ChoAniki
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Ahhh, yes, my Nostalgia boner. I made this years ago because I found the term Nostalgia boner funny and did this. But overall I wanted to give my thoughts on nostlagia itself because I find it quite fascinating how it works and what it does.
In this case I want to talk about my favorite console, the N64. Yeah, quite a controversial console, either way you hate the controller or love it. Some games don't age well and graphics too. Luckily I grew up with it so I have a good tolerance for all its faults and can accept it for what it is.
For how I got the N64: I don't really know when we got it, probably at the end of its life cycle and when everyone wanted a PS2, OG Xbox or GameCube. My family was not really wealthy so spending hundreds of Deutsche Mark (old currency before the euro) for videogames wasnt an option. So we got it and well, 3D was a new thing and I was blown away. Before the N64 we had an SNES and jumping from 2D to 3D was amazing, even when we didn't had the SNES for that long. Later we got an PS1 as well but only wanted to play 3D stuff so didn't played the Megaman X stuff which is quite a shame.
I have 2 sisters and 2 brothers and having a console were 4 could play was perfect, probably a reason why my parents bought an N64. Of course we played the typical N64 stuff, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Super Smash Bros, Mario Party 2 and so on. We had also stuff like Blast Corps, Body Harvest (a game which would desperately need a remake) mischiefs makers, Mystical Ninja starring goemon, Space Station Valley, Rush 2 and more. So overall we had the typical 1st Party stuff and other good stuff. My father was a gamer so thats the reason why we had just so little stinkers. When someone wanted to play a single player game we had a clock so everyone gets there time. Sounds good in theory but didn't worked out well because everyone wanted to play and did some tricks to get the controller or manipulated the time clock. Yeah, my parents later bought an another N64 for that reason xD. Overall I had good times with the console, singleplayer and multiplayer wise.
Many years later my nostalgia was growing and I thought about getting the N64 back. Sadly my little brother took every N64 game without telling anyone so yeah, was quite pissed. We had controller and consoles so at least I didn't need to buy that. In the game shop there was the price shock: games don't cost a couple of euros anymore. I was thinking why but later I saw I wasn't the only one wanting there childhood back. Bought a couple of really cheap games that I own as a child and starting playing. Man, I had the graphics better in my memory, didn't helped that I played on a HD television xD.
With the time I got more and more of my childhood games back and oh boy I enjoyed some of them a lot but some of the games where I saw the bitter reality. I played a lot of the collectathons like Banjo Kazooie, Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64 but man, I can't really enjoy them anymore. One important aspect was exploring the worlds and doing stuff was fun but when you played them so damn often that you know everything even years later so everything was feeling more like doing a checklist then playing a game. I can't really play the genre anymore, even when I don't know the game. Same is with Pokémon stuff. Played it a lot and loved it but nowadays I can't touch any of them, just absolutely no interest.
That's one thing that irretated me a lot, even when I know I liked them a lot I can't enjoy them anymore. With nostalgia you try to get back to a time where everything was fine and fun but you will never achieve that exact feeling again, even when your filthy rich and have everything you could want. Thats probably why some collectors want to get rid of everything suddenly because of that realisation and they wanted their childhood back, not the games. For me it destroyed some of that magic for N64 and in fact, there aren't that many good games for the system. A lot of mediocre games that are a bit fun but there so much better options and with a full time job, I don't have time for mediocre games when I can have the best of the best. I watched VGL video with every N64 game like 7-8 times just to maybe find that one game more so I can have more new fun with the N64. But after trying about 180 games there isn't really anything left for me. The journey for the N64 is over, there is nothing to explore anymore. Of course I can still explore the N64 collectors side but that doesn't interested me that much.
Overall the N64 is more of a bitter sweet pill to swallow for me. Of course to spend more time you can make your own challenges like speed running, limit yourself and such and in fact I speedran Paper Mario 64 and Super Mario 64. I still enjoy playing the console but to explore the library was very fun too. Maybe a factor why I'm so crazy into this hobby is just to explore new old things that just few people care about is so damn enjoyable for me. Why I wanted to talk about this is because you have so much to collect and play but nobody talks about the ends of librarys and what that means. I never thought about stuff like that so it came much harder. The N64 will forever be near my hearth and even when it seems that I have a more negative view on the N64 I'm still glad I can still have fun with it and enjoy for what it is.
In this case I want to talk about my favorite console, the N64. Yeah, quite a controversial console, either way you hate the controller or love it. Some games don't age well and graphics too. Luckily I grew up with it so I have a good tolerance for all its faults and can accept it for what it is.
For how I got the N64: I don't really know when we got it, probably at the end of its life cycle and when everyone wanted a PS2, OG Xbox or GameCube. My family was not really wealthy so spending hundreds of Deutsche Mark (old currency before the euro) for videogames wasnt an option. So we got it and well, 3D was a new thing and I was blown away. Before the N64 we had an SNES and jumping from 2D to 3D was amazing, even when we didn't had the SNES for that long. Later we got an PS1 as well but only wanted to play 3D stuff so didn't played the Megaman X stuff which is quite a shame.
I have 2 sisters and 2 brothers and having a console were 4 could play was perfect, probably a reason why my parents bought an N64. Of course we played the typical N64 stuff, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Super Smash Bros, Mario Party 2 and so on. We had also stuff like Blast Corps, Body Harvest (a game which would desperately need a remake) mischiefs makers, Mystical Ninja starring goemon, Space Station Valley, Rush 2 and more. So overall we had the typical 1st Party stuff and other good stuff. My father was a gamer so thats the reason why we had just so little stinkers. When someone wanted to play a single player game we had a clock so everyone gets there time. Sounds good in theory but didn't worked out well because everyone wanted to play and did some tricks to get the controller or manipulated the time clock. Yeah, my parents later bought an another N64 for that reason xD. Overall I had good times with the console, singleplayer and multiplayer wise.
Many years later my nostalgia was growing and I thought about getting the N64 back. Sadly my little brother took every N64 game without telling anyone so yeah, was quite pissed. We had controller and consoles so at least I didn't need to buy that. In the game shop there was the price shock: games don't cost a couple of euros anymore. I was thinking why but later I saw I wasn't the only one wanting there childhood back. Bought a couple of really cheap games that I own as a child and starting playing. Man, I had the graphics better in my memory, didn't helped that I played on a HD television xD.
With the time I got more and more of my childhood games back and oh boy I enjoyed some of them a lot but some of the games where I saw the bitter reality. I played a lot of the collectathons like Banjo Kazooie, Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64 but man, I can't really enjoy them anymore. One important aspect was exploring the worlds and doing stuff was fun but when you played them so damn often that you know everything even years later so everything was feeling more like doing a checklist then playing a game. I can't really play the genre anymore, even when I don't know the game. Same is with Pokémon stuff. Played it a lot and loved it but nowadays I can't touch any of them, just absolutely no interest.
That's one thing that irretated me a lot, even when I know I liked them a lot I can't enjoy them anymore. With nostalgia you try to get back to a time where everything was fine and fun but you will never achieve that exact feeling again, even when your filthy rich and have everything you could want. Thats probably why some collectors want to get rid of everything suddenly because of that realisation and they wanted their childhood back, not the games. For me it destroyed some of that magic for N64 and in fact, there aren't that many good games for the system. A lot of mediocre games that are a bit fun but there so much better options and with a full time job, I don't have time for mediocre games when I can have the best of the best. I watched VGL video with every N64 game like 7-8 times just to maybe find that one game more so I can have more new fun with the N64. But after trying about 180 games there isn't really anything left for me. The journey for the N64 is over, there is nothing to explore anymore. Of course I can still explore the N64 collectors side but that doesn't interested me that much.
Overall the N64 is more of a bitter sweet pill to swallow for me. Of course to spend more time you can make your own challenges like speed running, limit yourself and such and in fact I speedran Paper Mario 64 and Super Mario 64. I still enjoy playing the console but to explore the library was very fun too. Maybe a factor why I'm so crazy into this hobby is just to explore new old things that just few people care about is so damn enjoyable for me. Why I wanted to talk about this is because you have so much to collect and play but nobody talks about the ends of librarys and what that means. I never thought about stuff like that so it came much harder. The N64 will forever be near my hearth and even when it seems that I have a more negative view on the N64 I'm still glad I can still have fun with it and enjoy for what it is.