I can understand the nostalgia for 64 stuff; I am far from a fan of the company, but I did enjoy my time with the system during its last stand at retail, and my last stand at going regularly to thrift stores. I found my jungle green system with DK64 in my favorite thrift store during my late-late college years for about $25 almost new in the box. Funcoland (or Gamestop might have bought them by this time) was clearancing out the system so I loaded up on cheap carts. A few months later I lucked into a grocery store formally 'game rental' section turned into a ' rentals for sale' section and I loaded up there, too. At the end, N64 stuff could still randomly be found with the box if you were lucky enough, much better pickings than say SNES collecting.
I had fun with the usual games: Goldeneye, Mario64, Quake II's port, etc. I had some chance finds, like when I repaired a Mario Kart 64 cartridge using donor parts from a 64 basketball game (a flea market find). Another time I walked into a game store that had a going out of business sale on 64 joysticks. Another chance find of Star Soldier 64. A lot of the games were all pretty fun at bargain prices, so I can see wanting it all back again. The Harvest Moon game on the 64 was my first experience with the series, and it turned me into an opportunistic fan; picking up cheap titles as I find them on the PS2, Advance, DS, etc.
Did you know Mario 64 was something of a rip-off of Argonaut Games Croc title? They originally approached Nintendo with an open world game with Yoshi and then Nintendo took the game demo and refined it, adding analog support, etc until Mario 64 was made. Google it, Argonaut's president and Nintendo talk about it, a surprising read.
