The first time I remember learning anything about a (fictionalized) version of this weapon was in Goldeneye for N64. But I remembered it (known as the RC-P90) having an 80 round capacity in that game.

That didn't set off any alarms for me, but an interesting note was made here:
The FN P90 only holds 50 rounds in its magazine. It is speculated that the RC-P90's 80 magazine is actually a mistake due to directly giving the RC-P90 0x50 (that is, 80 in hexadecimal) bullets rather than 0x32 (50 in decimal).

Kind of a funny quirk for a CS nerd like me. Get your hex right, programmers!

They missed F1 World Grand Prix for the N64 in 1998. I remember doing a 3 hour race on Magny-Cours, and wiping out on the Lycee Pin.

https://youtu.be/otPzD2MvXc0?t=1m44s

Well, this fellow is very white, frisbee golf just seems like a very white thing to do, and partly I'm channeling Bill Burr's rant walking throughout Newport as he spouts hyperbolically about white privilege and then there's a motorhome driving through that he refers to as white trash. This fellow definitely isn't white trash, but there's a certain blissful socio-economically absurd trashyness/kitsch to a black and orange painted motorhome driving around with a frisbee golf cage on it, like the world's things are but toys in this man's sway. There's just this feel that pervades the short films, like we're seeing another of the Winkelvoss twins at play. He reminds me of a friend in university who learned to play Mario Tennis on the N64 against himself, each hand with a separate controller.

He's just so absurdly (yet innocently) white, in such a way as to be deserving of light ribbing. There's clearly an ineffable quality that I'm struggling to describe but do you know what I mean, even partly?

Nope. I have been a big Star Wars fan since I was a young kid (not quite old enough to have seen ANH or ESB in theaters, but I did see RotJ on the big screen, plus of course watching them all on TV many many times growing up) but somehow I missed out on those games.

Quick google shows Wing Commander 1 as 1990, Wing Commander 3 at 1994, TIE Fighter also in 1994, and X-Wing Alliance in 1999. I played those Wing Commander games (and others), and played a lot of Star Wars games during that span, including stuff like Shadows of the Empire and Rogue Squadron for N64. But somehow the X-Wing and TIE Fighter stuff stayed off my radar at the time.

Should I check GOG?

I still have a shit ton of N64 games.
http://videosift.com/blog/eric3579/GOT-GAMES

Back in my college days, I remember seeing this game on bulletin board system (BBS) friend's new N64.

I would say that it's popularity was based on the multiplayer. It was one of the first FPS games that had four player split screen multiplayer. For console players, there was nothing like it at the time. For a lot of people it was a system seller. I had friends who hardly ever played the single player, I never finished it. I was a hardcore PC player, but I owned a N64 for Goldeneye and The Ocarina of Time.

Never got the hype around GoldenEye.

Played it on a friends N64 and it felt like an ok FPS, but wasn't really that memorable. Is it just because it was the first decent console FPS?

Hahaha, these were great! I can't believe anyone actually managed to finish the POS Superman N64 game. On the other hand, my brother and I were so excited when we beat Karnov one weekend only to get that "Congratulations" ending, haha. We didn't know the term "WTF" back then but if we had, we certainly would have used it!

Great comment! You raised many interesting points.

One important thing to note that the modern human mind is essentially like an advanced piece of software which runs on antiquated hardware (sort of like running Skyrim on an N64). As many as 7% (though I don't currently have a source for this at hand) of the general population are estimated to experience auditory hallucinations, and surprisingly enough, most of those people aren't psychotically structured. This is why auditory hallucinations are seen as a secondary, rather than primary, symptom of schizophrenia.

Rather, what is actually happening is that the antiquated hardware, for whatever reason, is showing its faults. The primitive responses which tend to stay dormant for most people are finding their way to the surface.

In other words, the truth of schizophrenia is that it isn't so much an illness as it is a regression to a more primitive version of the human mind. And as both you an Eleanor pointed out, this can have both pros and cons. Another example of a broken system which can produce contextually positive results is eidetic memory, which causes a person to be unable to forget.

And this is also something that I find to be quite interesting, because what it means is that mental illnesses are, in fact, contextual illnesses. A schizophrenic person is essentially "sick" because he/she has a bug in his/her software and as a result is unable to download patches from the rest of society. Go back 3000 years and it is entirely possible that auditory hallucination would have been the norm.

The reason for the stigma being so harmful is that it simply focuses on the wrong thing. It takes a secondary symptom, i.e. hearing voices, and makes it seem like the actual disease. In truth, the auditory hallucination is just an externalized version of a process which is actually internal. Where most of us simply have thoughts, the schizophrenic might instead hear a voice. To turn stigmatize those auditory hallucinations is to potentially cripple the sufferer's ability to perform basic maintenance on themselves.

@0:50, bottom left corner - N64 controller.
(according to wiki and GameFAQs, it was released on both N64 and playstation)

Here's what it's supposed to look like: http://youtu.be/uXvZUc0zgdc

that's some crazy glitching.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'mario 64 time fast cool console n64' to 'super mario, 64, fast, console, n64' - edited by kulpims

Sounds like another crappy, dumbed-down console port that's already been done under different names many times before. To name a few... Horus 64 (for the N64), Dionysus for the Amiga, and Mithras-TC for Doom.

Counter Strike
Battlefield 2 +
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare +
Team Fortress 2
Halo
Mass Effect
GoldenEye 007
Half-Life 2
Mario Kart 64 +>> ^sixshot:

I recognize all but one. Can someone help me fill in the missing info?
Battlefield 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2/3
Team Fortress 2
Halo
Mass Effect
(a James Bond game)
Killzone
Mario Kart (64?)
Which iteration of Mario Kart did they introduced the blue shell? Was it on the N64?

I recognize all but one. Can someone help me fill in the missing info?

Battlefield 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2/3
Team Fortress 2
Halo
Mass Effect
(a James Bond game)
Killzone
Mario Kart (64?)

Which iteration of Mario Kart did they introduced the blue shell? Was it on the N64?