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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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #156: NHL Breakaway 99

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

NHL Breakaway 98 was a very bland ice hockey game that paled in comparison to Wayne Gretzky – plenty of room for improvement, then.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #155: Legend of the River King 64

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Nushi Tsuri is a series of fishing RPGs that were released between 1990 and 2007. A few games have received western releases under the name Legend of the River King on the Game Boy and Game Boy Colour. Some of the later games were called River King in North America, but Harvest Fishing in Europe.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #154: Milo’s Astro Lanes

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Milo’s Astro Lanes sounds like a fun concept. Take the quick and speedy game of bowling, add some elements of the just as nippy mini golf, add some power ups and mix it all in a retro sci-fi aesthetic.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #153: Top Gear Overdrive

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

The Top Gear series of racing games is a bit like Need For Speed in terms of how it can cover a variety of different racing game styles. While Top Gear Rally was a more simulation-based racing game, this is more on the arcade side of things

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #152: Fox Sports College Hoops ’99

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Instead of opting for the fully professional basketball teams, Fox Sports instead went to the various colleges and universities to include their teams (but the players are all fictional).

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #151: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Often heralded as one of the greatest games of all time, I really don’t need to go into great detail as to what makes Ocarina of Time so amazing, as it provided one of the first epic adventures in 3D in a way that felt real.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #150: Magical Tetris Challenge

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

One week after the previous Tetris game comes another officially licensed Tetris game – this one starring Mickey Mouse, even though the title surprisingly lacks any mention of either Mikey or Disney.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #149: Extreme G 2

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Racing sequels typically take the same formula, refine it and have a bunch of new tracks, but XG2 feels a lot further apart from its predecessor than I expected. While I can easily see people preferring this, the differences are not ones I like.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #148: Glover

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

I have quite fond memories of Glover from when I was a kid, but upon trying to replay it, I discovered that I barely saw anything in the game – just the initial level. I wasn’t prepared for just how difficult this game is, and not entirely for the right reasons.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #147: Tetris 64

Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

Tetris 64 is Tetris on the Nintendo 64. The main mode is basic Tetris. No bells or whistles, just a slideshow on in the background and acceptable background music.

Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago