N64 Archive

  • Remember when first person shooters were new and exciting?  Obviously we’ve come a long way from the heady days of Doom and while I won’t say they’ve ruined the industry...

    Quake 64

    Remember when first person shooters were new and exciting?  Obviously we’ve come a long way from the heady days of Doom and while I won’t say they’ve ruined the industry...

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  • Coming of the success of Tomb Raider Core Design and Eidos could do no wrong.  Flush with Lara Croft money they began an aggressive marketing campaign for nearly all of...

    Fighting Force

    Coming of the success of Tomb Raider Core Design and Eidos could do no wrong.  Flush with Lara Croft money they began an aggressive marketing campaign for nearly all of...

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  • As much as we love Bomberman for its riotous multiplayer mode let’s be honest, the single player campaign has been tolerable at best.  Through five installments on the SNES and...

    Bomberman 64

    As much as we love Bomberman for its riotous multiplayer mode let’s be honest, the single player campaign has been tolerable at best.  Through five installments on the SNES and...

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  • Konami had lofty plans for Castlevania 64, setting out to create one of the most ambitious 3d adventures of the time.  However between their developmental inexperience and the reality of...

    Castlevania – Legacy of Darkness

    Konami had lofty plans for Castlevania 64, setting out to create one of the most ambitious 3d adventures of the time.  However between their developmental inexperience and the reality of...

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  • When the inevitable move to 3d gaming came certain genres benefited the most.  Racing games and fighting games in particular made the transition extremely well but above all others came...

    Doom 64

    When the inevitable move to 3d gaming came certain genres benefited the most.  Racing games and fighting games in particular made the transition extremely well but above all others came...

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  • I suppose everyone had to find their niche somehow.  By the end of the N64’s first year on the market there were entirely too many racing games in my opinion. ...

    Automobilli Lamborghini

    I suppose everyone had to find their niche somehow.  By the end of the N64’s first year on the market there were entirely too many racing games in my opinion. ...

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  • Although Extreme G was not an exceptional game it at least had the foundation for a competent futuristic racing game.  It simply lacked polish in terms of its play mechanics. ...

    Extreme G2

    Although Extreme G was not an exceptional game it at least had the foundation for a competent futuristic racing game.  It simply lacked polish in terms of its play mechanics. ...

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  • The Star Wars franchise has always enjoyed a fruitful relationship with Nintendo consoles, dating as far back as the NES.  The Star Wars trilogy of platformers on the SNES were...

    Shadows of the Empire

    The Star Wars franchise has always enjoyed a fruitful relationship with Nintendo consoles, dating as far back as the NES.  The Star Wars trilogy of platformers on the SNES were...

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  •   One thing you can say about the N64, it has more than its fair share of racing games.  Of the 290 or so North American releases for the system...

    Extreme-G

      One thing you can say about the N64, it has more than its fair share of racing games.  Of the 290 or so North American releases for the system...

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  •   Nintendo has always excelled at taking genre’s they are not comfortable with and putting their own unique spin on them.  The Mario Kart series was born from this as...

    Super Smash Brothers

      Nintendo has always excelled at taking genre’s they are not comfortable with and putting their own unique spin on them.  The Mario Kart series was born from this as...

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