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Kart and Conker's Bad Fur day.
With all the nostalgia in the 05 Manu vs 99 Dreamcast thread, thought I'd make a thread for the N64 / PS. Two great systems, for very different reasons. Lot's of great memories for both, but I feel the N64 stood out more because of their exclusive games. I'll start with some of my favorite memories of the PS..
Playstation
1. Disc based gaming - that didn't suck huge balls (looking at you Sega "Leader in Full Motion Video Throwaway Crap" CD)
2. Dat Intro - Get chills just hearing it tbh.
3. First truly arcade perfect ports - MK3 was amazing. I can remember having a couple hours to play at a friends, then coming home to the ty SNES copy with it's 2 inch tall sprites and weak sounds.
4. Pioneered polygon gaming - Toshinden, Twisted Metal, Ridge Racer come to mind
5. CD quality audio - the step up from SNES/Genesis to CD quality was groundbreaking. Having the PS hooked up to a sound system really made the experience better.
Nintendo 64
1. Super Mario F'N 64 - I can remember walking with a friend 2 miles each way to Blockbuster to rent a game. We stumbled upon an N64 promo display unit and were shocked as it was a couple of months before release. I remember hogging that for about an hour playing Mario 64. Classic game, brings back a ton of memories.
2. 4 controller ports - I don't know how many times we had 4 player battles on the THQ/AKI wrestling games, Starfox, Smash Brothers, and....
3. Goldeneye 64 - 5 minutes into my rental of Goldeneye 64, and my gaming life was changed. No game was like it at the time. Truly groundbreaking. I remember saving up lunch money for a month to fund the game, and skipping school to come home with friends and play.
4. Analog Stick - Paved the way for the modern controller. Made games like Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, Mario 64 so much better.
Kart and Conker's Bad Fur day.
Hard to believe Nintendo allowed Conker to release
The only other game that compares to this for me was Atari's, "Adventure". That's the game that stands out as the one that hooked me in for good. Can't think of anything else until Goldeneye. I would say that game and Starfox got me back into gaming.
Then probably God of War.
Yeah Goldeneye got me off Quakeworld for a bit until q2 came out. Grenade launchers on Temple ftw.
I need to download GoW2 and play it on emulator. .never played past the epic battle against the Colossus
N64 >>>>>>>>>
The loading times on the PSX were just painful
The N64's controller was poorly designed, in fairness, but it had better games and comparable graphics for the time....
remember u needed the expansion memory to play games like guantlet legends....
conker's bad fur day is hands down the most underrated game of all time. i spent countless hours on multiplayer. the bots were ridiculously hard. sniping headshots were so satisfying.
and i've said it a million times but it got to the point where i could beat OoT in one night.
Yeah, but when my game was loading, I never thought of it as a negative as I was truly convinced this was just part of the future of gamesN64 >>>>>>>>>
The loading times on the PSX were just painful
The N64's controller was poorly designed, in fairness, but it had better games and comparable graphics for the time..... As for the graphics comparison, I can remember arguing with my friends about how the N64 graphics were better, but now looking back they're all just the same 20 meter view distance foggy mess for the most part.
The expansion pak, and rumble pak both changed things a bit. Feeling the guns fire in Goldeneye was the at that age, and Perfect Dark in High Res was so much better.
Was I the only one?
oh yeah...awesome...forgot all about that one. pretty complex map for the times.
lol I had an N64 and never played Zelda, Mario, or Goldeneye
Why not?
I had both both consoles and played them hardcore style.
Had a bunch of games for the 64 but somehow never did get my hands on Goldeneye. I remember having to rent or go play it somewhere else. But it was alot more fun that way because it was all about the multiplayer aspect of the game. Good lord the hours I put into that game.
Mario Kart was my too.
As far as the PS1 goes, my favorite of the two.
Crash Bandicoot, Dino Crisis, Driver, NASCAR Heat, Ehrgeiz, Tekken were my .
And of course..
This game was awe inspiring. The graphics, even though it's cinematics were top of the line for its time.
N64 and PS1 games with their blocky polygon graphics just don't age well like 8-bit NES and 16-bit SNES do tbh. Best system ever is a two horse race between NES and PS2.
Still have my 100% Goldeneye cartridge.
don't know, I was aware that they were the most popular games, but I was mostly a Madden addict, occasionally branching out to Mortal Kombat and Duke Nukem, Nukem 64 had pretty good multiplayer
oh and San Fransisco Rush
I wouldn't have expected otherwise.
You finally found a proper time to use that pun from your namesake.
Mah ish.
Jet Moto was cutting edge when it first dropped tbh. That reminds me of another ground breaker, I was blown away by the wave physics when this came out:
Forgot bout wave race
runs that abuse bugs and glitches shouldn't be counted
Yeah, DKR was pretty fun too.
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