Dr. Mario 64
Dr. Mario is a long-running puzzle series that started off on the NES, and even inspired a similar game from Nintendo called Tetris 2. In…
Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness
In trying to escape its arcade roots, the Pac-Man series tried multiple things: a puzzle game, a bizarre point & click adventure, shoving Pac-Man into…
Pokémon Puzzle League
The lack of a Japanese release for this is interesting for a few reasons. For starters, it is one of the few (if only, alongside…
Puyo Puyo~n Party
Also known as Puyo Puyo 4 (I can only guess that the ~n is partly due to Japanese superstitions about the number 4), this brings…
The New Tetris
The “big” Tetris game for N64 starts off extremely promising. There’s a great opening video to a slowed down version of THE Tetris theme. Then…
Shadowgate 64: Trials of the Four Towers
The Shadowgate series is rather strange. While they all have a strong focus on puzzles, they like to be different styles. The original was a…
Charlie Blast’s Territory
I’m going to start off by talking about a seemingly unrelated series of games: The Crazy Castle games. They started off with a Roger Rabbit…
Lode Runner 3-D
Lode Runner is a long-going puzzle series that still has the odd release now, although most seem to be updated version of the original. The…
Vivid Dolls
A game running on Seta’s N64-based Aleck 64 arcade cabinet, this is something that Nintendo probably wouldn’t have allowed on the N64 itself – a…
Bust-A-Move 3 DX
Known as Bust-A-Move 99 in the USA and Puzzle Bobble 64 in Japan, this is a home console port of the third Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move game.…