Welcome to the second part of IGN64's in-depth look at Nintendo's failed disk drive add-on. If you haven't read our first installment in this three-part feature, be sure to give it a look before ...

After all, PC ZIP drives offered more space and higher access speeds even before the 64DD was announced. But to be fair, it wasn't about the drive's tech specs ¿ it was about what Nintendo ...

It’s a Nintendo 64DD and every single game released for it. The bidding is currently at $500, or you can Buy It Now™ for $1,300. Come on, Mega Millions… ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even the most die-hard Nintendo fanboys could be forgiven for not knowing about the 64DD. The 64DD was a magnetic drive that snapped onto the bottom of the Nintendo 64, slated to run bigger ...

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 ...

But the best-known of Nintendo's Japan-only hardware has to be the 64DD—as in, the disk-drive attachment for the Nintendo 64 that landed with a whopping thud in Japan in 1999. Former Sierra ga ...

This year, another Nintendo unicorn was found via Craigslist. Does the 64DD ring any bells? We’ll forgive you if you totally forgot about this failure of an expansion device which was slapped on ...

The Nintendo 64DD, also known as the 64 Disk Drive, never came out in the U.S., but someone has found a prototype unit that proves the company was well into testing the hardware for this market.

And since it's region locked, it won't even run Japanese 64DD games. Lindsey managed to get in contact with Mark DeLoura, a former Nintendo lead engineer that worked on the hardware during its ...