Owning a Nintendo 64 is a pretty big hurdle. Have you seen how much those fucking things cost now?!
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
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Are they bad? I just never let anything go, so I'm still using mine from when I was a kid.
Delete this comment before you get robbed
If you can manage to find a place that has one, they're usually selling for $200+ now. I'm pretty sure I can get ebay chinese replicas for like $50 though, but there are some games they won't play.
The N64 had a $200 launch price, which is pretty much $400 now. So nobody is making money from holding onto their N64. Hrm, maybe I should pick one up.
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If you can't have it, emulate it. ;)
You can emulate via software or hardware nowadays.
If you want accuracy, the MiSTer now has an N64 core that is mostly complete.
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I regret selling mine when I was 17 cause I wanted to buy a paintball gun and gear. At the time, it was a great call cause I didn't play any N64 games at the time, and I got to have a blast playing paintball with my friends.
But man I wish I'd sold something else back then so I could still have my original N64 and games. Still got the ol' NES and Sega Genesis at least.
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Lots of things stopping me from doing this:
- I am currently 36 years old, I will not be 38 at any time during the year 2024.
- I do not own a copy of Wrestlemania 2000.
- I finished my pizza rolls yesterday.
Sounds more like you're not trying hard enough
I agree. He just needs to smoke a carton of cigs and drink a bottle of whiskey and he will feel older the next day for sure!
I'm also going to bed at 10:30
I had pizza rolls and played Borderlands 3 last night, but was asleep on the couch at 8:00. I’m 39.
As a 42 year old woman with no work tomorrow, eating takeaway pizza and drinking wine whilst contemplating zelda on the DS I bought over Covid vs a cheesy movie on Hulu this made me smile. :)
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Oh yeah goin to bed at ten
Nothing is stopping you from this right now
Except the cost of the console and games. :(
Also, Beetle Adventure Racing > Wrestlemania
You guys don't keep your childhood consoles?
I would have if I had the luxury of storage.
Not all of us came from stable backgrounds. My father lost everything we owned when I was in the Army because he couldn't stop gambling and didn't pay our storage unit... My entire fucking Magic the Gathering collection. I had power 9 and a full duel lands set, many many decks. Not to mention all my consoles and games.
Someone stole it from me when I was 18.
Your phone has enough power to emulate an N64 and roms are free. Ain't nobody making royalties 25 years later on Wrestlemania.
Argggh the seas of piracy are calm and rife with plunder
Well, yes, I have a gaming PC as well. (and a steam deck) It just ain't the same without the OG controller. Need to get a USB one eventually but I'm poor.
I do still have some of my original carts as well. Same with a bunch of NES carts I got from my previous job. Been eyeing those modern consoles that work with NES carts because that would be nice to have in the living room.
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This is very close to how my weekend went actually : ) Just with BG3 instead of Wrestlemania, and the wife was out of town instead of no school. Haha.
Taking turns playing Doom 64 while drinking Mtn Dew Code Red and eating Buncha Crunch. Everything was downhill after that.
Ha! Jokes on you, I’m not 38 until… next week. Guck!
(I meant to type “fuck” but “guck” works just as well.)
This honestly needs to be a lemmy insider only word. Replace all reference of fuck with guck going forward.
no mercy for me bro
No Mercy is the pinnacle of N64 wrestling games, but the glory started with WCW vs NWO World Tour.
The only problem I had with No Mercy is my save files kept disappearing.
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I don't think I can be 38 right now unless we want to really break physics. I wouldn't mind shaving a couple of years off, though.
And I'd have to use that weird-assed controller shudder.
That said, y'all have fun and enjoy it! :)
It's Saturday night, I have no date, just a roll of quarters and a 2 liter bottle of Shasta. Let's do this.
Guys will see this and say hell yeah.
But for real, don't sell your games. Don't be that guy in 20 years being like "remember n64?"
I just got an emulator and play my n64 wrestling games on my tv through my pc
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Indeed. Instead be that guy saying "Oh, man... I forgot to check the caps... the motherboard is absolutely corroded and ruined beyond repair!"
Just reminding you if you have any old consoles or other such old electronics. Remember the capacitors.
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Pretty sure a N64 can be emulated on a raspberry pi 5.
Granted it's probably easier to get a N64 than a pi5... but still. For those folks that want to play... It's possible.
Also I hear steam deck is a great way to emulate it...
Hell, I get 60fps in 1080p on a Raspberry Pi 3b playing Mario Kart 64.
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I remember the hype of getting chairs from the audience in this game!
We rented this one a lot.
I think you mean "the alcohol cabinet is stocked and so are the retro games". Legend of Zelda, here I come.
I fucking wish I was 38 again!
39 yrs here. I got my kid a gaming laptop for Christmas, but then I bought all the old Halo games for it for myself. I just got an Xbox controller for it this weekend and it has been a wonderful experience.
A few things are stopping me from that actually.
I have to work tomorrow :(
But other than that, let’s swap to wcw vs nwo and your on!
Never understood the love for N64. That controller was an abomination.
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I used to love playing this game with my friends.
I resemble that remark.
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