I was a fanboy
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Back in the 90ties I owned a N64 and I loved it, some of my other friends who had a PSX hated the N64 but I defended it like my life depended on it (I was a kid lol so can you imagine what kind of nonsense I would say haha).
Couple years later I had a PSX and I really forgot about all the fanboy stuff and I really enjoyed the PSX. Today I found a folder on my harddisk with the complete N64 romset so I decided to install Project 64 and play them. Maaaan, comparing this to the PSX, haha there is no doubt that the PSX kicked it ass! PSX has a larger game library, better games (Final Fantasy series, Metal Gear Solid, GTA series). I just never looked at it like the way I do now.
Still, I have many good nostalgic memories about these consoles, oh life was so good, no bills, no worries haha. If I have to be honest both consoles are great, its sad that they didn't make much games for the N64.
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I had both PSX and N64 back in the day. Sadly, I solde off my N64 at one point, only to re-buy one a few years back. I have had to spend too much to get a few of the good games and a 4 controller setup. At this point though, it was cheaper to buy a refurbished XBOX One and Rare Replay than buying Banjo Kazooie, Tooie and Conker (that's how bad CART prices are). I'm sitting on a snowboard kids 2 cart that I should probably sell for $50-60.
As for PSX, I still own my original PSX that I bought probably in 1997 (it came without an analog controller, so I bough the original dual analog). Ironically, I'm still using the Dual Analog I bought along with a PS2 dual analog I got cheap for Retropie controllers. I don't really use the PSX though because the games look so much better playing them on Retropie. I tried to extract my original gave saves, but I lost the memory card with the good saves.
We played a lot of both systems back in those days (end of High School), but I can't say one was better than the other. I had probably 1000 hours in Gran Turismo and GT2 (lost those saves....) and played all the Need for Speed games.
But in the pre LAN-party days, it was all about 4-player split screen and the PSX didn't do it as well as the N64. We played a lot of Rallycross and Madden on PSX, but weekend were booked with Mario Kart 64 and Goldeneye. NFL Blits got played a lot as well.
I had to pick up BattleTanx so the kids can team up against me these days, because they refuse to play Goldeneye with me. I wish we would have had BattleTanx back in the day as that would have gone into rotation.
Also, don't forget Super Mario 64, the Zelda titles and the Banjo Kazooie series. N64 had great games, but there was less quantity than the PSX. The best N64 games tended to be 3D adventure or Multiplayer.
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@mrbwa1 I'll never forget the winter holiday of 1998, I played the crap out of Mario 64. Goldeneye with my brother and sisters. Mario kart was fun too, I really enjoyed that game. Too bad I could never beat Mario 64 and still never did.
Yoshi's story is a good game too as well as Mario Party. I played Mario Party on an emulator with netplay a couple years ago with a buddy of mine, its hilarious. I really love Mario games.
Too bad Mario Party on the WiiU doesn't have multiplayer, they really should add this to their games.
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@PetroRie We hit college in the fall of '98 and by '99 we were all playing Unreal Tournament or Quake via the college LAN (ahh they days when people were used to dialup so a 100Mbit Lan connection meany acceptable latency across campus because nobody did streaming or torrents).
I never was all that great are run-n-gun, so I honed skills as a sniper. That doesn't make you very popular unless you are in say team capture the flag where I would hang back and pick off anyone that got near out flag.
These days, I have been playing Rocket League because it reminds me of the old style N64 and early LAN party stuff.
EDIT: on the last day of HS in 98 I went to class with my N64 and a CASIO pocket TV. Most of the seniors skipped, so the teachers pretty much let us hook the N64 up to whatever TV was available or else we play 4 player on that CASIO screen!
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@mrbwa1 Haha lol I had just to Google to see how the Casio pocket TV looked like. LMAO ancient piece of hardware. I bet everything was so small on the screen, reminds me when I hooked up my XBOX 360 to a CRT TV. Everything was so darn small you couldn't even see it, the quality was very like an old movie on a VHS tape.
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Back in the day I owned both, PSX first, then N64. I briefly became an N64 fanboy for no other reason than the superior specs to the PSX, which looking back is a misguided viewpoint to say the least. N64 had a few great classics, but the quantity of memorable games on PSX is far greater. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night became my all time favorite PSX game once I was able to get past the fact that the game wasn't 3D and give it a chance. I bought the game not knowing anything about it and expecting a 3D adventure game only to find a game that looked more like a Sega Genesis or SNES title and turned it off. I was around for the NES, SNES, and Genesis days but was expecting more from my PSX. After getting past that initial shock and disappointment I gave the game a chance a while later (probably several days or weeks, not sure) and within about 10 minutes I was totally hooked. The art style, story, and particularly the music were all superb, and the voice acting was good for a laugh here and there. The funny thing is if it were made to be a 3D title, it probably would have sucked hard, maybe even worse than the N64 incarnations. After this experience I started looking at newer 2D titles with a bit more of an open mind. From a retrospective viewpoint, I'd say PSX is my favorite retro console, with the Sega Genesis / Sega CD (which I also owned) being a close second.
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@PetroRie my biggest problem i had with the n64 was the half fake 3d. Example: in zelda ocarina of time the stairs were a triangle ramp with fake 3d stairs painted on the top of the ramp. Racing games like automobili lamborghini were completely nausiating because of this. And i dont normally get nauseous playing games. Even the vines and ladders on zelda were just painted on. Mario 64 on the other hand looked good. The psx had true 3d. But psx games can look pretty rough now days without a shader.
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The PS1 had somewhate "simplified" 3d capabilities compared to the Nintendo 64. For instance, PSX didn't have any sort of camera perspective correction, so moving the camera would stretch/warp shapes. Of course you probably wouldn't notice this since SONY did textures better than Nintendo. The biggest downfall of the N64 (well graphics-wise at least) was the 4K texture size. I resulted on blurry, ugly, stretch out textures. Combine that with Hardware AA, and the result was pretty much always blurry.
It was weird playing N64 on Retropie The first time with smoothing off, because it looked so much better than the actual N64 hardware.
In the end, SONY probably made the smarter choice to go with less advance hardware and No AA. It didn't hurt that they had great marketing and went after an older audience that was probably a better fit for the system.
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