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Every game on the Nintendo 64 Console
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Every single Star Trek video game and board game.
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All board games and video games for Sonic the Hedgehog
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Rocket: Robot on Wheels
When developing their first game, Sucker Punch had a lot of faith in Sprocket (the original name for Rocket, before trademarks got in the way). When pitching the game, they impressed some developers, including EA wanting to take them on board to make…
Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!
There are some amazing film tie-in games, there are some terrible film tie-in game, but for the most part, they’re mainly alright but dull games – and Toy Story 2 is no exception. The nicest idea is something you’ll see very early on…
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
A boxing game centred around the famous “lets get ready to rumble” boxing/wrestling catchphrase. This starts of with a song that samples the original line (not the Ant & Dec song unfortunately) and takes a far more cartoony approach to boxing, with a…
NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC
While there have been “NBA Jam” games on the N64, they’ve not been much like the original NBA Jam – instead the actual gameplay sequel to NBA Jam was NBA Hangtime. Following on from that is NBA Showtime, which brings the format into…
Elmo’s Letter Adventure
Elmo’s Letter Adventure is a Sesame Street themed edutainment game, and one that’s rather quite bizarre due to how overly simplistic it is. The objective in each level is to find the same letter over and over again. You walk over and press…
NBA Courtside 2 Featuring Kobe Bryant
This is the best basketball game on the N64, and I don’t expect it to be beaten by any of the ones I’ve got left to play. Yet, despite that, there really isn’t a huge amount to say about it. This is a…
Pro Mahjong Soldier 64: Mahjong Parlor Battle Challenge
The translation of the title is a tricky one. Tsuwamono (ツワモノ) strictly translates to “soldier” but from what I can tell, it’s also slang that in this context means something like a “strong or stubborn player”. Anyway, this is another Mahjong game on…
Hanafuda 64: An Angel’s Promise
Nintendo have a long history with Hanafua – they produced cards long, long before video games existed. While it doesn’t directly link to this game, it’s still worth noting. Hanafua is a set-matching card game where you are trying to build “seasons” of…
Earthworm Jim 3D
Earthworm Jim is known mainly for his two mediocre 2D platformers on the Mega Drive/SNES. These were both elevated due to their style and sense of humour, with lots of new stuff happening all the time. A completely new team handled his jump…
Supercross 2000
The Supercross series had been released on PlayStation for a while, with this being the first one to make its way to the N64. Even so, out of all the games I’ve played before (including multiple ports of PS1 games), this is the…
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 2 was originally a game with the PlayStation in mind. It came on two discs, with heavy usage of large textures and full motion video. So it’s a marvel that Angel Studios, with help from multiple Capcom teams and Factor 5…
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
With how both Rayman 2 and Tonic Trouble were developed by UbiSoft and released so close to each other, it’s amazing how different they are in terms of quality. It seems like the Tonic Trouble team spoke about everything they had trouble with…
NBA Live 2000
Another average sports game. This one doesn’t do much to improve the gameplay of the previous year, and the CPU is far too perfect at the game, being amazing at both offense and defence while you struggle with both. It feels slow, clunky…
Super Robot Wars 64
Super Robot Wars is a series of turn-based tactical games very similar to Advance Wars (or Famicom Wars, as it was originally called). It’s a kind of game that I’m awful at, even when I can read all the stats and options. As…
Carmageddon 64
8% is the lowest review score N64 Magazine ever gave, and it went to Carmageddon 64. It’s a bit of a shame, as the concept could lead to a good game, but the N64 version itself has lots of its own particular issues.…
Noctiluca II: Murder Route
I didn’t expect to be able to play much of Noctiluca II, as it’s a fairly simple choose your own adventure game with a lot of Japanese text. Google Lens did a decent job of translating the text, so I was able to discover…
WWF WrestleMania 2000
After doing well with the WcW vs NCO games, AKI and THQ managed to get the big wrestling license: WWF. Focusing on the big Wrestlemania event, AKI brought over everything they learned from their previous games and improved upon it, making fights feel…
South Park: Chef’s Luv Shack
The second South Park game, this one is a quiz show with a handful of minigames. N64 Magazine loved it, yet it got panned elsewhere. One immediate problem with the game is that it allows you to play on your own, but has…
LEGO Racers
LEGO and racing is a combination that really works well together. The various LEGO themes (especially before they got into licensed stuff) provides a lot of different settings and the customisable aspect helps give a bit of personality. In LEGO Racers you can…