The fact N64 games are behind a subscription is what really irks me. I wouldn’t mind paying €5 for Harvest Moon 64 - the way you could buy retro games on the wii - but having to pay yearly, for a bunch of games (many of which I might not even be interested in) that you can’t play anymore once you stop paying? Fuck that
I dislike game subscription services on principle, but at least the other guys have new games on their subscription services, not just ancient ones. Nintendo being the first to charge $80 makes it an extra kick in the balls.
Devil’s advocate here, I subscribe to movie services that are much more expensive to watch movies I’ve already seen. If playing these old games is important to me, that doesn’t seem too bad. $80 for Mario kart on the other hand… never.
I have my issues with Nintendo recycling Mario Kart ad nauseam, but Mario Kart was $66 when it launched in 1996, which is like $130 today. The prices haven’t really kept up with inflation. It’s cheaper to buy Mario Kart today than it was back then.
I’m all 3 here.
Soon it will be Gamecube games as well. I guess Pooh will be just a little less old in the third panel.
I love my original GameCube. Still have it hooked up to an old tube TV and there’s a lot of nostalgia around putting the little mini-CD in and booting it up. But it’s so much easier to fire up dolphin.
I got a Steam Deck recently and have been surprised at how well the 6th (GC, PS2, Xbox) and 7th (Wii, PS3, 360) generations can be emulated now compared to a few years ago. I hadn’t messed with emulating systems past 5th gen (N64, PS1, Saturn) for many years. It’s wild to me that I can smoothly emulate Dragon’s Crown, a PS4 game I currently have on my PS5, on the Steam Deck if I want, although I chose the PS3 one for less power needed since they’re pretty much identical. Even given it’s a less demanding 2D game, emulating a PS4 is impressive.
One day I’ll play crystal chronicles in coop on my GameCube with my gameboy advanced so and it will be glorious
I’m 4.
I also have the Famicom mini.
Nah, that qualifies as panel 2. It’s emulation.
What necromancy must be cast for me to say I still have my woodgrain Atari 2600?
2600 and 7800 here!
No love for the 5200, my first console. No idea what happened to mine, though.
Always wanted one since the sound chip is so good, but limited games and I don’t really need it when I have the 7800
i had an nes emulator on my ericsson phone in 2005. good times.
On a related note, how did anyone ever learn to get good at Goldeneye? I played it for the first time with a mock N64 controller the other day and holy hell, it was scuffed.
My buddy still prefers the golden eye control scheme, now called “legacy”. I remember him emailing a developer because they didn’t offer legacy sticks as an option in their game. They had no idea what he was even talking about lol
Nobody knew any better at the time, lol
It was so much slower than fps games are now. Dual joysticks would have been overwhelming at the time when people were still getting used to 3D.
Quake predates GoldenEye.
I got good at it back in the day. Still found the controls awkward as hell, but that game (and later on its successor Perfect Dark) had hours and hours of gameplay because it was one of the best fps games of its time (that wasn’t on PC where wasd and mouse was already a thing right from the Doom days).
Halo was revolutionary. One stick moved, the other rotated, plus grenades were always a button away (in GoldenEye, the rare times you had them, they were selected like any normal weapon, which limited their versatility. Proximity and remote mines were way better.)
Metroid Prime also had a really awkward control scheme on the GameCube.
There was no standard for how FPS games were played on a controller at the time. Dual sticks weren’t even a thing yet. You learned the controls and it was fine. Nowadays it’s awful with the default scheme, but you can actually get pretty modern controls by choosing the 1.2 Solitaire setting in the options and binding the left stick to the C buttons, the right stick to the analog stick, and rebinding the rest to whatever feels comfortable. This is even possible on the Switch using the controller remapping feature.
FU for old pooh. I still got my nes from 87
i hung on to every single console my family had growing up!
I have an atari 2600 my dad passed down to me. I also have all other playstations, a switch, a wii, a steam deck and a pc.
Nothing makes me smile more than that Atari (except for the zx spectrum, also given to me by dad)
that is excellent! good times with my pap and I playing Double dragon 3 on NES and gradius 3 on super nintendo!
Obligatory: $50
My N64 stuff is laying around my house in random places because my oldest nephew (just became a teenager) absolutely loves retro hardware. So much fun.
I remember walking in to Toys R Us and seeing N64 on display when it first launched. You could stand in line and wait for your chance to play. I had been too young to really follow or know about the launch, but I thought the 3D graphics looked incredible. Initially I had thought it was some hyped up version of Super Mario RPG because that was the most “3D” looking Mario game that had existed to date.
I still play the snes i got for $20 because games world at chaddy were dumping all the stock from their trade-in offers for n64s
Is it bad if I’m all 3 of these?
Well yes, if you are paying Nintendo to rent games you already own physical copies of.
You would’ve been more correct to just stop after “paying Nintendo”. Giving them money is bad, period.
Let them fade into obsolescence.
I agree with you, but I also recognize that saying that to someone that clearly enjoys Nintendo products would be incredibly mean. So while I also imagine what I said could be seen as mean, it is far less mean IMO than just blanket dropping the entire company.
Like, I used to love Nintendo. But when Iwata died and Fils-Aime left NoA, Nintendo changed for the absolute worst. I could not hate Nintendo more, actually. Still, I try to not be super mean to most people that like Nintendo products.
Not sure how that’s mean.
If I said “you’re a stupid idiot to give them money” then sure. Saying it’s a bad idea isn’t mean.
I feel the same way - I absolutely loathe current Nintendo’s business practices, but I can’t deny they make fantastic games. So if someone can afford their premium prices, more power to them. I’ll be interested to see how Nintendo does this gen since they’re pricing out the casual market that’s made them successful in the past.
Me too. I feel gross giving Nintendo money, but at least I split a family plan with a bunch of friends
And a JPN N64 to play import games without having to drill out the region lock blocks!
I’ve got some cartridge from Ukraine with an SD slot in it. You can load the SD card with every ROM and then play them directly off an N64
This is great because for some reason emulators have problems with Dr. Mario but the N64 runs the ROM just fine
Krikizz Everdrive! They are awesome on every system I have them for, snes, gbc, gba, and n64. They can be picky about the sd card you use but work flawlessly once you have the right one.
Yeah that’s the one. Guess I was lucywith my SD card pick (can’t remember, maybe got the card with the unit?) but it’s been rock solid since I got it.
Nothing beats playing all the games on original hardware imo!
For anyone who hasn’t discovered it yet…emulation is so great.
I got a little emulation console for £120 (Retroid Pocket 4 pro, see my post history) 2 months ago and haven’t touched my Steam Deck or gaming PC since. Highly recommended.
Can’t confirm. Still have a working NES, SNES, and N64 from childhood. Not even 40 yet. My grey hair and wrinkles are still confined to my testicles for the time being.
🐻❄️ | Rented N64 from Blockbusters
It was so nice being able to rent games and never having to pay a subscription
Panel 3, that’s me right there.
Yes, I have several working controllers. Including a couple of spares, unused, still sealed.
Lucky. I have my PS3, and I’m having a horrible time finding decent replacement controllers. You can’t use the new DualShocks, and compatible controllers you can buy are built so cheaply they don’t work very well.
what about those who use a flash cart, such as Everdrive?
Falls into the 3rd panel since you have the original console.
