N64...Best Console Ever?

I think about the good old days a lot. The days when grass was greener, the skies were less polluted and the N64 reigned supreme.

Not only was it an ugly console, with an oddly shaped controller (with a third of it barely used (stupid d-pad)) an add-on that we never got to see in Europe and memory cards that were as reliable as a candle in the wind, it was also the greatest thing to grace the gaming world.

It wasnt the console itself that made it special, it was the games! Sony had moved on and was producing games on mass on CD, but Nintendo stuck it out with clunky old cartridges, but it didnt matter, It was the content.

I remember the very first time i played an N64. It was in a Virgin Cinema and they had a pod with Goldeneye playing. I couldnt for the life of me get to grips with the controls, i couldnt find the button to shoot the weapons but i was hooked from that moment on. I went on the most almighty campaign of terror against my parents until they conceeded and bought me one (ithink it cost about £600!) and you couldnt get me away from it. The only console i had before then was a Sega Master System with built in Alex the Kidd, so you can imagine why i was so excited.

So here we are, a decade later and i still love my N64. Its hooked up to my HD Flat Screen TV and im so happy Nintendo have devised the Virtual Console on Wii. It means that all those games i had wanted in the past i can now have!

Here is my list of all time favourite N64 Titles; Mario 64, Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Blast Corps, Jet Force Gemini, Duke Nukem 3D, Pilot Wings,Body Harvest, Zelda OoT and Zelda MM. This is just a fraction of the games i played and enjoyed but just looking at this list shows the quality that that console had to offer.