Best N64 Games Of All Time
More than 25 years after its release, the N64 remains one of. Nintendo's most peculiar landscape. Rather than opting for the new CD-ROM tech, Nintendo stuck with cartridge-based games. On top of that, Nintendo's approach to licensing third-party games led to a fairly small library of around only 400 games across its five-year run. And, of course, we could never forget the tri-handle controller design that introduced using an analog stick for Nintendo games. But the N64, as peculiar as it looks today, is an incredibly important platform in Nintendo's archive. The console brought a number of Nintendo's most iconic franchises to 3D for the first time, including Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda. In celebration of the N64, we rounded up the 15 best N64 games (in alphabetical order).
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Nintendo was responsible for some of the most influential games of all time during the N64 era, and we're taking a look at some of its greatest hits from a period in time that brought us innovative Rumble Pak technology, groin-stabbing controllers, and three-dimensional adventures that won fans over when they were first released. Some of these games are available to play on Nintendo Switch via the Switch Online Expansion Pack.
Get used to seeing Rare a lot on this list, as the developer was a heavyweight presence on the N64 and put out hit after hit on the console. A prime example of the studio's ability to create chart-topping masterpieces was seen in Banjo-Kazooie, a 3D platformer that took the building blocks of the genre and polished them to a point where it surpassed everything else on the market not starring a mustachioed plumber. Banjo-Kazooie was nearly perfect, a game that hit the Goldilocks zone of size, fun,
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