Remarkable photos of a pristine Nintendo 64DD development kit have been published online, giving a rare look at a piece of hardware few have ever seen. The 64DD - Nintendo's disc-based expansion unit ...

The Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (64DD) is one of the company's most interesting releases. A long-delayed, quickly discontinued, infamous flop, the 64's bulky expansion was supposed to provide the console ...

Throughout gaming history, there have been plenty of devices that saw only a limited release or never even made it to release to begin with and are therefore very difficult to find today. We're ...

A private video game collector recently reached out to Rerez host Shane Luis for his help in documenting a new, in-box Nintendo 64DD development kit, which means we now have an idea of what it must ...

It’s a rare day when reality matches up with our nostalgia-fueled obsessions (of which we have many). This is no more true than in the world of retro gaming, where sometimes living out our ’90’s ...

A video game collector recently contacted Canadian Shane Luis, the host of YouTube channel Rerez, to share information about a brand-new Nintendo 64DD development kit they got their hands on. The kit ...

The 90’s certainly represented a unique era for gaming consoles as many of the more prolific manufacturers created various add-ons effectively looking to extend their product’s overall market lifespan ...

It seems as if Nintendo held back some of the original F-Zero X's glory so that it would have some software for the 64DD. Apart from the ability to save a ton of tracks directly to disk, there really ...

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The 64DD, much like the Neo Geo or the entire Game & Watch range, will probably always have a sort of magical allure to people like us; indeed, we were seconds away from selling our grandmothers when ...