{"id":71367,"date":"2015-01-21T13:58:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T11:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71367"},"modified":"2015-01-21T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:26:28","slug":"when-nintendo-was-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71367-when-nintendo-was-king","title":{"rendered":"When Nintendo was king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo does not much get much love on MyGaming, although we do admire and respect what the company has done.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo\u00a0has produced classic games and consoles which have positively affected a lot\u00a0gamers &#8211; like the Nintendo 64.<\/p>\n<p>The N64 was one of the best video game console ever made, not only producing\u00a0great 3D graphics, but hosting games like The Legend\u00a0of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, and GoldenEye 007.<\/p>\n<p>Released\u00a0in 1996, the N64 was the last home console from Nintendo that used ROM cartridges to store games. The console did not have much luck attracting third-party developers, and most of the better titles came from Nintendo&#8217;s first-party developers.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was only on the market for seven years, Nintendo sold\u00a032.93 million N64s &#8211; not too shabby.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fHxRoh11zP0?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The Games<\/h3>\n<p>There were 387 games released for the N64 &#8211;\u00a0most of these exclusive to Japan and many of which were highly acclaimed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best-selling Nintendo 64 titles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Super Mario 64 \u2013 11.62 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Mario Kart 64 \u2013 9.87 million copies<\/li>\n<li>GoldenEye 007 \u2013 8 million copies<\/li>\n<li>The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time \u2013 7.6 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Super Smash Bros \u2013 5 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Diddy Kong Racing \u2013 4.43 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Pok\u00e9mon Stadium \u2013 3.97 million copies<\/li>\n<li>The Legend of Zelda: Majora\u2019s Mask \u2013 3.36 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Star Fox 64 \u2013 3.2 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Perfect Dark \u2013 3.2 million copies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Highly-rated Nintendo 64 titles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time &#8211; 99<\/li>\n<li>Perfect Dark \u2013 97<\/li>\n<li>GoldenEye 007 \u2013 96<\/li>\n<li>The Legend of Zelda: Majora\u2019s Mask \u2013 95<\/li>\n<li>Super Mario 64 \u2013 94<\/li>\n<li>Paper Mario \u2013 94<\/li>\n<li>Banjo: Kazooie \u2013 92<\/li>\n<li>Wave Race 64 \u2013 92<\/li>\n<li>Conker\u2019s Bad Fur Day \u2013 92<\/li>\n<li>Mario Tennis \u2013 91<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The Classics<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_NElFLzgdUs?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Super Mario 64<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H6r5oF73gNI?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>GoldenEye 007 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jOA9If9okCM?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Stadium <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ML8X64FJCx8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Did you own a Nintendo 64? Which were the greatest games that you played? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/71515-nintendo-club-bites-the-dust.html\">Nintendo Club bites the dust<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71395-this-weeks-epic-video-roundup-25.html\">This week\u2019s epic video roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71415-is-your-keyboard-obsolete.html\">Is your keyboard obsolete?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the days when Nintendo was fighting for top spot in gaming?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":71389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21,73,3833],"class_list":["post-71367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-headline","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-64"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71391,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71367\/revisions\/71391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}