Category: Game Reviews

Developer: Camelot Publisher: Nintendo Released: July 21, 2000 8/10 Rated: E Before going into detail about the flavor of the Mario branding and the success Camelot continues to have in handling the IP, I feel it’s important to highlight the foundation of Mario Tennis and its tremendous quality and replayability. Even for aficionados of pure Read more

Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Released: April 1, 1998 Rated: E 7/10 From the days when every company needed to try its hand at an extreme sport to stay on the cutting edge of culture and technological advances, 1080 Snowboarding comes straight from the top team at Nintendo to prove the hardware’s power and the Read more

Developer: Crystal Dynamics Publisher: Crave Entertainment Released: September 28, 1999 Rated: T 6/10 Gex heads back into The Media Dimension for another series of small-screen parodies, rife with wisecracks and janky platforming. Though not the most deserving based on the quality of his previous efforts, the ability of Gex to market himself successfully and uniquely Read more

Developer: Nintendo Software Technology Publisher: Namco Released: February 14, 2000 8/10 Rated: E Nintendo probably didn’t need another racing title in its library by early 2000, with the genre easily being one of the most prolific on the system, both for its good and bad titles, and offering up just about every interpretation of the Read more

Developer: Rare Ltd. Publisher: Nintendo Released: November 25, 1996 Rated: T 7/10 Alongside Cruis’n USA, Killer Instinct Gold was one of the N64’s earliest releases that faced a lot of disappointment on release as an arcade port that simply underwhelmed. Hype building and previewing for a home port of Killer Instinct 2 date back to Read more

Developer: Syrox Developments Publisher: Crave Entertainment Released: December 14, 1999 Rated: E 5/10 I’m always interested in the progression of the arcade-revival genre that picked up a lot of steam in the fifth and sixth generations. As storage limits increased at home, compilations became more extensive while ports became less compromised, but some of the Read more

Developer: Acclaim Studios Salt Lake City Publisher: Acclaim Released: August 31, 1999 Rated: T 5/10 If I were assigning half-point scores on these ratings, WWF Attitude would be a key candidate for a 5.5 rating, if only to denote what it does to hold a leg up on its predecessor, which if you’re reading this Read more

Developer: Iguana Entertainment West Publisher: Acclaim Released: August 11, 1998 Rated: T 5/10 After maintaining the lucrative WWF video game license throughout the Hulkamania era on the NES, and into the 16-bit era alongside the New Generation, Acclaim barrelled ahead onto the PS1 and N64 with the hotly-anticipated WWF War Zone, the higher-ups at the Read more

Developer: LucasArts Publisher: Nintendo Released: December 3, 1996 Rated: T 7/10 Patrons at the 1996 E3 got plenty of reason to be excited for the upcoming release of the Nintendo 64, in part due to an impressive recreation of the Battle of Hoth from the upcoming Shadows of the Empire. A fully-3D, free-moving flight across Read more

Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Released: February 10, 1997 Rated: E 9/10 Mario Kart 64 is possibly the greatest game in the N64 library that still has to fight the hardest against its own successors. When it comes to expectations of what Mario Kart is, as during time of writing, we are anticipating the release Read more