Bright Hub writes: "There are quite a few amazing games to be had on the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console service. There are great games from the last several generations of systems, including the console that brought us perhaps our first true glimpse into the world of 3D gaming, the Nintendo 64.
The N64 may not have had the huge library or amazing success of its main competitor, the Playstation, but Nintendo did manage to deliver a series of must-play games for the console, most of which are available now on the Virtual Console and can be played right on your Nintendo Wii.
Check out our top 5 picks for great N64 games available on the Wii."
Discover 10 timeless video games from the past that remain absolutely playable today. From Chrono Trigger to DOOM, these classics have aged like fine wine!
Hot damn that's a good list. The only one i never played is AOE2 and i never finshed Chrono Trigger but it was damn good.
Speaking of what's old but holds up amazingly well and plays like a dream.. i played Symphony of the Night for the first time in 2019.. yep that's right. It became one of my favourite games of all time that i replay almost every year. I couldn't believe how good it was. That is almost impossible for me with newer games let alone older ones. Truly a special gem.
Many games have come and gone as gaming began its illustrious history in this world. So let's talk about the top 100 video games of all time!
Yeah. That’s the first I’ve seen it anywhere near #1.
Mario 64 is great but I wouldn’t put it over Mario World.
Sorry lol. I wrote the article but 5 of us voted for many different games and majority went on the list then we worked on the list. If it were just my personal top favorite we'd seen some xenoblade and star ocean as well as some others. Thanks for checking out it!
WTMG's Leo Faria: "Super Mario 64 DS may not have been “better” than Super Mario 64, but it is indeed “more” than Super Mario 64, if that makes any sense. For a kid back in 2004, having a Nintendo 64 classic on the palm of your hand, with more content than the original, and a crapton of amazing minigames on the side, was more than enough to make me ignore the admittedly terrible controls I had to put up with. Two decades later, it bizarrely holds up. I can easily affirm it’s one of my favorite remakes of all time, even if it’s far from perfect… hell, possibly not even better than the game it was supposed to be an improvement of."
In what way was the n64 a failure compared to the Playstation? It had some of the most memorable games of all time. Maybe talking gamecube you caould say it was unsucessful but the n64 was pretty damn successful last I checked. I seemed to remeber everyone owning at least the system and goldeneye.
Why isn't Goldeneye on this list? it's a must have IMO
I don't agree that the Nintendo 64 was a low point in the history of Nintendo. I know that the N64 only sold about a third of what the PS1 did but quite a large number of series- Super Smash Bros, Wave Race, 1080, Mario Party and Paper Mario started on the N64, as well as the first 3D versions of Mario and Zelda. It was also a heyday for Rare (although so was Donkey Kong Country on the SNES). The console was a treat of epic games and charged for the privilege with those £60 cartridges. There was greater colour choice than in any subsequent console- it was widely available in 6 colours. It also had 4 controller ports - Sony chose to release the PS2 several years later with only 2 ports. A poor aspect of the N64 was the movement, textures and available memory - it was a downturn from the smoothness of Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country on the SNES- but Sega had usually excelled Nintendo in these aspects anyway and the Dreamcast still didn't sell enough. I also thought think that the Gamecube controller was a big improvement over the pitchfork-like N64 controller.
Sales-wise, the Virtual Boy and, for a major Nintendo console, the Gamecube, were more of a low point for Nintendo but the Gamecube still managed to be about level pegging with the Xbox. The Gamecube may have, partly deliberately, had less epic games (but the ones it did have like The Wind Waker, Metroid Prime and the Resident Evil remake and RE4 got very high reviews) but these were complemented by quirky little games like Luigi's Mansion, Viewtiful Joe and Super Monkey Ball. Those last 2 games, especially Super Monkey Ball, were actually very hardcore. Only having Rare on board for 1 game may not have made as much difference to sales as the N64 days but I certainly regret that Donkey Kong Racing wasn't released on the Gamecube.
Another point in the article that I certainly don't accept is that 'nobody but Nintendo seems to be able to get right' karting games. The only Mario Kart games that I have played are the SNES and Gamecube versions but I doubt that either the N64 or Wii version are better than Naughty Dog's Crash Team Racing on the PS1- that game is a proper adventure with great characterisation and overworld/track design.