Gaming Favorite N64 Games

[Monkey_Orange]

My all time favorite N64 game is...

Banjo-Kazooie

My brother and I just bought a used copy of the first installment, and the second one too [Banjo-Tooie]. :D

What is/are your favorite(s)?:D

[Krillen]

What are my favorites?

Hmm.....

I would have to say the following inspired me to keep gaming. These games should never be forgotten therefore they are the roots for some fabulous lines of gaming.

-Mario 64
-Banjo Kazooie
-Goldeneye 007
-Perfect Dark
-Turok 1
-Mario Kart 64
-Zelda:Ocarina of Time
-Zelda:Majora's Mask

*.........thinks of some more............*

-Vigilante 8
-Conker's bad fur day
-Rogue Squadron


Ack! There are so much more but none of them come to mind.

I remember this thread being created 100's of times but oh well. You want to know, so I tell you.

-Krill

[otakukev]

N64 had some classics- I'll never forget games like goldeneye, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, and StarFox. N64 set the stage for some pretty good games, some of which have sequels on GameCube.

[Booboo]

Mine would be:

1) Banjo-Kazooie
2) Paper Mario
3) Mario Kart
4) Rayman 2

These are my top 4 favorites I probably for got some, but I'll post these for right now.

[Desbreko]

[color=indigo]If you're going to post in a favorite thread like this, give reasons why you like the games you do. Otherwise you're just posting lists of some popular games, which serves little point and is considered spam. More posts with just lists, without any decent reasons to go with them, and this thread will be closed.[/color]

[Epitome]

One of my all time favorites is Ogre Battle 64, I loved that game because of the battles and the different heroes you can get. Another one of my favorites was Perfect Dark. I liked that game because I love almost all first person shooters, and I liked the different guns.

[Subversive]

I've gotta go with my 2.

1. Star Wars Episode 1 Racer - The only starwars game I've ever really gotten into.

What made it great?
The handling, customization of parts, amount of characters, course design, and of course - high speeds.

2. Mario Kart 64 - I can't wait for the second!

What made it great?
Your favorite mario characters having it out with shells, mushrooms, and some lightning on a really, really wacky course.

[Krillen]

Yah, I forgot.

Star Fox 64 was a great game. Reason being because you just got to fly around realistic starfox environments which were similar to teh ones on SNES. It was fun to blast things away witht eh rapid fire ability and the the other vehicles you coulc aquire.

And Yes, Pod Racer is another one that comes to mind. Yes, and just like Extreme G, it felt like you were actually traveling at high speeds while maintaining steady control. Great Games.

Although I was dissapointed in the latest Extreme G for the gamecube. Just wasnt as good as 1 or 2. But that is my opinion.

[Epitome]

Oh I forgot Extreme G. That was a pretty cool game. Thats the on where you drove around in motorcycle looking things right. Well if it is I loved that because it had like missles and stuf that you could shoot at other racers. Im a very destructive type of person. LOL. :)

[Monkey_Orange]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Desbreko [/i]
[B][color=indigo]If you're going to post in a favorite thread like this, give reasons why you like the games you do.[/color] [/B][/QUOTE]

sorry sorry *bows her head*

Hmm...why do I like Banjo-Kazooie?

-gotta love that sarcastic bird, Kazooie. Her dialogue almost always make me laugh.
-heck, the characters are all wonderful!
-I like having the mini-challenges
-Most of all, I loove the music. :love:

Yep, thats it. All-in-all, it's just a very fun game. Challenging, too.

[Desbreko]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Monkey_Orange [/i]
[B]sorry sorry *bows her head*[/B][/QUOTE]
[color=indigo]Heh, don't worry about it too much. Just try and remember. ^_^ And sorry if I sounded mad or anything, I was just kind of in a hurry when I wrote that.

Anyway, my two favorite N64 games are Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Zelda: Majora's Mask, but I won't get into those two right now.

I can't believe no one has mentioned Super Smash Bros., though. Besides the two Zelda games, it's my favorite game on the N64. I love being able to "Duke it out as your favorite Nintendo characters," to quote the text on the box. There's just something about totally whooping on DK with Pikachu, heheh.

And being able to have four people playing at once is also something I really like. Most of the time when I played, even if I was just by myself, I'd play vs. mode against three other CPU players. It turns the matches into huge free-for-alls (or team battles), instead of just one-on-one duels.

Also the simplicity of the controls is really nice. There are no long button combos that you have to do in order to pull off a move. (One thing that can really put me off fighting games). At the most, you push a direction on the control stick and hit one button, sometimes combined with jumping. At the same time, though, the moves are plentiful and varied. The long list of items also adds even more unpredictability into the game. I played this game more than any other on the N64, and I was still developing move combos up until I got the sequal on the GCN. (Which is really too bad, since I never got to try some of my really good, later ones on actual people). In short, it's easy to learn but hard to master, and I love that sort of game.[/color]

[Ninjaman]

My favorites games are:

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time- it was the first Zelda to experience in 3D and it was wonderful. I found the story pretty goo also.

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask- like in OOT, I found the story pretty good also. Plus the use of masks was pretty cool, even though some were just plain useless. I just wished it was longer.

Paper Mario- I loved Super Mario RPG and I knew I was going to like this one. I found it colorful and the story was also pretty good. I just found it a bit too easy.

Banjo-Kazooie- I loved the world of the game and the story. It was hard, but yet fun to play. It is definitely one of my most favorite games, too bad the sequel wasn't as good, at least in my opinion.

Perfect Dark- the best multi-player game in my opinion. I don't own the game, but my friend did and we always played it, either against each other or teaming agains some bots or the game's story. The story was cool and quite interesting.

Goldeneye 007- pretty much the same reason I had for Perfect Dark, but not as good at the multi-player action.

Star Fox 64- I only rented this game for a bit, but it was so much fun! Too bad I never beaten it.

[Shinmaru]

My favorites:

Ocarina of Time- Proved that 2D games could be put in 3D. Plus, it looked really awesome at the time.

Super Mario 64- I was obsessed with this when it came out. I still love it.

Perfect Dark- When the frame rate doesn't stutter, this is one of the best multiplayer experiences on any system.

Star Fox 64- Much better than the first Star Fox, which I thought was overrated. Filled with speed and action.

For my last one, I'll go with F-Zero X. That was one of the few racers that I've really liked a lot.

[Krillen]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Desbreko [/i]
[B][color=indigo]Heh, don't worry about it too much. Just try and remember. ^_^ And sorry if I sounded mad or anything, I was just kind of in a hurry when I wrote that.

Anyway, my two favorite N64 games are Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Zelda: Majora's Mask, but I won't get into those two right now.

I can't believe no one has mentioned Super Smash Bros., though. Besides the two Zelda games, it's my favorite game on the N64. I love being able to "Duke it out as your favorite Nintendo characters," to quote the text on the box. There's just something about totally whooping on DK with Pikachu, heheh.[/color] [/B][/QUOTE]

Ahh.....I cant believe I left SSB out.

*Bangs head against wall.........ow.....

I loved playing with my friends, I remember the 300 live battles that lasted hours and hours. It nevergot boring when you had a challnge. It created so much excitement between everyone in the room. A must have game for N64 owners.

Super Smash Bros. Melee sure did live up to its original.

[eleanor]

Zelda OOT: This is was the first Zelda game I ever played, and I thought it was amazing. I thought the graphics were pretty good too. (for its time) I liked the way they set up the temples and all the little side quests.

[GrimmFang]

1.Goldeneye
2.Perfect Dark
3.Zelda OOT
4.Zelda MM

Goldeneye is my all time favorite N64 game. I had a couple fun years hacking this game to death in the Gameshark community not to mention I played this game with friends two years straight.

[Brasil]

For parts of my reply, I?m excerpting a journal entry of mine from ujournal. Most will be able to tell where my favorites fall.

??but for multiplayer, I gravitate to the 'Cube. Much like I did during the Golden Days Of N64 (which, by the way, is still amazing and brilliant) when there was GoldenEye 007 and Super Smash Bros, not to forget Mario Kart 64 and Bomberman 64, as well. Back in High School, my friends and I played N64 religiously?we played it for hours upon hours. We first started with GoldenEye. That was our frosh year.

At the end of our soph years, Smash Bros. was released, and we adopted another multiplayer game.

Some of my fondest memories are during our deathmatches. We all had character obsessions in Bond and Smash. For me, it was Oddjob and Pikachu. Scott loved Boris and Jigglypuff (When the tough get ruffed, the puff get tough?) Matt and Chris always raced me to Oddjob, but my timing was better. Chris usually played as Bond and Link in Smash. Matt, well, Matt vacillated between a few different characters in GoldenEye (I think it was Natalya, Xenia, Moonraker Elite, and Mishkin? But I'm not sure) and usually played as Fox in Smash. Out of us four in the games, I was disturbingly good.

I could line up headshots with the Golden Gun for one shot-one kill, all while under heavy fire from KF7 Soviets. They set me up a lot during Bond. Potty breaks would lead to 3 KF7s pointed at my head, and my health was suddenly down to one bar. But I was that good to where I killed all three of those little backstabbers without dying. Swerving and dodging.

"Stop moving around, Alex!!!" Fun times. Smash was no different. Whoever was on my team was sure to win. I was deadly with a beam sword and the Home Run Bat. If I knocked you off the arena, you weren't coming back. I threw whatever I could find...capsules...swords...fans...guns (even with shots still left)...bombombs...anything. Matt got really pissed off at that. "Alex, will you stop throwing things at me?!?!?!?"

Mario Kart 64 was very good. The revenge bombomb is an excellent way to either get back at the player who slain you, or to just have some fun by targeting an innocent Yoshi who has just been minding his own business and avoiding conflict. It?s an excellent game for the demented humor of my comrades.

Bomberman 64. The game was amazing. Setting the timer for 1 minute for the Pyramid level was one of the greatest set-ups for any game I've ever played. My friends and I were screaming at each other. It was great!

If you could only see the expressions on their face as a beam sword comes hurling from the other side of the screen to smack them into oblivion. I loved Scott?s disturbing laughter as he blows away chunks of the ceiling (my floor) in an attempt to take away my sniping position. If I had only recorded my friends as they voiced their disgust with my guerilla tactics and hit-and-run techniques??

Some games not mentioned in the above excerpt include:

Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey. I first played this game in Summer of 1997. It was one of my first experiences with 4 player?play. It really showed me what multiplayer gaming can be and made me long for a Mutant League Hockey remake. MLH FOREVER. Side note: Mutant League Hockey is my favorite hockey game ever. It will always hold a special place in my memories. It was actually the first game I played with 4 players (gotta love the 4 player adapter). Anywho, that?s somewhat irrelevant.

StarFox 64. Again, I played this in Summer of 1997 and it made my jaw drop. The pure finesse of execution and pick-up-and-play gameplay that still leaves room for advanced players blew me away. StarFox 64 may be a perfect game. It blends flight sim, arcade action, insanely fun levels, and a multiplayer mode, which is in essence, a ?four player aerial fighting game.?

As you can see, I have a varied list, much like the other replies.

The one game I have described that isn?t a Nintendo title is Red Faction. When I spoke about Scott blowing up my floor, I was referring to the Lobby level in Red Faction 1?s deathmatch. I had gotten up to the rooftop area where the Fusion Rocket Launcher is and proceeded to rain death down on Scott. But then he realized the GeoMod engine could give him the upper hand. He gathered up his rockets and began punching holes in the ground I was walking on. He was laughing manically. It was great.

In closing, I guess this is the list of my favorite N64 games, in no particular order, just as they pop into my head.

1) GoldenEye 007.
2) Super Smash Bros.
3) Bomberman 64.
4) Mario Kart 64.
5) Star Fox 64.
6) Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey.

Perfect Dark was fun for a bit, but it didn?t have the?GoldenEye flair that I had expected.
Zelda: OOT was good, but not LoZ good.

Thanks.

Maladjustment, great icon!

Desbreko, where do you live? If it?s South Jersey, I?ll play against you in SSB1.

[Desbreko]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by PoisonTongue [/i]
[B]Desbreko, where do you live? If it?s South Jersey, I?ll play against you in SSB1.[/B][/QUOTE]
[color=indigo]Well, I'd love to, but I live way over in northern California. :cross:

Your description of your multi-player battles sound a lot like the ones me and my friends had. I remember playing Mario Kart 64, the first game I got with my N64, with my brother and his friend. We'd play Battle Mode for hours at a time, just beating the crap out of each other while trying not to scream the obscenities as one of us lost but then got revenge as a bomb. (We didn't want to our parents hear, heheh). And the fact that we were all about evenly matched made it even more fun, because no one person would win much more than the rest. So, we were all trying to play our absolute best in order to win. That, along with SSB, was the pinnacle of my multi-player gaming experiences on the N64.

The same thing with GoldenEye 007, although they were always better than me at that, since I didn't really play it except for multi-player. And then I got Super Smash Bros. when it came out, and it pretty much became the god of multi-player games. We would sit down after school, and just play non-stop until our parents made us stop. (Usually around dinner time at 6:00 or 7:00 PM). It was great; I wish my friends had also gotten SSBM for the GCN when it came out, so we'd be evenly matched. As it is, I just slaughter them all since I'm the only one that owns and plays it a lot. And while that's fun for a bit, it gets old after about a half hour. :twitch:[/color]

[Spikey]

[COLOR=indigo]I used to rent SSB for the N64. It was a fun and yet challenging game. Though it wasn't much like SSBM for the GCN. The SSBM had a story mode thing, and arcade mode etc... Though the SSB was an awesome multiplayer. A lot better Than James Bond 007 Goldeneye, that game was a good multiplayer game, but it was hard. When you tried to hide someone would always find you, and then youd scream and get shot and die, and blood would rush down the screen, over and over again until someone get's enough wins that they won. But I was the one who won all the time. :rolleyes:

I've never played Mario Kart 64. I remember playing almost all of the Bomberman Hero games, and stuff which were tons of fun for that period of time. I remember beating everybody at seeing who could get to the farthest level, etc.. I wish that I beat them all. I don't think I beat BomberMan 64, and another one I forget. I don't play the 64 much anymore, now that I got all these games that are good, and really good systems, like PS2, GCN, XBox, etc.. Although I'm sure the N64 still has it's fair share of good video games. I might go back and play some sometime.:)[/color]

[XeEmO]

My favorite game for the N64 was Goldeneye because of all of the multiplayer action I got out of it with my friends. It was also a fun game to hack with the gameshark (which i didn't actually own my friend just brought it over every once in a while). But my second favorite was Zelda Ocarina of Time because of all of the fun I had playing it. It reminded me very much of some of the older zelda games. I thought this was one of the few games that went from 2D to 3D good especially since I thought Castlevania 64 was awful.

[Guest Musahi]

[center][u][b]GunMetal's Favorite N64 Games[/b][/u][/center]

[b]Super Mario 64 :[/b] Super Mario 64 was the first game I ever played for the Nintendo 64. The 3D feel took a bit to get used to (I was used to the SNES Mario titles), but once I did I fell in love with the game. I think I hade like 30 stars the first day I got the game. =P How many stars are actually in the game anyway? I think I have like 112, I kinda quit once I got Super Smash Bros.

[b]Super Smash Bros. :[/b] This is easily my absolute [b]favorite[/b] N64 game. It took me 2 days to complete the game (as in unlock everything, even though there isn't much to unlock) but I still play the game to this day. Having 3 or more friends over and having a tournament or an all out free-for-all was probably the single funnest gaming expirience I have ever had. I just have to get Melee now. =P

[b]The Legend Of Zelda - OOT : [/b]It took me quite a long time to complete this one, I was stuck on the last battle with Gannondorf for [i]so[/i] long. It's probably the most enjoyable single player expirience on the N64.

[b]Other Mentions:[/b]
Goldeneye 007
Starfox 64
Banjoe Tooie

[hiachi]

Games that stand out when i think of playing N64:

Zelda OOT:It was the first Action/"Slightly RPG" game I had ever played, and still play it on the GCN re-release disc

Banjo Kazooie(Maybe Banjo Tooie also, if i ever got to play it..)It was funny, fun, and innovative, the way you got to play that platform game. Fun things in that were the SandCastle codes and MumboJumbo's magic

Harvest Moon 64:Another first, HM64 was the first sim Ive every played, and I was hooked. Although after its newer installments the 64 version is inferrior, it was still fun at the time, endless hours of fun......well, if it wasnt raining......

SSB: That game was great, when I heard about it, I wanted it so bad, and when I got it, it was worth it.....Endless amounts of ways to fight and just have fun....
GoldenEye:Aside from SSB, this was another great multiplayer game, which I spent hours playing with friends, wow, it was fun!

Zelda MM:A good sequel to OoT, nice way to use time as a ever-present opponent. Although it is a Zelda game, I still refuse to see where she fits in, but that does make sense why it is called "Ura Zelda" in japan, since "ura" means opposite, or in this case sidestory

[Fyxe]

My total favorite game of all time is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time! I dun know why... but I like all Zelda games, they may all pretty much have the same story-line... but each with a new kick. But I just love that game!

[Juu]

[color=ff00cc] [size=1]N64 is probably my favorite console, sooo... ^^;;

[b]Mario Party 4[/b] - Er... at least I think it was four. Anyway, it was so fun playing it with friends, though it took quite a while for us to complete. The mini-games were especially fun, and I really liked the game where you had to try and stay on this raft, while all these cannons just flew towards you. ^^;;

[b]Mario Kart 64[/b] - Gosh, I loved this game so much! I loved this game since the first day. Racing games have always been fun for me, so I really enjoyed this since it had all the items and different courses. My favorite course was the rainbow course, and Wario's, since I never lost in those. I remember loathing Bowser's Castle, though. I always got squished by those... block-thingies. >>;

[b]Pokemon Stadium[/b] - I have to say my favorite part about Pokemon Staduim one and two were the minigames. Since alot of my friends or family had no clue about what the Pokemon's moves were, we just played the minigames, and they loved it. My uncle wins everytime in the scyther-cutting one, since he always makes us laugh right before they fall. - .-;;

I think the multi-player games were alot better on the N64. The controllers were alot more comfortable to me, too. [/color] [/size]

[Desbreko]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by hiachi [/i]
[B]Zelda MM:A good sequel to OoT, nice way to use time as a ever-present opponent. Although it is a Zelda game, I still refuse to see where she fits in, but that does make sense why it is called "Ura Zelda" in japan, since "ura" means opposite, or in this case sidestory [/B][/QUOTE]
[color=indigo]OOT Master Quest was called Ura Zelda in Japan, not Majora's Mask. And (at least in this case) it means "another," not "opposite." The reason for this is because OOT Master Quest was originally going to be a special version of OOT that was only on the N64 Disk Drive. Hence, "another Zelda."

And it's pretty obvious where it fits in, as MM is one of the few Zelda games to have a direct link right in the game. That is, Majora's Mask takes place a little while after Link is sent back to his childhood in Ocarina of Time. It is one of the "side-story" Zelda games, however, just like The Adventure of Link and Link's Awakening along with the two Oracle games, since it doesn't have much or anything to do with the Triforce, Princess Zelda, and Ganon.[/color]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Juuthena [/i]
[B][color=ff00cc][size=1][b]Mario Party 4[/b] - Er... at least I think it was four.[/color][/size][/B][/QUOTE]

[color=indigo]Mario Party 1-3 are on the N64. 4 (and soon to be 5) are on the GCN. ^_^[/color]