Category: Game Reviews

Developer: Software Creations Publisher: EA Sports Released: May 19, 1998 Rated: E 6/10 EA Sports vastly improved their efforts in a short few months between the release of FIFA Soccer 64, a rushed mess of a game from the early months of 1997, to November’s Road to World Cup ‘98. A fluid, content-rich title that Read more

Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Released: March 10, 1998 Rated: E 7/10 Somewhere way down on the totem pole of Nintendo’s platforming franchises sits the Yoshi series. While the character/species is beloved and integral to Mario games, both mainline and spinoffs, Yoshi’s starring roles have been spent working off of the touchstone release of Yoshi’s Read more

Developer: Iguana West Publisher: Acclaim Released: November 30, 1998 Rated: E 5/10 After their great success in publishing the home ports of NBA Jam in the 16-bit era, Acclaim made off like bandits with the naming rights going forward and attempted to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes with their first basketball title under the Read more

Developer: 3D Realms (Original) Eurocom (Port) Publisher: GT Interactive Released: November 16, 1997 Rated: M 7/10 It’s no secret in this particular case: on the N64, you are getting what most would consider to be the kid-gloves version of a classic ‘90s FPS. Duke Nukem 3D released in Spring 1996 as one of two sequels Read more

Developer: EA Canada (Original) NuFX (Port) Publisher: EA Sports Released: November 4, 1998 Rated: E 7/10 Similar to their only NHL output on the system, EA opts to give N64 owners the sloppy seconds treatment with their first basketball release, though they at least wouldn’t abandon the system just as quickly. A conversion of the Read more

Developer: Midway (Arcade Original) Eurocom (Port) Publisher: Midway Released: June 23, 1998 Rated: M 6/10 Well, it didn’t kill the series. Mortal Kombat 4 arrived in arcades in 1997. By that point, Ed Boon and Midway had mostly prepped their roadmap of 10 “Dos” and 500 “Don’ts” of 3D Fighting Game development from Midway’s own Read more

Developer: Midway (Arcade Original), Eurocom (Port) Publisher: Midway Released: May 20, 1997 Rated: M 3/10 On some level, you have to appreciate a willingness to not send your flagship franchise out to die by not releasing a 3D iteration without a test run first. A practice later enacted by Ubisoft with Tonic Trouble releasing ahead Read more

Developer: AKI Corp. Publisher: THQ Released: October 26, 1998 Rated: E 8/10 With the success of WCW vs. nWo World Tour and Virtual Pro Wrestling 64 providing more than enough foundation for a follow-up, the next move was likely obvious to anyone who has gotten their hands on the best wrestling game to date. All Read more

Developer: Z-Axis Publisher: Activision Released: November 30, 1999 Rated: E 6/10 From Robotron to Asteroids and in-between, the retro revival that began in the latter half of the ‘90s, mostly composed of the biggest names of the pre-Nintendo generations, was well-represented on the N64. Space Invaders comes to us from future Dave Mirra developer Z-Axis, Read more