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Were you alive/conscious back when "Project Reality" was revealed as the Ultra 64?

>> No.10544456

64 is legit the GOAT console. Still dusting it off for Christmas every year to play multiplayer games with my family and do some random shit in Zelda and Mario

>> No.10545026

>>10544447
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n--KjTUglvI

>> No.10546057

Certainly do, it's a part of history that's not really talked much by ecelebs I guess, so younger folk have no idea

>> No.10546085

I was conscious but the way I heard about N64 was someone's mom was insistent that it would be the next big thing and the playstation would be a pale footnote in comparison. And looking back how right she was.

>> No.10546110

>>10546085
based Ultra mom

>> No.10546120

I vaguely remember kids at school being hype about it. I wasn't really into video games at the time and only had a few games on our old W95 PC at home.

Ironically my Auntie genuinely worked at Nintendo as an accountant and got my parents an employee discount and bought itnon release. No one at school believed me at first, but it started my long love of video games with Mario 64 and Pilot Wings being the first games we owned.

>> No.10546123

>>10544447
I remember seeing the showcase on Games Master
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKBNzjgN_hk
Blew me away

>> No.10546150

Was young but do remember the different iterations of the console
Ultra 64 was a better name imo

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>>10544447
yes and i prefer this look and logo.
the japanese box is better too

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>> No.10546398

>>10544447
ny cousin told me about it. i was happy with my snes/genesis/nes ao i didnt really get excited until i actually saw super mario 64

>> No.10546551

>>10546367
>this baby is a Porsche

Kek. Still use this line today.

>> No.10546578

>>10546356
What aesthethic could you call this?

>> No.10546585

>>10544447
I was in college.

>> No.10546618

>>10546578
I don't know, but it's beautiful.

>> No.10546693

>>10546085
>How right she was
Nintendo's okayest console vs the industry changing legend that spawned a powerhouse hardware brand.
I bet that kid also had a Sega 32x at home.

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>>10544447
>Were you alive/conscious back when "Project Reality" was revealed as the Ultra 64?
Yes, and I remember I remember the SGI renders of "project reality". I remember when the first picture of the controller came out. I remember downloading a tiny, pixelated video of the Robotech game, the first video footage available... I remember the reporting from Shoshinkai 1995 and the subsequent E3 when there was first hands on reporting of the N64. I remember it all.

>> No.10547281

>>10546578
>le aesthetics
CARIzoomer fuck off

>> No.10547327

>>10546578
Normal map

>> No.10547491

>>10544447
I was alive but don't remember hearing it called that until later on. I do remember Dolphin and Revolution though

>> No.10547678

>>10544447
Ultra 64 was a better name than just 64... it also felt like an evolution of Super from the Super Nintendo, but well, N64 works...

>> No.10547756

>>10547678
>the next Nintendo console won't be called Giga Nintendo 1024
why even live bros

>> No.10548561

>>10547678
'tendo changed the name because even they knew Playstation was the true successor to SNES

>> No.10549024

>>10547678
With N64 we have:
Mario 64
Robotron 64
Megaman 64
Road Rash 64
Etc...

Imagine with Ultra 64 ?
Ultra Castelvania
Ultra Goemon
Wipeout 64
Starcraft 64
...

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>> No.10549286

>>10544447
>Were you alive/conscious back when "Project Reality" was revealed as the Ultra 64?
yes.

>>10549149
>the over hyped ads
one of the biggest problem with the n64. they made a lot of stupid ads hyping the fuck out of it but people didn't know its shortcomings until later.
> cd slow
says the same fucking faggots that adopted their own stupid format for the fucking game cube and wii that was also slow as fuck.

>> No.10549308

>>10548561
>Playstation was the true successor to SNES
it was more of an add-on than a successor. i don't think it would have done too well anyway. at that time people could still remember the fate of the mega cd and also remember how slow it was.

>> No.10549320

>>10549149
Lol desperate advertising

>> No.10549321

>>10548561
Yes.
>>10549308
No.

>> No.10549375

i have no memory of the term "project reality". i do remember the ultra 64 stuff in magazines.

>> No.10549389

>>10549375
Project Reality was like... 1994 I think, maybe late 93?
By late 94 or earlt 95, "Ultra" was already decided, maybe Killer Instinct was the first instance of it.

>> No.10550691
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>>10544447
>Ultra 64
>Dolphin
>Revolution
>Nitro

Why are Nintendo's console codenames so consistently better than their actual console names?

Even "Project Cafe" although it's a bit boring was better than the piece of shit name "Wii U".

>> No.10550757

>>10550691
because marketing needs catchy names for literal retard american population with short attention spans and limited vocabulary

>> No.10550764

>>10550757
How was "Wii" catchy? Everybody thought it was a fucking terrible name when they revealed it. It's a miracle Nintendo managed to sell a console named after a penis to normalfags, especially in 2006.

>> No.10550880

>>10550691
U stand for unique, anon

>> No.10550886

>>10550764
the name and the gimmick are the reason i didn't buy one. they alienated their core market to sell some gym gadget to boomers

>> No.10551113

>>10549321
yes. it's nothing more than an add-on with a RISC CPU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_NES_CD-ROM?useskin=vector

>> No.10552131

I still say NU64 (Enn Yuu Sixty-Four)

>> No.10552146
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>>10544447
yes'm
pic related

>> No.10552152

>>10552146
soul

>> No.10553924

>>10552131
hello based department

>> No.10553926

>>10551113
Therefore spiritual successor.

>> No.10555902

>>10544447
Yeah and I was reading nintendo power and playing Wario woods on my virtual boy that I got for 50$

>> No.10556637

I was 14 or 15 when it was announced. I never liked the name so I was glad they changed it.

>> No.10556679

yeah I remember reading about it in the Australian magazine 'Nintendo entertainment system'. I still think ultra 64 was a cooler name, Nintendo 64 is too much like xbox one.

>> No.10557221

>>10544447
Reminder that posts from back then are still up on Google Groups

>> No.10557432

>>10550764
>How was "Wii" catchy?
As a matter of fact, it wasn't.
In fact, the controller lived up to the console's name by doing just that: "Wii!" - right into the television screen.

>> No.10558939

Was the Robotech leaked dump any good? It's the game finished?

>> No.10559073

>>10546578
synthwave

>> No.10560297

Fun fact: the catalog/serial code N64 things have "NUS" (followed by numbers) stands for Nintendo Ultra Sixty-Four.

>> No.10562212
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KINO 64

>> No.10562251

>>10544447
No, but i think the name "Ultra 64" goes really hard, i wish they went that direction.

>> No.10562376

>>10552146
I read this as
>The lord told me that I might see you if I waited here
and thought it was a rom hack with Yoshi in the heavens.

>> No.10562735

Yeah. Didn't like the N 64 when it was released. Sad. Like it later.

Think all that showed was killer instinct. It wasn't clear at the time that there would be almost no platform side scrollers. Still good.

>> No.10562773

>>10544447
>Were you alive/conscious back when "Project Reality" was revealed as the Ultra 64?

I was either 13 or 14 years old. I remember getting Nintendo Power magazine in the mail and reading all about Project Reality. I even had this large door poster of Fulgore from Killer Instinct 1, it was a KI1 render, and it was purchased using 'nintendo power points' from the magazine, and it had "coming in 1995 to the Nintendo Ultra 64" on the corner. Which was funny, because Killer Instinct 1 did not come to the U64 and the U64 was changed to Nintendo 64 and released in 1996. But also, the Killer Instinct arcade machine would have t\hat message of "coming to the Nintendo Ultra 64 in 1995". Basically, I had this in poster form on my wall this:

>>10545026
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n--KjTUglvI [Embed]

>> No.10562819

>>10547259
And i remember the preview footage on NintendoMania of games running at consistent frame rate even if it was just 30-40fps, because those were not actual hardware demos but running on SGI stations, and before Nintendo once again, bottlenecked their console.

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>>10548561
>the true successor to SNES
That would be the Saturn, actually.