1996-09-29 ITV News reporting on Nintendo 64 release
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- Gordon Steinke and Lynda Steele discuss the new 64-bit game machine (plus, bonus innuendo with the weather lady!). From CITV-TV, now called Global Edmonton. No date given during the portion of the news that I recorded, but the other shows on this tape imply the airdate as September 29 (the N64 launch day).
There's a screen saying who's on Letterman "tonight" and the guests were from the Friday, September 27, 1996 episode. This confused me when I first posted the video. I just realized (Oct 2016) that this is because Sept 29 was a Sunday, so the Letterman episode was of course a rerun. Hot damn, I'm smart.
We never did find out if the sports guys ever played Space Invaders.
+zeepsterd I gotta know :'(
Get out of my mind
he hadnt
Odds are, they most certainly did. Space invaders was super popular and those guys are working behind the scenes with technical equipment, so their interests already skew in that direction.They probably played it at the local arcade just off campus almost every day. They especially played on the weekends. They were the first to arrive to the arcade when it first opened. They'd be there all day eating pizza and nachos. They knew the owner so we'll he'd let them stay an extra half-hour after closing just so they could have a chance at getting that record high score. After they graduated they all went and got a space invaders tattoo to commemorate those good times.
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1:54 "the key isn't the number of games, it's the quality of games" we knew what was the right direction but now we've steered off in to the wrong direction.
wouldn't last forever ; )
I will never forget getting the n64 and bringing controllers to firends house and play 4 player goldeneye rented from blockbuster! And th3 boster pack later on for the ram and rumble pack with starfox! Such great memories :)
imagine time traveling back to ‘96 and showing these people the switch and super mario odyssey.
You can't change the past. It is against the time law.
@꧁༺ʄɨɖɛƈɨɖɛ༻꧂ how? Im not really shoure...
So wait if you show them super mario oddesy doesn't that technically make it oldest game leak. In 1996-2017
I don't think they would be surprised. They laid the foundation for the games we have today. They knew the technology would improve. Imagine how blown away we would be today if we saw the technology and graphics from 2050. Progress is inevitable.
@@jameswoodard5547 there would be hell on earth before reach 2050
I was a pretty sheltered child who lived out in the country, so didn't see or hear anything about the 64 until I was told by my parents that our cousin had gotten a new nintendo for christmas. Bear in mind that I thought they were talking about a super nintendo. The shock and disbelief of my 6 year old self when I walked into my cousin's house and saw that sleek, curved box operating for the first time is something that stays with me still.
The n64 was my first game console at 4 years old. I didn’t realize how fortunate I was at the time to experience such new grade graphics for my first video gaming experience.
not new anymore is it ?
@@lobobbybobalot what a brilliant question. You're a special kind
@@HybridBlueDream Thanks Stranger ,but everybody is special including you. 😊
@@lobobbybobalot lol
For me I was 2 or 3 (console was my brother's, figures). We'd rent a game on every Friday. So many memories.
I remember all of this I was born in 1989, I got a n64 at launch this was my childhood... I can still remember going to target to pick out n64 and gameboy games... all these retro titles in store... so much nostalgia
Yeah me too but I was born in 1990, I remember at bradlees they were selling n64 games for $65-$70. :O
Beautiful memories, the past is full of treasure.
I remember this the good old days I thought the graphics couldn't get any better
Same, man.
The N64 had a wopping 4mb of ram, I still remember playing star fox and obviously super mario like yesterday and apparently I was only 5-7. Very good memories :)
4 mb ekstra with the memory ekspansion pak so the machine got 8mb of ram
Best system ever. I'd do anything to relive my childhood playing Nintendo 64. Amazing
I want to go back soooo bad god I miss the 90s so much!
Me too
“I don’t know how the kids play this thing.”
Me, a sleep-deprived gamer: What, like it’s hard?
you guys ever play space invaders
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You ever plsyedfrogger?
1:54 I'm looking at you COD
BfoSHIZnats Yeah lol
Gotta love 90s technology
My N64 still working =D
same i got two \(^_^)/
Never properly dusted mine and have had it for around 18 years now. It's always worked flawlessly and isn't even slightly yellowed unlike my Gamecube. Don't remember it ever overheating or locking up, if it did it can't have been many times.
awesome...
I think it's the best console ever made. You could probably throw this mother out the window and it would still work, a timeless classic that will always be revolutionary and live forever has the best and worst game ever Zelda oot and superman 64
I have had mine sinch launch and it still works fine.
This proves that nintendo is awesome
Or was awesome. Before they started telling their customers what they want.
I'm sorry to say but I thought the N64 sucked donkey dicks compared to the NES & SNES. Them deciding to stick with cartridges instead of moving to discs killed the system. Everything left for the Playstation. To this day I'm still disappointed with the 64. I love the Gamecube so much more.
Alex7aj they’re back
@@bobduncan3010 they never left
Alex7aj we got a hater over here lol
I just looove going back in time before I was even born to watch the world marvel over nintendo in the 80s and 90s. Its just so cool. 🤩
From an old fart in his 50s, we appreciate the interest - it's so cool to know that our world back then means something to the people of today!
I remember when we actually thought these were awesome graphics for gaming lol
I was born in 1988, fairly late in the year. Back in early 2009, I got back into gaming a bit after watching AVGN's stuff. I bought myself a Nintendo Wii and a bunch of games, including old N64 ones, and I had a period of nostalgic euphoria. Now I'm sitting here, thinking about how my memories of being nostalgic for the N64 back in 2009, are older than my memories of the console were back then. January 2009 is much closer to late '96 than to the present. My mind can't handle that fact.
I can't wait for it to release
Still have 2 n64s and 30 games. This was the console when I was a kid.
We didn't have scalpers back in the 90s like we do now.
I was 5 when they launched the n64 90s were a great time I had a blast growing up in the 90s
You grew up in the 2000s then. I grew up in the 90s and I was born in 84, I don't remember shit about 80s.
GOAT. Best single and multiplayer experiences of all time.
Ahhh... Gord and Lynda. The second best news team EVER!. Second only ofcourse to Ron and Veronica. RIP Bill Matheson! It never fails that your marker depletes mid drawing of the weathermap. Fearnot viewers! A spare marker in the breast pocket.
when ppl call computers “machines” you know it’s the 90s
1:54 This is a wise man.
My, how adults changed.
They look older
I was the odd kid on the block who didnt care about N64 because my dad owned a powerful PC. I was playing Tomb Raider, Mechwarrior, Doom2, Duke3d, Age of Empires, Unreal, Quake series, Half Life, Homeworld, etc. All my friends were going crazy on N64 and I was that kid version of PC master race saying to them I have a better games on the PC lol.
ITV? Where's sir Trevor McDonald??
That's because the ITV shown here is a Canadian station called ITV (which is now Global Edmonton) (aka CITV, not to be confused with the UK children's channel and block), which British people would easily confuse it with their ITV News.
Twenty five years ago today!!!!
"Nintendo put 100 thousand machines in a affortable One" lol
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR FUCKING WORKSTATION
iTV as in Edmonton, Alberta? I remember watching cartoons on this channel from Ontario in the mid 90s!
Ahh the n64.. might not have had the biggest Libary of games and had a few holes in its Libary for certain Genres but what it had was quality over quantity and being able to do 4 player multiplayer straight out of the box none that multi Tap bullshit was so amazing for its time
Thank you Nintendo 64 for the great memories..
Well said.
Gotta love 90's technology.
2:30 "im going to be one of the first in line to get it"
he says as an n64 controller rests behind him and a copy of mario 64 is on.
Nintendo was right about quality of games, without internet I would take atleast a year to complete Mario 64
You re kind of right if you were to get all 120 stars maybe.. but it took only around 3-4 months to finish the game. Still with no net you were a legend hanging around and saying ''oh yeah sm64 i 've beaten this game'' heck even having the console gave you status i miss those days.
Internet existed in 1996 though.
@@Patrick19833 Google didn't exist tho
@@PerhapsTheMost but Gamefaqs.com and Yahoo did!
I wish we could time travel so we can show them Mario oddysey
I really want to go back in time and show everybody the Nintendo switch
Or showed them Red Dead Redemption 2
@@fikrijuanda6321 I am from the future, want to see RDR2 on nintendo switch? Runs as good as witcher3.
They say kids are good at it. I got my 10 year old brother to play Mario 64 and he couldn't beat the 1st level
Hes just used to new games
I didn't even know how to speak english and i was able to finish the game when i was like 8-9 years old
@@madridista1902 newer games have a lot of quality of life improvements and a general quicker pace; 90's games were shorter, so they used to be quite punishing. Think at quick and autosaves, those are a "post 2000" quality of life improvements, in older games if you die that usually meant start over again from like 5-10 minutes ago, or even more.
Holy fuck'n shit itv! I remember that channel before it became Global Edmonton.
Man, I grew up with the N64 & there’s a lot of great games but the SNES is better in terms of bigger selection of games that are good.
Agreed and 100% true.
How has no one pointed out that Mario's all but guaranteed to drown to death in the clip at 1:10? I'm almost certain it would've happened in 1-2 seconds if they hadn't cut to Peter Main. R.I.P. Mario, I guess. :P
25 Christmas's have passed by
Kids are gonna want it parents aren’t gonna be able to find it!
🧐 they foresaw the ps5
The N64 was a huge step up from the Snes 3D gaming Back then people went nuts for it just like they did when the Wii came out
Oh my god those beta versions of N64 games!
Also HOLY CRAP GORDON STEINKE!
64 bits?!?!!??!
Radical!
Quality over quantity. Thats N64 for ya.
I used to watch iTV growing up in western Canada. Good stuff.
Man I miss the 90's so badly. I'm born 1993, and my first console I got in 1998 or 1999 was the N64, and my first game was NBA (Idr what year), but those graphics blew me away. Two days later, my folks took it back because they wanted me to be able to play the SNES diabetes games mainly (yes I'm type 1 diabetic). I loved the SNES, but around 2000, I missed having the N64 so I got one from "Santa" that Christmas, and my dad had rented me a few games, and my grandma got me Super Mario 64. I loved playing Mario 64, Goldenye (though it took me forever to beat various levels), Waverace, and 1080 snowboarding. Such awesome memories.
I love when people share these memories, bless you!
you poor thing.
@@knowbert lmao did your parents buy you a Dreamcast?
RIP ITV Edmonton
When I played Mario 64 was on the DS version in 2004
1996 = ITV News reporting on Nintendo 64 release
2021 = ITV News reporting on iPhone 13 Pro Max release
best christmas to date!!!
Not gonna lie, what sold me on the n64 wasn't Mario, it was Shadows of the Empire. I was so pumped for the system even though the sound was awful. I found myself buying more Playstation games until I just stopped buying for the n64 because the limited library.
I remember when the news used to report on game consoles in the uk.
I wonder what happened.
1:54 As a representative of Nintendo he was 100% correct. Nintendo has always been quality over quantity.
FeelsBadMan Wii U was a failure
@@RobertK1993 It really was..
I remember this on tv.
I wonder what the guy's answer was when asked if he play Space Invaders.
1:09 OOOHHH!!! HE SAID THE GAME!!!!
Can u guys imagine going back in time and showing the the switch, ps4/ps5, and Xbox one, xbox series x now that would of made them go really crazy
Elijah Martinez they would be blown away when they see Red Dead Redemption in 4K.
Let alone explaining all the online features and system updates to them.
'You guys ever played space invaders?'
I bet they did!
"With only 2 new games"
And of them is one of the greatest Mario games of all time
I love the name of your CHANNEL 😆
I hope the dude in the glasses was able to play red dead 2
What Peter Main said in this video is true. It is better to have a small amount of high quality games rather than a big amount of decent or bad games.
Sadly, the PS4 and Xbox One are still playing catch up while the Wii U has the better library of games yet it's in third place. I guess the industry has begun to focus on quantity rather than quality.
Damn. I cant beleive ig was that long ago
What stage was that that they showed of Star Fox? I've never seen it lol!
@@chadwarden1179 ok. Thank you. I was like I got to play my Star Fox 64 again to try to see that lol!
LOL IM A DUMASS, I WAS AT A TARGET ON THE DAY IT CAME OUT AND I HAD TO FIGHT TO GET ONE LOL BUT WAS MARIO HOOKED BEST TIMES
I have Nintendo 64 games 1996
1:35 Isn't that the guy who worked in Catastrophe Crow?
Scary Larry on the check in at 1:35
"It's not about the quantity of the games, it's about the quality of the games."
We still talk about Super Mario 64 to this day, so job well done.
Edit: Also funny to go back and watch videos like these where the anchorman says things like "I don't know how kids can play these things, I can barely play paddle pong." The pre-Wii days when video games were just for kids and nerds.
Nintendo 64 Classic Mini will be launched in 2021
3:12 Top 10 Questions Science Still Can't Answer
@LondonOntGuy GamePro used to be a good magazine back then. EGM was always best though. Now the only mag left seems to be lame Game Informer and a chopped reformatted EGM.
That's why we have Ebay.
Did they ever play Space Invaders?! I have to know yet I have no way of finding out! What shall I do?!
0:32
SHE IS TILTING THE FUCKING CONTROLLERS!!!!!!!!!!!
Send Chadtronic!!
@austinrafter Certainly going after the older crowd back then.
I guess this isn't ITV in the UK
The same thing is going to happen with the new Switch OLED!!
Kids are going to want it parents are not going to be able to find it… I swear to God nothing in 25 years has changed! And I wouldn’t have it any other way!
The same thing happened with the ps5, it released almost a year ago and it’s still really hard to find one, it’s really ridiculous what sony did.
I miss when the news was like this. So much more harmless and less politically charged.
*ELECTRONIC GAME PLAYERS*
How I never got a n64 for Christmas I never know why I just bought one for the very first time this last week I have to say probably the best Nintendo console there is and I grew up with the SNES and the genesis in my 30s now I still love the old school video games kids this day and age have no idea what it was like growing up in the 80s and 90s heck with the Xbox PlayStation that does not compare with Sega and Nintendo rivalry that was the golden age of video games I don't care what my age is I am all classic gaming and that will go to my grave with me
Lol I got my Nintendo 64 in 1999 since I was born 1994 and now 2002 I got rid of it cuz I had GameCube and my cousin plays N64 and gave to his cousin and he broke it
I nice to see a simpler time before people thought video games where evil
there were plenty of news stories in the 80s and 90s with parents and news reporters who talked negatively about video games, especially when Mortal Kombat came out. If anything I’d say video games are a lot more accepted today amongst than they were back then.
HAHAHAHA. You think it's bad now? Games and comics back then were considered satanic by some!
I was born April 24, 1992 So you can say... I was born before n64.
Yeah, but you weren't old enough to play games until the n64 generation. Same with me, I was born in 1993, and didn't start playing video games till I got n64 for my 6th birthday.
yeah good point.
HimakaCapersCreator Now if we were born 10 years earlier, we would instead be growing up in the NES and SNES generation.
again good point.
HimakaCapersCreator i was born in 1987 so my first console i Play was a SEGA Genesis and a Super Nintendo
The footage they showed was from the beta
damn
I'm gonna order mine's when i get paid
Did the nintendo 64 work?
Like many other diehard Nintendo fans I loved the N64 but was not a fan of the controller
I can't remember if i ever played on a Nintendo 64 , but i think it's one of the best game consoles.
my n64 don't work anymore :((((((
I don't understand why Nintendo is so far behind in gaming today. I mean they have been in the game twice as long as Microsoft and Sony. Nintendo's systems should be miles better than the Xbox and PlayStation, but the hardware is weak in the graphics aren't that great. If they were at the top gaming back then, I don't see a reason why they aren't now.
+Sal Hunter (Lordxsal) Atari had been in the games for more then 10 years when nintendo had come along and look where they're today, how long you been around means nothing. Nintendo just fucked up with the Wii focusing more on the gimmick of motion control rather than improving graphics and better, easier to use online play. If nintendo wants to be back on top they need to adapt to the times or they'll end up like Atari and Sega
Sal Hunter I think they were trying to target the casual audience. It worked with the Wii but after that they moved on to mobile games. I think Nintendo will make a come back with the Nintendo switch.
Mikee Flores Lol doubt it
Sal Hunter Sony were miles ahead here also...
Nintendo has said that it's not about the specs but the entertainment value you get from playing which they do have a point but it's a double edge sward. If you don't have a console that is capable of the current technology like Unreal Engine 4 and Uniti no one would want to put the amount of effort to develop and port games. Not all developers want to put the amount of effort to develop and port games as Nintendo do they just want to make it as easy and straightforward as possible to make money from the sales the game makes. I think Nintendo is finally getting it through their heads and trying to catch up with the competition with The Nintendo Switch. One developer Inti Creates was developing Blaster Master Zero originally on the 3DS and when they heard about the Nintendo Switch and once they became official developers for it and they got the dev kit in it took two months to port the game which was at the time 50% complete and have a prototype build to show and they were able to release it on The Nintendo Switch release date of March 3rd. I think Nintendo is finally getting it through their heads that not all devs want to put the amount of effort to develop and port games as they do and they shouldn't force their beliefs onto other developers. I think Nintendo should have a good look at Sony Computer Entertainment and how they do things with The PlayStation Network and the systems. Nintendo can still be their innovative and family friendly developers but with a capable system that is competitive with the other systems that on the market but have their own games and innovations that they are known for people would buy it. I think Nintendo Switch is the stepping stone for them to get back to the times so I think the next console will be powerful.