Gameplay pushed beyond limited controls-this was a console to get lost in. N64 games toyed with 3D graphics, and compared to the look of Sega Genesis or SNES games, N64’s games were vivid. It wasn’t until 1996 that the company-and video games as a whole-leveled up with Nintendo 64.
Their follow-up, Super Nintendo (SNES), arrived stateside by 1991, but with few drastic changes to gameplay, it offered little variation between consoles. In 1985, when Nintendo rolled out its first-ever home video game console, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), in America, the company wasn’t expecting sales to rocket as quickly as they did.
