And I mean a real N64 on a CRT; obviously I’ve played the emulated games, the remakes, etc etc - most lately the Mario 64 game on the Switch.

But I also had an N64 back at launch in 1996, and I played Mario back then too. Back then I had the same feelings of magic everyone did - an unbelievable sensation of wonder as we were able to move freely in 3D for the first time. It was like nothing else that had ever come before it .

And lately I’ve been collecting and playing a real NES and SNES and Genesis console, and each one of those holds up to the memory. The graphics! The sound! Amazing stuff.

But today I turned on the N64 for the first time - and oof. The title screen of Mario is still pretty incredible after getting used to the 16 bit generation, but once I started playing…. Pure “ehhhhh”. How did I put up with this back in the 90s? Damn. Mario is constantly a little blurry smear, and the frame rate is atrocious. I had craved the “authentic” feeling and it felt…. Authentic, but damn - it also felt *bad*.

Anyone else found they returned to the N64 and realized maybe they had been viewing those days through rose colored glasses?

(Pic not rel; random shot from online to illustrate my point)

>>11844397 (OP)
This gets /vr/'s jimmies rustled but a lot of N64 shit doesn't...HOLD UP. NES and SNES games feel truly timeless to me but N64 games feel like the first draft of the 3D era and just aren't very fun to play, regardless of how impressive they were in their day.
Mario 64 is one of the better ones though.

>>11844397 (OP)
try playing on your fwb's Switch 2, on a big tv, not as a handheld. it's much better

>>11844397 (OP)
hey yeah, are these the jannies? yeah we got another disaster on aisle 5, get on it

>>11844397 (OP)
n64 runs like shit. the best option is an emulation setup on CRT that can run the games at 60 FPS with no vaseline smearing.

>>11844408
True. n64 was my favorite as a kid but when I go back to it there's only like 5 games I like. PS1 and even shiturn had significantly better libraries