It all started last year sometime when I found an old broken-ass CRT television by the side of the road. Conjuring up images from a lost time, the haunted relic called out to me, much like sirens of the old tales enticed unwary sailors to their doom. I put it in my trunk, unleashing a cursed chain of events that would lead to me rebuilding and augmenting my childhood Nintendo 64 collection, almost breaking my back hunting down a much nicer (but also free) 27" Sony Trinitron, and selling my PS5 Digital Edition (for a small profit) to support my crippling addiction, much to my wife's chagrin.
I loved the PS5 and plan to pick it up again somewhere down the line, but I already had my fill of the wonderful launch titles and my digital library isn't going anywhere, so I'll probably just jump back in when it's more widely available in stores around the launch of GoW2 or HZD2, possibly with an even better hardware revision.
I have a couple children now and I feel like of all the retro consoles, the N64 is just fun as hell, especially for young kids with all of the amazing 3d platformers on the system. I've been playing Super Mario 64 with my boy and it holds up every bit as well as it played in 1996.
So, did I do the right thing? Judge me, era.
Bonus Trivia: The game pictured above, Rocket: Robot on Wheels, was which enormously talented Sony firsty-party studio's very first production in the late 90s when they were still independent?
Answer:
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All BOXES are mini reproductions from Etsy that fit the exact size of the cartridges. They're amazing, and a hell of a lot cheaper than the astronomical madness of current CIB prices.
Find them here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/539128369/mini-nintendo-64-protector-boxes-cases
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I loved the PS5 and plan to pick it up again somewhere down the line, but I already had my fill of the wonderful launch titles and my digital library isn't going anywhere, so I'll probably just jump back in when it's more widely available in stores around the launch of GoW2 or HZD2, possibly with an even better hardware revision.
I have a couple children now and I feel like of all the retro consoles, the N64 is just fun as hell, especially for young kids with all of the amazing 3d platformers on the system. I've been playing Super Mario 64 with my boy and it holds up every bit as well as it played in 1996.
So, did I do the right thing? Judge me, era.
Bonus Trivia: The game pictured above, Rocket: Robot on Wheels, was which enormously talented Sony firsty-party studio's very first production in the late 90s when they were still independent?
Answer:
Sucker Punch Productions (who would go on to develop Sly, Infamous, and Ghost of Tsushima). And the game features an incredibly rich physics engine that feels totally unique among 3d platformers of that era.
All BOXES are mini reproductions from Etsy that fit the exact size of the cartridges. They're amazing, and a hell of a lot cheaper than the astronomical madness of current CIB prices.
Find them here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/539128369/mini-nintendo-64-protector-boxes-cases
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