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All N64 Games #173: AI Shoghi 3
The AI Shogi series had yearly releases from 1996 to 1998, each one being on a different platform: the 3DO, PlayStation and then N64.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #172: Virtual Pool 64
Virtual Pool 64 doesn’t have a fancy title because is isn’t anything fancy. Instead, it focuses on recreating the game of pool as well as possible.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #171: Hey You, Pikachu!
Hey You, Pikachu! took almost two years to make it from Japan to the USA, and never came out in Europe. This was mainly due to the Voice Recognition Unit that came with the game – which is essentially a microphone were you could say words for Pikachu to understand.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #170: Doraemon 2: Nobita and the Temple of Light
While the first N64 Doraemon game was a 3D platformer, this is more like Goemon: a game with an overworld and dungeons, but the dungeons being more focused on platforming when compared to Zelda.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #169: Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
Turok makes a return, and in this one Iguana seemed to have listened to some complaints of the first one and paid some attention to GoldenEye.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #168: FIFA 99
While a lot of sports games, even in the N64 era, feel like iterations of the same game, the FIFA games on N64 are surprisingly distinct.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #167: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Rogue Squadron is a ship combat game, but goes for controls that are much easier to get to grips with than the more simulation-like X-Wing/TIE Fighter series.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #166: V-Rally: Edition 99
The graphics are very impressive for the N64, with the road itself having a lot of detail, cars that don’t look like boxes and good trackside detail.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #165: S.C.A.R.S.
SCARS stands for Super Computer Animal Racing Simulator. While it does seem like a random assortment of words to spell a “cool” word, the game is built around the concept of a computer simulation and the cars are all based on animals.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #164: Starshot: Space Circus Fever
Starshot looks like a fun game. It has a very whacky story and fun looking characters. You play as Starshot, designed to be an emotionless super soldier but he gained a conscience and joined a struggling space circus.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #163: Getter Love: Panda Love Unit
I was surprised, then, that Getter Love appears to be a game with rather complex board game mechanics.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #162: NBA Jam 99
After playing a few Basketball games on the N64, I don’t think that the proper rules of basketball translate very well to a video game. It’s focuses on blocking with any attempt to get the ball off an opponent counting as a foul.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #161: Mario’s Photo Studio
Mario’s Photo Studio (or Mario no Photopi) is a photo editing software for the N64 that was exclusive to Japan. It used a special cartridge that had slots to insert SecureMedia cards, which were presumably popular with digital camera in Japan at the time.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #160: Freak Boy
Virgin Interactive really wanted to get onto Nintendo’s “Dream Team” – a group of developers that got special treatment because Nintendo were interested in their projects. However, they could not come up with anything that they thought was special enough.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #159: Golden Nugget 64
I was very intrigued to see Westwood when this game booted up. Looking it up, and this is the first game developed by Burst Studios after EA purchased them and rebranded them as “Westwood Pacific” (they would later make Red Alert 2).
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #158: Bust-A-Move 3 DX
Known as Bust-A-Move 99 in the USA and Puzzle Bobble 64 in Japan, this is a home console port of the third Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move game.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #157: Nightmare Creatures
Nightmare Creatures is a port of an earlier PlayStation title that really is a bit too authentic of a port. When this was released on the N64, it already felt very dated and really needed improvements. It’s a horror slash-’em-up set in 1834 in London.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #156: NHL Breakaway 99
NHL Breakaway 98 was a very bland ice hockey game that paled in comparison to Wayne Gretzky – plenty of room for improvement, then.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #155: Legend of the River King 64
Nushi Tsuri is a series of fishing RPGs that were released between 1990 and 2007. A few games have received western releases under the name Legend of the River King on the Game Boy and Game Boy Colour. Some of the later games were called River King in North America, but Harvest Fishing in Europe.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
All N64 Games #154: Milo’s Astro Lanes
Milo’s Astro Lanes sounds like a fun concept. Take the quick and speedy game of bowling, add some elements of the just as nippy mini golf, add some power ups and mix it all in a retro sci-fi aesthetic.
Posted by Dean Jones 2 months ago
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