Often described as the beginning of the end for Nintendo's dominance of the gaming market, the N64 was a far better console than that simplistic description would suggest, with stacks of excellent games making use of a box that arguably exceeded the power of it's Sony rival. Check out the final five in our rundown of the best N64 games.
If you were a 90s kid excited about Nintendo’s upcoming N64 console, you likely read something somewhere about the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive, also known as the 64DD or DD64.
Other nominees include games like SimCity & Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
There are some good nominees in this list that are deserving to be inducted also, but I feel Metroid has had the most impact on the industry out of all of these. Look how Metroid influenced the evolution of the Castlevania games, and the "Metroidvania" subgenre of games have become a prevailing force in gaming today. Especially now, Metroidvanias are bigger than ever.
I can very much see Resident Evil being added later too, bc it really did popularize and define the survival horror genre. I would say that one is next in line.
If any Metroid game should get the honor it should be Super Metroid , it's perfection in my eyes . 30 years later and I still feel it's the most epic shit ever .
The GBA remake deserves it or Super Metroid, the original was a very sloppy and rushed game programmed in 3 months and it shows.
If you've never played the remake, it's absolutely a must play, fixes basically every flaw in the game. Check out ExoParadigmGamer's comparison video.
“Before even Kirby was born, HAL Laboratory released the super-cute puzzler Adventures of Lolo in 1989 and it has held up beautifully.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
The N64 was one of the greatest consoles I have ever owned, it was mostly my most played console next to the PS1, although part of the reason for that had to go to Goldeneye. When I picked that sucker up, well begged my mom for it since I always loved James bond, I never knew that what I was playing would be known as one of the forefathers of FPS and one of the first ones that took it's shot at 4 player mutiplayer and succeeded. Fun to look back at the good old days of gaming, where it was only known to few but enough to insure profit, now a days shit has just gotten out of hand. Great list.
Id include Turok 1 on there as I loved it, especially how challenging it was.
Id put blast corps on there instead of pilot wings.