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"is the N64 still up to the job."

With the arrival of the PS2 and the gamecube and the Xbox, a lot of consoles will be forgot eg the N64. When this console was released it was criminal not to have one. With great games like Golden eye and Banjo kazooi it should still one of the best sellers. It wiped the SEGA SATURN of the charts and was only heard of before it was released so why is the N^$ in the Bin with the rest of the computer consoles. (Mega drive and Master system) These both had great games like sonic and bomerman. i need a reason!!!

N64's been slowing down for gamecube to come.

It happened with PS1, but there's still a few good games coming. And lots of great old ones to play.



I wish my NES still worked. Did anyone have Shadowgate?

I actually set up my MegaDrive the other day to play Sonic 3. Ahhh.... nostalgia at its finest.

RR64 is still good i reckon.... i'm selling off a few N64 games on Ebay made 75 quid.

Apart from Zelda of course!!

Ive still got my N64 and its staying put!! Im still playing Goldeneye after nearly three years and still its probably one of the best games Ive got!!

I have a n64, my brother has a psone.
which do you think he plays on more?
I can tell you it isn't his machine.

I don't think the N64 was EVER up to the job. To be quite frank Nintendo's claims that it was a 64-bit machine were dubious at best. The 3D graphics chipset was slow, clunky and blurred the graphics so that it looked horrid. The sound chip was not much better and a lot of hardware banging was needed to get anything out of it.

So it's got mip-mapping. Whoop-de-doo. PSone games on a PS2 have mip-mapping. PC games from around 1997-98 had mip-mapping. The fact remains that the N64 struggled even when compared to the PSone.

The best comparisons I can think of are probably Wipeout 64 and Ridge Racer 64. Look at the Ridge Racer titles (namely Ridge Racer Type 4 on the PSone, which came out closest to 64). Ridge Racer 64 suffered from the dubious frame rate and trademark blurry graphics. Wipeout 64...well, it didn't really compare to the PlayStation version, which was a first-gen PSone game in any case. It had the same problems as above, and it was probably just me, or the N64 version was slower.

I think we all know why that was from playing Extreme-G; where the bad frame rate meant you could hardly see where you were going!!!

si2024 wrote:
>i need a reason!!!

Playstation, muhahaha :-)

and cyclone, playstation games running on a PS2 look the same if not better than most N64 titles.

I LUV my N64!

One of the BEST consoles I own!

Got 43 games for it now!

:)

My N64's staying where it is!! And it'll be there even when i've got my GameCube!! And I still want to get about 10 more games, and most will be pre-owned. I'm not finnished with it yet, and I can't say I definitley will be within the next 2 years!!

And Meka Dragon, GIVE PERFECT DARK MORE ATTENTION NOW!!! It is possibly THE BEST N64 game around, along with Zelda: OoT, and is DEFINITLEY the best FPS with a BRILLIANT multiplayer mode!! And i'm still playing Zelda: MM, and it's good to see you are going to aswell! Every weekend I edge closer to completing this MASSIVE RPG-Adventure hit! And if anyone says they've completed either of the Zelda's in 10 days, there talking a load of old BALL!!