I am a big fan for Robotron on the N64 but that is because that is my favorite classic arcade game. The PS1 Version does indeed have better music and the dual shock really makes it easier to play.
I like the N64 a lot but have only played about 2 games on it, but those games had easily the greatest replay value, Bond 4-player gave me years of entertainment. That alone is worth owning the consoles. Mario 64 defined a genre that still sets the standard today. Mario Kart 64 is still the best Mario Kart made. Mario Tennis was great as well. Less great games than a PS1, absolutely, but the good games had staying power. Going to work on 4-Player Gauntlet next.
Well, first off, MK64 is the game that made me sell my N64. I was a HUUUUGEE fan of Super Mario Kart. SMK was the first versus driving game on a console that was actually worth playing. The more you drove the better you got. People who were dedicated got better and scrubs got completely f*cking crushed. MK64 decided to turn the series into a T-ball with a 3 run rule. Its for pussies who don't want skill to result in victory. MK64 introduced something similar to what Sega called "boost" (the leader is slowed, the losers's speed is increased) and the satanic crime that is known as The Blue Shell. Also, tripple shells, because people who can't shoot deserve more ammo. It also made the tracks so wide that anything approaching racing skill or cornering technique was rendered useless. These were replaced with that idiotic, controller destroying, wiggle boost mechanism. MK64 basically took the best racing game ever made and made it...people don't use this term very often anymore for good reason but...its special ed. It really is. Its like Super Mario Kart was remade for people with an IQ of 70. And hey, those people need games too and it sold well, but for me it was a big let down. The only reason why I'm able to function in society today is because of the bone they threw me in the shape of Mario Kart Super Circuit (GBA) which was even better than the original and had the SNES tracks in it!
So, to me the game was the nail in the coffin of N64, but to a bunch of whiny bitches that all want a turn at wining without actually working for it, its a holy relic. I suppose I can understand that, if not totally disagree with it. HOWEVER, have you actually played the new MKs? MK8 in particular? I ask because gameplay-wise they are pretty much all identical, but 8 has online play and very good graphics. Not only does it lack fog (MK64 taking place in either the Scottish highlands or central London, not sure) but the tracks are like F Zero GC times 10. If you like all that random victory shit from 64, I can't see why you wouldn't like Double Dash, 7, or 8 a f*ck of a lot more. Probably because you haven't played any of this shit since you were 9.
Case in point, Goldeneye. It was much better than that POS movie, but why this game was so popular I'll never know. I guess people with far more advanced visual cortexes tend to gravitate to that whole era of 4 player split screen fps, but personally I hate all fps and ones running at a fourth of 480i resolution are, to me, unplayable. I just can't see shit. And to play it with that crap controller? Again, for people who really wanted to mow down some dudes and didn't have a PC (where at the time everyone got their own display with a minimum of 640x480 if not 1280x1024) I guess its better than nothing, but does it really make the machine "worth owning" today? Because of a memory or because of the actual thing? How many people who love love love Goldeneye have actually played it in the last decade? And if you haven't played it in the last decade, why is it worth owning? Are you keeping it around for the same reason I keep my Saturn keyboard and mouse, or is there actually a use for this brown foggy garbage?
Brown and foggy...that's the N64 right there. Its also grey and blurry at times, but usually brown and foggy.
Oh, also, they f*cked up Yoshi twice as bad as they fuct Kart. Mario Kart 64 wasn't a bad game, it was just a completely different game for different people. Yoshi's Story was just lame though. Lame lame lame. It might have been a sequel to Gex or Zool. Island is my favorite platformer, probably tied with Astro Boy (GBA) but I don't think too many people even remember Yoshi's Story.
