Nintendo 64
Also known as N64
- Manufacturer
- Nintendo
- Type
- Home console
- Generation
- 5th generation
- Released (North America)
- Sep 29, 1996
- Released (Japan)
- Jun 23, 1996
- Released (Europe)
- Mar 1, 1997
- Launch price
- $199.99
- Discontinued
- 2002
- Units sold
- 32.93 million
About the Nintendo 64
Nintendo stayed with cartridges for the Nintendo 64 when everyone else moved to CD. Load times disappeared, but cartridges were expensive to make, and several major third-party series, Final Fantasy among them, went to PlayStation. Nintendo's own games carried the console: Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 64 and GoldenEye 007.
Four controller ports made it the default party console of the late 1990s. That is still reflected in prices: Mario Party 1–3, Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart 64 sell steadily at higher prices than most of the library. The Expansion Pak is required for Donkey Kong 64 and Majora's Mask, and one is often missing from consoles sold as "complete".
Large cardboard boxes were usually thrown away, so complete-in-box N64 games cost several times what the loose cart does. Reproduction carts are a growing problem, especially for the RPGs and Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Nintendo 64 games by the numbers
Loose prices across 317 priced games
Most valuable Nintendo 64 games
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Most valuable sealed Nintendo 64 games
Top rated Nintendo 64 games
Most listed on eBay right now
Nintendo 64 games by release year
By each game's original release year, so ports count under the year the game first came out.
Hardware specs
- CPU
- 64-bit 93,75 MHz NEC VR4300
- Graphics
- 62,5 MHz SGI RCP
- Memory
- 4 MB RDRAM
- Sound
- 16-bit, stereo, CD quality
- Media
- Nintendo 64 Game Pak
- Storage
- 64 MB Cartridge and 256 Kb Controller Pak
- Resolutions
- 256x224, 320x240 and 640x480
- Video output
- Composite video and S-Video
- Online
- RANDnetDD (Japan Only)
Models & revisions
iQue Player
Miniaturized plug-n-play version of the N64 made for use in China
- Media
- iQue Memory Card
- Online
- Fugue Online
Console family
More Nintendo consoles
Game values from PriceCharting market data. Hardware specs and revisions from IGDB.