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
What are your favorite Nintendo 64 games?
Submitted 3 months ago by VanHalbgott@lemmus.org to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Durandal@lemmy.today 3 months ago
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
Mario Kart 64 was my childhood. My friend and I always dueled it out in battle mode.
Die4Ever@programming.dev 3 months ago
Am I gonna be the first one to say Mario 64?? Really?
Mario 64
Rottcodd@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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
folkrav@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Pleasantly surprised to see Mario Golf mentioned ❤️
variants@possumpat.io 3 months ago
Oh man I forgot about blast corps!
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It really holds up, probably moreso than most N64 games. There’s so much fun in the simplicity of wrecking things.
kraynyan@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I’m a sucker for Kirby 64
LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The crystal shards!
TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 months ago
F-Zero X is one I haven’t seen mentioned.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 months ago
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 extended the winning formula of the good first game without mucking up the core mechanics any.
thisismyhaendel@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Super underrated: pokemon puzzle league
TheLameSauce@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve gotta rep one of my all time favorite party ges to this day (ported to PC) Worms Armageddon. They’ve had several sequels, but I believe that was the last one to use that particular physics engine, and every game since has just felt a bit… Hollow?
Also +1 to Paper Mario - S-Tier RPG, best of the whole series IMHO, tho the GameCube sequel TTYD is deserving of a very close second. I wish so bad they’d make a return to badges and acquiring new buddies and buddy upgrades throughout the game. The oragami king battle mechanics did not do it for me, and with it being the core mechanic of the game just soured my whole experience despite the rest of the game being pretty solid.
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I bought Sticker Star real excited for Paper Mario, and hated it. Every attack is a consumable item? No thanks.
Denalduh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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!
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Diddy Kong Racing. Mario Kart with flight, I don’t know how it never got huge.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I swear Nintendo tried to hide it because it was better than MK64
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It really was.
There is this though. About a remake coming early 2025.
Dazed_Confused@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ocarina of tine, goldeneye, shadows of the empire, Mario kart
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I fucking love Quest 64. I’m under no impression that it is a good game, but I grew up playing it and it remains one of my favorite comfort games to this day. I play through it fully once every year or two. I also enjoy other, better games, as have been mentioned elsewhere, but Quest is just special to me.
idealotus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
Goldeneye
toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Majoras Mask, Perfect Dark, Jet Force Gemini, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, and Goemons Great Adventure are some of my all time favorites.
Grangle1@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I’m pretty “basic” in my choices. Both Zelda titles, Mario 64, Mario Kart, the three Mario Parties, StarFox 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Kirby 64, Banjo-Kazooie. I just bought an N64 a few weeks ago partially because I wanted to experience the games I had growing up again and also play a bunch I missed. I tried Mischief Makers because it looked interesting and I enjoy the unique mechanics but the controls are hard to master enough to feel like I even have a basic handle on them.
folkrav@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
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 sucked at it too much as a kid to enjoy it.
TheLameSauce@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
GoldenEye and Conkers Bad Fur Day
littlecolt@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Ever play Tetrisphere? It’s awesome!
Also, check out Mischief Makers. Very fun platform game.
VanHalbgott@lemmus.org 3 months ago
I’ve heard of those two…perhaps I will.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cruising USA! Played beat that entire game while listening to Third Eye Blind first album. Good times.
Procleus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Love the game and especially love that album!
dingdongmetacarples@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey is my all time favorite. The arcade style hockey was awesome.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Loved that you could get into fights in the Wayne Gretsky series
cmbabul@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ogrebattle 64, criminally under appreciated
ninjabard@lemmy.world 3 months ago
All of mine have been mentioned except Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2.
NadiaNadine@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Waverace Pilot Wings Mario Cart 64 Perfect Dark
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ocarina of Time, no question.
Gauntlet Legends is a classic.
Star Fox 64 is great.
Donkey Kong 64.
Custom Robo V2 was a fun game, if it was only in Japan.
Glover was fun.
GoldenEye, obviously.
Star Wars Episode 1 Racer, the best thing to come from The Phantom Menace.
Star Wars Shadows of the Empire was a technical marvel of its time.
Die4Ever@programming.dev 3 months ago
Gauntlet Legends is so good
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Dreamcast was okay too, the levels were more similar to the arcade cabinet, but it included some content from Gauntlet Dark Legacy as well.
hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Rocket: robot on wheels
I agree with all of the other great games others have mentioned, but I really love the first level of rocket. It’s your typical platformer, except it has a physics engine, so when you throw things, they might bounce in fun ways, and there is this dune buggy that you get to drive that bounces off the sand dunes in ways that releases a lot of seratonin in my brain.
SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
- Diddy Kong Racing
- Chameleon Twist
- Mario 64
- Mario Kart 64
- Super Smash Bros
- Starfox 64
- Pokémon Snap
- Pokemon Stadium 2
Nasan@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
GoldenEye 007 Perfect Dark Dark Rift Battletanx Gauntlet Legends Cruis’n World Rush 2 Mission Impossible Army Men Sarge’s Heroes Army Men Air Combat Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 Hydro Thunder Beetle Adventure Racing Wayne Gretsky’s 3D Hockey 98’ Worms Armageddon
WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Perfect dark has a PC port that’s really good. I couldn’t stand it on console (low fps made me motionsick) but it was a hoot when I played it on PC.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 months ago
StarFox64 still holds up tremendously well. The blocky and simple art design makes it visually easy to read, and the gameplay is solid.