![]() ![]() ![]() While “Super Mario 64” was the console’s best selling game, “Mario Party 2,” released in January of 2000, easily ranked among the favorites and won over the hearts of its thousands of players. “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” and it’s sequel “Majora’s Mask” became instant favorites on the platform, along with “Banjo-Kazooie” and naturally, the star of Nintendo, the “Super Mario” games. Despite some of the N64’s lesser appreciated titles, like “Bomberman 64,” “Perfect Dark,” and “Rayman 2: The Great Escape,” the console does hold records for some of the greatest games of all time. Although gamers today are able to play many of the re-releases on a 50 inch HDTV with the Wii’s ‘classic controller’, nothing beats using the bulky three pronged controller with its multicolored buttons (that occasionally stick after pressing them down too hard) on a wood paneled television. Not only have N64 games been considered classics, but they’re even being rereleased on the Nintendo Wii’s “Virtual Console”. It seems like century-old technology, considering the elite platforms around today, like xBox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii. ![]() It’s hard to believe that about 15 years ago, the Nintendo 64 was the leading video game console in America.
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