Thread 11969923

If you owned a PlayStstion as a kid, what was your reaction when you saw your friends playing Super Mario 64 for the first time?

This is just like Jumping Flash and Crash Bandicoot combined!

I was past platformers. I only cared about fighters, ISS, and racing games(the cool kind like NFS or GT).

Thought it looked fun… for babies!

>>11969923 (OP)
first saw a display unit at blockbuster, thought the controller was kinda futuristic but super fucking retarded and didnt know how the fuck to hold it

>>11969923 (OP)
I thought it looked very fun, and I was also impressed with the speed and variety of moves Mario could do.

>>11969923 (OP)
I loved Mario, Donkey Kong and Mega Man. I wanted a 64 because obviously the sequel console is gonna have the sequel games. But my parents gave me a PlayStation instead because it was easy to mod it to play pirated titles and 64 games were expensive. So when I went to my rich kid neighbor's house (who had all 3 current consoles) and played Mario 64 for the first time I was disappointed it wasn't something more like SMW or Mario 3. I wanted levels, permanent powerups until you take damage, Yoshi, things like that. But I got a weird 3D game instead. Same with DK64. But Mega Man went to the PlayStation with sequels that played like I expected, so at the end of the day I was happier with my PSX than I would have been with the 64. Nowadays in retrospect I like Mario 64 more than the 2D games.

>>11969923 (OP)
Never saw anyone owning a N64. Everyone had either a PS1 or a PC - or both. I first saw/played Super Mario 64 on an emulator in the early 2000s. I liked it.

>>11969923 (OP)
>WTF there's no polyjank on the edges of the screen?! WTF is this cartridgesorcery?!

me and the boys were over this rich girls house and she had it day one so we ran a train on her

>>11969923 (OP)
mirin

>>11970110
Turns out you were the retarded one all along.
>nyyyoh am not retardo for not knowing how the grab a controller! The controller is retardo

I was ten so
>This is for faggots, no guns or blood

>>11969923 (OP)
The first PlayStation game I ever played was Tetris Plus but I got the console shortly after and the Interactive CD Sampler (#3) showed me all kinds of amazing games like Crash and Tekken 2. My first game I got was Crash 2.

The N64 came that same year, but I had first played it at my cousins' house and thought it was horrible. The first game I played was Pilotwings 64 and I thought the game was awful. I was experienced with 16-bit consoles, had a super nintendo and genesis at home, my recollection of games was sharp, colorful graphics and snappy gameplay. Mortal Kombat, DKC, Sonic 2 and 3, Midnight Resistance and Street Fighter 2. Pilotwings 64 was the opposite of everything, foggy, dull, awful sound and insanely slow feeling.

I eventually got a 64 with Mario 64 and it was alright. It didn't do much for me but I did play it plenty. My first 3D game was actually Doom on PC, so the excitement of Nintendo finally going to 3D was completely missed on me, in a sense I was well ahead of Nintendo and just saw them catching up to where I was.

>>11969923 (OP)
I didn't have a Playstation, I still had an NES.

>>11969923 (OP)
It was awesome. I had a SNES and a PS1. I loved the new PS1 games, I had mgs, tomb raider, spider, jet moto, twisted metal and ffvii. Even though I was enamored by the PlayStation, I still wanted to play the sequels to the SNES games I had, alltp, smw + allstars mostly. So, when I saw sm64 and oot I was shitting my 8 year old self. I got to play sm64 at a kiosk in a toys r us and I sucked horribly at it. It wasn't until I got an N64 when I was 11-12ish that I really got into sm64, but oot was fucking amazing. The thing is I didn't play ffvii much because it was my brother s game and he'd beat me up if I played his games, so I didn't play ffvii until I was 11. I played ffvii and oot back to back at 11-12 years old and it was insanely fun and I enjoyed them both immensely.

I don't get what OP expects to see from this thread. Does he imagine console wars were real things?
>Yeah I went to my "friend" Jimmy's house, and when I got there, that son of a bitch had the N64. I had fallen into the trap of those Nintendo bastards. Charlie was in the trees, the gunfire opened up. Those fucks used mustard gas on Jumping Flash.... I barely made it out alive. Console war... it changes you, man. I don't even feel anything anymore, knowing a guy I traded fruit snacks with is now on side of the ENEMY.

>>11970164
What was his name?

It shattered my whole worldview. When I went over to Tom's place and he was playing SM64, all delusions of grandeur I had about my status in life went out the window. The euphoria I felt jamming the stick back and seeing Mario turn and somersault on a dime - in the actual angle I wanted him to! I went home and, imitating my friend beating Bowser, spun around holding the psx. I screeched "so long, gay Bowser" as I launched it at the wall. Psx still worked, busted a small hole in the wall though.

>>11969923 (OP)
It completely redefined my understanding of reality. I was at my friend’s house, and he wanted to show me Ocarina of Time. I saw Link lock onto an enemy and strafe around it, and I swear, I aged 4 years on the spot. I went home in a daze, and stared at my DualShock like it had personally betrayed me.

I was in a fugue state, the weight of what I had witnessed pressing down on me like some invisible hand rearranging the very architecture of my soul. I stared at my PlayStation (once a monolith of cutting-edge wonder) and felt only a hollow ache, as if I had awoken from a dream I didn't know I was having. I gripped the controller, desperate to recapture some semblance of what I had known, but its once-familiar contours now felt foreign, almost primitive.

In a moment that can only be described as spiritual disintegration, I found myself in the garage at midnight, cradling the console beneath my arm like a wounded animal. Rain pelted the roof. I raised it aloft, not out of rage, but out of mourning, and flung it into the wall, creating a small crater. The PlayStation survived. But something inside me didn’t.

My ps1 friend from 4th grade has such bad ptsd from coming over to my place that one time that he's been in and out of psych wards even into his 30s. Last time was when the new Mario movie came out, he relapsed hard. He barely eats and mutters about "jaggies" and how "movement in more than 8 directions is a communist plot."
His family hasn't talked to me in 30 years, I was just a kid wanting to show off my birthday present - why must this hang over my head? They say he could've been a doctor... SM64 ruined at least two lives that day.

Cousin had an N64, friend had a Playstation. I ended up getting a playstation because the controller was cooler and it supported CD audio and shit.

SM64 wasn't what made me want the N64, it was the 007 games. I had Tommorow Never Dies and TWINE on PS1 but when I saw Goldeneye and the N64 version of TWINE I was pissed at how much better they were.

Ended up getting an N64 after the gamecube came out. They were 20 bucks at the time. Still have it. Haven't bothered to get a CRT or an adapter to plug it in though.

>>11969923 (OP)
i thought it was incredible and got one and enjoyed both. so im able to shit on one or the other depending on my mood/thread im in and how much larping i want to do that day

>>11971815
based

>>11969923 (OP)
Gay

>>11969923 (OP)
I owned a PlayStation as an adult in the 90s. I did not know anyone who owned an n64, I did not want one then, don't want one now and can't stand mario, zelda or any of that shite. Mario was *never good* unless you were 9 technically illiterate and did not know any better. Thr PlayStation had a raft of 3D platformers from crah through get, croc, pandemonium all of which are collect the stars double jump games. I got bored of platformers a long time ago including 3D ones.The fact you think mario64 even mattered at all especially on a tech dead end failure like the n64 means you are too brain dead and reddit hipster to be even worth conversing with. Gey into retro games and stop shitting on about Nintendo and four games like a boring stuck record.They are not even great gMes and it is time someone told you, stuff like resident evil, wipeout, silent hill, tombraider, medal of honour etc was shitting all over the n64 which was Fisher price design for kids with helllicopter parents that bought 'kid friendly' suite The only adults into gaming with n64s in the 90s were wearing safety helmets and heavily medicated

>>11971815
>thought it was incredibl
I find it hard to believe anyone anywhere thought 3d platformer dross like Mario 64 was 'incredible Do you tards really not know how PlayStation dominated adult gaming because you were all busy learning to read and write in the 90s when you wee kids and before you first posted on reddit.

>>11971117
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>>11970984
Hearty KEK

>>11972526
>says Mario 64 was only for kids
>never triple-jumped into a painting
>never felt joy

>>11969923 (OP)
I was in the opposite situation and envied kids with the PS. It’s embarrassing looking back on it, but I would have given my left nut to play Star Wars Master of Teras Kasi when it came out.

>>11973124
The whole console war thing was a case of grass being greener on the other side. 5th gen was weird because each console actually had strengths and weaknesses, but even in 6th gen when the Xbox was objectively a more powerful console, you’d always be missing out on a couple of really amazing games no matter what console you picked

>>11972883
>>11970984
i was expecting something a lot funnier than this.

>>11973235
I’m sure in some social circles and the very early internet, there were console war shit storms, but for my friends and I we were pretty much cool with all of them and just wanted to play them. Most of my friends had Saturns and N64s, so the PlayStation was the very novel console I barely ever got to play until I finally bought one months before the PS2 came out. I had to wait to go to my cousins house clear across town to play the PS1 which sucked. It did introduce me to some amazing kino on the console like Resident Evil and FF though.

your Nintendo 64 will REACTIVATE on august 28 2025 this isn’t a theory this isn’t a conspiracy THIS IS FACT this is what PROJECT REALITY was ALL ABOUT they didn’t TELL YOU but they SHOWED YOU in the HARDWARE in 1994 when nintendo & SGI JOINED FORCES they PROMISED cinema-level graphics in console but what they DIDN’T TELL YOU is they PLANTED A TRICK IN THE HARDWARE a SLEEPER AGENT CODED IN SILICON something DESIGNED to ACTIVATE 29 YEARS LATER august 28 2025 not a random date a DATE CHOSEN WITH INTRICATE PRECISION by the DEVELOPERS THEMSELVES THE 64TH CYCLE OF THE JAPANESE LUNAR CALENDAR THE N64’s 62.5 mhz GPU and 93.75 mhz CPU WERE NEVER JUST CLOCK SPEEDS THEY WERE CODED MESSAGES HIDDEN KEYS ADD THEM TOGETHER 156.25 DIVIDE BY 64 2.44140625 THE SAME NUMBER AS THE POLYGON COUNT IT WAS ALL CONNECTED FROM THE START june 23 1996 JAPAN LAUNCH TO august 28 2025 10,654 DAYS DIVIDE BY 64 166.46875 cycles 166 ASCII CODE FOR “PROJECT” THIS IS NOT COINCIDENCE THIS IS A DESIGN THIS WAS NEVER JUST A GAME CONSOLE THIS WAS A TIME CAPSULE A MESSAGE TO THE FUTURE A DOORWAY TO THE NEXT DIMENSION ON THAT DAY TURN IT ON IT WILL NOT BE THE SAME MARIO WILL NOT SAY “ITS A ME” HE WILL SAY NOTHING BECAUSE THE HARDWARE WILL UNLOCK ITSELF THE 64-BIT CODE WILL FINALLY UNLEASH ITS TRUE FORM THE GRAPHICS WILL LEAP OUT OF THE SCREEN INTO YOUR SPACE INTO YOUR REALITY PROCESSING UNTOLD POWERS 64-BIT WAS NEVER A LIE IT WAS A PROPHECY A DELAY A FORESHADOWING AUGUST 28 2025 IS THE DAY THE N64 TRANSCENDS THE DAY IT BECOMES THE 64TH KEY TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF MULTIMEDIA

>>11969923 (OP)
>nice/cool
But then I asked what other games did he have? It was about five. Most of them sucked like polite wigs, and crusing usa and shit. Then looking at my friend at the time with the dog shit controller, I was quickly coming to the conclusion this machine was going to be worshiped by fags like him for years to come. And the prophecy as come true. It was my first experience with people who simp out for brands like nintendo. It was just as lame now and it is lame today.

>>11970160
Did you live under a rock?

My was reaction was playing better games

>>11972529
nta but i was impressed by how smooth the 3D was looking compared to the buggy PS1 and Saturn graphics. texture filtering was a game changer for me

>>11969923 (OP)
honestly i was never too big on mario 64. I loved super mario world and can still speed through the game quickly.

I was older than 8 when it came out and wasn't able to get hyped for a Mario game anymore.

>>11970147
>at the end of the day I was happier with my PSX
If you have to say something like that out loud it comes off as massive cope

>>11970160
>Never saw anyone owning a N64
Found the poor esl

>>11969923 (OP)
I was a Sega Genesis kid during grade school AKA the weirdo.

When I got the Playstation I thought I finally had my edge and than the N64 came out and I was like "here comes another 5 years of me being a loser"

30 years later......... and it's true. I am still a loser.

>>11974529
Cope for what? Owning a better console?

N64 was my first console and I got it Christmas 1996. I got a PSX a year later but my thought at the time was

>damn why does this look so pixely the N64 has much better graphics.

>>11974658
yeah, the pixel love people have now is revisionism and nostalgia goggles. this alone sold quite a few machines.

>>11974610
>c-cope for what? Owning a better console?

>>11969923 (OP)
With hindsight, seeing the phrase "realistic graphics" used to advertise an N64 game feels like a really grim omen.

I played mario 64 at my cousin's house then played crash bandicoot 2 on my friend's playstation and immediately got a PSX instead of a 64, no idea why people like that game so much

Dont know, I was the one making all the GAYstation kids jealous.

>>11969923 (OP)
>If you owned a PlayStstion
I was 11yo and had a Sega Genesis!
My family went to McDonald's and I tried Mario 64 for the first time at the kiosk.
My reaction: this game is silly and stupid.

Back at home the same day: played Streets of Rage and Bram Stoker's Dracula until bedtime.

It is worth mentioning that I played Duke Nukem 3D, Age of Empires, and Simcity 2000 at my cousin's house almost every weekend. Perhaps this PC background influenced my first N64 impression.

But anyway, the target audience for this console is clearly kindergarten children.

I couldn’t tell a difference between N64 and PS1 graphics. I could tell something felt a bit different, but I didn’t notice any difference in quality, but I was jealous that N64 had Pokemon Stadium