It is obvious that the phenomenon retro It has come to stay and it will never stop again. Among other things, because it doesn’t matter what generation you are, and what console or computer model you started with in your younger years, sooner or later nostalgia will drive you to want to relive those wonderful sensations. So you are condemned to want to play again with your Game Boy, Super Nintendo, Mega Drive… or this nintendo 64 of Analogue.
Analogue is a brand that in recent years has been characterized by launching revisions, with an exquisite design, of some of the most legendary consoles in history with the characteristic that we can use the original games that we still have at home in them. It doesn’t matter if it’s a cartridge game boy or of game gearor a game card Atari Lynx either Turbografx. Now, on top of that, they have decided to add the old one to their catalog nintendo 64.
Analogue seduces us with a beautiful Nintendo 64
Although it is obvious that the shapes are those of a Nintendo 64, but updated and with a different name (Analogue 3D), with this thing we will be able to use all the cartridges we have at home at the time. Nintendo games, the masterpieces of Rare and of course the occasional exception born from a third-party study. They will all be able to work, they will all do so without emulation involved and in all cases we will be able to plug the machine into a 4K TV and enjoy the show with the highest quality.
Because one of the great improvements that these devices have Analogue is that we can make the most of the original quality of the games to adapt it to a modern TV without it looking simply like a inflated of the image from its original resolution. But in addition to everything you see, including the four ports compatible with the original wired controllers, there is much more.
This Analogue 3D It has Dualband Wifi, Bluetooth LE and, unlike the nintendo 64 original, it is completely region free. That is, it swallow everything you put into it, whether it’s Japanese, American or European PAL region games. In this way, we can forget about the old adapters that we had with the original machine and that only made sense because of Nintendo’s interest in blocking each territory so that only the cartridges that were sold in them would work.
Price, reservation and release date
If you decide to buy one Analogue 3D of these, which is reminiscent of the mythical Nintendo 64, you must do the math of what it will cost you: the console has a price of 249.99 dollars, plus then the 39.99 for the wireless controller and all that, if we don’t want more , we must add the gap of the dollar-euro exchange rate and the rates, which depending on where you come from could be more or less. In total, we estimate that the joke (in a good way) will not cost you less than 400 euros.
The reservation of your Analogue 3D You can do it on Monday, October 21 and shipments will begin to reach their future owners in the first quarter of 2025.