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Nintendo 64
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Nintendo 64
Nintendo 64 is a fifth generation video game console produced and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released for retail on June 23, 1996 in Japan; September 29, 1996 in North America; and March 1 1997 in PAL regions. It uses Rom cartridge as its media.
Features
Nintendo 64 is built with 93.75 MHz NEC VR4300 as its CPU and geared by SGI 62.5 MHz 64-bit RCP for graphics. Its memory consists of 4 megabyte of RAMBUS RDRAM (expandable to 8 MB with the Expansion Pak) with a 9-bit data bus …
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Nintendo 64 is a fifth generation video game console produced and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released for retail on June 23, 1996 in Japan; September 29, 1996 in North America; and March 1 1997 in PAL regions. It uses Rom cartridge as its media.
Features
Nintendo 64 is built with 93.75 MHz NEC VR4300 as its CPU and geared by SGI 62.5 MHz 64-bit RCP for graphics. Its memory consists of 4 megabyte of RAMBUS RDRAM (expandable to 8 MB with the Expansion Pak) with a 9-bit data bus at 500 MHz providing the system with 562.5 MB/s peak bandwidth and have separate banks of memory for CPU, audio, and video. In addition, its system provides both composite video and S-video through the MULTI-OUT connection on the back. Besides that, it enables up to four controllers at the same time and also allows online game play via RANDnetDD (Japan only). The Nintendo 64 controller comes with one analogue stick, two shoulder buttons, one digital cross pad, six face buttons, a "Start" button and one digital trigger (Z). There are variety of colour editions released such as the basic black with light grey controller; jungle Green edition which together with the Donkey Kong 64 bundle; and The Funtastic Series used brightly-coloured, translucent plastic with six colours: Fire Orange, Grape Purple, Ice Blue, Jungle Green, Smoke Grey, and Watermelon Red. In term of graphic performance, its graphics chip is capable of tri-linear filtering, which allowed textures to look very smooth.
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Nintendo 64
Reviewer: Shopzilla13 September 2007- Overall 10
The nintendo 64 was one of the first game consels that i got. ive had it for 10 years and it still works. A nintendo 64 is a must have. a few great games to get with the nintendo is Mario 64, the legend of zelda ocerina of time and majoras mask. Kirby 6... Read more
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Nintendo 64
Reviewer: Consumer Democracy4 February 2007- Overall 8
The software is expensive and more limited in range than competition Read more
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Console reviews: Nintendo 64
Reviewer: Greggory Delman, review.helium.us4 February 2007Ultimately a video game system is only as good as the games on it. The N64 had a ton of great games, many genre defining, but it just was missing the third party support that the other consoles had. Nintendo and Rare games are fantastic, but there just didn't seem to be any other publisher making consistently great games for the system. It was a shame because it had a lot of potential. Overall it was a good system that added a lot of innovation into the field, but with... Read more
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Reviewer: Review Centre14 July 2008
- Overall 10
- Value for money 5
I remember when I first got my 64. It was one of the greatest days of my life. I would spend hours playing with it every day. It is a fun addicting system, and it was one of the greatest. One of my biggest regrets was selling it. Throughout the years i have wanted it back, so I traded my friend my ps2 for his 64. It was worth it Read more
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Reviewer: DealTime UK16 July 2009if you are of a certain age,you will know about the n64. it was and still is very easy to start up the games due to the games being on a cartridge unlike most others that are on cd's.the console is very sturdy in being quite heavy and allows upto 4 people on at once with aseperate controller for each person. one of my favourite games has to be diddy kong racing....hours and i mean hours of fun can be had with this game going round and around track after track.the more... Read more
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