I don't remember exactly how I got my Nintendo 64. I just know that my parents showed up one afternoon with the console and some games and said "Here you go. Have fun."
Unlike most people with the console, I did not have the best games for the system. And I only had a handful. I didn't have Super Mario 64 and not even Mario Kart. I had none of the marquee and classic N64 games. I had a remake of Space Invaders, some terrible 3D tank game called Battlezone, and the equally terrible Tetrisphere. And because my parents were on a budget at the time, we never bothered to buy any more games. The only time I got to play classic games on the console like Smash Bros. or Goldeneye was at my friend's house. Which luckily was within walking distance of my house.
So my first memories of the N64 were of being very disappointed. It was s surprise to get a new console, but I was bummed that I got nothing but fairly crappy games with it. Space Invaders was the only one that was any fun to play and it got old real quick in single player mode. The most fun I ever had with it was when I would play multiplayer with my stepdad.
Battlezone: Rise Of The Black Dogs was so boring and lame I have fired the memories of playing the game out of my brain.
And the less said about Tetrisphere, the better. That game gave me a headache.
With the combination of mediocre or garbage games and the fairly annoying controller, I rarely played my N64 and for years it was just sitting in a storage container that could roll around and the last two things I remember ever doing with it, is cleaning the container up because one of my cats peed on it and then taking the console and the games putting them in a cardboard box and storing it in my closet, never to be seen again.
To this day, I have no idea where the console went. It isn't in my closet, I didn't take it with me when I moved out of my grandmother's house and even though I had pretty lame memories associated with it, a part of me still wants to buy another console one day and give the N64 a proper and fair chance that I never had the opportunity to give it when I was a kid.
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