Mario Artist Polygon Studio
The last in the Mario Artist series, and the final 64DD game. That said, it goes off on a high note as this model-making software has some interesting bonus modes. The software itself is a bit finnicky, and I found it difficult to…
Mario Artist Communication Kit
There’s not a lot that can be done with this software now, the main use for this was sharing your Mario Artist creations over Randnet. Without the internet, its main use is as a file management tool, providing a way to move data…
Doshin the Giant: Tinkling Toddler Liberation Front
This expansion to Doshin the Giant is truly bizarre. Essentially, it’s just a list of challenges for the first Doshin game, but the way it’s presented, and the disk swapping itself, is really quite strange. None of the stuff in this expansion was…
Japan Pro Golf Tour 64
The first – and last – third party game on the 64DD, made by Media Factory. It was available for sale for only two weeks from Nintendo of Japan’s website, with estimated sales between 3,000 and 10,000 copies. The gameplay feels like a…
Doshin the Giant
The second 64DD launch title was Doshin the Giant, a game that got a bit more attention when the GameCube version came out (and made it outside of Japan). The various Doshin projects are the works of developer Param, who made nothing else.…
Mario Artist Paint Studio
As this is the first 64DD game, I’ll talk a little bit about the device itself. It was an add-on to the N64 which would have provided a slot for a new kind of media: 64DD discs. These were sort of large floppy…