the n64 might be my favorite of consoles, which i think is an equal mix of it being really the first successful venture into 3D depth, some ridiculously amazing genre-defining games (mario, zelda, goldeneye), and it just so happened to hit when i was in high school / college, which was probably my peak of play-time. but, yeah, it might also single-handedly be the biggest example of product / industry failure. from not using CDs, to pissing off sony, to shooing away third parties, to essentially opening the door to an xbox... disastrous ramifications that they didn't really start to make back until recently.
Yeah, I loved the N64. It just boggles the mind at times--still--that they stuck with cartridges. As best as I can remember, the system itself was actually superior to the PS and it was the cartridges that put a check on all the system could have done while the PS was able to use the rapidly advancing nature of CDs to cover up a lot of system limitations.
We're around the same age. Many a great days in high school and college were wasted (in a great way) playing GoldenEye and Smash Bros. all day long.
