Eagerly awaiting one of the most electrifying announcmenets of the year, Japanese school children stood huddled outside of Makuhari Messe, a convention center located in Chiba, Japan. Inside Makuhari Messe, Nintendo's 7th Annual Shoshinkai was underway. A trade show where Nintendo regularly showed off their latest products and in development titles. This year wasn't much different from other Shohinkai's of the past. However, Nintendo fans, and Nintendo executives eagerly awaited one of the most highly anticipated announcements. The 64-bit, 3D capable, Nintendo 64.

Today we take a look at the history of Nintendo's first 3D capable console, and the many mistake Nintendo made while developing it.


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00:00 - Introduction
00:59 - Chapter I: Project Reality
04:50 - Chapter II: Hardware to make Dreams, Reality
10:31 - Chapter III: What's so "Ultra" about the Ultra 64?
14:01 - Chapter IV: The Nintendo 64 is Given to the World
20:06 - Chapter V: Nintendo's First True Loss
28:40 - Chapter VI: The Legacy of the N64