6th March 2005, 4:41 PM
Quote:Geno and EM say they got TWO controllers with their systems. That means their's are newer than mine, and likely the rest of our's. Meaning... their controllers wouldn't be as broken down since they are younger.
I also got two controllers with my N64... my first one and my second one (the first one still worked, but I needed another one... the strange thing is that it was the SECOND one that broke. Huh. :)), which is why I have two Atomic Purple controllers. :)
They started putting two controllers in sometime in '98 or 99. I got mine September '99 and it was $100 for a N64 with two controllers (one clear purple, one grey) or $100 for a colored N64 (you know, the transparent green one, the yellow Pikachu one, etc) with one controller. It wasn't a hard decision. :)
And yet my controllers are pretty broken down... the two newer ones were nice for a while, but after about a year or so of using just them and not the old ones they got almost as bad as the originals... the originals are still a bit worse, but the "new" ones aren't in very good shape either, that's for sure.
I'd wanted an N64 (and before that a NES) for years, but my parents never got me one (just the GB and GBC), so I had to get it myself... and it wasn't until fall '99 that I had the money and finally got one. Other consoles... the GB I got years after its launch. GBC I did get at christmas '98, the year it launched... but I didn't get a GBA until summer '03. Gamecube of course I got right away, though I only had Rogue Leader for a month...