Donkey Kong 64 will always have a special place in my heart. The fucking problem with Nintendo is they've dropped the whole RPG, platformer and other good genre elements to appeal to family games, party games and games that train your brain, body and other dumb shit.
Nintendo did the corporately correct thing. They backed off from the market that would have eaten them alive and started to appeal to the other gamer that time left behind. This is all good in money-sense. None of the other consoles can be enjoyed thoroughly by all-ages like the Wii can but to gamers that grew up with Nintendo, knowing it was better than the Playstation, the Dreamcast and the xbox, it was a massive disappointment to see that they'd thrown in the towel making these types of games, to start franchising motion-sensing sports, only to release a good game every two years or so.