Favorite N64 Games

GAMING Video Games
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What were some of your favorite N64 games?

Mine:

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time; Just a great game full of big worlds to explore and nicely brought the series into the 3-D realm. One of my favorite games ever.

Goldeneye 007: Classic game from Rare’s glory years. They did a great job of recreating the film and replaying the game with various cheats was fun. The multiplayer was like video game crack.

Perfect Dark: Great follow-up to Goldeneye. Lots of fun levels involving aliens, Area 51, Air Force One, deep sea wrecks and huge skyscrapers with helicopters. The cheats and multiplayer were fun too.
Banjo-Kazooie: Sure, the game’s got a childish sheen to it, but it’s still lots of fun. I remember spending most of summer ‘98 playing this thing. The levels were vast and the secrets (magic spell books, for example) were fun to look for.
Super Smash Bros.: Fun game to play with friends or even by yourself. Maybe it’s dated due to the superior Gamecube sequel but it’s still fun to play.

Diddy Kong Racing/ Mario Kart: Just decided to lump them both in this spot since both are fun games. However, I’d say DK Racing was better since it gave us more levels and just more stuff to do.

Shadows of the Empire: One of the early games for the system. Had some fun levels (the opening Hoth battle, train level with IG-88, swoop biker race) and cool soundtrack.

Mario 64: Fun game with many levels to explore. I loved surfing on the shell and walking around as Metal Mario.

Rogue Squadron: Good game with lots of challenging missions. I liked the cheats where you could use the Millennium Falcon and the Tie Fighters.

1080 Snowboarding: Fun game with nice graphics and tracks.

Honorable mentions (Lots of other fun games): Star Fox 64, Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, Mario Party (1-3), NFL Blitz, Kobe Bryant NBA Courtside, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, and Bomberman 64.

Never played Paper Mario, but heard it was very good.

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I just got my first N64, it cost me $3, so I can’t answer this for sure yet. I do remember everyone playing Goldeneye though…

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This list begins and ends with Goldeneye. Nothing videogame related will ever beat the thrill of getting three friends together and having a drunken, pistols only, License to Kill marathon.

Actually, I was a big fan of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Perfect Dark as well. But Goldeneye was the alpha and omega.

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I love Goldeneye, but nothing will ever beat my love for Pilotwings 64.

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Mario Kart was hands down my favourite. So many hours lost playing that one. I even took the time to learn the cheats and beat my friends by jumping the bridge on Rainbow Road and turning around on the one snow map.

And Goldeneye is my second favourite. Duke Nukem: Zero Hour was fun but would never end so I gave up.

That’s about it.

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People who like Goldeneye better than Perfect Dark are in total denial. Perfect Dark had everything Goldeneye had, but better and much more of it.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll People who like Goldeneye better than Perfect Dark are in total denial. Perfect Dark had everything Goldeneye had, but better and much more of it.

Except a good framerate.

That and the Goldeneye stages had better replay value for me. Other than that, you’re right. The laptop gun alone makes it a better game.

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Castlevania Legacy of Darkness. Still not what it should’ve been, but a vast improvement over the blandness of Castlevania 64.

Also, Majora’s Mask continues to be VERY underrated.

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I loved Majora’s Mask and me and friends never, ever, got tired of going against a team of Dark Bots on Perfect Dark with Super Dragons, Magnums, Bouncing Grenades and Laptop Guns.

It’s a shame that no other multiplayer shoot em up has been able to capture the intensity of that game.

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Originally Posted by Brendan Duke Nukem: Zero Hour was fun but would never end so I gave up.

It ended eventually. I loved that game. I never got into the PC Duke games but “Zero Hour” was a complete blast.

“Perfect Dark” was the last cool game I remember playing on the N64 before the PS2 was released and I pretty much let the console collect dust. But it never led to the hours of endless multiplayer mayhem that “Goldeneye” provided me.

The first game that hooked me on the system was “Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey.” I never played much of anything during the Super Nintendo/Genesis era so to go from the shitty 8-bit Gretzky game to the N64 game was a real revelation.

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Anyone else played Hybrid Heaven? It was this amazing action/fighting/RPG where you learned different moves and battled in real-time 3D arenas. I played the shit out of that one, even though my lack of memory card meant I had to start over at the beginning everytime I played.

That’s hardcore right there.

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Well GoldenEye was one of the favs but here goes:

WrestleMania/No Mercy
Former wrestling fan. The game was fun.

Mario 64
Umm no explaination

Mortal Kombat Trilogy
While the PS version was better, the ability to have Shang Tsung load anyone without loading made the game better at least for me.

Star Fox 64
Basically the first game I played with rumble.

Superman 64
No wait, this is a lie.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll Anyone else played Hybrid Heaven? It was this amazing action/fighting/RPG where you learned different moves and battled in real-time 3D arenas. I played the shit out of that one, even though my lack of memory card meant I had to start over at the beginning everytime I played. That’s hardcore right there.

Loved that game. Hard as hell at the end though. It got to the point where I had a leg of doom which could kill most enemies with a well placed kick…and utterly crappy arms.

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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall Loved that game. Hard as hell at the end though. It got to the point where I had a leg of doom which could kill most enemies with a well placed kick…and utterly crappy arms.

Yeah, my right leg was to be feared among lizard men everywhere. It certainly wasn’t balanced in that regard.

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There was an alien ant blasting game I remember having alot of fun with.

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Jet Force Gemini. Great game until you beat the main boss for the first time and realise that instead of giving you new levels, they’re just going to make you go back to the old ones for fetching quests that were so popular of the platformers of the time (Banjo Kazooie!).

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Yeah but Jet Force Gemini allowed you to behead Ewoks with Shruikens.

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And keep track of how many ewok heads you collected, true. That’s why I still look back at it fondly, even though it had terrible slowdown and a boring second half.

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Jet Force Gemini was also hard as fuck.

The N64 had the best Resident Evil 2 port in existence. Never minding that, through black magic, they managed to get FMVs on a cartridge, it had the best graphics, and was the only one to get rid of the tank-tread survival horror controls.

In the same vein, Ridge Racer 64 was the last time that series would ever be good.

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I may be the only person in Existence who dug Donkey Kong 64.

It was the rap, it did terrible things to my mind.