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Coming from someone that grew up with the N64, I can safely without any nostalgia goggles that it was a terrible system. The 3D platformer was a genre that I have long since grown out of, and lord knows you needed to love the shit out of them if you owned an N64, because that comprised most of its library. Never mind that I don't think Super Mario 64 was ever better than Super Mario World, I hated the N64 Castlevanias, almost all of Rare's games were as fun as pulling teeth, and stuff that I did like (Kirby 64, Chameleon Twist, Bomberman Hero, Yoshi's Story) I can fully admit were/are pretty bad games that I would absolutely never play again. Outside of platformers, the only other games I played on the thing were party games with my brothers, which were terrible if played by yourself, and I would never play them again on account of how horribly outdated they are. Just about the only game I regret never playing was Ogre Battle 64.

It may very well be the system that has aged the worst in the shortest amount of time. Was it good in its heyday? Yeah, sure, but I don't cling firmly to 90s nostalgia like the rest of the internet (despite being a 90s kid). I've moved on.

And the Gamecube... I think in all the years I've owned the thing, I played 10 games for it. The PS2 was pumping out hit after hit after hit for so many years, while my Gamecube collected dust. Even Melee, which people still inexplicably orgasm over to this day, I never got in to. This was the turning point where I stopped being a dedicated Nintendo fan.

It's telling that I haven't touched either system in over a decade, while I'm still buying PS1 games that I missed out on, and found most of them to be outstanding.