Today in Tech History (September 29th, 1996) Nintendo Releases the Nintendo 64 in North America!
The Nintendo 64 was released by Nintendo in September 1996 in North America. It was the last successful home console to use cartridges as it's primary storage format until the release of the Nintendo Switch in 2017. It competed with the Playstation, Sega Saturn, and the Playstation 2. The final console was named after its' 64-bit CPU, hence the name Nintendo 64. Its best-selling game was Super Mario 64, which an unopened copy of it sold for $1.5 million at auction in 2021. It went on to sell 33 million units by the time it was discontinued in 2002, and was ultimately replaced by the Nintendo Gamecube.
