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All N64 Games #221: Mario Golf
These days, you expect wild and wacky things form Mario’s sports titles, but it wasn’t always like that.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #220: 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.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #219: Fighting Force 64
Some bad games are broken messes that have some interesting elements or features, other bad games are just badly designed and immensely boring, which I think is much worse.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #218: Super Real Mahjong VS
A mahjong game for the Aleck 64 arcade system. This is part of a series that started in 1987 and is still getting the occasional release – including a recent compilation on Switch
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #217: Superman: The New Superman Adventures
Superman: The New Superman Adventures is commonly referred to as just Superman 64, and is one of the worst games of all time, according to everything I’ve ever read about the game
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #216: Last Legion UX
The world was formed 4,500 years ago and was split into the continents of Earth, Fire, Wind and Water (no Heart).
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #215: Star Wars Episode 1: Racer
LucasArts could have just rushed something cheap and easy and made a ton of money with a podracing video game, but they actually went to a ton of effort with it, and it shows in the final product.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #214: Hot Wheels Turbo Racing
Not long after Micro Machines comes another toy car racing game in the form of Hot Wheels.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #213: Ken Griffey Jr.’s Slugfest
This is the second Ken Griffey Jr. game form Angel Studios and Nintendo.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #212: Pokémon Stadium
One of my strangest gaming choices as a kid was picking Pokémon Stadium. I enjoyed the show, but I wasn’t a fan of the Game Boy games. The problem with Stadium is that it’s mainly a companion piece for Red, Blue and Yellow.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #211: A Bug’s Life
In the N64 game, Flik is a one-man army, a mass murdering machine that could have easily wiped out the grasshoppers on his own.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #210: G1 Stable
Unfortunately, G1 Stable is a Japanese-only game which is just too complicated for me to understand how it fully works.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #209: Bottom of the 9th
Bottom of the 9th feels like an early third party N64 game. It looks and feels incredibly basic. The N64 has had an ungodly amount of baseball games by this point, yet Bottom of the 9th feels like it should have been the very first one.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #208: Onegai Monsters
In the world of Onegai Monsters, when kids turn 10 years old, they can become a monster trainer.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #207: NBA In The Zone ’99
Compared to the previous NBA In the Zone, this feels slightly smoother in terms of running around with players, which is useful as passing is pointless and running close to the net and scoring is the best tactic.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #206: All-Star Baseball 2000
So I was surprised with All-Star Baseball 2000 when I could actually hit the ball reasonably well, and it wasn’t caught instantly. I actually had some fun with it.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #205: NHL Blades of Steel ’99
Another ice hockey game, and this one is rather drab. Everything seems very washed out, and the “ice” looks like a strange mottled grey carpet rather than ice.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #204: 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 maze game in Japan.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #203: Rampage 2: Universal Tour
In terms of gameplay, Rampage 2 doesn’t do anything to improve of its earlier N64 game, and it wasn’t particularly entertaining back then. It’s something that can be fun for a short burst in an arcade, but the novelty wears thin very quickly.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago
All N64 Games #202: 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 N64 version brought the franchise into 3D.
Posted by Dean Jones 3 months ago