That's why we're excited about the potential for revisiting some of those classics on the Virtual Console. Not only the headline games - like Mario 64, which basically defined how 3D platformers would work, and Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which reinvented the action RPG genre - but a large number of less celebrated titles which also did their part to push the medium forwards. It was an experimental, fascinating time - and while the PlayStation may have been the victor in terms of sales and long-term impact, it would be wrong to underestimate the contribution of the Nintendo 64 to the advances of the time. For those who had played games for many years before, though, it was also a time when you could almost feel history being made with successive game releases, as 3D hardware finally reached the point where it could start to replace 2D as the mainstay of gaming. It was back then that a whole new generation of game fans came into being thanks to Sony's canny engagement of the mass-market with the PlayStation, and a time when the heroes of the medium for the next ten years made their presence felt - Lara Croft, Solid Snake, the Final Fantasy series, and many others. The mid-nineties was an exciting time to be a gamer.
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