Poll of the Day > Would you rather have a Nintendo 64 or PlayStation back in 1999

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If you could only have one

Pretty much all of my favorite PS1 games are games I wouldn't have been interested in back in 1999

64 will always hold a special place in my gaming heart.

N64 for sure. Had so many great times playing those games with friends

99 n64 had the best version of re2

the playstation could play CDs that was a big deal to me then

Gonna be cliche and say Playstation. Fifth gen is my favorite gen of games though.

PSX JRPG catalogue plus Digimon World is my favorite game of all time.

Playstation had all the JRPGs and fighting games so it's an easy choice for me. The only stuff I missed out on was Zelda and Mario. The N64 didn't even have a Metroid game.

Easily Playstation. And I'm anti Sony but Playstation 1 really dominated that gen. Waaaaaay too many hit classics and for cheap.

Il never forger that christmas. I wanted a sega saturn so badly cos all the arcade ports. I didn't know what games Sony would even get. Man was I glad I got a Playstation

if its 1999 me, easily PlayStation. I fucking loved Crash Bandicoot (and still do)

64 came as a gift to me as my 3rd console and it always holds a special place.

At the time I wanted the N64 and it wasn't even close. Now I'd take the PlayStation without hesitation.

N64 by default, even though it was my least-favorite Nintendo console. I simply never had a Playstation.

N64

lack of RPGs and silent hill sucks but nintendo was who i went to until the xbox 360 came out.

N64 for sure. I honestly cant think of a single game on the original PlayStation that would make me choose it over N64. Or, frankly, any at all that I want to play.

I had a Playstation.
My best friend had a Nintendo 64.

There is no hypothetical, we lived our best childhood gaming lives together.

Never wanted an N64, never bought one, have zero nostalgia for it or any of its games, still don't want one.

I mostly bought the PS1 for FFVII. But pretty much every single game released that generation that I cared about at all was on the PS1.

The N64 was basically the console that killed my interest in Nintendo, and no console since has ever won it back.

In the parallel universe where Nintendo doesn't fuck things up and piss off Sony, and the PS1 gets released as the SNES CD-Rom like it was originally supposed to, I probably would have bought an N64, developed nostalgia for it, and might still be buying Nintendo consoles today. But we don't live in that world.

If I could only have one? Probably N64 then.

Back then I was all about the jrpgs and felt like my n64 was just "kids stuff"

Now days... I think the N64 classics slightly edge out the ps1s

Comes down to Mario 64, Zeldas two games, Starfox, DK/Banjo/Conker vs Final Fantasies, MGS, Castle Ania and Resident Evil... Close but N64 imo edges those out.

Now I just realized this was centered around some specific year... Not going to bother researching which of those specific games were/weren't out on that specific year.

I had a 64 but got the smaller psone Christmas 2000 because all the hype I read on here and AOL about ff7, RE3 and games like that. But Christmas 98 n64 and Zelda 64 was the top of the tops. I got my copy like 10 days early that year too.

99 would be great to have both but 99 was also like peak Pokmon. Yellow came out that fall. 98- n64. 2000: psx. 1999? GBC

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Never wanted an N64, never bought one, have zero nostalgia for it or any of its games, still don't want one.

I mostly bought the PS1 for FFVII. But pretty much every single game released that generation that I cared about at all was on the PS1.

The N64 was basically the console that killed my interest in Nintendo, and no console since has ever won it back.

In the parallel universe where Nintendo doesn't fuck things up and piss off Sony, and the PS1 gets released as the SNES CD-Rom like it was originally supposed to, I probably would have bought an N64, developed nostalgia for it, and might still be buying Nintendo consoles today. But we don't live in that world.

Showing your age my dude lol

Not sure, but I actually had both...

OhhhJa posted...

Showing your age my dude lol

I show my age in like every third post. You've been here long enough to know this.

At least I didn't point out that most of my childhood gaming nostalgia is for the ColecoVision this time. Or post this again:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/top10/300-the-top-10-colecovision-games

PS1 pretty easily. Ocarina of Time is one of my favorites of all time but id take Final Fantasy VII and VIII alone over pretty much all of Nintendo.

Fortunately for me i had both systems back then.

Theres only a few games Id really have any interest in on each console but the important difference is that most of the ones that PlayStation had to offer in that period were also on PC.

The one that had JRPGs.

I like JRPGs, so.

I grew up with the PS1 and I would easily take the N64 because I was a kid who wanted to play Donkey Kong.

PlayStation. Looking at 1999, games like Driver, Syphon Filter, Medal of Honor, Tony Hawk... the list goes on. And that's not including the games from 97 and 98 still in stores and finding anything from those first four years of existence.

I'd have a tough time justifying an N64 in 1999. Sure, there's Smash Bros. and Donkey Kong, but I'd like to play a bit more than Nintendo, Midway, and Acclaim games (I know other companies contributed but it felt like most of the library by that time was from those three companies)

A PS1 for sure. I enjoyed the N64 for its multiplayer games, FPS', and Zelda. The PS1 was an RPG player's go to console. Squaresoft, Tri-Ace, Enix, to name a few, were on a damned roll.

Then you have survival horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil.
Absolute classics like Alundra, Metal Gear Solid, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and Kings Field. I also enjoyed RPG Maker and Theme Park.

To me, the N64 was cool to play if you're hanging with your buddies with four controllers, some pizza, and a case of Jolt Cola.
The PS1 took me on some pretty rad adventures.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

At least I didn't point out that most of my childhood gaming nostalgia is for the ColecoVision this time. Or post this again:

One of my earliest memories was playing Frogger on the ColecoVision when I was like 2

sull56ivan2010 posted...

PlayStation. Looking at 1999, games like Driver, Syphon Filter, Medal of Honor, Tony Hawk... the list goes on. And that's not including the games from 97 and 98 still in stores and finding anything from those first four years of existence.

I'd have a tough time justifying an N64 in 1999. Sure, there's Smash Bros. and Donkey Kong, but I'd like to play a bit more than Nintendo, Midway, and Acclaim games (I know other companies contributed but it felt like most of the library by that time was from those three companies)

N64 and Saturn have quite an astonishing library as well. I prefer the psx library too.
#fifthgen best gen

Playstation 1, I think.

Maybe if it had been 2000-2001, I'd have picked N64, but without those, there's no Majora's Mask, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Paper Mario, Banjo-Tooie, Ogre Battle 64, Kirby 64, Mario Party 2, Pokemon Stadium...

Nintendo 64.

I had a PC back then, and was perfectly happy.

But if I had to chose, probably a PS. It had a few good games I got years later and played on my PS2. N64 I still maintain is the worse Nintendo console (outside of Virtual Boy). I had a friend who owned it and just about every game for it, never really liked any of them.

I would obviously go with the ps1, as I was never super interested in an N64. Which is weird, because some of my earliest gaming memories were playing an SNES at my uncle's place. But I was still much more interested in what the PS1 had to offer.

Everything the N64 had to offer, I either wasn't interested in, was also available on ps1, or the PS1 had as well. Like for example, Mario Kart. I thought (and still do think) Crash Team Racing was better. I'd rather have Crash and Spyro to Mario. Resident Evil was also on PS1, and at the time I didn't really understand or see much difference between either version, though I hear some people think the N64 version was better (still not sure why though?) I had zero interest in Zelda at the time, and many of Nintendo's other exclusives I was just unaware of, or didn't have interest in.

Didn't get my N64 until 2000 when I bought the jungle green edition from my friend for 20 bucks. I really wanted to play the aki wrestling games. :)

I'm not really sure. We did have the N64, but by that time, I had gotten too busy to play video games.

Ps1

Monster Rancher 1 and 2 all the way

Music_Rock_Cat posted...

Ps1

Monster Rancher 1 and 2 all the way

You have good taste

Thank you man

Music_Rock_Cat posted...

Thank you man

No problem