Back in 1996, Nintendo released a console with advanced 3D graphics to compete with Sony Playstation. Although not as popular as Sony PSX, Nintendo 64 proves to be a superior console in terms of graphics and hardware than Sony PSX. It supports add-ons cartridge like Expansion Pak and Rumble Pak to enhance the current system hardware. Some of Nintendo 64 games are really huge success like Super Mario 64 and Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Nintendo 64 productions has been stopped now and its games are really hard to find. Thus the only way to play those old games (assuming you don't have the console) is by using an emulator software. There has been many projects trying to emulate N64 hardware on PC such as 1964, Nemu64, Project64, UltraHLE, etc. I've found that Project64 (currently version 1.6) is the best of all, it can emulate almost all N64 games with very minimum problems. With current PC, you should be able to play N64 games with good framerate. Project64 also supports Expansion Pak and Rumble Pak emulation which can give higher resolution on some games and enable Force Feedback on gamepad. It supports many audio, video, and controller plugins where each plugins may have some good additional features (like rendering N64 graphics in DirectX 8 or 6, antialiasing support, multiple gamepads support, etc.) See screenshots to see how Project64 run N64 games:
Star Wars Episode I: Racer fully playable in Project64
The bestselling Super Mario 64 on PCStill Project64 is not perfect. Some of the games still have issues with sound, graphical glitches, and even some of them refused to run. But these problems are minimum in the latest build. So, if you want to feel the nostalgia of good old Nintendo 64 games, try Project64 1.6 emulator now freely downloadable here: http://www.pj64-emu.com/downloads/startdown/34/
For more information, additional plugins, or beta versions, please follow this link: http://www.pj64-emu.com/
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