Favorite N64 Games - Page 2

That's a common problem in the Water Temple. People use a key at the wrong time and you're up shit creek. I use a guide every time I go through that dungeon.

As for Majora's Mask, never got into it. Too much switching around items and accessing menus. I've beat pretty much every Zelda game (except the Oracle games, not that big on the Game Boy Zeldas), but I could never appreciate MM.

Star Fox was a great game. I remember beating it in a half hour, and then realizing the amazing replay value of the game. Blowing up the train station with the packaged Rumble Pak was a real treat.

i hated peppy and slippy. nothing but trouble.

Top 5

Mario 64
Mario Kart
Ocarina
Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball (first one)
NFL Blitz

Without Peppy, I would have never done a barrel roll OR used the boost to get through.

And then there's Kat. What a cunty character.

hey

i remember that really fucked up game Conker's Bad Fur Day. Nothing beats a bee fucking a flower and a giant shit monster.

I waited until Xbox to play that game. What a mistake that was.

One thing I loved was Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy. Best Wrestling games ever

Oddly enough the N64 version was better. It didn't have the great graphics(although it was a very pretty N64 game, the club stage was amazing), but it was FAR less glitchy. I couldn't even make it through the Xbox version it was so frustrating in parts.
The humor's always been bad(I liked the singing shit monster though), but they even edited some of it down for the Xbox version.

I need to play the Banjo Kazooie games again, have they aged as poorly as Conker?

I remember wasting hours on F-Zero X with buddies of mine. Those destruction battles were fucking addicting.

Great to see the love for some of the N64 underdogs out there.

Duke Nukem Zero Hour is fantastic, though very unforgiving in single player. And it got more multiplayer time out of me than any other N64 game (one exception being the below), Goldeneye or Perfect Dark included (and I barely even touched the multiplayer mode until I got a roommate, and that was well after I got my PS2). Why? Jumping! Jumping is a great thing.

San Francisco Rush. Pure madness. I just don't see the point of a racing game where you can't flip in the air a dozen times. There was that huge, ridiculous stunt arena hidden on the edge of a cliff in that one level, it was already difficult enough to get into, and then if you flipped out, which was inevitable, it transported you all the way back to the proper track. Bastards.

Banjo Kazooie. I don't know if I liked it more than Mario 64, but maybe. The final boss was a gameshow where you had to answer questions about sound effects and images from the game you just played through! Genius!

I loved Rush America, or USA Rush, or something. The stunt course in that was insane.

How about Battletanx? That was some of the best multiplayer games of my life.

Rush USA was great. The tracks weren't as good as the ones in SF, but the stunt track was all worth it.

RUSH:2049? That one was amazing because your car had wings for some reason, and you could stop your flipping in mid-air(or reverse it). Too bad the RUSH games were lousy racers, but the stunt courses were amazing.

Super Mario 64 - The first N64 game I bought and my very favourite.

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire - The second and last N64 game I bought. Great flying and on foot action and as already mentioned the Boba Fett battle is one of the better parts of the game.

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron - An all flying Star Wars game..."one more pass"

Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero - A fighting adventure featuring my favourite MK character.

Star Fox 64 - A fun flying adventure and my first Rumble Pak experience.

WinBack: Covert Operations - A fun third person shooter.

Cruis'n USA - A fun race game.

I think we know what all of those games are. Thank you for the synopses, anyway.

Now, this might not mean jack shit to a non-smoker, but smoking while you play videogames is a pain in the ass. With Cruisin' USA, and the N64 controller, this is not a problem. Just the analog stick and the Z trigger and you're set.

Hmn, this sounds like some kind of twisted advertisement.

But yeah, not that great a game, but that was a great "perk" for smokers. Hell, you could take bong hits playing that game, if that's your thing. I think Cruisin' World might have required another button, those bastards.

I forgot about Cruisin' World. I did some checking - the Z trigger controlled the horn and the A button was the go button. Like so many race games both Cruisin' USA and Cruisin' World were the perfect weekend rental.

If you want to talk about unloved N64 games, you're talking to one of the bigger fans of the first two Turok games. Mario, Zelda, Goldenye, etc. were the best of the bunch, but the death animations, general love of Thunder Lizards and the insanely creative weaponry (Cerebral Bore!) made me love the hell out of the Dinosaur Hunter. Of course, I always used cheats on those games.

Star Wars Racer and Mario Tennis haven't yet been mentioned and deserve a bit of love. Also, you can count me in as someone who appreciated Perfect Dark more than Goldeneye (even if I played more of the latter) due chiefly to weapons such as the aforementioned Laptop Gun as well as the wonder that was the Farsight. Star Fox 64 is probably the best game in that series, even if it did replace the amusing gibberish of the SNES game with horrid voicework.

For those of us who stuck with the game system to the end, Conker's Bad Fur Day was the last hurrah of the N64 and, at the time, a fucking spectacular game. The Xbox version censored the dialogue far more ruthlessly and cut the difficulty in half. For the last days of Nintendo's last cartridge-based console, the graphics were vibrant and full of great effects/animation, the sound effects and score (usually a very weak component of any N64 game) were immersive and spot-on, the multiplayer was ambitious and quite fun (sword decapitations carried over from Jet Force Gemini were always great), and the controls were nearly perfect. The game has aged horribly, mind you, but it was such a fresh and unique experience at that point in time it was like a godsend. I was trudging through countless overly-aliased 3D maps on the Playstation One and this game really seemed like a breath of fresh air. I don't expect anyone to agree with me here, but it seemed like a game that really turned a corner for Nintendo (though it could easily be argued that we haven't really seen anything come of it).

Thanks for reminding me that, unless a monumental Wii Virtual Console announcement makes it redundant, I should set the system up again sometime soon.

Need to jump onboard with the No Mercy love. Best wrestling game on any system ever. Just a superb wrestling engine, and the fact that THQ abandoned AKI for the hacks at Yukes has meant we've now had something like 10 subpar wrestling games in a row.

My colelge buddies and I created ourselves in the game (still one of the top CaW systems) and got them all to look pretty damn close, and then had an entire federation going, with double crosses and all sorts of good stuff.

Then some jerk robber my house and stole it away. Somewhere in Manhattan, some bastard and his friends are playing as The Living Legend Jimmy Cokes and the rest of our federation, and it kills me a little each day.

Rogue Squadron was pretty friggin sweet too.

And Goldeneye, natch.

Sadly I think a lot of people created themselves in the games. They may have not put their real name on it, but they may have gone far enough to make some nickname up.

I was a cruiserweight who could chokeslam.

My character was named "Super Moose".

I also renamed the Big Show "Capt. Insano" which I was quite proud of.

I designed this whole TLC-era Edge type wrestler in No Mercy named "Q", and then paired him up with my friends character "Big Cock", who was a large large LARGE man who moved like a female wrestler, had a colored afro, and did nothing but power moves and moonsaults. Every move he did was named "the Cock [blank]". Cock Kick, Cock Slam, Cock Punch, etc. We were the best tag team EVER.

Shit, now I'm going to have to break the N64 out and play the game.

What's amazing about that is that my friend created almost exactly the same wrestler. He had a an afro, an eyepatch, a sweater and tiny little shorts. Guy was 7'0, 400 lbs. All moonsaults, walked like a woman. Captain Queef. We were not big fans of that guy. Felt like he sort of ruined the seriousness of building yourself into the game and pretending you were a wrestler.

Well, yeah, we just did it for the hell of it. Could never find enough people to do any serious "federation" type thing.

Agreed. You're not alone.

That sucks. I was thinking about playing the Xbox version to check out the graphics, but I'll just hook up my N64 to play it again.

Even though I hate to admit it, I also loved Pokeman Puzzle League. It's just Tetris Attack with a Pokeman skin over it, but my future wife and I played that game for hours on end. We still play every once in a while.

wydren, the Xbox version of Conker is still worth a playthrough for the graphics upgrade alone. Give it a rent sometime, you should be able to breeze through it if you've beaten the original version (again, the difficulty is lowered significantly). I bought the game on the cheap, and kind of regretted it, but it was still a good time (with some decent, and let me stress decent, XBL modes) and I imagine I'll play through some of the chapters again every so often.

Yeah, I pre-ordered Conker's for Xbox on love of the orginal alone...it's kind've like ordering food when you are really hungry...nothing but disappointment. I think what pissed me off the most was that they took out The Beach multiplayer game. I remember my friends would blow away hours playing as those little Polish squirrels trying to make it up the beach without getting a rocket in the ass. Instead, the Xbox version has a generic deathmatch.

I will second the love for Body Harvest. What a quirky game. I got the sun shield and rained down fiery hell on those insect bastards. I got screwed towards the end because too many civilians had been killed.

Beetle Adventure Racing was one of my favorites.

That was a fun game. Had some pretty sweet tracks.

I remember it being fun, but I'd probably feel gay nowadays for owning a game where you race VW Beetles.

I used to play the shit out of GoldenEye 007 with friends in my first year of college. I always liked Proximity Mines in the level with all the diagonal walkways and levels.

Other games I loved and still own:

Super Mario 64
Perfect Dark
Beetle Adventure Racing
Mario Kart 64
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Diddy Kong Racing
Wave Race 64

I liked Diddy Kong Racing but only because I didn't have Mario Kart 64. The courses and art was much better in Mario KArt though.

But in Diddy Kong you could race plane vs. car.

Yeah but I remember the game becoming increasingly frustrating. Though it did have gorgeous graphics for its time.

Which one?

Diddy Kong. Though I think it did have CPU opponents that wouldn't magically catch up to you, unlike Mario Kart.

That did suck, but I only played it Mulitplayer, so it never bothered me.

Mario Kart 64.

Killer Instinct Gold was actually pretty fun. Doing those Ultra Combos might've been too flashy for some, but the game did have a ton of style.

And clunky controls for anyone who didn't memorize the combos. Fuck Killer Instinct.

Hey watch it buddy!
Feel free to badmouth the sequel(I hated it too), but the first game was fantastic.

I'd love to see Killer Instinct on the Wii. With refined gameplay and next-generation graphics, it could turn out to be really something special. Those character designs were spiffy.

Imagine doing those Ultra Combos with the Wiimote. Jumping in the air like a maniac and moving your arm and leg muscles would be a great workout.

I'm with Rip. Fuck Killer Instinct. I remember playing it with my friends and deciding we'd rather be playing MK3.

I'd rather be picking my nose and wiping my ass than playing MK3.

I'd rather be uppercutting motherfuckers into spikes than kill myself trying to figure out the exact sequence for Fulgore's "Uber Cluster Fuck Combo".

And by the way, it's not MK3. It's MK Trilogy.

For you, maybe. But I'm talking about the original KI for SNES. I don't think much of MK3 now, but it was better than playing KI.

I never got around to KI Gold, as it looked like more of the same.

It was, except it was finally using that "Ultra 64" engine the arcade machines touted so proudly.

When I said refine the gameplay, that included fixing the exact-on-cue button-mashing combos, e.g. if the game allowed us to create our own combos using the Wiimote, streamlined the combo sequencing to more logical progression, etc.

I was replying more to this.

After staring at the Wii for an hour or so yesterday at Best Buy Ive decided it would be more fun and cheaper just to get an N64 again, I had one freshman year but sold it when I moved out so I could actually graduate and now that I have, time for system with the most classic and replayable games ever to call a home in my house.

the true last hurrah for me was

Indiana Jones and The Infernal Machine
-beats any tomb raider and quite possibly the best looking N64 game made

Tetrisphere
-great concept with some flaws, but one of the best games soundtracks ever

Mario Tennis
-oh the hours spent playing this game in high school, got a love the peach scream

Wave Race
- the first 3d game to really awe me

Space Station Silicone Valley
-quirky but great, and long and and great playability