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May 16,1996: The wait is over...Nintendo of America Inc. today unveiled for the first time in America. Nintendo 64 The world's first true 64-bit home video game system. Visitors to E3 (Lucky me) received the first U.S. hands-on demonstration of Super Mario 64, the revolutionary, real time, 3-D adventure game for Nintendo 64.Other titles included WaveRace 64, PilotWings 64, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, Cruis'n USA, and Killer Instinct.
Launching in the U.S. on September 30, 1996, Nintendo 64 will be available for a manufacturer's retail price of $249.95. The system will be packaged with a revolutionary new analog joystick controller.
Nintendo also announced Nintendo 64 titles available on September 30 will be Super Mario 64, PilotWings 64, WaveRace 64, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, Body Harvest, TetrisPhear and Cruis'n USA. Additional titles to be launched between October and December 1996 include Buggie Boogie, Ken Griffey Jr., Blast Corps, GoldenEye 007, Super Mario Kart R and Killer Instinct. All titles will be sold sepatately with a manufacturer's suggested retail price range of $49.95 - $79.95
MSRP: Price has not been set you, however it will be priced below the main unit.
AVAILABLE: TBA
FEATURES: A high speed, mass-volume memory magnetic disk drive for use with Nintendo 64.
The drive will attach to the bottom of the unit with 3-3/4 magnitic disks front-loaded into the unit.
* High-density magnitic disks hold 64MB of data
Players will be able to write data to game software.
* Players can customize and save characters and games.
Data access * 150 ms (Milliseconds) Average Seek Time, the amount of time it takes to find data.
* 1 MB/s Data Transfer Rate, the rate at which data is transfered from source medium to memory.
Includes a 1 or 2 MB expansion RAM pack, which players install into the memory expansion slot of the Nintendo 64 to further enhance the memory capacity of both the magnetic disks and the cartridges.