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| Nintendo 64 Console - Grey | 
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Category: Video Games
Buy New: £31.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (17 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2575
Platform: Nintendo 64
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 3 - 18 years
UPC: 045496340025
EAN: 0045496340025
ASIN: B00005AC5L
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Nintendo first dabbled in video games during the industry's early years of the mid-70s. Generations of successful gaming console releases through the years led to the much-hyped 1996 launch of Nintendo 64, a system that represented a giant evolutionary leap in video game technology. Within the first three days of launch, hundreds of thousands of gamers hunkered down with Mario 64, considered by many to be one of the greatest video games ever created. Even today, the system's excellent design continues to host an ever-expanding library of breakthrough games. Nintendo 64's popularity among younger gamers is no surprise. Well-respected games featuring such long-lived and much-loved personalities as Mario (of arcade classic Donkey Kong fame), Zelda, and Banjo-Kazooie are easy to learn and offer enormous replay value. But times are a' changin' and the system's ever-growing library of titles has expanded into every genre of games imaginable, including games better suited for older gamers. In fact, some of the most acclaimed--in some cases, groundbreaking--games available on any platform today are packed onto N64's old-school cartridges. Under the system's hood, its appeal to the young certainly didn't produce a less mature gaming machine. On the contrary, the 64-bit system boasts impressive graphics, stereo sound, and numerous accessory enhancements, including a high-resolution pack that boosts graphics to awe-inspiring resolutions. Start your library with Goldeneye 007, Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, and Star Wars: Episode One Racer--these titles represent a decent start to any N64 cartridge library. With the launch of Sega's Dreamcast system, Nintendo 64 is being left behind as the leader in video game technology. And with newer game systems featuring CD-based games, the system's expensive cartridge format is proving itself an archaic and unconventional storage format. But it has innovative accessory enhancements and a great library of games to keep the system's rabid fan base satisfied, if not eager for Nintendo's next evolutionary step. --Eric Twelker
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N64 November 20, 2008
Brought my N64 in Japan, a good 6 months before it was released here, the games i got where in Japanese so took a while learnig what bits meant, the console is still going strong and is often taken out of the cupboard when the chaps come around. Still makes you feel like a love lost teenager agaion, still plays like a new system and has now started to become quite "collectable" for hard core gamers whom wish to get systems that reached a bench mark in console history. If you are offered one at a great price, then rip the sellers arm of. Zelda, Super Mario World and of course Golden Eye are the best ones to have.
This console still stands out today. March 26, 2008
The Nintendo 64 was the first console I bought with my own money (I'm talking about 1998). I still remember saving up loads of pocket money for this, and only managing to buy the console which came with one remote (those awesome remotes!) and no game. The first time I saw the N64 was at a friend's house, he had imported it from the USA. Just the shape of it gave me goose-bumps! The fact it had 4 ports for remotes allowing 4 people to play simultaneously was the most attractive aspect of it, until I saw the graphics on Mario Kart 64! We played for hours, non-stop, and I yearned for the console to be on sale in Europe so I could get my hands on one. My first game was FIFA 64. Legendary. I do not want to think of how many hours I spent exploring games on the N64, and how I NEVER got tired of playing games on it. Wave Race 64, Blast Corps, Mario 64, Golden Eye, Perfect Dark, and few more (I had almost 20 games).
But the day came when for an array of reasons I gave my N64 away to a dear friend, as I knew he'd take good care of it. I still regret that decision, as he then gave it to a friend a year later and I never saw it again. The value THAT N64 had for me is infinite, as it represents MY first console, and the console that brought so many endless and memorable nights of fun with friends, especially on Golden Eye and Mario Kart!
I own a wii now, and am a very happy owner of a collection of classic games, including N64 games. Nintendo really has managed to get the leading edge over its competitors (xbox and sony) who only focus on graphics. Still, the wii experience is not quite the N64 experience and I don't know why... maybe it's the classic wii remote not being the same as the AWESOME N64 control, or maybe it's the novelty of the N64 games that has faded away with the years... either ways, N64 will remain in my memory as the best console to date, especially as the one that marked a new era in consoles, more importantly in multiplayer fun!
Could it be we love it more than ever? February 28, 2008
I suppose it's hard to review the N64 looking back. Now that technologically, it's been super-seeded many times over, one thing that modern consoles over the past 5/6 years have lacked are ground-breaking titles. With this in mind... just how many did the N64 produce?
Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, Mario Karts, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Banjo and Kazooie, Mario Party 1, Super Smash Brothers... all these titles most of us, N64 owners, bought or played on.
In fact, it has to be said that the N64 produced the 'most' amount of ground-breaking titles we've seen on a console to date. It's not because the producers tried any harder or any less harder, it was because the ideas were new and fresh. What's more, none of these games in question relied soley on graphics. Any N64 owner will tell you that they could own just 2 of those titles, and still be playing on them for years to come.
But the N64 offered something incredibly vital that the Playstation didn't, and current gen consoles don't now. And that's the ability to have up to 4 players playing at one. It was almost as if the console was made for multiplayers, as most of my memories are staying up late playing with friends, as fellow owners will tell.
Perhaps this is where gaming has wrong now. It relies too heavily on sole enjoyment and escapism through personal 'mission' like chores rather than a social gathering. Did we care that the soliders on Goldeneye had square hands? Nah - we were all too busy laughing and having a good time. That's what gaming should be all about.
Thankfully, the Wii is a somewhat tribute to Nintendo's history. Not only can up to 4 players still play a game (not including online!) but with the Virtual Console option, we can download old N64 games and more. Though the N64 section is still lacking, I have no doubt that the catalogue will soon fill up.
If gaming has taught me anything through since I got the N64 in '97, it's that I should NEVER have traded my N46, and all the above games.. and more, for a grey shoebox called a Playstation. Because everyone else had one.... possibly the biggest mistake I ever made.
Although technology is advancing, this will be here to stay July 9, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Nothing can beat the classics. Graphics power and sound quality and HD may be the new era but nothing can live up to the simplicity and the sheer enjoyability that we have came to know as the N64. When i first went to my cousins house, he had this console and at the time it was like the XBOX 360 of the era. He had mario kart and i was just blown away. I had to have one of these consoles. I first got my N64 in 1999, and let me tell you, i was so happy that i got it. The controller looked complex at the time because i was used to playing Sega Megadrive, but i soon got used to it. The console looked sleek, it was compatible with a rumble pak, a transfer pak, a memory pak, and an expansion pak.
The best titles that i owned at the time and i recommend them to all of you hardcore gaming fans who like to live the retro style are Donkey Kong 64, Zelda ocarina of time, Mario Kart 64, Spuer Mario 64, Super Smash Bros, Lylatwars, Perfect Dark, 007 Goldeneye and much more
This game was and still is, the ultimate console in its era and just brings back so many memories of all those sleepless nights and long days staying inside. N64 is what a console is all about. Ill recommend this to everyone.
nintendo 64 rulezzzz all!!!! January 18, 2007
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
the nintendo 64 witch i got for my 3rd birthday along with blast corps and formula 1 was my first console and has been my favorite ever since.when i got really good and a bit bored of the 2 games when i got 27.86b and completed every level with every vehicle/suit on blast corps and got 1st place on every race for 57 games running with a gold medal in every tournament and every racer and car. i got some pokemon games e.g. pokemon stadium/pokemon snap i started to get good at those games too. i got every picture and every island on pokemon snap and i got every pokemon including mewtwo on pokemon stadium.now u can guest that i got bored of them and then i started to colect more games (any games i saw)and of couse i completed them and then i saw a gameboy advance in the shop!but that didnt make me want it even though i had enough money (it was on special offer/13)i went to look at it but then i saw it.........super mario 64!!!!!!only 8!!!!!!i bought it and played it and played it and played and played and in only 1 term i had killed the last bowswer and in 2 months i had done every level!!!!!!!!! every time i got a mario game i got it and now i have 20 mario games and 50 games and i still play them sometimes!if u are ever lucky enough to find a nintendo 64(u were lucky enough 2 find 1 on amazon)get it and u will not be disappointed.i might play the nintendo 64 a bit later i might actually play it a bit later......maybe.......dont laugh if u had it u would!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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