Just made a community on my private instance

Nintendo 64

!n64@lemmy.piperservers.net

You all are welcome to join me there in sharing our love for this console. Super nostalgic for me and I think my favorite game is Banjo-Kazooie

Played the CRAP out of Ocarina of Time, Starfox, and Perfect Dark.

Now an Ocarina-wielding pilot assassin. ;) /s

I was a PlayStation kid but I had friends who had the n64. Overall I had a lot of fun playing mario 64, dk64 multiplayer, Mario kart 64, and Star Fox 64 at friend’s houses. We always did a win a level or die then it’s the other person’s tern rule on single player games.

But ultimately the single player experience on PlayStation was better. The rpgs and horror genres really left a lot to be desired on the Nintendo end.

I’m glad I have them both now. As a side note I never heard of the Saturn back in the day, but it’s the best for arcade ports of the era. If people are looking to get into mid to late ‘90s gaming.

I never had an N64. I loved my SNES and was excited when N64 came out when I was in highschool, but then I played it at my friends house and I just really didn't like the controller. I ended up switching over to PlayStation until GameCube came out a few years later

I've played some of the games on emulator with my own controller since and they were pretty fun, but I really hated that original controller lol

N64 is a good nostalgia console for me, but most of my physical games are lost at this point.

Been trying to get some emulation going but been plagued with controller issues. A USB adapter I've been using introduces weird input drift into any original N64 controller I use, so I don't know if there are solid USB adapters people use or if there's a decent controller out there that's worth getting for PC play while still retaining N64 feel. Anyone out there have any thoughts?

Sin & Punishment is one of my favorite games ever, the N64 stays hooked up

My take, a big focus of retro gaming is on the handhelds coming out and N64 games are only just becoming playable on the latest hardware. Definitely no loss of love for the N64 out there.

Boy I miss 3D platformer being a genre

It was caught in an unfortunate time of very early 3d gaming. The ps2/GC era improved graphically by such a massive degree, and really allowed for a lot more mechanical depth in games. N64 did have some absolute classics though, and yet emulation still isn't in as good of a state as the following generation. I've become quite spoiled by how good Dolphin is, and it is the standard I compare all emulators to. So I don't find myself as nostalgic for majoras mask or glover, as I am for wind waker, or pokemon colleseum.

Nah.

it doesn't look like there is an N64 community on lemmy.world

You should make one!

I love the N64 despite growing up with a PSX... I always was jealous of not having one when watching those Pokemon Stadium TV ads!