It's packed with bruising battles, daunting obstacle courses and underwater adventures. Retrieve the Power Stars from their hidden locations and confront your arch nemesis - Bowser, King of the Koopas!
Mario pals around in an all-new action adventure! Mario's back in his first adventure since Super Mario 64, and this time, Bowser's bent on preventing a storybook ending. As he travels from the tropical jungles of Lavalava Island to the frosty heights of Shiver Mountain, he'll meet up with seven all-new companions Trouble is brewing on Spiral Mountain! Gruntilda the witch, wildly jealous of Tooty the Honey Bear's good looks; is determined to steal them for herself! But even as she whisks the helpless youngster off to her tower, Tooty's big brother Banjo and his loud-mouthed partner Kazooie are hot on the trail to rescue her Aided by the mystical shaman Mumbo Jumbo, Banjo and Kazooie must tackle gloomy swamps, scorching deserts, towering mountain ranges and spooky haunted houses on their way to the final confrontation at the summit of Gruntilda's Lair.
Wave Race 64 is sure to provide some of the most exciting racing you've ever experienced. Feel the pounding and crashing of the waves as you accelerate into straight-aways, whip around the marker buoys and go airborne on the jump ramps.
Don't race alone - challenge a friend! Nine challenging courses set in exotic locales - race conditions change and the wave action responds to the way both you and your opponents race! The day after his 21st birthday bash, Conker's sporting the worst hangover ever, and he just can't seem to find his way home. Prepare to stagger through randy, raunchy, raucous scenarios crammed full of bad manners, twisted humor, and graphic bodily functions. Unless you're a fan of violence, foul language, and racy innuendo, you'd best steer clear of this one.
All of your favorite characters hit the court in a wild and wacky multiplayer tennis game from the makers of Mario Golf. The fast-paced action will have you unleashing vicious volleys, life-saving lobs, ballistic backhands and electrifying super-charged smashes! Forget buying expensive golf gear--Mario brings the game to you. Mario Golf features four complete hole courses, 11 golfers, and precise play control.
Create your own golfer and build up his or her experience and skill levels by competing in various tournaments and head-to-head matches. The more you play, the stronger and more accurate your golfer becomes. There are many different modes of play in Mario Golf, including a wide variety of minigames designed to challenge even the most level-headed swingers.
Enter a massive 3-D action adventure of amazing beauty and challenge. The pirate terror has enslaved the world and only Rayman's speed, agility, and magical powers can save all. Race and battle across 45 intricately designed areas - rainforests, jungles, narrow canyon passes, even into the mighty pirate ship itself. Rool has kidnapped the Kongs! Can Donkey Kong rescue his friends, reclaim the Golden Bananas and save his homeland from certain doom?
Float through the air using Tiny's Ponytail Twirl. Even rocket to the sky with Diddy's Jetbarrel! A pair of defective nuclear missiles, en route to a safe detonation site, has begun to leak.
Badly damaged, the carrier automatically locks onto the most direct route. Clear a path to help the carrier arrive safely.
Tons of vehicles are at your disposal. Leave nothing standing or the adventure will end in an earth-shattering explosion! Find the hidden technicians to ensure a safe detonation. Strap on your seat belt, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Two years after Banjo Kazooie, Banjo and the gang are playing cards when an earthquake happens. Eagerly Mumbo goes out to investigate. He sees two hideous witches reviving Grunty. Mumbo goes back to investigate. Grunty shoots a laser beam at Banjo's house. Mumbo warns everyone but Bottles doesn't belive him. Grunty blows up Banjo's house with Bottles inside and sets off to get her body back. Motivated by revenge Banjo sets out to stop Grunty and revive Bottles. The adventure begins when you leave the road behind!
Smashing, bashing fun! Crash and dash! Ultra-fast nitro blast! Go anywhere - choose your own routes, find surprises at every turn! Do anything - grab big-time air, engage in four-car mayhem! User Score: 7. Ready or not, the terror of Resident Evil 2 is here. In chapter one, the case of the disastrous T-virus outbreak--a mutagenic toxin designed for biological weapons--was eventually closed but the experiments were far from over.
Control the destiny of Leon Kennedy or Claire Redfield as their nightmare begins when a biotech terror runs rampant in Raccoon City. Relentless zombies and hideous monsters are all out for a taste of your blood. If the suspense doesn't kill you, something else will. Jump into the ring with the biggest, baddest jambronis around and experience brutal WWF action never before seen in a console game! Take on the entire Federation in Survival Mode.
Take the action out of the ring in 10 different backstage areas! Experience extreme MX! You grind your way through the hairpin turn, a wall of mud exploding in your wake. Your next jump launches you into the air - you pull off a spectacular double no-footed can-can and become an instant legend! In Excitebike 64, you'll find all the high-flying action, heart-stopping stunts and bone-jarring crashes of the extreme sport of motocross. It'll set the daredevil inside you free.
Timber the Tiger's parents picked a fine time to go on vacation. When they come back, they're going to be faced with an island trashed by the spiteful space bully Wizpig - unless the local animals can do something about it!
So join Diddy Kong as he teams up with Timber the Tiger, Pipsy the Mouse and Taj the Genie in an epic racing adventure unlike anything you've ever experienced before! The Lylat system has been invaded! Travel to many different 3-D worlds. Battle the enemy in the air and on the ground and listen in as Fox McCloud interacts with a cast of characters. Only evil this dark could bring him back. Only a game this big can do him justice. Turok 2: Seeds of Evil!
Pick off distant enemies with deadly sniper weapons, and enjoy ferocious multi-player deathmatches! It's you against 29 other machines competing for the title of F-Zero X Champion. Your competition comes from every corner of the galaxy and won't shed a tear at the thought of smashing you off the track.
With four-player simultaneous gameplay and the Rumble Pak accessory, you have the fastest racing game on the N64 system! Fly against the evil Empire! Engage in intense, fast-paced planetary air-to-ground and air-to-air missions - dogfights, search and destroy, reconnaissance, bombing runs, rescue assignments and more! The mantle has been passed. You've become Protector of the Earth. You are now Turok Dinosaur Hunter. It's back and it's better than ever!
NFL Blitz adds 4-player support, new offensive and defensive plays, realistic weather conditions, new stadiums and a Tournament mode! Customize offensive and defensive plays to your liking.
Call audibles at the line of scrimmage. You've got control now! Passing made easy with new "Blitz Passing" for one-touch long bombs!
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 redefined an already great game. Its addition of stellar new features like Create-A-Park , and great game-play tweaks the manual maneuver will be copied for years to come made it the best installment in a killer series of games. Anyone who has ever skated the Philadelphia level will agree -- this game is a masterpiece of level design. Hell, it's a masterpiece all around. There isn't a bad park or dull moment, just pure gaming nirvana!
The fastest races. The deadliest weapons. The biggest name in anti-gravity racing descends on N64 with incredible new visual power and fully enhanced gameplay glory. With blistering races, challenges, time trials and a multiplay league, Wipeout 64 delivers pure racing devastation. Faster than you can imagine. Attention defenders of Naboo! The Trade Federation must be stopped! Putting down your controller without achieving a new high score was much easier said than done once you popped the Wave Race 64 cartridge in.
Piggy-backing off the success of Mario Kart 64 , Diddy Kong Racing took kart racing games to a whole new level with the addition of multiple vehicle types — namely airplanes, cars, and hovercraft.
This was adopted by the Mario Kart series on later platforms. Although initially criticized as a Mario Kart knock-off, Diddy Kong Racing proved to gamers itself with its innovative mechanics and adventure mode, even setting a Guinness World Record for the fastest-selling game at the time.
It also introduced the world to Conker and Banjo, who would go on to star in their own classic games, also featured on this list. Set in the mythical land of Hyrule, players control the iconic Link as he sets out to rescue Princess Zelda and thwart the evil plans of Ganondorf. Though the plot sounds familiar, the game was anything but when it was first released back in From its revolutionary Z-targeting system to its context-specific button configurations, the title introduced a bevy of features which became standard for 3D games moving forward.
Heralded by many as one of the best — if not the best — Legend of Zelda games of all time, Ocarina of Time set gamers on a sprawling epic not previously seen in three dimensions. Ocarina of Time featured incredible dungeon design, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a storyline rife with an adventure that stands the test of time. Although players once again took the control of Link, absent are pivotal characters such as Zelda and Ganondorf. The game also takes place in the land of Termina instead of Hyrule.
The story finds Link in search of his spoiler alert departed fairy Navi, who left him at the conclusion of Ocarina of Time. After getting ambushed by Skull Kid and robbed of his horse and the Ocarina of Time, Link teams up with the fairy Tatl to seek revenge against Skull Kid. The duo travels to Clock Town in search of Skull Kid, only to find the town facing impending doom in just three days from a falling moon. Link only can only achieve so much during the three days before he has to travel back in time and begin again from Day 1.
This timer gave the game a unique and challenging rhythm. However, like most Mario games, players assumed the role of Mario and played through a variety of levels in an effort to rescue the kidnapped Princess Peach.
He makes several allies throughout each level, many of whom were foes in previous installments, each designed to help the titular character through a gauntlet of puzzles and obstacles. Fans of Super Mario 64 were no doubt shocked to find Paper Mario differed greatly from the former title, though once they understood the gameplay, it was easy to see how great the game actually was, and it has since spawned numerous sequels on other Nintendo platforms.
We believe all baseball games should have Ken Griffey Jr. Nevertheless, Ken Griffey Jr. The batting was especially great. The system tasked you with moving an oval over the correct area before swinging at the pitch. This style of batting more or less became the norm over the years. Despite taking itself mostly seriously, Slugfest , as its name suggests, was a home run bonanza.
It also had an awesome pitch called the super fastball. Straddling the line between arcade and simulation, Slugfest was a great time for both serious and casual fans. Another notable omission from the game was the yellow flags thrown by referees. Players had the ability to perform any and all hitting penalties on the opposing team, which included pass interference. If you saw a man wide open down the field, simply switch to your safety and knock the guy clean out.
The ball would sail past the fallen offensive player, or in the more likely scenario, your defender would pick it off. Even for non-sports fans NFL Blitz was a riot and remains fun to play to this day.
Players controlled two teammates from any of the 30 available NBA teams, most of which had at least four or five different characters to choose from. Want to roll out two gigantic centers? Enjoy firing shots from long range? The options were endless, and once you started creating a player the games became even wackier. Though creating players, picking your team, and attempting to enter in the big-head mode cheat kept you entertained, the actual gameplay was an absolute blast.
Players had the option of playing against a CPU team, against a friend, or teaming up with said friend to take on the AI. No matter the game mode, nothing beat watching your players fly through the air for a giant dunk, or seeing you and your teammate achieve team fire. From saving Princess Peach from the grips of the evil Bowser to racing his pals in go-karts, Nintendo made Mario a busy guy on the N Mario Golf continued the trend, and like the other games, it was incredibly addicting and entertaining.
The game featured a bevy of popular Mario characters to choose from, each sporting their own strengths and unique abilities that cater to a particular style of play. Wario — an unlockable character — drives the ball up to meters, though his shot always fades. Mario, on the other hand, drives the ball up to a staggering meters while his shot always draws. Like other traditional golf games, Mario Golf uses a slider to determine your shot power and accuracy.
Before any hit, the game allows you to see where your desired shot might travel, and lets you account for any wind or hazards in your way. Though relatively straightforward with its approach to its controls, Mario Golf offered occasionally frustrating challenges on some of the more difficult courses.
This time around, Mario and friends decided to ditch the golf clubs for tennis rackets in the endlessly fun Mario Tennis. Like Mario Golf , players choose from a wide range of characters from the Mario universe, each of which features its own special abilities and play style.
Only Mario and Luigi feature an all-around skill set, while other characters either specialize in power, technique, speed, or tricky play. Tournament Play allowed players to unlock several characters in addition to more difficult tournaments.
While this gave Mario Tennis an incredible amount of replay value, once again, the multiplayer modes reigned supreme. Players chose between playing head-to-head with another friend or engaging in a doubles match with up to three other people.
Much of what made Mario Tennis so great is still on display in recent entries like Mario Tennis Aces. When Nintendo released Snowboarding in , many gamers had never played a snowboarding game before. Despite the initial hurdle, though, the game quickly received critical acclaim and instantly became a hit on the system. Dated as it is in some ways, the original Super Smash Bros. To this day, Paper Mario is an incredibly unique and special experience. Star Fox 64 is one of the N64's defining games.
Star Fox has tried ever since to capture just what made Star Fox 64 so special, but it's doubtful that it will ever be able to recreate the raw spectacle that was Star Fox 64 in A showcase game for the N64, Star Fox 64 was a technological pioneer for Nintendo, being among the first console games to feature fully-voiced dialogue and rumble feedback.
But what makes Star Fox 64 truly timeless is its design. The Lylat System is a playground, which invites you to undertake multiple rapid-fire playthroughs in order to plumb all of its secrets. Easy to pick up, Star Fox 64 can become brutally challenging on Expert, which makes earning Fox's iconic shades all the more satisfying. Today it's mostly remembered as a meme generator thanks to quotes like "Do a barrel roll," but Star Fox 64 might hold up better than any game in the N64's library.
It's a true classic. As great as Goldeneye was, Rare managed to top it in every way with Perfect Dark three years later. The highly tweakable Combat Simulator provided the pinnacle of split-screen gaming at the turn of the century. Get four friends together, throw in a few of the various bots that each had their own playstyles, and that was many, many nights of gaming sorted.
Perfect Dark is a slower-paced shooter than most modern entries in the genre, but it remains fun and very playable today. A clever approach to difficulty in the single-player campaign ADDED mission objectives when you played on higher levels -- a much more thoughtful way to manage difficulty than simply increasing enemy health and damage. Because of its popular movie tie-in, Goldeneye raked in much more gold.
But Perfect Dark nearly perfected what Goldeneye started. Banjo-Kazooie has withstood the test of time as both a character duo and a game. Following the game-changing release of Super Mario 64, Rare took what was so special about that game and built upon it to create a timeless and hilarious adventure with an unlikely crew.
From meeting and fighting memorable characters like Gruntilda and Mumbo Jumbo to searching far and wide for the iconic golden puzzle pieces called Jiggies to discovering and saving hidden Jinjos that were placed around each level, there was always a reason to smile while playing Banjo and Kazooie.
Mature themes abounded in every heart-wrenching side-story, which may have overshadowed the core storyline of the upcoming end of the world if not for the massive, threatening moon overhead. The looming sense of doom instilled a sense of urgency and importance to every task, and since only so much could be accomplished in three days, it left players with a dilemma of who to help - even if it would all be for naught if the falling moon could not be stopped before the timer ran out.
Prior to , the thought of Mario as anything but a side scrolling platformer was out of the question. After all, it was an established formula that had worked for Nintendo since the inception of their first console. But as hardware evolved, the games needed to as well, and the jump from 2D to 3D was never more sleek than with Mario.
A launch game for the system, Super Mario 64 is still regarded as one of the greats for 3D world design and character movement, which is insane to think about when the game actually had a lot going against it! Not only was Mario already cemented as one of the greats of the 2D side scrolling genre, Super Mario 64 also had a slew of tweaks and changes that seem completely normal now, but were impossibly huge risks back in those days.
Power ups were completely revamped, made into various caps, and even the power star, which once made Mario invincible for a short time, was altered to become the very thing you collected instead. Yeah, this was a much different game. Even today, most people remember where all stars are located and know exactly what you get for completing the task.
They remember the three iconic Bowser boss stages, and you can still recall the feeling of being shot from a cannon with a wing cap on your head. Even the 21 games that return from the N64 original have been suitably spruced up and are far more fun to play as a result.
The N64 received a number of Pokemon-based spin-offs and this is one of the most charming. While there are only a piddly number of Pokemon to actually snap, the desire to constantly improve on your best photo is a powerful one. What really elevates Wave Race 64 over its peers however is the dynamic water physics, which remain some of the best of the era and still impresses today. You not only feel every crest and bump of each wave but quickly learn how to use them to claw back every last second, which becomes critical to your success when tackling the later difficulty levels.
Although the combatants themselves are incredibly generic they all boast varied fighting styles and take a good amount of time to master. What really sets Fighters Destiny apart from other brawlers of the time is its clever points system that scores you on everything from ring outs to throws and knockdowns, which creates a lovely back and forth to each bout.
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