Comment by 90s_dev a day ago
Limitations demand and produce extraordinary creativity. That's the secret behind pico8 and Animal Well and so many amazing games.
I wish I didn't think of a significantly better architecture for my 2d-pixel-art-game-maker-maker this weekend. Now it'll be another month before I can release it :(
The tradeoff was that the N64 was cheap and had Pokemon on it
Cheap? In its generation the Nintendo 64 was the expensive choice. Maybe not because of the console itself (price varied across its lifetime relative to the competition) but because of the cost of the games (and nearly complete lack of piracy).
As for Pokémon, the Nintendo 64 launched in June 1996 and the first Pokémon game was Pokémon Snap released nearly three years after the console in March 1999.
What were the limitations for Animal Well?