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Logo uses joystick by liftarn
I remember walking in to Toys R Us and seeing N64 on display when it first launched. You could stand in line and wait for your chance to play. I had been too young to really follow or know about the launch, but I thought the 3D graphics looked incredible. Initially I had thought it was some hyped up version of Super Mario RPG because that was the most “3D” looking Mario game that had existed to date.
I still play the snes i got for $20 because games world at chaddy were dumping all the stock from their trade-in offers for n64s
My N64 stuff is laying around my house in random places because my oldest nephew (just became a teenager) absolutely loves retro hardware. So much fun.
Obligatory: $50
On a related note, how did anyone ever learn to get good at Goldeneye? I played it for the first time with a mock N64 controller the other day and holy hell, it was scuffed.
My buddy still prefers the golden eye control scheme, now called “legacy”. I remember him emailing a developer because they didn’t offer legacy sticks as an option in their game. They had no idea what he was even talking about lol
I got good at it back in the day. Still found the controls awkward as hell, but that game (and later on its successor Perfect Dark) had hours and hours of gameplay because it was one of the best fps games of its time (that wasn't on PC where wasd and mouse was already a thing right from the Doom days).
Halo was revolutionary. One stick moved, the other rotated, plus grenades were always a button away (in GoldenEye, the rare times you had them, they were selected like any normal weapon, which limited their versatility. Proximity and remote mines were way better.)
Metroid Prime also had a really awkward control scheme on the GameCube.
There was no standard for how FPS games were played on a controller at the time. Dual sticks weren't even a thing yet. You learned the controls and it was fine. Nowadays it's awful with the default scheme, but you can actually get pretty modern controls by choosing the 1.2 Solitaire setting in the options and binding the left stick to the C buttons, the right stick to the analog stick, and rebinding the rest to whatever feels comfortable. This is even possible on the Switch using the controller remapping feature.
Nobody knew any better at the time, lol
It was so much slower than fps games are now. Dual joysticks would have been overwhelming at the time when people were still getting used to 3D.
Quake predates GoldenEye.
what about those who use a flash cart, such as Everdrive?
Falls into the 3rd panel since you have the original console.
FU for old pooh. I still got my nes from 87
i hung on to every single console my family had growing up!
I have an atari 2600 my dad passed down to me. I also have all other playstations, a switch, a wii, a steam deck and a pc.
Nothing makes me smile more than that Atari (except for the zx spectrum, also given to me by dad)
that is excellent! good times with my pap and I playing Double dragon 3 on NES and gradius 3 on super nintendo!
🐻❄️ | Rented N64 from Blockbusters
It was so nice being able to rent games and never having to pay a subscription
Hey come on now.