The N64 is now 20 years old

[dlevere]

The Nintendo 64 still used cartridges at a time when its competitors switched to disks.

http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/23/th...-20-years-old/

[nensondubois]

Holy shit! I remember when me and my brothers went with Dad at Toys R Us and picked up an N64 and Goldeneye 007, and when played the shit out it with friends. So many memories its hard to believe that the Nintendo 64 is showing its age and is still better than most of gaming today.

[Viper187]

Cartridges are still superior too. It's ridiculous they keep clinging to optical media, especially slow ass BDs. Early on the only problem was scratching discs, which they could've easily solved by putting the discs in carts like DVD-RAM (Mission Impossible, anyone?). Now they're slow as hell too. They could switch to flash memory and start doing carts again, but no.

Also, the 20th anniversary of Goldeneye 007 is coming up and the goddamn license is still in limbo because Nintendo owns the game, Rare owns the engine, MGM? owns Bond, etc. Total clusterfuck

[MathUser]

I was more a Playstation man myself. At the time I did envy N64's 4 controller ports and blurry graphics tho. The extra shading the blur added made the games look smoother, not jagged. And it was better for playing with friends. Nowdays I think I prefer PS1 tho.

[xirtamehtsitahw]

Actually, the future of games is not in cartridges OR disks. It's in the form of downloadable and browser-based games. They do away with disks and cartridges altogether. The only limitation to how well the games run is your computer itself.

[Viper187]

Actually, the future of games is not in cartridges OR disks. It's in the form of downloadable and browser-based games. They do away with disks and cartridges altogether. The only limitation to how well the games run is your computer itself.

and that fucks anyone with a slower internet connection, which is a lot of fucking of people.

[xirtamehtsitahw]

Planned obsolescence and forced upgrades go hand in hand. It's the way the world has worked for thousands of years, and it's not changing anytime soon. Eventually, a museum dedicated to discarded/extinct technology will show even Blu-Ray disks as one of their exhibits.