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All N64 Games #124: Eleven Beat World Tournament

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

In July 1998, the first arcade game on the Aleck 64 arcade cabinet. This cabinet was built by Seta using the Nintendo 64 as a basis – the only hardware difference is a bit of extra RAM. Technically, these games will boot up on a regular N64.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #123: Waialae Country Club: True Golf Classics

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

This is essentially the Western release of Augusta Masters ’98, however the translation into English also game with an entirely different course in Hawaii (but still one course).

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #122: F-1 World Grand Prix

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

In my review of GT64, I touched upon how racing simulation games have aged much worse than more arcade-style ones. F-1 World Grand Prix seems to be a clearer example of that as, while GT64 was always a poor game, F-1 World Gran Prix got great review scores – unfortunately, can’t get into it.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #121: Super B-Daman: Battle Phoenix 64

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

B-Daman is a series of toys that are little figures that shoot marbles, with the original ones being based on Bomberman before expanding a lot, eventually spawning its own manga series, Super B-Daman.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #120: Rakugakids

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

Rakugakids is odd in that it came out in Japan and Europe – but not North America. It’s a 1-on-1 fighting game where magic crayons have brought the creations of children to life.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #119: Super Robot Spirits

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

A fighting game featuring giant mechs from various anime – although to my uncultured mind, this is a Megazord fighting game. In the story mode, each “episode” has some story before each fight, which is a nice touch.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #118: Mission: Impossible

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

Being a movie tie-in to an action spy film gives Mission Impossible a lot to live up to, as it was always going to be compared to GoldenEye. Like GoldenEye, Mission Impossible had origins on the SNES before being made for the Nintendo 64 instead

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #117: F-Zero X

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

I loved F-Zero GX on GameCube, but I’ve never played the N64 version before. It turns out I love this version, too, even though it feels a lot more brutal than I remember GX being. This is Nintendo’s take on the sci-fi racer genre, and it does a great job at it.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

Aug

All N64 Games #116: Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth is a very traditional style sci-fi scrolling shooter. While it features some nice 3D graphics, it doesn’t try to utilise 3D in its gameplay or camera usage, it just keeps things simple.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #115: Penny Racers

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

Known as Choro-Q in Japan, this racing game is base on a series of pullback toy cars. The all have a cute deformed style and the racing game brings that to life, with upgradable cars and weapons to use against other racers.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #114: Off Road Challenge

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

Developed by Midway and Avalanche (the ones who made the Tak games and Hogwarts Legacy) is another port of an arcade racer, this one has you driving large 4×4 trucks across some very bumpy environments.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #113: Banjo-Kazooie

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

Banjo-Kazooie is possibly my favourite game, something I utterly love. I play it around Christmas every year and never get tired of it. But why is this? What makes Banjo-Kazooie such a lovable game to play?

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #112: Dezaemon 3D

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

For the N64’s first sci-fi scrolling shooter, this is a bit of an odd one, as it isn’t a specific game, but rather a creation kit for making you own sci-fi shoot-’em’-up game.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #111: Cruis’n World

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

While still nowhere near a good game, Cruis’n World has significant improvements over Cruis’n USA. It’s still an arcade-style racing game with a lot of courses, although this time it’s based across the world instead of just the USA.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #110: Mortal Kombat 4

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

The big Mortal Kombat game for this generation of consoles, and this one brings the graphics into full 3D.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #109: Mike Piazza’s Strike Zone

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

Not knowing the name Mike Piazza, the name made me think of bowling. Unfortunately, this is another baseball game, and by far the worst one so far on the N64. It’s definitely not helped by the horrific and extremely ugly graphics, either.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #108: Virtual Chess 64

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

I wasn’t expecting much from Virtual Chess as it’s just chess, but at least you can’t mess up chess – or so I thought. Against all odds, Titus have managed to achieve the impossible and create a chess game that looks bad and controls poorly.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #107: Quest 64

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

There’s a lot of curious things about the Quest series. This game was given different names in different regions. In North America, it was the very generic Quest 64. In Europe is was the rather meaningless Holy Magic Century and in Japan it was Eltale Monsters

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #106: International Superstar Soccer 98

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

ISS vs FIFA was a big debate for a while, with 1998 probably being the biggest year for the argument. N64 Magazine clearly preferred ISS, but for me, I enjoyed FIFA 98 more.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago

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All N64 Games #105: Wetrix

Monday, 12 Aug 2024

As Tetris set the standard for puzzle video games, other puzzle games try to have names similar to it. A water-based puzzle game? Of course it has to be named Wetrix.

Posted by Dean Jones 4 months ago