Nintendo has been a titan in the video game industry for decades, and while it didn’t invent the home console, it certainly revolutionized it. Starting with the Famicom in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the United States, Nintendo has created some amazing consoles; a lot of them are rightfully praised — the NES, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or SNES), the Wii, and the Switch — and others are fairly maligned (the Wii U) – and that is before you even get to the Nintendo handheld gaming systems. However, there’s one Nintendo console that doesn’t get the love it deserves: the Nintendo 64.
The Nintendo 64 hit shelves on June 23, 1996, in Japan and September 29, 1996, in the United States. It was the hottest console of Christmas 1996, but it came at the wrong time. 1997 was the year that the PlayStation put out some of the greatest games of all time; Sony sucked the air out of the room, and the Nintendo 64 was left to flounder.
However, the console has some of the greatest games of all time, and despite some problems, I think it deserves way more love than it gets.The Nintendo 64 Has a Rich LegacyThe Nintendo 64 has a lot of fans, but it’s a console that most don’t rank very highly. It was a 64-bit console, making it more powerful than the 32-bit PlayStation and Sega Saturn, but the console didn’t look as good as the PlayStation.
3D game development was in its infancy, and developers were still mastering the hardware; by the time th.