I got an N64 at launch. A friend turned me on to a deal at Service Merchandise, where a computer error listed them at like $49.99, so I preordered one. I picked it up, and it turned out they had to honor the price. So I got my launch system for $50, and I got a Mario 64 to go with it. That was $69.99 at the time.. I paid more for the first game than I did for the console.
The lack of good titles early on caused me to sell my system off, but I bought another around the time Rogue Squadron came out. It got most of its play from titles like Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie and Zelda. It became indespensible to my group when the AKI WWF wrestling titles started coming out. They were the multiplayer games of choice, and no other current wrestling game has garnered that kind of attention inside my circle of friends.
Overall, it was a solid but underlooked console. It deserved better software than it got.