nintendo 64

So the Nintendo 64 quite infamously did not make the jump to optical discs, hamstringing the potential of its system due to reliance on low-storage carts. Thus among the genres underrepresented on the console are JRPGs, which really needed CDs. That gave me an idea- what if game studios just...

As we know, Nintendo used to be very unfriendly towards third party developers, but got away with it in the NES and SNES eras. The point when this really hurt Nintendo was N64 still using cartridges when everyone else was using CDs, causing almost all the third party developers to flock to the...

Nintendo and Silicon Graphics confirm "Project Reality"; New disk-based console in development As sourced by the New York Times [1] - Aside from the disk-based hardware this is essentially OTL. Nintendo wanted to release "Project Reality" in '95 but had to delay it for technical reasons. Of...

Through old patents someone found an old unreleased peripheral for the N64. Supposedly it had infra-red remote controllers, it could also use an internet service that sounds pretty much like Randnet (allowing you to connect to the internet, and download games that would be stored on an internal...

Well, I'm rebooting my gaming TL again. (To see an older version look here: Of Bits and Bytes ) I'm going to be starting out a little differently. I'm writing this differently, and including some new stuff. So, again for the third time, here we go! (Sorry about redoing this TL so many times. :/)...

What if the Nintendo 64DD (an add-on to the N64 that used magnetic disks) was released on March 1998 for Japan like originally planned? Would it be more successful? Could it even see an American release? Would planned software titles like Super Mario 64 2, Cabbage, multiple Mario Artists, and...