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Nintendo 64

The Nintendo 64 (N64) was released in 1996 and cemented 3D console gaming as a rival to 3D PC gaming with titles such as Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye and StarFox 64.

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The Nintendo 64 (N64)

32.93 million N64s were sold between 1996 and 2002. Nintendo succeed it with the Nintendo GameCube. The main competitor for the Nintendo 64 was the Sony PlayStation.

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The Controller Add On Introduced a New era of Controller Feedback that reverberated throughout the industry.

Never Ending Realm ranked the Nintendo 64 #4 on its list of all-time greatest consoles.

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Throwback Bit Thursday: WCW/NWO Revenge

Posted on July 23, 2020January 9, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

  Ah, 1998, my freshman year of High School. What good time it was for a 13-14 year old teenager to be alive. 3-D gaming was still in its infancy, making every new 3-D game on the Nintendo 64 an excitable prospect (even pedestrian games were interesting at the time). It was a magical time…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (N64)

Posted on July 2, 2020January 8, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a wonderful, but flawed game. This is how I have always perceived the title, which I must admit, I hold dear to my heart ’till this day’. The game received mixed critical reception in 96-97 by printed Magazines. A 7.8/10 in Electronic Gaming Monthly wasn’t a necessarily a…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Star Fox 64 is the Greatest Star Fox Game Ever Made

Posted on June 25, 2020January 5, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars on Europe) holds a special place in many Nintendo 64 owners’ hearts. Released globally in 1997, the game was a graphical tour de force of the system (which was less than a year old in North America), and it introduced the “Rumble Pak” to N64 Owners. Star Fox 64  was…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Castlevania (64) A Beloved and Underrated Game

Posted on June 11, 2020November 2, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

The year was 1999, and the Nintendo 64 wasn’t doing so hot in terms of sales in contrast to Sony’s PS1. However, the system wasn’t lacking in high quality games. The N64 was coming of a huge year (1998) with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time shredding every possible standard imaginable in terms of…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Ocarina of Time – The First Person Adventure That Almost Was

Posted on May 28, 2020September 5, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Every Thursday the Never Ending Realm will pay homage to older games by discussing tidbits of information that you might not know about the development of some of the most iconic titles in Video Gaming History. In this first installment we travel back in time to the mid 90’s where Nintendo’s EAD was hard at…

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The Top Ten Greatest Consoles of All-Time

Posted on April 30, 2020November 15, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Editor’s foreword: There are two separate rankings listed: The official ranking which is the ‘NER’ ranking, and the Personal Ranking. The entire list is mostly subjective, as quality of games and my experiences with said games are the biggest deciding factor in terms of ranking. However, the NER ranking takes many other things into consideration,…

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64/GC) Review

Posted on February 11, 2019January 27, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

  Nothing in this world is perfect; everything that was, or is, has flaws. It is the law of nature; it is the law of life. This law also applies to video games as human beings who are hindered by these laws create them. That being said, something very special, in fact, something quite extraordinary…

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The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (N64/GC) Review

Posted on February 11, 2019April 26, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

While the 16 bit era came and went with only one Zelda title, the legendary A Link to the Past, the 32-64 bit era was a bit kinder to Zelda fans as it featured two great Zelda titles. One of them was of course (Arguably) the greatest game of all time Ocarina of Time in…

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