This is The Official Nintendo 64 Appreciation Topic! Let this topic be dedicated to celebrating the greatest of all consoles mankind has ever known, and all the great games in its library.
What's the very first N64 game(s) you ever owned? Did you get more than one with your system?
I got a black N64 with gray controller for Christmas when I was six years old, and the game I got with it was Super Mario 64 :)
That was a very happy day. My second game was supposed to be Diddy Kong Racing, but they didn't have it at the store so I impatiently settled for a newly released game I knew nothing about, Banjo-Kazooie. That might be my favorite game of all time! Then I got DKR third. Much fun was had!
It was Christmas of '98 and I received Snowboard Kids and Diddy Kong Racing. When I went to my grandparent's house later that I day, I received Mario Kart 64.
If it wasn't obvious, racing games have always been my favorite genre
I believe that I rented an N64 and SM64 for whatever reason to try it out and then my parents eventually caved-in and bought one along with SM64 to go with it.
Apparently when we bought it, it was one of the last two that the store we got it from had in stock and another customer took the remaining one at the same moment..
On the day before my 7th birthday, my grandparents made me sleep out in the living room on the couch.
They woke me up during the night to give me a cake and took me into my room where a brand new N64 was hooked up with SM64 in it. Later on, they gave me Mario Kart 64 and then I went to my other grandparents' and my parents gave me OoT.
Tomorrow I'm going to start playing through SM64 again! I think this will be my fifth playthrough on the N64, and seventh overall (if VC and SM64 DS count). A few years back I started playing through it once a year!
There's so many good memories... but Tiny-Huge Island has got to be my least favorite level, from what I remember. I thought it was pretty painful!
Rainbow Ride might be the hardest level, and the coin-related stars are a pain in the butt, but I always thought it was fun. I guess I'll have to see if that opinion holds up once I start playing tomorrow!! If anyone wants to join me in playing through the game, I say go for it :)