The Nintendo 64 is a gaming console manufactured by Nintendo and is popularly known as the N64. The Nintendo 64 was first released in Japan in 1996, and at the end of 1997 it was launched simultaneously in North America, Europe, and Australia. Pilotwings 64 and Super Mario 64 games were sold with the Nintendo 64.
The Nintendo 64 was the third home video game console launched by Nintendo. It was designed collectively by three companies – Nintendo, MIPS Technologies and Silicon Graphics. The Nintendo 64 was the first 64-bit gaming system that could be used with different types of game controllers. The game controllers comprised an analogue stick, a digital cross pad, a digital trigger, about half a dozen face buttons and a couple of shoulder buttons.
The Nintendo 64 is available in standard dark grey or black. The Funtastic Nintendo 64 series is available in six different colours – fire orange, grape purple, smoke black, ice blue, jungle green and red.
The Nintendo 64 processor uses a 32KB L1 cache memory instead of an L2 cache. A unified memory subsystem was implemented in the Nintendo 64, and there were no separate memory slots for audio or video. In order to provide a peak bandwidth of 562.5 MB/sec, the system is equipped with 4MB of RAMBUS RDRAM, which can be expanded to 8MB as required. The Nintendo 64 processor provides two types of video options – composite and s-video. Nintendo 64 games are popular all over the world with children and adults alike, especially games like GoldenEye 007, The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario 64.
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