My Journey of Buying, Refurbishing, and Playing a Nintendo 64 in 2018

So someone contacted me saying they needed a soundcard, and a wifi card for their desktop, they didn't have extra money to spend so I asked what they had to trade, and when they said Nintendo 64, I was taken straight back to my childhood.

They showed up, I installed the cards, and installed the drivers, got them working and out the door. Now I am left with my new OLD Nintendo 64 console, it just so happens it was a Ice Blue edition. The Nintendo 64 of course had about 22 years of dust buildup all over it, inside of it etc. I took the console down to its electronic board, and cleaned everything inside, and out.

The console was missing the Reset Button, so I fired up the trusty Da Vinci Mini 3D Printer, and made a brand new one!

They also happened to include Mario 64, Zelda Ocarina Of Time, and San Francisco Rush, needless to say I was pretty excited to get back into the games of my youth.

I fired up the old N64, and NOTHING, ok old skool trick blow in the end of the cartridge, what do you know it fired right up.

So here I set in 2018 playing a Nintendo 64 from 1996 on a 4K Samsung TV and it looks .....HORRIBLE......lol, However I must say it is just as fun as I remembered, and while I prefer my Nintendo Switch, the N64 looks awesome setting beside of it, and I am sure it will bring me much more happiness than an old soundcard, or wifi card ever could.

YES YES! I know I need to dust, my PS4 Pro has not been turned on since I bought the Switch. That is Sony's fault not mine hahahaha.

I have no doubt this old console would have eventually found its way into a landfill, I feel as if I have rescued it from inevitable demise haha.

The 3D stick was of course full of plastic shavings, as they usually are, so I fixed them as well, and now I am playing Zelda Ocarina Of Time, in between my sessions of Breath Of The Wild on the Switch.

I know some will say what is the point, just Emulate everything on a PC, or Raspberry Pi, however my experience has taught me N64 does NOT emulate very well at all, Playing the games on a different controller can be strange also.

The Moral of the story I guess is if you have the opprutunity to save an old console like this, It would be a good idea, not only are their values going to continue to rise the older, and harder to find they become, they are apart of gaming history, and if you were a child or teenager around 1996 apart of your own history as well.

Thank you for reading have a great day ! or Night !