Who all still has their N64?

[nickdaddyg]

The N64 is still frigging awesome and was way better than PS.

I started replaying LoZ: OoT. I think it's the best game that ever lived.

I hope you all are doing well.

[Great Rumbler]

I've still got mine, although it's up in my closet somewhere. Haven't plugged it in lately, though.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, the N64 is still definitely the best console ever. :)

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[Dark Jaguar]

Oh but of course I still have my N64. The last glory days of Rare, before the fall.

However, my badge for "greatest console ever" goes to the SNES. So many incredible and amazing games for that system, and I'm STILL discovering them! Lemmings on SNES is one of the best versions of that game, even though it lacks SNES mouse support (the one major gripe I have with that version). Yes, I still have my SNES as well. I've had no reason to get rid of it, a testament to my good fortune that I haven't found myself utterly broke. The SNES just has so many good games. There's a myriad of amazing platformers, RPGs, and weird oddities. Heck just about every RPG on that system is a living legend now, and we Americans didn't even GET them all. (Terranigma, which I've recently imported from Europe land, is one such amazing gem.) There's also the perfection of what came before, with just about every Nintendo franchise pretty much perfected on that system. Link to the Past, Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, the Donkey Kong Country series, Star Fox, Mario Kart, even F-Zero (on that last one, I'll say I prefer the N64 entry in the series). Square and Enix worked separately back then, and honestly, better at the time compared to their blockbuster quality lull today. Secret of Mana is a masterpiece in both single and multiplayer.

The Super Gameboy adapter lets the SNES "steal" credit from the Gameboy too. Wario vs Bomberman was 8 bit, but was a finely tuned version of the Bomberman formula that worked amazing on 4 player multitap screen on a SGB. I played Pokemon on my SNES to get the color support it added, and Gameboy Donkey Kong is simply a showcase for that addon that should be played on it or not at all (sorry 3DS release, you screwed up).

Yes, the Super Scope addon was an over-sized monster of a mistake on Nintendo's part feeding into that 90's "EXTREEEEME" mentality, but Konami released their own light gun at a much more manageable size which worked amazingly well.

So yeah, SNES is still my reigning champion. Playstation is making big inroads lately though. Sony's first party offerings were fairly lame or tame, but the system saw such an explosion of 3rd party talent entering the field, as well as existing 3rd parties making enough money to experiment a lot more, that it has some incredible and obscure gems all over the place. My latest acquisition is the Point Blank series from Konami. If you haven't heard of it, it's basically a Playstation version of Wario Ware.... with light guns. Let that sink in for a moment. It's all shooting in 5-10 second mini-games constantly shifting around. All the games are very well done, and there's enough weirdness in there to keep the laughs going. Also, Konami made the very BEST Playstation light guns with their Guncon. The only disappointment was the lack of a standard interface for such a thing, so while some games support Guncons, others need one of the other third party light guns released for the system, and some of those guns were pretty aweful. The real trick is keeping a CRT TV on hand (non-HD) to play those light game guns with. Yeah, the Wii remote never really came close to the Guncon in terms of accuracy.

[Sacred Jellybean]

I play N64 more than any other console of past generations. I have an SNES but it's pretty beat up and I have no idea if it still works. The N64 had so much charm, and I think it was the last time I really loved video games. With that sort of sentimental value, of course I still have mine. I love to hook it up and whoop people's asses in Smash Bros and Bomberman.

[Dark Jaguar]

The multiplayer angle I see. Yeah, while the SNES has a lot of really fun multiplayer games, it is hindered by the overall failure to support the Hudson multitap. So, games like Turtles in Time remain stubbornly two player. All the same, some outstanding exceptions include the various Bomberman games and of course Secret of Mana. There's also Killer Instinct, Street Fighter 2's various versions, and other fighting games. There are a lot of amazing multiplayer experiences as well.

That said, on purely multiplayer virtues, the N64 is a solid competitor. The extra ports mean far more games support 4 player modes. I mean, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Mario Parties 1-3, Super Smash Bros. (there is a solid contingent that swears by the first game and the first game alone), N64 versions of Bomberman, Killer Instinct Gold, the Pokemon Stadium games, all manner of Tetris from flat to sphere, Mario Kart 64, F-Zero X, Excitebike 64, Pilotwings 64, Wave Race 64, and Diddy Kong Racing. There's also surely some others I'm forgetting, like maybe those Battle Tanx games.

Yeah, the N64 had a solid multiplayer lineup that'll keep a group busy until they want to watch a movie.