Nintendo 64 was a little soul-crushing for a teen me that had no idea of the finer workings of the video game industries behind the scenes.
Here is kid and teen me.....grew up playing the greatest NES games, got a gameboy for christmas in 1989 I think it was so I got to experience some pretty good gameboy games throughout the years, and the SNES was my shit. I played so much SNES. (My family did have a sega genesis and my brother eventually bought the sega cd add-on for it so we played some sega related games also, but it really was all about that SNES for me).
The ultra 64, nintendo's next definitely going to be super awesome system is going to come out eventually. Hell yeah. Sega saturn does look pretty cool but I want to get this ultra 64 first because its going to have mega man, its going to have castlevania its going to have final fantasy, and a new chrono trigger, its going to kick ass. What the hell is a playstation? Pshhhh, it don't look like its all that.
.........bruh.
Now I did get that nintendo 64 for christmas in 1996 and it was the first 5th console generation console that I owned, but maaaaaaaaaaaaaan those games was as dry as the worst baked thanksgiving turkey. Yall have no idea just how much it crushed me to see nintendo's most loyal supporters jump ship and release games everywhere else but the platform I was expecting, lol.
(Like I said before man I ain't know what was going on behind the scenes. I didn't know nintendo's 3rd party relationship was always more of a tyrannical kind of thing on nintendo's part. and that nintendo deciding to stick with cartridges was a last straw for a lot of 3rd party companies of the time).
Mega man 8 and mega man X4 hurt me so damn much. All the capcom fighting games like street fighter alpha 2, x-men vs street fighter, and darkstalkers had ports everywhere else. (PS1 x-men vs street fighter and marvel vs street fighter may have been janky, but it was better than absolutely nothing). PS1 had a contra game......now the contra game may have been shit, but its still the fact of the matter that its a IP I loved on the NES and SNES ain't I can't play a new one on the N64. Bro wtf is this resident evil shit?......is a nintendo 64 version coming? No? What the FUCK. (Funny enough the N64 did get it's own actually pretty good port of resident evil 2 later, but that was later on in it's life. Already done had my PS1 for years at that point).
Oh, the jrpgs........so, so many jrpgs. Not on the N64, but on that new fancy PS1. The sega saturn also got it's share......N64 had goddamn quest 64.
Me and my family still made the best of it we did play the better local multiplayer games on the N64. Played a lot of the AKI-made wrestling games like wcw nwo world tour and when the 2 WWF games came out especially.
Final fantasy 7 might as well have like, mentally broke me on some ol' hentai kind of shit. That was the last straw....I had to get a PS1 in 1997. I cut so much grass and kept my grades high just so I can get a PS1. Damn you sony. Castlevania symphony of the night, metal gear solid 1, parasite eve, and brave fencer musashi was so good though.
*But yeah, nintendo 64 is genuinely my least favorite nintendo console out of all of them, even mroe so than the Wii U.*
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