Nintendo 64
Nintendo 64 consoles, games and equipment
Used Nintendo 64
The successor to Nintendo's popular Super Nintendo was released in 1997, and was generally very positively received, and praised for both its 64bit hardware, but also as the first true 3D machine. This is seen, for example, in one of the most popular games for the Nintendo 64, Super Mario 64.
At this time, Sony's Playstation was on the market as one of the first with CD, which gave the opportunity to have significantly more space for the games, however, at the expense of loading time. Nintendo continued with the well-tested cartridge that meant that when the game was in the machine, you had access to the entire game, and therefore no loading time. Despite the limitations of cartridges, Nintendo was able to make games that could largely live up to the competitors. The Nintendo 64 machine was the last machine to use cartridges, and in 2003 it went out of production, but not before the machine had a massive selection of classic games that still hold up to this day.
The machine now had 4 controller ports, allowing you to play 4 at the same time without any other equipment than controllers. This worked really well in games like Mario Kart 64, and the new game genre that Nintendo launched for the N64, the board game Mario Party, where you take turns moving around the board and fighting each other in small mini-games.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N64