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StarFox64 still holds up tremendously well. The blocky and simple art design makes it visually easy to read, and the gameplay is solid.
Mario 64
Legend Of Zelda OOT
Mario Kart 64
Goldeneye 007
Perfect Dark
Diddy Kong Racing
Blast Corps
Starfox 64
Killer Instinct Gold
Tetrisphere
Super Smash Bros
Kirby 64
WaveRace 64
StarWars Shadows of the Empire
Mario Kart 64 was my childhood. My friend and I always dueled it out in battle mode.
Am I gonna be the first one to say Mario 64?? Really?
Mario 64
Paper Mario
Jet Force Gemini
Majora’s Mask / Ocarina of Time
Blast Corps
Custom Robo
Mario Golf
Space Station Silicon Valley
Goemon’s Great Adventure
Oh man I forgot about blast corps!
It really holds up, probably moreso than most N64 games. There’s so much fun in the simplicity of wrecking things.
Pleasantly surprised to see Mario Golf mentioned ❤️
Happy to see Perfect Dark so well represented - it was a hell of a hidden gem; it got sorta overshadowed by Goldeneye in the collective memory but it was one of those rare and shining examples of a sequel that perfectly added great and innovative next steps to the winning formula of the good first game without mucking up the core mechanics any.
I’m a sucker for Kirby 64
The crystal shards!
Super underrated: pokemon puzzle league
F-Zero X is one I haven’t seen mentioned.
Majoras Mask, Perfect Dark, Jet Force Gemini, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, and Goemons Great Adventure are some of my all time favorites.
Diddy Kong Racing. Mario Kart with flight, I don’t know how it never got huge.
Edit: After Ocarina of Time of course. That was defining.
I swear Nintendo tried to hide it because it was better than MK64
It really was.
There is this though. About a remake coming early 2025.
Edit: oh wow GamePass too. Nice.
I agree with most of these lists. I would add Banjo Kazooie! Just finished a replay of it (N64 version, not XBLA) and it mostly holds up.
Jet Force Gemini was my top go to game quickly followed by Conkers Bad Fur Day. Cruisi’n USA deserves an honorable mention as well!
Ocarina of time, goldeneye, shadows of the empire, Mario kart
Hot take: Perfect Dark took everything that was great from GoldenEye, expanded on the formula, and is a much better game overall.
StarFox 64 is always gonna be an all-time favourite of mine. The gameplay is so simple yet very rewarding. Very arcade-like game loop, in a good way.
Diddy Kong Racing is one of the first games I discovered the… joys (?) of completionism as a kid.
I played Wave Race a ton with my father, he loved that game. Mario Golf as well.
Mario 64 is insanely good in retrospect, but I both didn’t understand much of English back then, and also sucked at the mechanics too much as a kid to really enjoy it. Similar situation with Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie. I somehow managed to play through Donkey Kong 64 using walkthrough guides I printed out chapter by chapter. The multiplayer was nice although laggy as hell.
Spot on with Perfect Dark. It’s one fault imo is that it was trying to do almost too much for the 64. Even as an expansion pak game, the graphics that the 64 was capable of could just not render the necessary detail for a lot of stuff to be easy to see/recognize.
