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My experience as a Nintendo fan;I didn't care about the Saturn and PS1 (or any of the other systems that tried to get a piece of the gaming pie). I saw what the Ultra 64 was going to do and that was all that mattered. Then the N64 launched and...it didn't deliver on what the arcade machines promised. It wasn't even close to what they showed for Cruis'N USA or Killer Instinct. I was still satisfied for the most part. Then I found myself going to the store looking for new games to buy and coming home with nothing. Not even new games to get excited for.After Mario Kart 64 disappointed (IDGAF what anyone says. The game didn't deliver), I ran out of stuff to do in Wave Race, Mario 64, etc., and Killer Instinct Gold was extremely disappointing and cost $80, the PS1 started to look pretty good. I saw games like Tomb Raider getting high scores. Then, my friend/neighbor let me borrow his PS1 overnight to play Tekken 2. HOLY SHIT. The CGI cutscenes! The awesome animations! The music!! I wanted a PS1 so bad. And they were totally sold out. I bought two games before I even had the system--Tomb Raider and Resident Evil and they only cost like $30+ each. I just looked at those shitty black and white manuals and listened to the crisp Tomb Raider soundtrack over and over again on my CD player. By the end of 1997, my N64 was gone. I would buy another when DK64 released, though. But by that time, the generation was pretty much over.