Nintendo 64 ( N64 )

N64 - Nintendo 64

The N64 ( Nintendo 64 ) was a huge, major leap for video game consoles. To be fair, the original Playstation was released 2 years before it making the N64 the second to reach this level of power. It still represents a huge advance. Most other consoles at the time were centered around 2D graphics and the ones that did support some form of 3D graphics just weren’t that good yet ( except for the Playstation ). It was also a huge jump from the 16-bit Super Nintendo (SNES) that preceded it. The graphics were amazing for the time. I remember the first time I tried Mario 64. It was unbelievable how incredibly real the 3D graphics looked. I had never seen anything else that just popped out like that. The system continued to provide solid entertainment for many years (I still love it today in 2019).

The most memorable game for this system, at least for me, would have to be The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. This was the first 3D Zelda to ever be released. People were anticipating it for a while. Expectations were high and the game didn’t disappoint. There were a ton of other great games released for the console, including:

No N64 mini coming.