Wow

Nintendo on a roll. Zelda plus Rares Conker.

Never played Conker, was it fun?

Yes, short but very entertaining and new for its time. Great game. A sequel is highly in demand. 

Nintendo as a studio. But if you remember these years (like I do), Sony was the winner. Nintendo was getting pummeled hard by Sony as a whole. Up until this point Nintendo was the undisputed king, and now it was losing its throne.

I wouldn't exactly put it like that. Sony was selling more consoles but Nintendo still held the best games and competed very well without losing money. Keep in mind the PS1 also had piracy on there side with many people buying PS1 systems just to chip them for burnt games. That was a major selling point especially when N64 games were around $89 price mark. I remember the hype from Crash which still failed to beat Mario 64 while Zelda OoT was considered the game of the generation. I haven't even brought in the Rare titles yet. N64 games are still recognised for today as revolutionising the industry.

Don't get me wrong, the PS1 was a good platform and offered great games, I still have one however because of the work around in chipping PS1s, that would have helped boost PS1 sales a lot. I don't know anyone who didn't chip there PS1. I am sure its very different around the world. 

I had gotten a Toys R Us promotional with the Ocarina of Time reveal trailer on VHS and remember it being my favorite thing to watch for months until I actually got OoT.

"N64" "$89 games"

Definitely Australian.

N64 games were more expensive than PS1's here, too, but they were usually only $39.99 new. I didn't have a PS1 until after PS3 was out, so I can't actually speak firsthand about what the games cost, but I do remember people saying N64 games cost more.

Ocarina of Time + Poke'mon Red/Blue = No contest. Nintendo wins easily.

I still remember how much Ocarina of Time changed my outlook on games. I legit thought Turok 2 was better than Ocarina of Time. A kid in my 8th grade art class kept going on and on about how Ocarina of Time was so damned good. We argued everyday in class over whether Turok 2 was better. Finally he let me borrow Ocarina of Time. At first I still thought Turok 2 was better. But by the time I beat OoT, my mind had been changed. It was the biggest, most extensive, complete game I had ever played. Every part had its place, every corner of the game hid a secret. Nothing I played came close to OoT until Metroid Prime. Nothing surpassed Ocarina of Time until maybe Mass Effect 2, or Dark Souls. It was that damned good.

You know all those open world games, where you are in a city? That one city is the entire game. Like Spideman or GTA? Imagine somebody building an entire country with twelve of these cities in a game, with every NPC being unique, and every area lovingly designed. That's how big OoT was compared to other games at the time. The best PS1 games were all just turn based JRPGs with pre-rendered backgrounds. Outside of Nintendo Insomniac, and Rare just about everybody else fumbled when it came to good 3D game design. Crash was simply running forward and jumping. MGS was a fantastic game for its time, but the stealth and controls were just flawed. Same goes for Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark. Nintendo was delivering controls and gameplay from 2006 in 1998. Everyone else was just playing catchup.

My vote goes to SEGA