
The processing power of the Nintendo 64, however, was not enough to render these environments at a steady framerate. This version would have had a unique 3D terrain system, created by stretching out the polygons.

Early design of the bear character, who would evolve into Banjo.ĭevelopment on the Nintendo 64 version started on the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive, in which the game would have switched to a 3D RPG game in the same vein as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (which was also still in development at the time).
