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All N64 Games #176: Goemon’s Great Adventure

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

While this was called “Mystical Ninja 2 Starring Goemon”, I’ll be sticking with the US name of “Goemon’s Great Adventure” as it’s very different from the first game

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #175: South Park

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

When it comes to replaying old games, the worst ones to get through aren’t the bad games, but rather those that are just immensely boring, and unfortunately South Park is one of the most boring games I’ve ever played

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #174: Mario Party

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

The start of one of Mario’s most successful – and most plentiful in terms of games – spin-offs. Mario Party is a board game combined with a large amount of minigames. The first one is the simplest, but sometimes simple can be best.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #173: AI Shoghi 3

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

The AI Shogi series had yearly releases from 1996 to 1998, each one being on a different platform: the 3DO, PlayStation and then N64.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #172: Virtual Pool 64

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Virtual Pool 64 doesn’t have a fancy title because is isn’t anything fancy. Instead, it focuses on recreating the game of pool as well as possible.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #171: Hey You, Pikachu!

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Hey You, Pikachu! took almost two years to make it from Japan to the USA, and never came out in Europe. This was mainly due to the Voice Recognition Unit that came with the game – which is essentially a microphone were you could say words for Pikachu to understand.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #170: Doraemon 2: Nobita and the Temple of Light

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

While the first N64 Doraemon game was a 3D platformer, this is more like Goemon: a game with an overworld and dungeons, but the dungeons being more focused on platforming when compared to Zelda.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #169: Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Turok makes a return, and in this one Iguana seemed to have listened to some complaints of the first one and paid some attention to GoldenEye.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #168: FIFA 99

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

While a lot of sports games, even in the N64 era, feel like iterations of the same game, the FIFA games on N64 are surprisingly distinct.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #167: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Rogue Squadron is a ship combat game, but goes for controls that are much easier to get to grips with than the more simulation-like X-Wing/TIE Fighter series.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #166: V-Rally: Edition 99

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

The graphics are very impressive for the N64, with the road itself having a lot of detail, cars that don’t look like boxes and good trackside detail.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #165: S.C.A.R.S.

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

SCARS stands for Super Computer Animal Racing Simulator. While it does seem like a random assortment of words to spell a “cool” word, the game is built around the concept of a computer simulation and the cars are all based on animals.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #164: Starshot: Space Circus Fever

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Starshot looks like a fun game. It has a very whacky story and fun looking characters. You play as Starshot, designed to be an emotionless super soldier but he gained a conscience and joined a struggling space circus.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #163: Getter Love: Panda Love Unit

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

I was surprised, then, that Getter Love appears to be a game with rather complex board game mechanics.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #162: NBA Jam 99

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

After playing a few Basketball games on the N64, I don’t think that the proper rules of basketball translate very well to a video game. It’s focuses on blocking with any attempt to get the ball off an opponent counting as a foul.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #161: Mario’s Photo Studio

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Mario’s Photo Studio (or Mario no Photopi) is a photo editing software for the N64 that was exclusive to Japan. It used a special cartridge that had slots to insert SecureMedia cards, which were presumably popular with digital camera in Japan at the time.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #160: Freak Boy

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Virgin Interactive really wanted to get onto Nintendo’s “Dream Team” – a group of developers that got special treatment because Nintendo were interested in their projects. However, they could not come up with anything that they thought was special enough.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #159: Golden Nugget 64

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

I was very intrigued to see Westwood when this game booted up. Looking it up, and this is the first game developed by Burst Studios after EA purchased them and rebranded them as “Westwood Pacific” (they would later make Red Alert 2).

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #158: Bust-A-Move 3 DX

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

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.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #157: Nightmare Creatures

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Nightmare Creatures is a port of an earlier PlayStation title that really is a bit too authentic of a port. When this was released on the N64, it already felt very dated and really needed improvements. It’s a horror slash-’em-up set in 1834 in London.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago