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Nintendo 64 Console - Grey |  | From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
Buy Used: £19.99
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Sales Rank: 998
Platform: Nintendo 64
Media: Video Game
Age: 3 - 18 years
Operating System: Nintendo 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 16.3 x 11.9 x 5
UPC: 045496340025
EAN: 0045496340025
ASIN: B00005AC5L
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Nintendo first dabbled in video games during the industry's early years of the mid-70s. Generations of successful gaming console releases through the years led to the much-hyped 1996 launch of Nintendo 64, a system that represented a giant evolutionary leap in video game technology. Within the first three days of launch, hundreds of thousands of gamers hunkered down with Mario 64, considered by many to be one of the greatest video games ever created. Even today, the system's excellent design continues to host an ever-expanding library of breakthrough games. Nintendo 64's popularity among younger gamers is no surprise. Well-respected games featuring such long-lived and much-loved personalities as Mario (of arcade classic Donkey Kong fame), Zelda, and Banjo-Kazooie are easy to learn and offer enormous replay value. But times are a' changin' and the system's ever-growing library of titles has expanded into every genre of games imaginable, including games better suited for older gamers. In fact, some of the most acclaimed--in some cases, groundbreaking--games available on any platform today are packed onto N64's old-school cartridges. Under the system's hood, its appeal to the young certainly didn't produce a less mature gaming machine. On the contrary, the 64-bit system boasts impressive graphics, stereo sound, and numerous accessory enhancements, including a high-resolution pack that boosts graphics to awe-inspiring resolutions. Start your library with Goldeneye 007, Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, and Star Wars: Episode One Racer--these titles represent a decent start to any N64 cartridge library. With the launch of Sega's Dreamcast system, Nintendo 64 is being left behind as the leader in video game technology. And with newer game systems featuring CD-based games, the system's expensive cartridge format is proving itself an archaic and unconventional storage format. But it has innovative accessory enhancements and a great library of games to keep the system's rabid fan base satisfied, if not eager for Nintendo's next evolutionary step. --Eric Twelker
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 Although technology is advancing, this will be here to stay July 9, 2007
D. J. Sam (UK)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Nothing can beat the classics. Graphics power and sound quality and HD may be the new era but nothing can live up to the simplicity and the sheer enjoyability that we have came to know as the N64. When i first went to my cousins house, he had this console and at the time it was like the XBOX 360 of the era. He had mario kart and i was just blown away. I had to have one of these consoles. I first got my N64 in 1999, and let me tell you, i was so happy that i got it. The controller looked complex at the time because i was used to playing Sega Megadrive, but i soon got used to it. The console looked sleek, it was compatible with a rumble pak, a transfer pak, a memory pak, and an expansion pak.
The best titles that i owned at the time and i recommend them to all of you hardcore gaming fans who like to live the retro style are Donkey Kong 64, Zelda ocarina of time, Mario Kart 64, Spuer Mario 64, Super Smash Bros, Lylatwars, Perfect Dark, 007 Goldeneye and much more
This game was and still is, the ultimate console in its era and just brings back so many memories of all those sleepless nights and long days staying inside. N64 is what a console is all about. Ill recommend this to everyone.
Could it be we love it more than ever? February 28, 2008
Tom Cat © (Earth)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I suppose it's hard to review the N64 looking back. Now that technologically, it's been super-seeded many times over, one thing that modern consoles over the past 5/6 years have lacked are ground-breaking titles. With this in mind... just how many did the N64 produce?
Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, Mario Karts, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Banjo and Kazooie, Mario Party 1, Super Smash Brothers... all these titles most of us, N64 owners, bought or played on.
In fact, it has to be said that the N64 produced the 'most' amount of ground-breaking titles we've seen on a console to date. It's not because the producers tried any harder or any less harder, it was because the ideas were new and fresh. What's more, none of these games in question relied soley on graphics. Any N64 owner will tell you that they could own just 2 of those titles, and still be playing on them for years to come.
But the N64 offered something incredibly vital that the Playstation didn't, and current gen consoles don't now. And that's the ability to have up to 4 players playing at one. It was almost as if the console was made for multiplayers, as most of my memories are staying up late playing with friends, as fellow owners will tell.
Perhaps this is where gaming has wrong now. It relies too heavily on sole enjoyment and escapism through personal 'mission' like chores rather than a social gathering. Did we care that the soliders on Goldeneye had square hands? Nah - we were all too busy laughing and having a good time. That's what gaming should be all about.
Thankfully, the Wii is a somewhat tribute to Nintendo's history. Not only can up to 4 players still play a game (not including online!) but with the Virtual Console option, we can download old N64 games and more. Though the N64 section is still lacking, I have no doubt that the catalogue will soon fill up.
If gaming has taught me anything through since I got the N64 in '97, it's that I should NEVER have traded my N46, and all the above games.. and more, for a grey shoebox called a Playstation. Because everyone else had one.... possibly the biggest mistake I ever made.
N64 November 20, 2008
Craig K. S. Davidson (Nantes)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Brought my N64 in Japan, a good 6 months before it was released here, the games i got where in Japanese so took a while learnig what bits meant, the console is still going strong and is often taken out of the cupboard when the chaps come around. Still makes you feel like a love lost teenager agaion, still plays like a new system and has now started to become quite "collectable" for hard core gamers whom wish to get systems that reached a bench mark in console history. If you are offered one at a great price, then rip the sellers arm of. Zelda, Super Mario World and of course Golden Eye are the best ones to have.
Worlds best console? Not anymore but it used to be! July 23, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Well, the N64. CAn't see we didn't lose a lot of time to it!
This was easily the best console on themarket for mayn years but seemed to slowly dissapear once the CD Addon was brought out.
But anyway, it provided a rich and immense 3d enviroment and served for brilliant games such as the Zelda Series, F-Zero X and Banjo Kazooie
Overall rating?
Good. If you can get one cheap then you won't regret getting it but if you can't then its justt going to be technology lost into the past.
Or at least that was unntil Nintendo announced you could download old classics on their new console.....
100% Brilliant September 19, 2001
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
The nintendo 64 is a brilliant peice of gaming hardware. It boasts hundreds of games for all players, althogh i beleive its main brilliance is in it's multi-player games such as: Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, The World is not Enough, Super smash brothers, Turok, or Mario Kart 64...The games machine also excells in other games such as Zelda as it is superb for the role playing gamers or maybe you prefer 1st person messy shooters like Perfect Dark or may be for people who like scary games there is Resident Evil 2 or for people who............... In a nutshell the N64 shows amazing graphics and next to no loading times,Pure 100% Brilliance!!!!!
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