Your birth year
2006
Nintendo 64
19961990s
Nintendo 64 is 10 years older than you
It's from 1996, before you were born.
- Maker
- Nintendo
- Type
- 64-bit game console
- Debuted
- 1996
- Note
- That iconic three-pronged controller
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About
As of 2026, it's 30 years old.
The Nintendo 64 launched in 1996 with a controller that looked like it required three hands and a launch title — Super Mario 64 — that quietly rewrote the rulebook for how 3D games should feel.
It stuck stubbornly with cartridges while rivals went to CDs, but it delivered GoldenEye 007, Mario Kart 64, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — the holy grail of four-friends-on-one-couch multiplayer chaos.
Chunky, cartridge-loyal, and impossibly fun, the 1996 N64 is the console that brought Mario into three dimensions and made the living room floor the most competitive arena on Earth.
