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All N64 Games #26: Star Fox 64 / Lylat Wars

Friday, 09 Aug 2024

Star Fox 64 (or Lylat Wars as I knew it as a kid, as it was called such in Europe) is a fast-paced on-rails shooter made by Nintendo.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #25: Mahjong 64

Friday, 09 Aug 2024

The N64’s second Mahjong game. This one has you graduating a Mahjong school rather than competing against against increasingly skilled players.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #24: DOOM 64

Friday, 09 Aug 2024

A name like DOOM 64 gives the impression that this is a port of the popular DOOM – especially as the original game did get a lot of ports.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #23: J.League Live 64

Friday, 09 Aug 2024

J.League Live 64 is essentially FIFA 64 for the Japanese J.League. However, it does have notable differences from the Western version of the game

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #22: F1 Pole Position

Friday, 09 Aug 2024

A racing simulation game about Formula 1. This features real racers and tracks, and a lot of options in terms of customising your car.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #21: Doraemon: Nobita and the Three Fairy Spirit Stones

Friday, 09 Aug 2024

Doraemon is a very popular anime/manga character. I’ve definitely seen the robo cat’s design before. The first N64 outing took inspiration from Super Mario 64

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #20: Blast Corps

Thursday, 08 Aug 2024

This game takes a silly concept and just has a ton of fun with it. The story is simple: there is a nuclear missile being transported on an automated truck. The truck malfunctions and heads to a location in a straight line. If it collides with anything, it will explode. Your mission is to destroy everything in its path.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #19: Power Pros Baseball 4

Thursday, 08 Aug 2024

Another Japanese only baseball game, this time from the long running Power Pros series, with its bobblehead style design and rather charming graphics.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #18: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

Thursday, 08 Aug 2024

The Nintendo 64’s first first person shooter is in some ways what you would expect from first person shooters in the early N64 days – something along the lines of Doom and Quake, but focusing a bit more on movement

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #17: FIFA 64

Thursday, 08 Aug 2024

When I was younger, I used to be very much into football, the era of the football games I’ve been playing will have the players I remember in them

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #16: NBA Hangtime

Thursday, 08 Aug 2024

The Nintendo 64’s first basketball is a straight up arcade conversion, which means there’s nothing to the game except matches and very few options.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #15: Mahjong Master

Thursday, 08 Aug 2024

In English speaking countries, Mahjong is known as a solitaire tile matching game. This simple game is actually just one of many variants of Mahjong

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #14: J.League Perfect Striker

Thursday, 08 Aug 2024

J.League Perfect Striker is essentially the N64’s first version of International Superstar Soccer

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #13: King of Pro Baseball

Thursday, 08 Aug 2024

Hey batter batter…or something. Baseball is a sport I know very little about, although the basic rules seem pretty simple to figure out, and quite similar to a sport I’ve played in school called Rounders.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #12: Mario Kart 64

Thursday, 08 Aug 2024

Part of me was dreading replaying this. I have a lot of fond childhood memories of Mario Kart 64, but is it’s something that still holds up today?

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #11: Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

Thursday, 08 Aug 2024

Shadows of the Empire was a big “Expanded Universe” multimedia event with this story getting a novel, soundtrack (for the novel), comic book, toys and, of course, a video game.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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All N64 Games #10: Cruis'n USA

Wednesday, 07 Aug 2024

The first road-based racing game on the N64. I remember this being panned in magazines, but surely not much can go wrong with something as simple as a racing game, especially one that Nintendo themselves published?

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

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