Nintendo 64

The Nintendo 64 was released from 1996-1997 worldwide. It was Nintendo’s entry in the fifth generation of video game consoles competing with Sony’s PlayStation and the Sega Saturn. It has a 64-bit microprocessor but most games generally use faster 32-bit operations which were enough to generate the 3D-graphics the console was known for. The system has a 48.0 kHz audio sample rate and was the first console to have a unified RAM for all operations. It supported 16.8 million colours and can display resolutions in 320x240 up to 640x480 pixels. Aside from astounding graphics at the time, the console is mostly known for its unique controller shape. It has 10 buttons in total with the changes from the SNES being, an analog control stick, four C buttons instead of X and Y, a Z back button and the removal of the Select button. The N64 was the last home console to feature games on cartridges until the release of the Nintendo Switch in 2017.