N64 is the 3rd best console of it's generation sorry, Saturn Japanese library is fucking amazing and so broad. N64 has some classics but less than 50 games owning tbh out of 200. All N64 had is 200 something games. Saturn have over 1000. A lot of great arcade games. Shmups. FIghting games. Platformers. Shooters. RPGs (N64 really lacked in RPGs) and the list goes on.
Overall tho best runner up. It goes to SEGA Genesis. It's the first console to take away Nintendo's dominance and gave us the best console war. The first mascot to challenge Mario. Each console specialized in something and was uniquely different. Even when they got some of the same franchises they were entirely different. Contra. Castlevania. Genesis did not have as many great RPGs as SNES. But Genesis had some that held their own as well as any SNES RPG like PSIV. What SNES lacked in shmups Genesis more than made up for. While PC Engine is the best shooter console that gen. Genesis was damn good. There is a reason Genesis vs SNES is the most talked about console war over 30 years later. Sales were close and the console war was the most heated. Kids did not have multiple consoles back then. To this day an entire generation of people you were either a Genesis kid or a SNES kid.
Genesis had the better beat em up series Streets of Rage over Final Fight. You had MUSHA. Ranger X. Phantasy Star. Rocket Knight and more that were just as good as what SNES offered in it's best fields. (SNES is my 2nd fave console ever behind Dreamcast btw) I'd argue SMW is the best Mario game of all time and better than any Sonic game but Sonic 2 is one of the best of it's era. Genesis remains currently the only non Nintendo console offered on Nintendo Switch Online. A testament to it's greatness.
Bite my shiny metal cockpit!
