As fans dream of a Zelda: Ocarina Of Time remake, a reader explains why the N64 is his favourite console and why, in his opinion, it can never be beaten.

What people say is their favourite video game console always has a lot to do with what whey got first as a kid. But my first console was a SNES and yet my favourite is what came out next, the Nintendo 64. The N64 is kind of unusual for Nintendo as it wasn’t a big failure or a major success. It was neither or both, but I consider it the most important console ever, and not just to me personally but gaming as a whole.

Before the N64, 3D graphics basically didn’t exist for most people. You could see some very basic looking things on PC and games like Daytona USA had just started to creep into arcades but the N64, and PS1, were at the bleed

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