My N64 Quest

nos·tal·gia

/näˈstaljə,nəˈstaljə/Learn to pronouncenouna sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
"I was overcome with acute nostalgia for my days in college"

synonyms:

wistfulness, longing/yearning/pining for the past, regret, regretfulness, reminiscence, remembrance, recollection, homesickness, sentimentality "there is a nostalgia for traditional values"

something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia.
"an evening of TV nostalgia"

Nostalgia has hit me and it has hit me hard. It's coming in the form of the Nintendo 64. I had a lot of great memories with this system. It came out while I was in high school but I didn't get it until after I graduated and in my gap years before I went back to University.

Such good memories. Hanging out with the boys and having golden eye/slap battles with Odd Job. Playing Starfox 64 4 player battles. 

Sad part of this story is that I had a great list of titles and then I lent the system to my wife's sister for her kids to play. Now that I asked for it, they don't know where it is. My best guess is the niece or nephew gave it away :(

The fun but also pricey part of this story is that I'm going to start the collection up again from scratch. I started it yesterday by buying a funtastic blue N64 system this time off of Facebook on a local video game collectors group that I have recently joined.  It came with matching controller and and Golden Eye.  I found an older 13 inch LCD TV that has AV inputs so it looks good and not severely stretched and pixelated. If you put it on a bigger (more current) wide screen, it gets stretched and the graphics output for the N64 isn't enough so it looks like a blurry mess. There is a hdmi upgrade kit that is available but it's a bit price at about $200 USD (before install fees) that I might look into in the future. But right now I'm very happy with the setup (already spent an hour playing Golden Eye!). 

My new RARE Funtastic Ice Blue N64 with Golden Eye!

Here is what I am looking for....

N64 WANTED List

• Perfect Dark
• Shadow of the Empire
• Rogue Squardon
• Starfox 64
• Banjo Kazooie
• Smash Bros
• Wcw vs NWO world tour
• Mario Party
• Mario Party 2
• Mario Party 3
• Mario Kart 64
• Star wars episode 1 pod racer
• Jet force Gemini
• Harvest Moon 64
• Conker's Bad Fur Day
• Diddy Kong Racing
• Worms Armageddon
• Doom 64
• Memory pak (to save games)
• 3 funtastic ice blue controllers