The History of the Nintendo 64

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An in depth retrospective look at the history of the Nintendo 64. Nintendo's entry into the 5th console generation. How it did things differently and how it faired against the competition, Sony and SEGA.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Development
02:04 Hardware
04:03 Expansion Pak
05:02 The Trident
07:26 Release
10:22 64DD
12:59 Conclusion
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  • @VGArchives_
    @VGArchives_ Жыл бұрын

    What was your favourite N64 game? And is there any that you'd like to see make a comeback?

  • @themidcentrist

    @themidcentrist

    Жыл бұрын

    Wave Race was my favorite. Beetle adventure racing and Starfox get honorable mentions. F-Zero really needs a comeback on the switch IMO. I gotta say, though, that the filter they used that caused blurry graphics in a lot of the games made the N64 hard for me to love sometimes. It was like your television screen was covered with vaseline. I would have preferred jagged graphics over that.

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    @@themidcentrist Wave Race 64 is in my top 3 N64 games for sure, Starfox is probably another come to think of it. There's rumours that a remaster of F Zero X is coming to the Switch at some point, not sure if it will though given that it's available on NSO. Going back to it recently I found that the cable you use makes a ton of difference. I went from an RF cable, which looks awful to a decent component and it made a whole world of difference. It still is kind of 'smoothed' over though, and it can be hard to adjust on OG hardware.

  • @geoffgero6081

    @geoffgero6081

    Жыл бұрын

    Hard to choose just one, but it's probably Ocarina of Time. Star Wars Shadows of the Empire is one of my favorites that I'd love to see on the Switch

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    @@geoffgero6081 SotE is underrated. I'm glad it got a Steam release so it's still relatively accessible. It'd be nice to see it come to NSO, not sure it will though since the mouse revoked its canon status.

  • @lap456

    @lap456

    Жыл бұрын

    As I only played them by rear replay my only rale exopisen with the N64 was over eumaultion as I passed up the 32 and 64 Bit systems. See I moved form NES/DOS to SNES/DOS right to Windows 95. Their for Banjo-Kazooie, Killer Instinct Gold, Conker's Bad Fur Day and Banjo-Tooie where the only N64 games I ever played. By fav of them is Conker's Bad Fur Day. The one I wound love Nintendo to re reless is the F-Zero X game with the add-on pack but not on the switch; The MAC.

  • @steftendo
    @steftendo Жыл бұрын

    10:40 the N64 DD. Great history on the N64 thanks for sharing

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for checking it out!

  • @hassledvania
    @hassledvania Жыл бұрын

    Really nice, chill video. If I had to give some advice, I do think the narration reads a bit like a wikipedia entry - would be nice to see a bit more of a personal touch to it!

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks. It's something I'm working on. I've got to change up how I speak quite a bit to make my accent understandable and I feel like I lose a bit of my humanity every time lol.

  • @AlanFogartyIRL
    @AlanFogartyIRL11 ай бұрын

    lovely video mate, with excellent HD renderings of N64 games (y) (y)

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    11 ай бұрын

    Cheers!

  • @glintytv
    @glintytv3 ай бұрын

    My fave games were super mario 64/Goldeneye

  • @canuckoh
    @canuckoh Жыл бұрын

    This is absolutely amazing quality, well done. The first game i ever played was when i was 4 in 2005 it was DK64 on my cousins teal N64. For that reason its my favourite

  • @themidcentrist

    @themidcentrist

    Жыл бұрын

    Rare really wanted to make sure we got our monies worth with DK64. So...many...collectibles...

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! DK64 was pretty amazing. RARE knocked it out the park when it came to N64 games.

  • @shaun8062
    @shaun806211 ай бұрын

    The N64 is the most fun party console of all time.

  • @lakojake4215
    @lakojake4215 Жыл бұрын

    Super Mario 64 was my favorite N64 game and I still think it's the best 3D platformer of all time. It's aged really well, both in game play and graphics. The PC version I have on my computer looks especially nice.

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    It definitely still holds up really well, better than most games of the type from the era.

  • @gamejew38
    @gamejew387 ай бұрын

    Great content, deserve more subs.

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    7 ай бұрын

    Thanks! :D

  • @maxsemenczuk5959
    @maxsemenczuk5959 Жыл бұрын

    love your content

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you :D

  • @VGArchives_
    @VGArchives_ Жыл бұрын

    What was your favourite N64 game? Which one would you most like to see make a comeback?

  • @larkprof
    @larkprof Жыл бұрын

    Good historical review. It's pretty by the book but I love the N64, so I am open to any new takes on it. Word for the wise on your presentation though! I live in Newfoundland, and english speaking island province in the Atlantic ocean off of Canada, They speak with different slag and dialects every 100km to each out port town out side of the main city of St. John's. I understood your whole review just fine. But man, you talk really fast, and with your accent, you might have trouble with other people understanding what you're saying, I'd try to slow it down a bit.

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    Woudl you believe it, but this is me slowing down quite a bit already! But yeah, my accent can be pretty inpenetrable sometimes so I'm always working on getting my audio presentation better. Doesn't help that I was getting over a cold when I did this too.

  • @johneymute
    @johneymute8 ай бұрын

    The only and 1 thing i found really dimb from nintendo is why they created a diskdrive for the N64 as it quickly became obsolete just like the famicom disksystem and also why it was released soooo late?? What nintendo should,ve done was to come with a CD addon for the N64 instead to remedy that problem wich game developers faced with the N64,nintendo could,ve go for a fast CD-rom drive along with a caddy case on it with a lockout chip builtin to remedy piracy,so they could,ve solved 4 problems atonce,attracting game developers,solve load time issues,piracy issues and the limited but expensive storage capacity of cartrides.

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    8 ай бұрын

    Probably should have been a CD based console to being with really.

  • @simonjenkins5937
    @simonjenkins5937 Жыл бұрын

    Perfect dark is best game

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    I didn't actually play it until after the HD version came out, but yeah it's great. Improves on GoldenEye in pretty much every aspect.

  • @simonjenkins5937

    @simonjenkins5937

    Жыл бұрын

    @@VGArchives_ definitely, well ahead of its time with an immersive story and extensive multiplayer options. It’s a a good console, best of its generation. Even though the ps1 sold much better.

  • @introdevious
    @introdevious Жыл бұрын

    Ninja geomon!

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    I've never actually played that! I remember seeing it loads in magazines around the time though and thought it looked cool.

  • @henrybreadfork
    @henrybreadfork10 ай бұрын

    What game is shown from 14:42-14-45?

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    10 ай бұрын

    Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

  • @henrybreadfork

    @henrybreadfork

    10 ай бұрын

    @@VGArchives_ Wow, thanks so much for the reply and the info!

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    10 ай бұрын

    No worries!

  • @gorgonflabish
    @gorgonflabish Жыл бұрын

    You speak so fast I tought I accidentally pressed fast forward 😮

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    And this is my conciously slowing down my voice!

  • @gorgonflabish

    @gorgonflabish

    Жыл бұрын

    @@VGArchives_ you have really good content tbh, it's just hard for non native english people like me to understand, it's my problem not yours don't worry.

  • @VGArchives_

    @VGArchives_

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gorgonflabish I have a bit of an accent too, so I try to make an effort to slow things down to make things more understandable. I need to get around to doing proper subtitles at some point as well, rather than relying on the auto-generated ones. Always trying to improve!

  • @ultimate_pleb
    @ultimate_pleb6 ай бұрын

    No, i didn't, and Golden Eye sucks smb 64 is overrated OoT was done better on the 3DS

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