NINTENDO SIXTY-FOOOOUUUURRRR

this is the only reason why i scoured the earth for a used N64. this problem could have been prevented had i not given away my original N64 to a friend later in my high school years, but unfortunately, i'm prone to make those mistakes multiple times, (i JUST got my ps2 back almost a year ago...after foolishly letting someone "keep" it.)

i got this N64 around the summer... and it was given to me with two controllers....nothing else. so when i had some extra cash to blow, i made my e-home at ebay, buying cartridges and other useful add-ons to my system, some of which included a memory card that i waited a month for, and having to order a totally new one because the one that was mailed to me crapped out a day after i recieved it. it was also a measly 123 pages....i decided to buy one with 4x the memory, and i've been super thrilled with it ever since.

the titles i ended up purchasing were:

- the mystical ninja: starring goemon
- goemon's great adventure
- wcw vs. nwo world tour
- wcw/nwo revenge (the guy i bought it off of eventually sent me another copy...i have two working copies of this game...neat.)
- wwf wrestlemania 2000
- wwf no mercy
- snowboard kids (in this case it was the japanese version, i bought it with a multi-region adapter for 35 dollars, no tax.)
- snowboard kids 2
- mega man legends (rockman dash in my case)
- star wars : shadows of the empire
- super smash bros.
- fighter's destiny
- hiryuu no ken (flying dragon)

the imports that i bought had ran me about 20 to 25 bucks each... not bad if i do say so myself.

i am currently looking for copies of virtual pro wrestling 64, and virtual pro wrestling 2....(VPW2 is the best 3-d wrestling game ever imho.)

i also have two controllers to play these suckers on.

it was like stepping into a time machine, and reliving my life as a 10-12 year old kid, remembering every song, input, path to these games..i was in awe, and this basically put my ps2 and DC on the back burner for a few months.

my reason for buying an N64 went as followed:

i was having a conversation with my brother about the good ol' days, he reminded me about the mystical ninja starring goemon, and i foamed at the mouth. this was an odd super japanese game that we both fell in love with 10 years ago, everything was great, the off-beat humor, the gameplay (which kinda resembles mario 64 and the ocarina of time), the plot, and the characters.

after a few hundred youtube videos later, i finally decided to buy an n64, SOLELY for goemon. but, after playing goemon, i found myself wanting to play the 2nd game in the 64 series, goemon's great adventure.. i ended up buy that, then i said to myself, "damn, i want to get all those game i always rented at blockbuster, but never actually bought..."

these titles were never bought due to cartridges being ridiculously bat-S*^% expensive, i remember MK Trilogy being 74 dollars when i bought it on christmas 1996. but now, since the system is long deas, and it's titles range from a few cents to about 40 dollars the most, it wouldn't hurt to finally buy all those titles that i always rented, but never bought.

the collection is not complete since i still need the following:

- chameleon twist 1 & 2
- clayfighter: sculptor's cut
- bomberman 64
- Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 (i played this on an emulator 3 years ago, and i've been looking for a reasonably priced cartridge of this for a few months...still no reasonble price.. :-( )

some titles that i owned on my 64 are on my wii, so i won't consider re-purchasing them.

to summerize this worthless pile of jargon:

n64 rules, even if it is a pain in the butt to re-locate every little add-on and hard to find cartridge. with my luck every game i ever loved was always an oddball game that you can't really find anymore.

- m