Sorry for taking so long to reply. At least I've been able to remember that I wanted to.
I can play StarCraft 64 with the N64 controller with ease, but I can understand it if you would have a harder time, being so used to a mouse and keyboard. Blizzard made incredible use of the array of buttons on that controller, and moving the cursor around with the control stick is quite easy and effective once you get used to it. I think it may be the only N64 game I've played that uses every single button/direction without repeating anything (the D-pad and control stick do very different things, for example).
Something that I like about playing games on consoles is that you just don't have to worry about the kinds of things that you do with a computer, such as installation, maintenance, crashing, etc. That said, GoldenEye 007 did freeze on a friend and myself once when we had too many cheats and weird things whirling around at once and making the game go psycho.
There might be an option to R-click or something similar that does the same thing as double-clicking in StarCraft. It's been awhile, so I don't remember exactly.
You don't know freedom until you've just left your bases to take care of themselves while you go around with 18 Battle Cruisers and lay waste to everything. It's fun.
Yeah, you seem like the type who would be too skilled to bother with cheats.
While split-screen play with an RTS may seem pointless to you, it is a great second best when you don't have the option of playing multiplayer with multiple computers that you don't have. Well, that's how it was in my WCII, pre-Battle.net days. Because of online gaming this should no longer be an issue—except that I'm deathly scared of it (for a reason I've stated several times). Anyway, I spent many enjoyable hours with SC64's multiplayer mode.
Ah, nice way to end your post. It's like what an Asian friend of mine once said to me about chopsticks: "It doesn't really matter how you hold chopsticks as long as you can pick up food."
Why "e3"??
