansion Pak. I've heard of people having trouble with third party expansion paks, but I've had mine for maybe eight years now and it's never let me down, either by crashing or by not being recognised by a game. It's all black, it sticks up over the case (with a heat sink), and is by Pelican. I'd recommend it to anyone, but perhaps other brands, or the NTSC version of this pak, or even some of these same PAL paks are unreliable. Whatever, mine's never failed. Now my Gameshark, that's unreliable... >BTW, whenever I see that the last post is by Kerr Avon, I go and make some popcorn. Great! Most people just log off >So what is your earliest memory of the N64? Probably seeing Mario 64 somewhere. |
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I remember when my last PC died. I spent a lot of money trying to fix it but it was totally screwed.

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