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Nintendo 64 (NUS-001)
In 1993 Nintendo decided
to take the jump into the 64 bit home console market, a feat that only
Atari had attempted to tackle, but Atari
had ended with failure with their '64 bit' Jaguar.
They entered with their project 'Ultra 64' and 'Project Reality' both
of which were changed to Nintendo 64 (N64) by the systems release date
on June 23 1996 in Japan and September 29, 1996 in the United States.
The system retailed for $299.99 USD and was again a cartridge based system.
In the world which was becomming CD based, Nintendo chose cartridges for
their speed, disregarding their storage capacity and cost. This choice
would cost them Square, a third party company who was with them since
the Nintendo's 8 bit days. The system came with
AV cables, one controller, and a power adapter. No more were the days
of the pack in game, it was becomming too expensive. The system featured
four controller ports and by the Christmas of 1998, Nintendo was packaging
in with their system the extra Atomic purple controller for $129.99. Before
the system launched, Nintendo hired five companies to make games for the
N64 almost exclusively. DMA, Lucas Arts, Williams, Angel Studios, and
Rare were these five, and out of them Rare had probably the most successful
games for the system. Such greats as Golden Eye 007, Perfect
Dark, Killer Instinct Gold, and Donkey Kong 64 to name
a few. In 1997, the Double Disk Drive was announced, but only showed up
in Japan in 1998. It was an attachment that hooked to the bottom of the
N64 and took a sort of computer disk in order to hold more memory and
larger games. Only about 8-12 games were released. Some games that were
released were a Zelda game, Doshin the Giant, and a Dragon Quest game.
- CPU: Custom R4300i @93.75 MHz + RCP co-processor (geometry and texturing) (64 Bit RISC)
- RAM: 4 MB RDRAM main memory, upgradeable to 8MB, 36MB Rambus DRAM
- 16.7 Million Max Colors on Screen (24 bit)
- Graphics Processor: 64-Bit RCP reality co-processor 62.5 MHz
- Screen Resolution: 256x224 up to 640x480
- 300,000 Polygons per second (full effects)
- Sound Channel: Software ADPCM, consumes 1 percent of CPU time per channel
Wait,
did I say the N64 featured no pack ins? I was wrong, sort of. Keep in
mind that each time a run of the systems below was offered, so was the
N64 with two controllers for $99.99 USD. With the exception of the Star
Wars set, of which the 'plain jane' was offered at $129.99 USD. Another
exception is the Atomic Purple set for which precident of the two controller
bundle was set.
| Atomic Purple
Set: Standard color system, one grey controller, and one atomic
purple controller, AV cables, power cord. Atomic controller was supposed
to be a limited time offer, but was dramatically extended. $99.99-$199.99
USD during run. Extreme Green Set: Standard color system, Extreme Green controller, AV cables, and a power cord. $149.99 USD Gold Nintendo 64: Toys R Us exclusive, the system was painted gold and came with two matching controllers, AV cables and a power cord. Funtastic Colors: The colors were all skeleton (see through): Smoke (gray), Jungle (green), Fire (orange), Ice (blue), and Watermelon (pink). One controller, AV cables, power cord. $99.99 USD. 2000 Pokemon N64: Controller, AV cables, power cord, and matching controller.$129.99. 2000 Star Wars Episode 1 Racer Bundle: standard color system, one controller, Star Wars Episode 1 Racer game, AV cables, power cord. $149.99 Donkey Kong Bundle: Jungle green unit, matching controller, expansion pack, DK 64 game, AC cables, Power cord. $149.99-199.99 (unsure of price) Pokemon Stadium Bundle: standard color system, one grey controller, one atomic purple controller, one transfer pack, one Pokemon trading card, one Pokemon collectors manual, and one Pokemon Stadium game pack. $149.99 USD. 2000 |
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Donkey Kong 64 Set included the DK 64 game, Expansion Pack, Jungle Green System, and matching Controller. |
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Back of Nintendo 64: 1. AV Output |
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Bottom of System showing the expansion slot |
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Top expansion port of system showing where the expansion pack goes. |
Accessories & Games : Conker : Nintendo 64 Disk Drive : Pikachu System : Gold Nintendo 64 : Pokemon System (PAL)
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