Christmas morning is here. The kiddies have sprung from their beds to sprint down the stairs to see what wondrous delights Santa Claus and their loved ones have wrapped up for us to open. Oh and um, you run there to give gifts as well, right?
This general point in the childhood experience is one that hopefully most can relate to, that magical gift we got one year on a big holiday or a birthday that made us so happy. That type of built-up excitement makes children react in many different ways that become talked about for ages within families, such is the case with the viral video known to most as ‘the Nintendo 64 Kids’. According Know Your Meme, the video which has garnered 21,123,804 since 2006 when it was uploaded by a man named Brandon (who is the maniac child in the video) after his girlfriend saw some of his home movies, and thought he should share this moment with the world. The world responded by sharing the video thousands of times and making it into one of the biggest memes of 2006/2007. The video became so successful that it was used for a car commercial.
For anyone who had a piece of their youth during the heyday of the N64 and rentable video games, has to appreciate the passing line where the kid says “Now we can rent games from Blockbuster!” which will make you feel very old and nostalgic at the same time. Though it’s outrageous, in this one singular moment you see unfiltered pure joy in a kid knowing he’s going to have a great time ahead playing video games, and there is just something beautiful about that.
Here are some of the best remixes and videos related to the legend of the N64 Kids.
The maddness of N64 goes much deeper than a mult-player Mario Kart marathon in this twisted re-edit which foreces the video zooming into the mania of it all.
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