Community Nintendo Retro N64 Anniversaries Community: Got Treasured N64 Memories? We'd Love To Hear Them N64-mative stuff by Gavin Lane Mon, 6pm Share: Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life 23rd June 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the N64, Nintendo's first console designed with full 3D in mind. Originally planned to be the Ultra 64, this console helped shape the burgeoning era of 3D gaming with classics like Super Mario 64 , Star Fox 64 , and Wave Race 64 (the games were more imaginative than the names, promise) showing players and developers alike the potential of polygons, and how to design games in the third dimension. The system had a much smaller library than Sony's PlayStation, the new kid on the block, but it punched above its weight with games like Ocarina of Time laying foundations that developers have been building on ever since. Granted, its odd-looking three-pronged pad caused some confusion (and today, too, with dual analogue now the standard), but it was with that strange, wonderful device that we took our first steps into Kokiri Forest and trained our sniper rifle on distant guards in GoldenEye . Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube 848k The nostalgia is strong with this one — especially given its facility with four-person multiplayer, which created so much joy and drama — so we're asking you to send us your Nintendo 64 memories for a feature we'll publish next week.

We'll look through the entries and reproduce the ones that move us most in this community feature (similar to our Pokémon Memories earlier this year). Whether you were there back in 1996 — '97 in Europe — or you first played the 64-bit classics in the generations that followed (or even on Switch via NSO), we'd love to hear your thoughts. Good, bad, or ugly, what are your strongest memories of the Nintendo 64? Check out the guidelines below, and we're looking forward to hearing from you!

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