[iup=3577968]chalkitdown[/iup] wrote:My favourite console ever. Most of my happiest memories of my adolescence come from playing N64 games, sad as it sounds. Also the first console that I ever truly owned that was mine and mine alone, and didn't have to share with my brother.
However, 18 years on and I still haven't played some of the best games on it, though. I feel kinda ashamed to admit that Pilotwings 64, Paper Mario, Space Station Silicon Valley, Shadowman & Turok 3 are some of the gems that never made it into my collection. I swear I''ll pick them up someday!
Ah man Pilotwings was amazing, so was Space Station and Shadowman. But Piltowings was something special, that gentle bliss and emphasis on subtle movements was so extraordinary at that time, and still is, not played anything like it since. It was also rock hard, in a way which made it seem impossible to attain the top points. It had a real learning curve which you felt like you really had to focus and concentrate in order to improve because you couldn't button mash and fluke your way through it. I remember the scale of the islands being a massive thing then, I used to just want to wake up on a Saturday and drift around for a few hours. It had/has a wholesome visual style that made grass and rocks exciting as 3D did then.
I'm similar to you in that with the N64 i sought to buy every game whereas with the Megadrive I just made do with playing whatever I could. And with the Saturn demos. The N64 was the continuation of the excitement of games in the 90s, as a decade it will never be topped, it packed in more in two years than the 21st century has so far.
I remember playing ISS too vividly, finally cracking how to score a goal because it was almost impossible. Running on a diagonal and then driving the ball in the far corner i think, it had to be a precise action, the same goal scored every time.
I even remember something boring like my explanations for wanting to take back Pokemon Stadium and Top Gear Rally 2. TGR2 was like an entirely different game to the original, which is best played after buying the cartridge for about £5. Pokemon Snap was great. World Driver Championship was amazing, so amazed by graphics back then, and why not.