PS1 have Harvest Moon Back to Nature (4th place in personal list of better games of all time), Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9 and Chrono Cross, etc.

N64 have Harvest Moon 64, The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time and Majora's Mask, Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2, Paper Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, etc.

This is hard because my dad bought for me and for my brother a N64 in 2000 and gave us your PS1 in 2002 (he bought a PS2 for him). I had just a few games for N64 that was Harvest Moon 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Mario 64, Pokemon Stadium 1, Pokemon Snap and Zelda Ocarina of time, but on PS1 I had dozens of games because my PS1 was jailbreaked. 

Well, with pain in my heart I'll choose the PS1.  

PS: I forgot to mention that I rented N64 games from blockbuster, so I played other games besides the ones I had.

Maybe like 20 games for the N64 (of which maybe only 1-2 would be replay worthy imo)
Meanwhile I think you could easily do like a top100 or 150 for the PS1.

Yes, the library had easily like 10 times the amount of "good" games the n64 had.
(if I where to say it in terms of games I would replay today (from both systems)... PS1 beats the N64 by more than a factory of 10)

The library and quality of games, is ultimately why we choose systems.
Not for 4 player co-op (something I never do today anyways (or value))

Im big on story telling, and rpgs..... and the PS1 just spanks the N64.


A year stuck on a island, only gaming?
Easiest win of all time.... the PS1 without a doubt.
N64 doesn't enough nearly enough "good" games to last that long.

Nintendo 64 for me. The games have aged a bit better in my opinion.

As for games... It's quality vs quantity, Ocarina of Time is better than 99% of what the PS1 has to offer.

PSX beat N64 soundly. It wasn't even close. And I'm a Nintendo fan - the only non-Nintendo console I've owned since the PS3 is the Vita.

Just on RPGs alone:

• Xenogears, my favourite game of all time.
• Final Fantasy 7, 8, and Tactics, half of my favourite Final Fantasy games of all time.
• Suikoden 1 and 2
• Lunar Silver Star Story and Eternal Blue Complete
• Parasite Eve
• Vagrant Story
• Wild Arms 1 and 2
• Vandal Hearts
• Even the RPGs I consider more on the mediocre side of the PSX RPG collection - like Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy 9, Breath of Fire 3 and 4, Grandia, and Dragon Quest 7 - would still easily make top 10 on N64 for me.

That's not even getting into other non-RPG franchises I liked on PSX:

• With Symphony of the Night we saw the birth of Metroidvania
• Metal Gear Solid was truly a work of art and kicked off the more cinematic action adventure genre.
• Resident Evil and Silent Hill put survival and horror on the map in a big way.
• DMA succeeded with GTA independently where Nintendo failed controlling them. They'd blossom creatively and commercially from here forward.

Onto the N64

I found that, aside from Rare, and a few offerings from Nintendo, the N64 had almost nothing to play. And that's not even touching on the other major issues the console had:

• Frequent game droughts - N64 had an 10 and a half month dry season every year from January to November - some months had no games, not even shitty ones.
• Missing genres - including proper RPGs like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy, which was the most important genre at the time - it had a handful of sub-genre games - hybrid RPGs like Quest 64 (which was utter trash), and a single strategy RPG (Ogre Battle 64) that barely anyone knew about until it launched on the Virtual console as it came out at the end of the generation with no advertisement.
• Flimsy controllers whose sticks would inevitably come loose/break - and unlike Joy con drift, this couldn't be resolved with a few sprays of contact cleaner and rotation for 2-3 minutes.
• Obscene game prices due to expensive cartridges.
• Blurry graphics.
• Simple music and dull/poor quality SFX.
• Even on the leading software: Mario 64 felt broken in execution because the difficulty was 90% fighting the camera. Ocarina of Time felt broken in design because the combat and puzzles were easy to solve, but finding keys/switches was absurdly time consuming and ultimately annoying - to solve the issue, you could use a guide, but then the game was pointless.
• I also found the N64 was when Mario and Zelda stopped being two of my favourite franchises. It took until Super Mario Galaxy for me to find that same love for the Mario franchise again, and all the way until Breath of the Wild for the Zelda franchise.

This generation, I played hundreds of hours of PSX game ports/remasters on Switch and I'm left wanting even more! (Suikoden is coming, Xenogears and Final Fantasy Tactics are still MIA). For N64, only Ogre Battle 64, and that's the only one I care to play.

This is a tough one, and one I go back and forth on depending on my mood.

The two are just so closely matched; PS1 had way more games, but N64's core library of greats is solid gold.

I'm gonna take the easy way out and say a tie. Depends on what I'm feeling the day I ship out to this island.

Sega Saturn
Yeah, Saturn.
It is the most underrated classic console: Huge quantity of arcade style games, good 2D/3D fighting games, shoot 'em up games... Fast fun everytime you need. Also, some good RPG games, if you want.to lose time.

But among N64 and PSX? N64, no doubt: Wave Race 64, Star Fox 64, F-Zero X, ISS64, Super Smash Bros, F1-World Grand Prix, ... they are GREAT and have a very "arcade" feeling (you can play them 5-15 minuts with total satisfaction) and they were top in its time. Also the WWF games, or Mario Kart 64 (though, this last is one of the games I believe aged worst from N64, but it can be very fun nonetheless).
Even Super Mario 64 has a very arcade gameplay: you have to open doors and get 2 keys to have all the world open... but its feels very OPEN world, and in no time you can open lots of its worlds, and it plays and controls fantastic, from second 1, even today (the SM64 is the king of the speedrun games: they are AMAZING... even beautiful to watch).
Also, Sin and Punishment, never published in western countries by then. And of course Goldeneye/Pefect Dark multiplayer. As multiplayer games, you also have the turoks, mario parties... the mario tennis and mario golf.... man, i don't know, it is a great machine.

And a memorable mention to Pilotwings 64, an early underrated gem: flying and exploring in that game, especially in the mini US map, just for the pleasure of doing it, can be very therapeutic or cathartic. Is like a pre GTAV, just going around the world with a car/bike, but in the air.

Nintendo 64 is superior in "instant fun" classics. And NO loading times at all. And nobody cares a fuck about the old CGIs of the CD games since 25 years ago, so N64 wins again: Those CGIs maybe sold games then, but they are very ugly, stupid, and sometimes you cannot even bypass them.

PSX is for LOOOOOONG and time consuming games: Lots of Japanese RPGs.... or a long 1 sit gameplay in one survival horror with tank controls.
Also, you can play some classic 1vs 1 fighting games (DoA, Soul Blade, Tekken series...). But in this last case, I prefer to play Fighters Megamix for the Saturn. Much more fun and with many crazy unlockable characters. It also have that smash bros feeling, years before the first smash was developed, but in a classic 1 to 1 fighting game.

Oh, and many famous racing games in PSX, but many of them are not that good now (and N64 also have some good racing games). And no... no Gran Turismo 1 and 2, please (those games need all your life for themselves to start to get really interesting content, and they do not have any deformation and damage physics, like others did already).

N64 was a very disappointing console as a lifelong Nintendo fan. I loved Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, but a quick videostore rental satisfied my craving for both.

The PlayStation came out of nowhere and really changed how I saw games and gaming. I played FFVII before I ever even knew about Secret of Mana and. Chrono Trigger. So my time during that era was split between playing new adventures on the PlayStation and going back and filling in holes on the Super Nintendo. During that era I would also end up working at and managing the videostore where I rented the N64 and with access to over 250 N64 titles to play at any time, nothing grabbed me. I wasn’t a 007 guy and Smash Bros, while it had Samus, wasn’t nearly as fun as Tekken 3 or Street Fighter 2.

Thankfully Nintendo worked with a company called Retro Studios and quickly earned me back as a customer and I haven’t left since. It also helps that the Sony magic of the PS1/PS2 era faded once they started trying to compete with Microsoft.

Quality vs Quality and quantity.

PS1 is like 5 N64s put together, minus Ocarina of Time, plus the fun on unearthing hidden gems, plus RPG heaven. Loading times were a minor problem to me then, knowing what was in store! The PS1 is my favorite console of all time, only rivalled by the PS2 and maybe SNES.

PS1 for me. I know most will tout the RPGs on the console, and for certainly valid reasons, but I’ve never really cared for JRPGs. But even then, the Crash Bandicoot trilogy, Spyro trilogy, WipeOut trilogy, Colony Wars trilogy, Syphon Filter trilogy, Twisted Metal quadrilogy (?), along with the likes of Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, Resident Evil trilogy, and Metal Gear Solid is just TOO much!

Don’t get me wrong, it was a lot closer due to the N64 having 4 controllers and taking advantage in games like Goldeneye, Mario Party, Mario Kart 64, and Smash Bros alongside the greatness of Ocarina of Time, Banjo-Kazooie, Super Mario 64, and Starfox 64, but just that list alone is already a decent chunk of great games in the N64s library. Pretty paltry by comparison because the PS1s library is also of insanely high quality.

Oh please, for the love of God !!!!.....You guys crack me up.....Keep on loving your old days of Nintendo.....from your childhood.....

Twisted Metal spanks the N64.....Period......

P.S. I still play TM2 to this DAY !!!!

(the NY level, as Grasshopper, is my fav)