By Gerald Lynch
The Nintendo of today is characterised by its risk-taking, innovative take on gaming norms. From the motion-sensing Wii to the multi-purpose Nintendo Switch, Nintendo is now seen as the most creative of gaming hardware manufacturers, even when (as with the Wii U) that audacity backfires.
You can trace that risk-taking attitude back to 1995’s Nintendo 64, aka the N64. Having been burnt by Sony’s unexpected and meteoric gaming rise with the PlayStation, the N64 had to knock it out of the park.
While it never achieved the runaway success of the original PlayStation, its killer games and laser focus on multiplayer play made it one of the most well-loved gaming consoles of the last twenty years.
As such, it still resonates today – when we asked you to vote for your pick of the best ever games console, you came out swinging in support of the Nintendo 64, seeing it rightly earn a place among the greatest games machines of all time.
Innovation station
The groundbreaking ideas the N64 supported were visible from the moment you picked up its insane “trident” controller. To this day, it looks like nothing else in the world of gaming, with its three-pronged shape allowing …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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