The Launch of the Nintendo 64 (1996) | Classic Gaming Quarterly
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Episode 46 - Although the history of 3D gaming stretches all the way back to the very early 1980's, outside of the arcades it didn't start in earnest until the early 90s. The 3DO Interactive Mulitplayer and Atari Jaguar both launched in 1993, Nintendo used the Super FX chip to create polygonal 3D games like Star Fox and Stunt Race FX on the Super Nintendo, while Sega used the SVP chip to create a home port of arcade hit Virtua Racing on the Genesis. In 1993, Nintendo partnered with Silicon Graphics to develop their next-generation hardware, while in 1995, the release of both the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation signaled the "real" beginning of home 3D gaming. After numerous delays, Nintendo finally joined the next generation of consoles, as the Nintendo 64 was launched in Japan and North America in mid 1996. Although many gamers who grew up playing the Nintendo Entertainment System had, by the mid 90's, moved on to more "grown-up" systems like the Playstation and Saturn, the Nintendo 64 was a big part of the 90's childhood, and made Nintendo fanatics out of a whole new generation of gamers.
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Show Notes:
- This show took 9 months (on and off) to make.
- All gameplay footage was captured using an RGB-modded Nintendo 64 upscaled through a Framemeister and recorded using an Elgato Game Capture HD.
Music courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (www.smartsound.com/royalty-free-music/incompetech)
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コメント (21)
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Anyone who actually saw the N64 when it was released can confirm that it was truly mind blowing. The first time seeing mario 64 was truly a jaw dropping moment and a huge turning point in video game history
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The good ole 90s back when everyone had to come over to your house to play video games together.
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Man the amount of hours spent playing Goldeneye, Mario Kart, Perfect Dark, Starfox 64 reached stupid levels. Those were the days.
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The release of the N46 was I believe the highlight of my childhood. To be alive when Mario went 3D was absolutely mind blowing.
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I swear I spend more time watching videos about video games anymore, than I do playing video games.
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1996, the year i was 10 years old. my dad died, and the N64 was the gift he purchased, but never got to give me for christmas. over the past 2 decades i've had consoles come and go or break down, but i still got that N64
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My parents got one for me and my siblings as a surprise . They had no idea it didn’t include a game in the package. We were without a game for a week or so 😢🎻 just staring at the box day dreaming of the fun that was yet to come. That was the longest week of my life.
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I'm 38 and these episodes are like how I used to reread gaming magazines over and over I get a lot of replay value out of these videos thank you. And I really don't even play anymore but I just like this especially the read-throughs of the magazines don't ever stop doing those please.
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I cashed out my 14th birthday for an N64 with a copy of Mario 64 at launch. I told my family keep the cake, candles, and all that jazz just give me the green for the 64 bit machine. No regrets.
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I’ll never forget the first time I saw Mario 64 on demo display at Blockbuster. Blew my mind.
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I remember when a friend got the first N64 in like the whole town, and in the afternoon there was a huge gathering in his living room with like 50 people (and it was a tiny townhouse) all waiting the unveil of Super Mario 64, we were all tripping, it seriously felt so surreal.
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When I got my first apartment I had a 64 and my roommate had a ps1. We spent hours smoking shitty weed and playing 007 or tekken. Good times!
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Being born in 80 was an awesome time as a game player. We got to get blown away constantly by games thanks to the innovations in tech, especially since we didn't have the internet to show us videos. First..playing Super Mario Bros on the NES coming from Atari. Then seeing Super Mario World for the first time at the store on the SNES. Then, the jump from 2D to 3D witnessing Super Mario 64. It would be nice to feel that experience again. I'd have to say the closest I came to that was playing with a HTC Vive when it first came out and being wowed. But those times are much more rare now. Sucks getting older.
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I remember plugging in 4 controllers to play Mario Kart 64 all day every day for months. We had never had that many players at once... then Goldeneye... it was mind blowing.
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The happiest time of my life was when N64 came out. I so miss that time period.
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Super Mario 64 is a masterpiece that still holds up today! And it was even more impressive at launch when there was nothing else like it. For being almost completely the first of its kind, it really nailed everything about that style of game and can truly be called a revolutionary and era defining game. Few games had the impact and historical significance of Super Mario 64.
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Christmas 1996....best ever if you were a lucky kid. Super Mario really did seem like magic...
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Remember in high school how everyone had a PlayStation, a few kids had Nintendo 64s, but there was always the one sad kid that had a SEGA Saturn? I still think about that kid sometimes. I wonder if he ever made it through.
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I remember my brother and I saving up our weekly allowance and doing chores around the house to finally purchase the 64. This was back in 1999.
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The Nintendo 64 was the first system that I played as a kid that left a deep impression on me. My dad had the original NES and PS1 laying around, but nothing quite compares to going over to my older cousins' house in the late 1990s and playing Super Mario 64 and being absolutely mesmerized by it. It's a game that I still plug in every so often and that feeling has never gone away even after almost 25 years.
