It is funny how when you experience a system your view of it. For me the Nintendo 64 marked the decline of Nintendo in home consoles. I remember in school being rare person who owned one as opposed to the Sony PlayStation (I won a PS1 later on). It had its moments of Nintendo brilliance and then months of nothing. I just remember waiting a lot, especially for games like Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time and Donkey Kong 64. Also that Mario 64 is the only mainline Mario I did not enjoy this was the era of no Mario games. Add in the fact the games were routinely $20-30 more than competitors and made it a hard system to defend. The straw that broke me was the JRPGs scene being so barren on N64 while PS1 seemingly had one coming out every couple months.
Looking back on the whole catalog and removing cost from the mix it looks nice, but at the time it was a massive come down from the SNES (my favorite Nintendo system).
