P-Lists #002 – N64 Games
- By P-Wing
- September 29, 2018
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#002- N64 Games
The Nintendo 64! What a machine! For many it was the first glimpse at what gaming could be! It was also one heck of a local multiplayer monster. Often times the library of the N64 is considered lacking but is that REALLY the case? List your favorite N64 games! Together we can reveal the library’s true potential!
Top Picks!
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P-Wing’s Top Picks!
Apple, Rinkin & Steph’s Pick – Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
As a young boy, Link is tricked by Ganondorf, the King of the Gerudo Thieves. The evil human uses Link to gain access to the Sacred Realm, where he places his tainted hands on Triforce and transforms the beautiful Hyrulean landscape into a barren wasteland. Link is determined to fix the problems he helped to create, so with the help of Rauru he travels through time gathering the powers of the Seven Sages.
Steps & Christopherzilla’s Pick – Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 (1996)
Mario is super in a whole new way! Combining the finest 3-D graphics ever developed for a video game and an explosive sound track, Super Mario 64 becomes a new standard for video games. It’s packed with bruising battles, daunting obstacle courses and underwater adventures. Retrieve the Power Stars from their hidden locations and confront your arch nemesis – Bowser, King of the Koopas!
Refia’s Pick – Nintendo’s Star Fox 64 (1997)
The Lylat system has been invaded! Join Fox McCloud and his Star Fox team as they fight to save the galaxy from the clutches of the evil Andross. Travel to many different 3-D worlds. Battle the enemy in the air and on the ground and listen in as Fox McCloud interacts with a cast of characters.
Barbaloot’s Pick – HAL’s Super Smash Bros. (1999)
It’s a Bumpin’, Bruisin’, Brawlin’ Bash! The many worlds of Nintendo collide in the ultimate showdown of strength and skill! Up to four players can choose their favorite characters – complete with signature attacks – and go at it in Team Battles and Free-For-Alls. Or venture out on your own to conquer the 14 stages in single-player mode. Either way, Super Smash Bros. is a no-holds-barred action-fest that will keep you coming back for more!
ladyjuice’s Pick – Rareware’s Diddy Kong Racing (1997)
Timber the Tiger’s parents picked a fine time to go on vacation. When they come back, they’re going to be faced with an island trashed by the spiteful space bully Wizpig – unless the local animals can do something about it! So join Diddy Kong as he teams up with Timber the Tiger, Pipsy the Mouse and Taj the Genie in an epic racing adventure unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before!
Mock’s Pick – Konami’s Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (1998)
A giant UFO has appeared over Oedo Castle, and the Mystical Ninja is off to save the world again! Control Goemon and his giant robot, Impact, Ebisimaru, a truly twisted ninja, Yae, the part-time militant mermaid, and Sasuke, a mechanical warrior. This brave band must travel from town to town, collecting information and purchasing helpful items in their quest to defeat the dreaded Peach Mountain Shoguns.
Gamblor & jyank’s Pick – Nintendo’s 1080° Snowboarding (1998)
You’re taking a Tahoe 155 snowboard down a steep, bumpy incline at night and you’re about to top off an Indy Nosebone with a 360 Air, and you haven’t even left your living room! You’re playing 1080 (Ten Eighty) Snowboarding, a game so intense you’ll be brushing the snow off your goggles. With five different boarders, eight different Lamar snowboards, more than 25 tricks, a Half-Pipe and six different courses, this is as close as you’ll get to the real thing without hopping on the next ski lift.
Rawk’s Pick – Treasure’s Mischief Makers (1997)
Professor Theo has been kidnapped by the imperial forces of the evil empire. Now his robotic personal assistant, Marina Liteyears, must save the day! Marina will get some help from the troops who have remained loyal to King Aster. With their help, she’ll grab, shake and throw her way to the Professor! Besides rescuing the Professor, Marina will also join in the effort to rebel against that nasty, horrible and evil empire. So, Grab a controller and help our Super Heroine shake up the evil empire!
Brad’s Pick – Insomniac Games’ Unreleased Spyro Port (xxxx)
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kuro’s Pick – LucasArts’ Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996)
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… As Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance struggle to defeat Darth Vader and the Empire, a new threat arises. Dark Prince Xizor, head of the Black Sun crime syndicate, aspires to take Darth Vader’s place at the Emperor’s side. To do that, he must eliminate young Skywalker. As Dash Rendar, it’s up to you to protect Luke and help the Alliance defeat the evil Xizor. Watch out for infamous bounty hunters and deadly stormtroopers! May the Force be with you!
gamma’s Pick – Intelligent Systems’ Paper Mario (2001)
Mario pals around in an all-new action adventure! Mario’s back in his first adventure since Super Mario 64, and this time, Bowser’s bent on preventing a storybook ending. When Princess Peach is kidnapped, Mario plots to rescue the seven Star Spirits and rid the Mushroom Kingdom of Koopa’s cruel cohorts. As he travels from the tropical jungles of Lavalava Island to the frosty heights of Shiver Mountain, he’ll meet up with seven all-new companions… and he’ll need help from each one or there’ll be no happily ever after.
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These years were very fond for me as a gamer… The nostalgia is unmatched because the promise and wonder were through the dang window at the time! Plus i was young and naive… anyway here is my top 5 list!
1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Even if the 3DS Remake is just completely better and the original n64 game runs slow and looks like a blurry mess I can’t deny that is it my favorite game ever!
2. Super Mario 64
3. Paper Mario
4. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
5. Perfect Dark
Wow I might need a while, the N64 library is too incredible I can’t just pick 5…
1. Mario 64
2. Super Smash Bros
3. Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
4. Starfox 64
5. Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask
just scratching the surface here
Ok ummm since the library is SO incredible, you’re gettin…whats that??? A top 10?? Top 25?? NO IT’S A GOD DAMN TOP 50 OH MY GOD
1. Starfox 64 – Let me start by saying this is NOT worse than the remake, my GOD did they botch the CLASSIC voice lines…hey genius I’m on your side??? GET OUTTA HERE ITS HEY EINSTEIN I’M ON YOUR SIDE!!!! DUH!!! But anyway what else is there to say? This game has nearly infinite replayability, the lines never get old (to me), and the secret paths and shit are epic. The first and last playable Star Fox game in the series. Jk but ummm sf1 and 2 aren’t that great and most of the series isn’t either, weird thing kinda sucks, I was hoping Zero would fix it but now its doomed to crossovers in Ubisoft games or w/e lmmmfao!!! Oh well can’t win em all!!! First game with rumble EVER RELEASED!!!! Gotta respect dat!!! And boy did it shake the house down!!!
2. Majora’s Mask – What needs to be said?? Epic game, shame they ruined it on the 3DS by destroyin the basic fundamentals of the game but ya know its a portable console what can ya do!!!! Epic characters, world, sidequests, atmosphere. Still pretty much the best dang Zelda game ever made.
3.Paper Mario – It’s freakin Paper Mario!!!! WTF!!!! Still one of the best ones and the new ones have been pretty disappointing but whatever!! This is the N64 and it’s simply Epic!!! Yes with a capital E no I didn’t just typo it and then leave it in!!! Hasn’t been beat!!! Except for the GCN one!!!
4. Sin and Punishment – WOW. This game is incredible. I played it for the first time on the Wii, and it was simply incredible. Pure shootin’ action. Every stage in this game feels epic. Treasure’s track record speaks for itself!!!! This game is always overlooked and it’s probably cause it only launched in Japan. No clue why!!! This game should be everywhere at all times!!! Cmon now!!
5. Kirby 64 – Where do I even start??? WTF??? Okay well FIRST of all no other Kirby game really pulled off the combos of powers like THIS bad boy did. You can mix n match any powers you want!!! AND it’s a freakin great Kirby game!!! Whoa!!! The secret final boss gave me nightmares as a young fellow, and there’s just nothin quite like the variety and design of this game in the rest of the series IMO. Hasn’t been beat!!!
6. Harvest Moon 64 – Wow. Just. Incredible. The best game in the series???? And it’s on N64??? This game is a freakin masterpiece and it’s still fun as hell to play. Everything people like about the series is here and it is fun as heck!!! Karen is here, horse racing is here, cool town is here, EVERYONE IS HERE!!! Jk it’s not Smash so u cant use that trademarked thing but ummm its simply addictive epic fun and never gets old. Hell. Yeah.
7. Ocarina of Time – You know it had to be here!!! Honestly I should just skip this one everyone else is gonna talk their face off bout it!!! Jk ummm it’s got a cool world and stuff and is still a fun game, and Adult Link’s world is pretty cool. Very solid Zelda game, but it feels worse than Majora’s Mask to me but hey that’s just how epic this system is, it has a game on it better than Ocarina of Time!!! ON THE SAME dang CONSOLE!!!
8. Pokemon Snap – Okay maybe this one isn’t that good, I don’t know, but I FREAKIN. LOVE IT. What a unique game concept shame they haven’t followed it up ever. Taking pictures of epic Pokemon??? Printing them out at my local Blockbuster??? Okay well you cant do that anymore unless u buy a machine n shit but still fun today!!!
9. Jet Force Gemini – This game is freakin incredible and honestly Rare was makin their best games ever on this thing. AMAZING worlds and fun gameplay that still holds up!!! Even though its a shoota!!! Some of the challenges are pretty hard too. I just love the atmosphere of this game and I could play it any time. It feels like the culmination of Rare’s other work into one EPIC game. Well ok a few games came out after that but this one is the best IMO. Also we don’t talk about DK64 round these parts!!!
10. Pokemon Puzzle League – WOW!!! TWO Pokemon games in here!!! Maybe Pokemon means quality??? Well ummm Sun n Moon exist and so does Pokemon Quest and Let’s Go Pikachu but ummm this is the GOOD OLD DAYS, back when Pokemon was only ONE thing: EPIC. This is still one of my favorite iterations of Panel De Pon, AND it has an animated intro! Very good gameplay and you can still go back and play it whenever. Puzzle games never go outta style!!!
(I’ll list the rest w/o qualifiers just cause it’ll take me way 2 long sry)
Now SOME of these might not really be exact some of the spots are really close and honestly I consider a lot of these pretty good still so dont freak out Mario 64 didnt make top 10 ok??? TY!!!
11. Super Mario 64
12. Banjo-Tooie
13. Goldeneye
14. Perfect Dark
15. Shadowgate 64: Trials of the Four Towers
16. Pokemon Stadium 2
17. The World is Not Enough
18. Super Smash Bros.
19. Mischief Makers
20. Rayman 2: The Great Escape
21. Shadow Man
22. Mario Golf
23. Mario Party 3
24. Banjo-Kazooie
25. Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
26. Resident Evil 2
27. Pokemon Stadium
28. Wave Race 64
29. Mario Kart 64
30. Star Wars Episode 1: Racer
31. Bomberman Hero
32. F-Zero X
33. Space Station Silicon Valley
34. Densha de Go! 64
35. Diddy Kong Racing
36. Bomberman 64 (1997)
37. 1080 Snowboarding
38. Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
39. International Superstar Soccer 64
40. Mario Party 2
41. Snowboard Kids 2
42. Mario Tennis
43. Yoshi’s Story
44. Dr. Mario 64
45. Pilotwings 64
46. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
47. Mario Party
48. Chameleon Twist 2
49. Beetle Adventure Racing!
50. Glover
Games I played some of but not a lot and might be on here otherwise – Shiren the Wanderer 2, Doshin the Giant, Conker’s Bad Fur Day
Now SOME of these are multiplats but most of em aren’t so stop whinin!!! Jk I love u all! Even the ppl that dont love me!!!
No DK64??? Yeah it sucks heh!!! Sorry just my gamerpinion!!!
Oh yeah if u want me to wax poetic about any of 11-50 just ask me and I’ll type a thing!!! heh!!
Please spin a yarn about the sublime Beetle Adventure Racing!
ok well u would THINK this game is just some cheapo throwaway third party racing game, BUT it’s got really good controls and fun tracks, and a fun multiplayer mode where u can launch missiles n shit at each otha while you get ladybugs (or beetles i guess heh!!!)
What do you mean it only has one type of car in it??? When you start with the most epic one that’s all ya need!!!
There were other weird powerups too like i think theres one where you mess with other players’ screens n shit that’s pretty epic. It’s just a dang solid game!!! Honestly its probably objectively better as a racing game than Mario Kart 64 but I got da nostalgia!!!
There are a ton of shortcuts and the courses were huge iirc. Surprising game.
The shortcuts are what allows legitimate use of “Adventure” in the title, truly amazing shortcuts on every course!
I loved Turok Dinosaur Hunter… I rented it a lot. Let’s hear a yarn about this beaut.
Hell yeah gamer!!!
Well the draw distance is only like 2 inches in front of ur eyeballs, but let me tell ya, it just added to the atmosphere for me!!! A dino or guy running at u or animal or who knows what could fuck your shit up instantly at any moment!!! Epic horror game!! Jk but umm its weapons all felt really solid to me, especially the one thats like a wand u charge up that I forgot the name of!!! Oh and there was an epic comic in the manual too!!! Shootin dinos with guns!!! Epic!! Like Monster Hunter except less fun!! Still epic though very fun game!!
Oh yeah and I liked at the time how you could overlay a minimap of the area at any time without pausing or anything so I never got taken out of the action!!
If you were on the fence before just take a moment to listen to this lil bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ouebDoA3U
I loved this game and I played it a whole bunch…
1. Smash 64
2. Star Fox 64
3. Mario 64
4. Mario Kart 64
5. Paper Mario
sm64 and banjo
Man the late 90’s were great, and the N64 was there to make them amazing!
You could actually go to a business that would let you borrow a physical production copy of nearly any video game of your choice for a small fee. You could take it home for the weekend, or sometimes even an entire week! This is why when we talk about the N64 library, we don’t talk about the top 5, or the top 10, we talk about the TOP 50!
You didn’t NEED to read 20 different reviews and watch 5 different let’s play videos (actually, there was no youtube!) before making a wallet-busting decision about which games to throw $80 at and permanently add to your collection – just take $6 down to the ol’ Roger’s Video (or Blockbuster for the USA folks in here) on a Friday night, and form your own gamerpinions!
Nowadays you have Ubisoft and EA spending zillions of dollars making boring crap guaranteed to sell, just to make their investors richer. In contrast, the N64 era was the wild-west of 3D game development, developers could just throw any crazy idea at the wall to see if it would stick! Creativity was at a peak not seen since.
Now that you’re firmly entranced and mentally transported to the world of this whimsical gaming dynasty, let’s get to the list!
1. Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon!
– This game captures the true spirit of the N64. A grand fully realized 3D adventure with a ridiculous plot and period setting. These days you only get to pick 2 of those things at best. Every N64 game had a terrible camera, so you can’t really complain about it here. We’ll be able to replay OOT and all the other big-name N64 games on future consoles for decades to come, leaving Mystical Ninja as one of the golden pillars of the physical N64 library. It’s got hilarious dialogue, with an amazing soundtrack, beautiful graphics, and inspired art direction. Add it to your collection, now!
2. Super Mario 64
– I’ll never forget the feeling, running through the bob-omb battlefield for the first time. An all-encompassing euphoria envelops you, by the time you run over the first bridge up to the second plateau you know that you’re actually playing one of the greatest gaming masterpieces of all-time. Mario runs and turns on a dime, your N64 control stick is still tight and responsive, the music plants you firmly in the Mushroom Kingdom and everything just feels right. You make your way up to the top of the mountain, around every turn a new challenge to test your 3D abilities – Nintendo doesn’t need to give you a lengthy text-tutorial, they set you loose on this new world and you just FEEL your way to success. You finally reach the top to face king bob-omb, never before has defeating the first boss in a game felt so rewarding. This feeling of discovery and conquest continues throughout the rest of the game as you tease out star-hints and gradually move on to conquer some of the most punishing 3D platforming available. In a word: Rewarding!
3. Goldeneye 007
– The game that solidified so many friendships and sparked so many rivalries in the game-rooms of the time. Some may point to Mario Kart 64, but this is the title that truly justified the inclusion of 4 controller ports on the machine. Get a pile of junk food, 3-6 friends, and watch the afternoon hours blend into the early morning in a fog pure elation and competitive spirit. The multiplayer side of the game could be sold separately, today, and command the full asking price of a AAA title, but Goldeneye on the N64 also had an inspired single-player campaign too! Real missions, with complex objectives never seen in an FPS, three difficulty levels. Every mission is memorable, there is no fluff here. After you’ve beat the game (or before, whenever you please), go back and take on the time trials to unlock RIDICULOUS cheats. Remember cheats? WTF happened to those? This is just a fun game, period.
4. Wave Race 64
– The N64 was initially a laughing stock with her five piddly launch games…WHO CARES? One of them is the top 3D platformer of all time, and another one is the premiere water-based racing game available, even today! After you sit willingly watching the title screen and grooving to the theme for what seems like a glorious eternity, you finally get to the racing… Welcome to, Sunny Beach! dadadadadaa da daaa daaaaaa! What are these magical sounds? Am I in paradise? WHRRRRRRRR! MAXIMUM POWER! YOU’RE IN FIRST! EVERYBODY’S BEHIND YOU!
Wait I’m getting ahead of myself – just look at the water physics here! This is an N64 game?! Has any game even nailed this since? Not even the Gamecube sequel feels this good. These waves toss you around like a boneless slab of meat, you must overcome the furious might of the SEA and three other merciless opponents to win. As usual for a Nintendo game, the difficulty curve is absolutely perfect, you’ll start in the calm undulations of Sunny Beach, gradually taming your machine and mastering the ferocious tempests of Port Blue and wicked shortcuts of Southern Island.
Playing Wave Race 64 is analogue to going on a pleasant beach vacation, it’s that simple.
5. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
– This has technically been a top 5 so far, but honestly it’s like a 5-way tie for first. This game totally engrosses you, even 20 years later you find yourself whistling the Lost Woods tune at work as you coast through your meaningless human existence. Ocarina melodies make up the subconcious of your being. All day you just want to break free and run through Hyrule Field to your next adventure. The graphics during the N64 era are not always the most detailed, so you end up filling in the blanks with your imagination – the world in this game, that you remember after playing, is not made of a few polygons and shit textures, it is a real living thing.
Castle Town after the rise of Ganondorf is scarier than any Resident Evil or Silent Hill scene. The Water Temple is a place you’ve literally explored with every friend who has asked for your help in it. You’ve actually stood on Bongo Bongo’s drum in that dark dark nightmare scene. You have felt uncomfortably warm exploring the fire temple. Lazily farting around Lon Lon Ranch makes you pine for simpler times. I could go on, this game is widely considered the greatest of all-time for all the right reasons.
6. Super Smash Bros.
– Let’s get back to the core of the initial write-up. Creativity and the drive to take big risks in development. Take all of Nintendo’s mascot characters – and mash them all up into a game – but not something easy like a kart racer or sports compilation – but a balanced fighting game where they use all their signature techniques!? Let’s be honest, of course we were hyped when we first heard about it, but this could have been an awful game.
This is a game that proves even the big-boys could take a punt at a risky proposition and end up creating one of the most beloved series of games known today. Mario feels like Mario, Link feels like Link, Samus like Samus, Kirby IS Kirby, all on one stage. Melee, as a sequel, completely embarrasses the original, but the original was amazing fun when you were huddled around that CRT with your buds.
7. Blast Corps
– Damnit I’ve come all the way down to #7 and we’re still talking about games that are top 3 material. Name another game where you drive around construction vehicles and pilot bright-yellow mechs, clearing a path for an out-of-control bright red nuclear missile carrier? This shit is INTENSE. Why do I have to use this poorly-weighted drifting-dumptruck when our team has that precision front-end loader at our disposal?! Somehow that damned missle carrier only drives in a straight line, but manages to tour every corner of an entire PLANET? WTF! This is Rareware at peak british madness, this game would NOT be made in 2018 as a full price release, no chance. It would be made as download-only, $10, 4 hour piece of crap – with the same graphics, and 1/8th the charm and polish. It’s no accident that this game (and other Rareware gems) are the only titles worth playing on Xbox One.
8. Pokemon Snap
– Another genre that will probably never be explored again – the on-rails photo safari. Here’s the 2018 pitch meeting for “Cabela’s and Nikon present: Tour Africa on a Monorail Big-Game Photo Safari” What do you mean we don’t get to plant a piece of lead in the creatures? We’re going to snap PHOTOS of them and get scored on composition and interest?! You’ve spent how many hours putting this demo together!?!?! You’ve convinced the juggernaut, Blockbuster video, to fail alongside you?! YOU’RE ALL FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!”
Even Nintendo had to think long and hard on this one, thankfully they have the brute force of the Pokemon franchise to squeak it into the annals of history. Everybody deserves a chance to play this game, it is great fun, and a real challenge that keeps you going back for more.
9. Pilotwings 64
– Today when we think of mainstream games, we think of titles like Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, God of War, Halo, DOOM, Dark Souls, Grand Theft Auto, Battlefield, etc. What do these all have in common? They’re putting forward the idea that games must be violent, if copious amounts of blood are not being shed, how can we make an entertaining game? This has never been a weakness of Nintendo, and I consider Pilotwings 64 to be the top example of this design philosophy. This is a chill game all the way to the core, fly through some rings, pop some balloons, land on a little target, and explore the USA to one of the most relaxing soundtracks in gaming history. There is one mission where some kind of angry robot is stomping around the place, but you genuinely feel bad for taking him down. Going for all the gold medals is a proper challenge, so while the game is often extremely docile, it can also make your palms sweat profusely! Only for N64!
10. Donkey Kong 64
– Couldn’t let the top 10 fly by without mentioning a collect-a-thon 3D platformer. It’s a tough choice between DK64 and Banjo-Kazooie, but DK64 just goes that little bit further for me. It is completely unrestrained game development, it nails the Donkey Kong atmosphere perfectly, and while frustrating at times, you can always go explore another area to cool down. LOADS of crap to collect, and you’re retreading these worlds more than any other 3D platformer or Metroidvania since. Controversial stuff, not everybody like this kind of gameplay. DK64 may even be responsible for killing the genre it’s that good!
It opens with the DK Rap, OK…some people expected it to be Donkey Kong Country moved to 3D just like Nintendo did for Mario and Zelda. Rare did not pull it off. Regardless, this is a hugely fun game! Haters gonna hate!
Similar to refia, 11-50 are not meticulously ranked, many of them might even make the top 10 on a different day, but they’re all entirely memorable and embody many of the same qualities present in the top 10 games!
11. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
12. Perfect Dark
13. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
14. Pokemon Stadium
15. Banjo-Kazooie
16. Castlevania 64
17. Killer Instinct Gold
18. Rocket: Robot on Wheels
19. Starfox 64
20. Paper Mario
21. The New Tetris
22. Diddy Kong Racing
23. Mario Kart 64
24. Mission: Impossible
25. Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
26. WWF: Attitude
27. Jet Force Gemini
28. NBA Hangtime!
29. Body Harvest
30. Excitebike 64
31. Beetle Adventure Racing
32. Ridge Racer 64
33. Shadow Man
34. The World Is Not Enough
35. Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
36. Mischief Makers
37. 1080 Snowboarding
38. Mario Party 2
39. Rayman 2: The Great Escape
40. Goemon’s Great Adventure
41. Buck Bumble
42. Chameleon Twist
43. Star Wars: Episode I Racer
44. Tetrisphere
45. Vigilante 8
46. World Driver Championship
47. Extreme-G 2
48. Bomberman Hero
49. F-Zero X
50. Forsaken 64
There are still many important titles I’ve yet to play, like Space Station Silicon Valley, Snowboard Kids, and even a couple memorable titles from my collection that don’t even make the top 50! Good god! The N64 is the gift that keeps on giving!
N64 is still my favorite 3D system and I think most of its games not only hold up well but are still bests in their genre. Every game made for the system was a full force 3D effort, not a bunch of budget shovelware games that look hideous like today. Everyone knows the obvious classics like Mario 64 and Majora’s Mask so I’d rather highlight the great games that aren’t talked about enough.
5) Conker’s Bad Fur Day – A video game that’s legitimately funny. There aren’t a lot of those. Rare was smart to slam the brakes on the generic Banjo Kazooie knockoff and turn it into a mature comedy with movie references and toilet jokes that actually make me laugh.
4) Excitebike 64 – A fantastic translation of the NES game. Left Field did a great job by modernizing the franchise with realistic 3D dirt bike tracks while keeping the gameplay similar to the NES game by making you have to pull back at the top of hills to jump higher. There are a lot of crappy modern sequels that just take the original and turn it 3D visually (like the shitty Excitebike track in Mario Kart 8), but Excitebike 64 stands tall like an AAA N64 game with maximum effort.
3) Beetle Adventure Racing – You’d think a licensed car game meant to sell Volkswagons would be garbage, but BAR has surprisingly great gameplay. Every race track is a lovingly crafted exotic environment full of secret paths and weapons that max out the potential of an N64 game. It’s one of the most popular and least-hidden hidden gems on any system.
2) WWF No Mercy – Still the best wrestling game ever made (although fire pro games are a close second). AKI got rid of the rapid button mashing and street fighter motions of older wrestling games and made simple one-button controls that’re easy to learn, like the Smash Bros of wrestling games. AKI’s WCW vs NWO and WCW/NWO Revenge were so popular that WWF enticed them to switch brands and make WWF games instead. This also coincided with the WWF Attitude era when it was at the peak of its popularity which makes WM2000 and No Mercy even bigger grand slams. All the AKI N64 games were great, but No Mercy stands on top with ladder matches and its much deeper create-a-wrestler mode. It still blows away the crappy WWE 2k games pumped out every year that are more like Acclaim’s WWF Warzone and Attitude games which were much less popular.
1) 1080 Snowboarding – Still the best snowboarding game ever made. It’s the only 3D snowboarding game that has deep, 3-dimensional gameplay and thinking. When your character launches into the air, you can tilt the angle of your character/board giving you a sense of freedom and realism, and if you don’t hit the slope at the appropriate angle (which is different depending how steep the current slope is) then your character will tumble. This requires way more skill than other snowboarding games where all you have to do is not be pressing a trick button and your character automatically snaps into a landing which is dumb and easy. On top of that, you also have to press the kick button when you hit the ground, like timing a Mario RPG attack with every jump. It’s as if the game designers actually snowboarded or something. This is the Citizen Kane of snowboarding games, the smartest and most rewarding. Killer soundtrack too. It’s a shame the Gamecube sequel dumbed down the landing for casuals.
The real 1) Superman 64 – ha ha I’m an edgelord.
Full-force 3D releases: brilliant comment, it is completely true. Making a 2D ugly-ass 8-bit nostalgia pixelart POS sidescroller like they release today 100x a week would have been suicidal at the time.
The N64 commanded a full-force effort from any team that had the balls to develop for it!
Hi gamers. I was more of a playstation guy at the time. But! It turns out there was a spyro port in the works for the N64 by Insomniac Games. So my one and only pick goes to the unreleased Spyro the Dragon. Thank you.
1. Spyro the Dragon
Guys, all you need to know, is that Professor Theo needs help, and Marina Liteyears is your girl to do this.
Rawk’s N64 recommendation: Mischief Makers. A 2-D sidescroller from Treasure that has aged better than most N64 shits. Play it, and yell out Yahoo! after every stage, even if the stage is only like 10 seconds long, as there are a few of those lmao.
And yes, the REAL Rawk approves this message.
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NINTENDOO SIXTEE FAAAHHHHRRRR!
not that good
just has mario and zelda
1. Paper Mario
2. Perfect Dark
3. Harvest Moon 64
4. Mario Party 2
5. Banjo Kazooie