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Some N64 games needed a red RAM upgrade

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Selling a console that literally cannot run its best titles without a mandatory upgrade is a bold corporate strategy. Certain demanding cartridges required players to pry open a flap on top of the machine and violently wedge in a little red Expansion Pak block just to acquire the four extra megabytes of RAM needed to render anything.

Some N64 games needed a red RAM upgrade
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