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+ | You only have one wheel. Made by the guys behind ''Sly Cooper'' and ''Infamous''. The plot involves you, Rocket, having to navigate throughout a Theme Park turned dangerous, to find all the tickets and tokens for the park. Also a raccoon kidnaps a walrus. Yeah, I don't know what they were smoking either. (pot seems to obvious) |
Has a great physics engine. (That's right, a physics engine on the N64) |
Has a great physics engine. (That's right, a physics engine on the N64) |
Revision as of 12:24, 16 September 2010
The Damn List
Title | Genre | Description | Box Art |
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1080° Snowboarding | Sports | The best snowboarding game on the N64. Sequel on Gamecube. | |
Banjo-Kazooie | Platformer | Rare's first entry into the 3D platforming genre, drawing from much of what made Mario 64 a massive success and adding numerous innovations to the genre. Massive levels with some great level design and plenty of unlockable moves and transformations. Suffers a bit from excessive amounts of collectables, but is nonetheless one of the biggest games on the platform. It was re-released on the Xbox 360 with minor graphical updates. | |
Banjo-Tooie | Platformer | Includes larger worlds, more moves, crisper graphics, and of course, THAT FUCKING ICE KEY. Was also re-released on the 360. | |
BattleTanx | Action | A fun party game involving various classes of tanks. | |
Battle Tanx: Global Assault | Action | See above, only with more tank classes. | |
Beetle Adventure Racing | Racing | One of the more obscure N64 games. You race VW Beetles. Nice open roads and some shortcuts. | |
Blast Corps | Destroyan | Underrated Rare classic. A truck is carrying nuclear material across the nation and needs you to destroy buildings before the truck collides with them. Amazingly hard. | |
Body Harvest | Action | A free-roaming sci-fi adventure made by Rockstar North, sort of a prototype for the future 3D GTA installments, game feels a little empty and devoid of much atmosphere, but has plenty of interesting challenges to confront, and a ton of different vehicles to take control of. | |
Bomberman 64 | Platformer | Hudson's first 3D installment of the Bomberman series. Makes some rather interesting changes from the original formula that will influence the future of 3D bomberman games such as spherical explosions and 8-directional controls. Features some interesting puzzle solving elements and boss battles. | |
Bomberman 64: The Second Attack! | Platformer | An interesting overhaul of the first Bomberman game. The action isn't quite as fast paced, but there is much more you can do, such as using different elemental bombs, each with a different effect (such as an ice bomb that freezes water for you walk on ("Bomberman can't swim.")). There is also special armor for you to find that gives you Megaman X style upgrades, although limited to permanent power-ups instead of new skills (It beats finding them or spending money, though.). In addition, there is also the inclusion of "Pommy", a little critter who helps you fight enemies and can be controlled by a second player. Pommy evolves into different more powerful forms that depend on what you feed him. Multiplayer is also a blast, although some prefer the first 64 game's over this one. | |
Bomberman Hero | Action-Platformer | A much more fast paced and action oriented entry to the Bomberman series. Features jumping and some of the best music in the series. One of the few Bomberman games to lack a multiplayer mode. | |
Buck Bumble | Action | A game about a cybernetic bee from the guys that programmed Starfox on the SNES, thus, this game plays a bit like Starfox as well.RIGHT ABOUT NOW IT'S TIME TO ROCK WITH THE BIGGITY BUCK BUMBLE. | |
Castlevania 64 | Adventure/Platformer | A fun 3D take on the classic vampire killing formula, but you'll need patience as the controls are somewhat shoddy. Would suggest playing Legacy of Darkness over this game. | |
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness | Adventure/Platformer | Prequel and remake of Castlevania 64. Much better than the first game and refines every flaw with Castlevania 64. Would be suggested over Castlevania 64, as it contains the whole Castlevania 64 game but revamped with the refined controls. The best 3D game in the series. | |
Chameleon Twist | Platformer | Yet another bright, sunny, kiddie platformer. However, this one lets you use your long ass tongue to solve puzzles and kill things. How cool is that?! | |
Conker's Bad Fur Day | Platformer |
Notable for being the most adult game on the Nintendo 64. Also, it's fucking hilarious. Updated on the Xbox with huge amounts of censorship |
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Cruis'n World | Racing | Port of an arcade cabinet game. Ok racing, awesome tracks spanning the globe. The best part is the amazing racing music though. | |
Diddy Kong Racing | Racing | Rare's own Kart racer for the console featuring Diddy Kong, along with a cast of Rare's own original characters, most of which were intended to get their own games in the future. Though much less memorable than Mario Kart 64, the game features three vehicles and a more fleshed out and challenging Adventure mode with plenty of collectables. Think of Mario Kart plus Super Mario 64 elements. You probably won't be racing with your bros as much in this game as you will Mario Kart but it is certainly not to be overlooked as just a Mario Kart clone. Also, DAT SOUNDTRACK. | |
Doom 64 | FPS |
It's a completely new Doom, exclusively on N64. This new game was done by Midway, which includes all new levels and sounds plus hi-res graphics done from scratch which are based on the original artwork. Most of the enemies from both Doom and Doom 2 are in except with few exceptions due to the lack of cart space. All the original weapons are in plus a new one. The game is very dark and the music bears resemblance to a horror movie ambient score with a lot of scary sound effects in the mix as well. The game is also a bit slower paced than the original Doom games, which only adds to the horror theme. With great controls, smooth gameplay and great visual representation this is a must have for all N64 owners.
NOTE: a TC of this game exists for PC that has some extra content plus modablity |
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Donkey Kong 64 | Platformer |
Standard adventure game fare, tons of collecting, many zany and fun challenges packed into large levels for each member of the Kong family. Features Donkey, Diddy, Tiny, Chunky, and Lanky. Do you like walking through a shopping mall, filling your cart with bananas? Do you enjoy collecting countless collectibles? If so, you will love this game. |
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Duke Nukem 64 | FPS |
A port of Duke Nukem 3D. While technically the port is good, it's censored from most of its mature content (weirdly, though, all the porn related stuff have been changed into pro-weapon magazines and stores) and the controls could be a bit better.
Still awesome to own if you don't have any other means to play Duke Nukem 3D. The four player split screen cooperative is a must try for all Duke fans. Looks better than the Saturn and PSX ports but still a bit off. |
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Duke Nukem Zero Hour | TPS |
Duke travels back in time to shoot pigs in the dick with revolvers. 3rd Person though. |
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Excitebike 64 | Racing | Are you extreme enough for this? I guess not, since it's been missing from this list for a rather long time! The best of the Excitebike games, this is a solid racing title with a fucking awesome track-creating mode. 'Sequel' Excite Truck is on Wii. | |
Extreme-G | Racing | Futuristic racing title. Cross F-zero's speed with Wipeout's weapons and you're nearly there. | |
Extreme-G 2 | Racing | Like the first but with new levels, bikes, weapons and music. Apart from that it's basically the same. Graphics have also been heavily improved at the cost of FPS. | |
Fighter's Destiny | Fighting | Kickass fighting game akin to Virtua Fighter. Unique point based system (finishing off your opponent in different ways grants you different points) instead of conventional rounds. Sequel also on N64. | |
F-Zero X | Racing | Difficult futuristic racing game. Third F-Zero game and first one in 3D. This game was a blast on the Super Nintendo. It was so amazing that they had to tone down the detail to keep the game at 60fps, but still an awesome racing game and the best on the Nintendo 64. | |
Gex 64 | Platformer | A platformer for television and movie fans. Players control Gex, a smart-aleck gecko as he attempts to defeat the evil Rez in the Media Dimension, which features a variety of movie/television themed "channels" each with 3 remotes to collect in order to progress to the next stage. Features a lot of 80's and 90's pop culture one liners from Gex himself which are randomly spoken throughout the game, sure to tickle someone's funny bone (Voice by Cat from Red Dwarf!). Camera is a bit shoddy. Prequels on PSX, Saturn, PC and 3D0. | |
Glover | Platformer | A bit of a deviation from your typical adventure game. A wizard has accidentally turned himself into stone and sent some magic crystals off into various worlds, leaving the land devoid of life. One of the wizard's gloves transforms the crystals into balls to protect them from shattering, and must guide them back to the castle. One of the few N64 games to make interesting use of physics. Players can transform the crystal into balls of various weight and shape in order to solve certain puzzles and defeat bosses. Also on PC! | |
GoldenEye 007 | FPS |
The first good console FPS and possibly the best movie game of all time. Still a blast on multiplayer, provided some asshat doesn't pick Oddjob. Huge mouth on cover :I |
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Harvest Moon 64 | Simulation | One of the cuter games in the long-running farm simulation series. The characters and graphics are great, but the days are rather short, so prepare to rush everywhere you go, every single day. If you'd like to take your time and get a more detailed experience, the PSX version is a lot better. | |
Hexen | Adventure FPS |
A port of Hexen. This game has 3 different characters, each with different weapons and stats. There are also a shitload of inventory items and most work in a different way depending on the character. To unlock new areas you must solve puzzles that revolve around a hub system. While not as good looking as the original one on the PC, while essentially the same, the controls are very well done on the N64 and there is 4 player co-op and deathmatch. |
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Hybrid Heaven | Action RPG | A unique entry in RPG history. A hybrid between fighting game and turn-based battle sim, player manuevers protagonist in a playing field until in position to attack, or be attacked. A very much overlooked title that tried something new. | |
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine | Adventure | One of the best Indiana Jones games, often overlooked. Originally on the PC, but was ported on the N64 with superior graphics and controls. How that worked out for Lucasarts is beyond me (they could've just released a graphics mod...) but this is still a pretty good action-adventure game. | |
International Superstar Soccer '98 | Sports | It's Soccer but without the faggotry, though the cover doesn't help. | |
Jet Force Gemini | Action |
Third person shooter/adventure game by Rare. Great graphics, incredible soundtrack, brutal difficulty, unique co-op and a vast array of bug exploding weaponry make this game unforgettable. Don't forget to grab the tribals... |
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Kirby 64 | Platformer | Like about every other Kirby game, short and easy but fun nonetheless. Notable for allowing you to combine abilities as well as letting you play as Dedede in certain stages. Lotsa secrets require certain powers. | |
Legend of Zelda, The: Ocarina of Time | Adventure |
Along with Half-Life, this was considered one of the best games during the late 90s. The template for every 3D Zelda game since. Lot's of great, memorable music. One of the greatest Zelda games ever, though some people do prefer LoZ:ALttP or the 'sequel' below. |
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Legend of Zelda, The: Majora's Mask | Adventure |
A more dark and surreal entry to the Zelda series. Save the world of Termina within a 3 day time frame which the player can speed up, slow down, or restart at will. Very short main quest compared to Ocarina of Time, but a slew of very fleshed out and emotional side quests. A must play for Zelda fans. Considered by many (including /v/) to be the best of the series and one of the best games ever, but was still ranked 11th out of all Zelda games by Nintendo Power
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The New Tetris | Puzzle |
It's Tetris, without any major garnishes. Features '4-Player Frenzy'. |
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Mario Golf | Sports | Mario characters play golf. Better than anything EA has come out with, true story. Sequel on Gamecube. | |
Mario Kart 64 | Sports |
One of the weaker entries in the Mario Kart series, but still pretty okay. It's still not as good as Super, or Double Dash. |
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Mario Party | Minigame | The humble beginnings of the Mario Party series, while very much random and unpredictable, remains a load of crap if you are good at video games. This game ruins controllers and palms, if you would like to keep both intact, DO NOT play the games where you must rotate the stick repeatedly. Future games fixed this mistake. | |
Mario Party 2 | Minigame | Improving upon its predecessor, adds a slew of new wrist breaking minigames as well as board events, arguably the best in the series. | |
Mario Party 3 | Minigame | Considered by some the weakest of the three, that still doesn't mean you won't have a blast playing this with friends, as always! The other 5 or 6 sequels are on Gamecube and Wii. | |
Mario Tennis | Sports | Mario characters play tennis. Better than anything EA has come out with, true story. Sequel on Gamecube (and Wii). | |
Mega Man 64 | Platformer | Port of the Playstation game Mega Man Legends, pretty much indiscernable from its counterpart. The sequel (Megaman Legends 2) is not available on this console. Features more save slots than the original PSX version, and fixed many clipping errors that were rampant in the original. | |
Mickey's Speedway USA | Racing | A Disney kart-racer made by Rare with a modified Diddy Kong Racing engine. Pretty fun overall. | |
Mischief Makers | Platformer |
Another outstanding addition to the Treasure library of games, so you know it's good. Players control Marina, a cyborg girl created by the perverted professor Theo, who sets out to save the planet Clancer from the evil empire and its three subordinates, the Beastector. THROUGH FIRE JUSTICE IS SERVED! Shake Shake |
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Mystical Ninja Goemon | Action | An adventure game starring the Mystical Ninja cast. Arguably similar to the 3D Zelda series, but much more heavy on platforming, but plenty of devious puzzles and unique powers to acquire for each cast member. Worth playing for ther crawling animation alone. | |
Goemon's Great Adventure | Platformer | A very difficult 2D multiplayer platformer, most definitely the hardest of the Ganbare Goemon series. Features some seriously over the top bosses and awesome first-person robot battles. Excellent style, play mechanics, and Japanese-techno musical score. | |
Ogre Battle 64 | Strategy RPG | Fuck long SRPG with a sweeping story and high degree of customization. Great replay-ability. Probably the N64's rarest game, don't expect to buy this one without willing to plunk down more than a hundred to two hundred dollars. Notable for one of the worst Strategy Guides ever. | |
Paper Mario | RPG |
Intelligent System's addition to the Mario RPG series. Features a unique new cast of characters to aid Mario in his journey to recover the all-powerful Star Rod from Bowser. The turn based battle system is different that most RPGs in that you can influence the power of your attacks with timed button presses. Forces you to pay attention. Similar to the battle system used in Super Mario RPG and the Mario & Luigi games. Overall a very good, but easy and a bit short. |
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Perfect Dark | Shooter |
Superior in every way to GoldenEye. You get a laptop that can shoot people and deploy as a sentry turret, enough said. Has deep multiplayer customization and an excellent campaign but the framerate does drop considerably at times.
Also available on XBLA. |
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Pilotwings 64 | Flying | Featuring, for the time, glorious huge open 3D worlds. You pilot a variety of craft through tests to win medals. Tricky to get all gold, even though there's a small number of craft, pilots, and tests. | |
Pokémon Puzzle League | Puzzle | Tetris Attack only with Pokémon characters and a neat 3D mode. The game borrows more from the anime than the games, so expect tons of awful voice acting to bother you while you puzzle. Other than that it's the definitive puzzler on the system. | |
Pokémon Snap | Rail-Shooter | An interesting spinoff for the Pokémon series. Players take part in an on-rails tour of various locales and take pictures of the Pokémon that reside within them. Utilize a variety of items to cause Pokémon to strike unique and interesting poses, or lure them out of hiding, then try and get the best picture possible before you miss the opportunity. Wii's Virtual console version allows you to save snapshots to SD card! | |
Pokémon Stadium | Battlan | A Pokémon battle simulator that utilizes a unique Gameboy-to-N64 transfer system to allow players to take Pokémon from their handhelds and pit them against a unique set of challenges rendered in full 3D. For players who lack the Gameboy game, you can select any of the 150 pokemon for rental, but doing this makes the game much harder. Also, the best collection of mini-games this side of Mario Party actually worth replaying with your friends every now and then. | |
Pokémon Stadium 2 | Battlan | See above, only now second gen (G/S/C) Pokémon are available. | |
Rayman 2: The Great Escape | Platformer | Probably the best rayman game ever besides the first. Great game it comes in a green cart so its not hard to miss though. Requirements may be a little annoying depending on what you have for the n64 A.K.A. Memory Pack Expansion Pack, It might use rumble too. But still its fucking RAYMAN so I bet youll love it to bits. | |
Rocket: Robot on Wheels | Platformer |
You only have one wheel. Made by the guys behind Sly Cooper and Infamous. The plot involves you, Rocket, having to navigate throughout a Theme Park turned dangerous, to find all the tickets and tokens for the park. Also a raccoon kidnaps a walrus. Yeah, I don't know what they were smoking either. (pot seems to obvious) Has a great physics engine. (That's right, a physics engine on the N64) |
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San Fransisco Rush | Racing |
Almost perfect sandbox racing game. [includes this.] |
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San Fransisco Rush 2049 | Racing |
San Fransisco Rush, but in THE FUTURE! Has immensely improved graphics (without detriment to the framerate) and music. Also on Dreamcast. |
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Shadowgate 64: Trials of the Four Towers | Adventure | Classic style adventure game with great, medieval horror atmosphere and lots of puzzles to solve, and plenty of secrets to uncover. The last in a series (the first is on NES, and the second is on the Turbografx). | |
Shadowman | Platformer/Action-Adventure |
WTF KIND OF MUSIC IS THIS!?!?!?! Mario 64-like game with some brick shitting moments. This version is passable if you have the expansion pak but the PC and Dreamcast versions are superior (just stay the hell away from the PS1 version) |
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Sin & Punishment | Rail Shooter | A fucking awesome rail shooter released only in Japan for the N64...but was localized by Nintendo through the Virtual Console on the Wii. There's also a fan-translation patch. Fuck, you don't even need any translation since all the dialogue is in English! Play this shit, goddamn. Sequel on Wii... get it now! | |
Snowboard Kids | Racing | An Atlus made snowboard racing game with cartoony kids and boss fights. Has a good balance between characters and power-ups. | |
Snowboard Kids 2 | Racing | A cartoony racing game. Not as good as the original due to being less balanced. Still better than the DS 'sequel.' | |
Space Station Silicon Valley |
Adventure-Puzzle |
You play as a robot who takes over various robot animals in order to solve puzzles. One of the lesser known titles in the N64's library. As with most N64 games, has an amazing soundtrack. Made by the people behind GTA. | |
Starfox 64 | Rail Shooter |
The peak of the series. A bunch of furries shoot their way across the galaxy in order to keep a gigantic monkey head from taking over the Lylat system. Released as Lylat Wars in Europe and Australia with Lylat Speech as an extra. 1st game to use Rumble Pak! Note: LOTS of secrets throughout this game to discover.
-Being remade for the upcoming 3DS with fancy graphics- |
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Star Wars Episode I: Racer | Racing | YEEEEAAAAAH Pod-racing! Straight from Star Wars Episode I, race as any racer in the pod-racing circuit with tons of racers, upgrading, tracks, and multiplayer fun. Also on Dreamcast and Arcade. | |
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire | Action | Third-person Star Wars game. Effectively blends space combat and on-foot segments. You play as Dash Motherfucking Randar. Shooting at that motherfucking star destroyer has never been more fun. One of the N64's gems. By the way, isn't that some kick-ass boxart? | |
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron | Action | Fun flight combat game set in the Star Wars universe. Relive moments in and outside the movies. Sequels on Gamecube. | |
Super Mario 64 | Platformer | The game that changed 3D platforming forever and probably sold more N64's than any game since. Launch title for the Nintendo 64. Rereleased on DS with extra features. | |
Super Smash Bros. | Fighting | First iteration of the classic Nintendo multiplayer beat-em-up. Punch low poly mario in the face with Capt Falcon? YES! | |
Tetrisphere | Puzzle | Tetris on a spherical field. Much better than it sounds. Confusing as fuck though. | |
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 | Sports | Pretty much the same game as the iconic PS1 version, only with some music cut. Also on Dreamcast. | |
Turok | FPS | Crazy man goes forward in time to butcher every single dinosaur in the galaxy. Frustrating amounts of fog used to reduce draw-distance. Controller smashingly frustrating amount of pixel perfect jumping needed at some points. | |
Turok 2 | FPS |
Like the first but with better graphics, lotsa gore and a poor framerate (even with expansion pack). Great multiplayer though. Also on PC. Stupidly hard aswell. Any Turok after this one is terrible, especialy the Disney ones! |
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Vigilante 8 | Vehicular Combat | Twisted Metal with a 70's/Disco glaze. Also on Dreamcast, with the seqeul. | |
Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 | Wrestling | While Japan-only, this title is considerably deeper than all of the AKI-developed wrestling games for the N64; including No Mercy. It is often considered to be a Japanese counterpart of Wrestlemania 2000. But while No Mercy makes that game moot, this title really takes it's own spin by having 200+ different moves and the ability to form combos with those moves. One of the deepest wrestling titles ever made. Only flaw is that - unless you're Japanese or are familiar with Japanese wrestling - you won't know who the fuck any of the characters are. Not as gay as the cover makes it seem. >Mitsuharu Misawa gay | |
Wave Race 64 | Racing | Best racing game on the N64. Them water physics. Pal version is a bit fucked sadly. Gamecube sequel is worth playing too. | |
World Driver Championship | Racing | Arguably one of the best racing games on the N64. What it lacks in licensing and decent sound effects it makes up with in arguably one of the most technically impressive games (so much so that it is has proven ridiculously hard to emulate) with brilliant graphics and great gameplay if you can get past the shitty starter cars. The N64 may not have had Gran Turismo but this definitely makes up for it. | |
WinBack | TPS | Fucking awesome third-person shooter that has elements later borrowed by games like Resident Evil 4 and Gears of War. It has "Win" in it's name, enough said. A remake is available on PS2. | |
WWF: No Mercy | Wrestling | Fun wrestling on the N64. Use the chair, damn it. Inb4 CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN'!?!?! | |
Yoshi's Story | Platformer |
Inferior sequel to Yoshi's Island. You run around throughout the never ending stages trying to eat enough fruit to become happy and move on. Plus Yoshi singing...What the fuck? Still a good game though. |