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Contemporaneous accounts on N64's lack of Games (presented dispassionately)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/916387-nintendo-64/8108...
SneakersSO
  12/06/25
holy shit I forgot about the 64DD. I think that bombed worse...
OYT Magnus
  12/06/25
The story of the N64 (much like the 32x) hasn’t been f...
SneakersSO
  12/06/25
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OYT Magnus
  12/06/25
Btw Virtual Boy sales were almost identical 32x and marketin...
SneakersSO
  12/06/25
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Dr. Screens
  12/06/25
Kerr_Avon 31 minutes ago#5 For those who are unaware, the a...
SneakersSO
  12/07/25
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SneakersSO
  12/07/25


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Date: December 6th, 2025 8:12 PM
Author: SneakersSO

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/916387-nintendo-64/81080863

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807145&forum_id=2)#49489749)



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Date: December 6th, 2025 9:02 PM
Author: OYT Magnus ( )

holy shit I forgot about the 64DD. I think that bombed worse than Virtual Boy iirc. The Console Wars of the 90s were stark in their brutality *raises hand to heart* 🫡

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807145&forum_id=2)#49489880)



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Date: December 6th, 2025 10:06 PM
Author: SneakersSO

The story of the N64 (much like the 32x) hasn’t been fully told to the public. Everyone makes it about the cartridges when there’s so much more to the story. The 5th gen marks the transition to using High-level languages to Engineer games. At least this worked with PS1 (and PC/DirectX). With N64, ingenious devs like Nintendo/rare/factor 5 knew how to write microcode to the RCP (the namesake of the rcp90 from goldeneye). Acclaim and fuckin iguana and others had no idea and if they wanted to even try they needed to kiss Yamauchis ring and sign an NDA. Extremely dumb internet posters don’t realize how hard it was to get n64 to perform on OOT or Rogue Squadron levels with its limited RAM, for one.

SNES games were Engineered in assembly. Ok nbd it’s just pixels. n64 was all that and more. PS1 meanwhile just let westerners use C++. There was a lot going on that had nothing to do with using cartridges or CDs. Nintendo wasn’t a “real” hardware company. Sony was. N64 was, on paper, more powerful and cheaper. But it’s never that easy. Engineers understand this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807145&forum_id=2)#49490018)



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Date: December 6th, 2025 10:40 PM
Author: OYT Magnus ( )



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807145&forum_id=2)#49490088)



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Date: December 6th, 2025 10:53 PM
Author: SneakersSO

Btw Virtual Boy sales were almost identical 32x and marketing was similar (low key not much hype), worse library and fewer games but it was immediately Forgiven whereas with 32x it was like”oh great what’s next from these Scumbags? 🙄 I can’t trust they won’t drop Dreamcast….”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807145&forum_id=2)#49490118)



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Date: December 6th, 2025 10:11 PM
Author: Dr. Screens



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807145&forum_id=2)#49490022)



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Date: December 7th, 2025 4:49 PM
Author: SneakersSO

Kerr_Avon 31 minutes ago#5

For those who are unaware, the above is posted by a notorious N64 hating troll, who always (a) posts anti-N64 rubbish, (b) claims that he loves the N64, (c) gets banned, and (d) waits a few weeks then signs up with a new user name and goes through the whole sad charade again and again. Sometimes he uses A.I. to generate his drivel, but he lacks the intelligence or imagination to vary his miserable attacks so you can usually tell at a glance that his need to criticise a particular inanimate box of plastic and electronics has resurfaced again.

How unsatisfying and pathetic must his life be that he is locked in a cycle like that? I don't know if when he was a kid (physically, I mean, as he's still mentally very much a juvenile) maybe was ignored by the local kids, and he put that down to him not owning an N64 when most of the other kids did, instead, of, you know, realising that the reason they avoided him was that he's an obnoxious and unlikeable moron, and then trying to better himself and becoming worth of having friends. It's so sad, but he doesn't help himself by continuing with his obsessive desire to post drivel.

I'm a PC and console gamer - I love good games, regardless of their host system.

For all things N64: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/nintendo_64_forever/

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TurokPrime (Topic Creator)now#6

😞 I just wanted to have a discussion on 1990s internet posts. Your post is nothing but rank intellectual dishonesty.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807145&forum_id=2)#49491911)



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Date: December 7th, 2025 6:02 PM
Author: SneakersSO

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807145&forum_id=2)#49492061)