Lets see how long he lasts this time.

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Topic N64 was Nintendo at its Scummiest Community

Message n64 was nintendo’s scummiest console and anyone pretending otherwise is lying to themselves or was six years old at the time and still emotionally there, this thing was grime from boot screen to cartridge slot, it was not toys, it was not wholesome, it was nintendo letting the wrong people into the house and never fully cleaning up after.

you turn it on and boom duke nukem smirking like he wandered in from a strip mall arcade, turok ripping through dinosaurs like he’s on a paid contract, not a hero just a guy doing a job, mortal kombat still smelling like congressional hearings and mall cops, this wasn’t mario paint energy, this was late night energy, parents asleep, volume low but adrenaline high.

shadows of the empire is the smoking gun, a whole game about scum and villainy and not in the disney way but in the used ship parts way, dash rendar with that stubble that screams western dev, ig 88 turned into a straight up machine gun with legs, no mystery just violence, and nintendo said yeah sure slap our logo on it why not, that alone should end the discussion even the jokes were scummy, clayfighter 63 1/3rd sounds like something you’d hear shouted across a parking lot, everything had an edge, a dare, a wink that felt mildly hostile, like the console was embarrassed to be colorful.

the western dream team people hype up now was a disaster in real time, fog everywhere, frame rate like a dying pulse, textures melting, but also this wild confidence, these games weren’t trying to be eternal classics they were trying to punch you in the face right now, right now was ugly and loud and violent and nobody cared if it aged well, they wanted parents uncomfortable and they got it.

ocarina of time is where people cope the hardest, ganon doesn’t lose he gets executed, sword through the chest, camera lingers, that’s a fatality, strip the music and it’s mortal kombat logic with fantasy makeup, nintendo fans rewrite it as myth because admitting it’s brutal breaks the spell.

and looming over all of this is the unspoken ancestor, the awkward polygon obsessed half step machine that tried to brute force relevance with add ons and power and failed loudly, same instincts, same hunger, chase the edge, chase the arcade, chase the now, just with worse timing, n64 was that idea finished, refined, and somehow even dirtier.

sega pushed them there, sony was waiting with money and ads, so nintendo cracked and let the scum in, let western devs smear grime all over the hardware, let violence sit unfiltered, let ambition outrun taste.

it wasn’t clean, it wasn’t polite, it was scummy as hell, and that’s exactly why it still hits harder than it should.

Posted 20 hours ago (2026-02-10 18:42:44)

Posting User Snatcher

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