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Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:52 pm
by Steve
[iup=3580054]Johnny Jalfrezi[/iup] wrote:For all the love given to ISS64, I much preferred its sequel ISS98, as it was a faster game and seemed to feature more variety in the goals (and you could score from the halfway line with Sebastien Veron). But the best new feature, and one that I never, ever revealed to my mates in the hundreds of matches we played, was the ability to dive by pressing all of the yellow buttons at once! The sheer rage this used to generate in my oponents was the source of much hilarity, for me at least - they knew I was cheating and they knew that, as soon as I was in the box, I was going down, but they could never figure out how I was doing it!
Whilst ISS 98 looked more refined, I thought it played a worse game of football than ISS 64. I remember giving ISS 98 a good caning but after the novelty wore off, I soon returned to ISS 64. ISS 2000 on PS2 was the greatest ISS game though. ISS 2000 was everything I could have hoped for (at the time).
I remember the diving, and it's no surprise that element has been taken out of sports games. I think with all the official licencing and endorsement coming into sports games around the late 90's/early 2000's they were forbidden to include cheating in the game as it goes against what FIFA/UEFA etc is supposed to stand for with all the fair play bollocks.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:08 pm
by Slimgrady
Pretty good.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:50 pm
by Squinty
All this talk about ISS made me youtube it. Wanted to see if anyone had vids up.
The commentary is as funny as I remember. The shot sailsssss to the. RIGHT.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 8:44 pm
by chalkitdown
[iup=3590756]Slimgrady[/iup] wrote:
Pretty good.
Bit disappointing that he just glitched his way through Zelda in 10 minutes, though,
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:25 pm
by Ironhide
I was never that impressed with the N64, the pad was terrible and the games were ridiculously expensive.
In the 2-3 years I had it I only bought 5 games for it (Goldeneye, Diddy Kong Racing, Ocarina of Time, Waverace 64 and Fighters Destiny) before selling them to fund buying a Dreamcast.
I bought a few other games for it about 8 years ago when I gave it to my sister but found they had aged badly.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 10:00 am
by Metalgear2k2
[iup=3590815]chalkitdown[/iup] wrote:[iup=3590756]Slimgrady[/iup] wrote:
Pretty good.
Bit disappointing that he just glitched his way through Zelda in 10 minutes, though,
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:28 am
by Qikz
[iup=3590815]chalkitdown[/iup] wrote:[iup=3590756]Slimgrady[/iup] wrote:
Pretty good.
Bit disappointing that he just glitched his way through Zelda in 10 minutes, though,
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:30 am
by Super Dragon 64
[iup=3590815]chalkitdown[/iup] wrote:[iup=3590756]Slimgrady[/iup] wrote:
Pretty good.
Bit disappointing that he just glitched his way through Zelda in 10 minutes, though,
What were you expecting in an hour?
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:26 pm
by Seven
That video is brilliant. So many things about SM64 I've learned, and the guy is brilliant.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:55 pm
by Suffocate Peon
[iup=3577968]chalkitdown[/iup] wrote:My favourite console ever. Most of my happiest memories of my adolescence come from playing N64 games, sad as it sounds. Also the first console that I ever truly owned that was mine and mine alone, and didn't have to share with my brother.
However, 18 years on and I still haven't played some of the best games on it, though. I feel kinda ashamed to admit that Pilotwings 64, Paper Mario, Space Station Silicon Valley, Shadowman & Turok 3 are some of the gems that never made it into my collection. I swear I''ll pick them up someday!
Ah man Pilotwings was amazing, so was Space Station and Shadowman. But Piltowings was something special, that gentle bliss and emphasis on subtle movements was so extraordinary at that time, and still is, not played anything like it since. It was also rock hard, in a way which made it seem impossible to attain the top points. It had a real learning curve which you felt like you really had to focus and concentrate in order to improve because you couldn't button mash and fluke your way through it. I remember the scale of the islands being a massive thing then, I used to just want to wake up on a Saturday and drift around for a few hours. It had/has a wholesome visual style that made grass and rocks exciting as 3D did then.
I'm similar to you in that with the N64 i sought to buy every game whereas with the Megadrive I just made do with playing whatever I could. And with the Saturn demos. The N64 was the continuation of the excitement of games in the 90s, as a decade it will never be topped, it packed in more in two years than the 21st century has so far.
I remember playing ISS too vividly, finally cracking how to score a goal because it was almost impossible. Running on a diagonal and then driving the ball in the far corner i think, it had to be a precise action, the same goal scored every time.
I even remember something boring like my explanations for wanting to take back Pokemon Stadium and Top Gear Rally 2. TGR2 was like an entirely different game to the original, which is best played after buying the cartridge for about £5. Pokemon Snap was great. World Driver Championship was amazing, so amazed by graphics back then, and why not.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 12:33 am
by Seven
Isn't Turok 3 meant to be fairly meh compared to first two? (Well, N64 mag liked first one... I think? I do know they loved second game loads, though.)
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 9:35 am
by SEP
[iup=3592642]Suffocate Peon[/iup] wrote:Ah man Pilotwings was amazing, so was Space Station and Shadowman. But Piltowings was something special, that gentle bliss and emphasis on subtle movements was so extraordinary at that time, and still is, not played anything like it since. It was also rock hard, in a way which made it seem impossible to attain the top points. It had a real learning curve which you felt like you really had to focus and concentrate in order to improve because you couldn't button mash and fluke your way through it. I remember the scale of the islands being a massive thing then, I used to just want to wake up on a Saturday and drift around for a few hours. It had/has a wholesome visual style that made grass and rocks exciting as 3D did then.
Oh god yes, Little States is one of my favourite places in gaming to go and relax. Fly around in Birdman mode, enjoying the scenery to a light jazz soundtrack. Absolutely love it.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 12:22 pm
by Parksey
Seven wrote:Isn't Turok 3 meant to be fairly meh compared to first two? (Well, N64 mag liked first one... I think? I do know they loved second game loads, though.)
I think N64 Magazine rated it lower because they felt that the FPS had moved on since Turok 2, and that the recently-released Perfect Dark had moved the goalposts, with T3 unable to keep up.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 12:33 pm
by Super Dragon 64
N64 magazine rated Turok 2 higher than GoldenEye, which I loved. I still haven't quite gotten over how wrong that was.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 12:47 pm
by Herdanos
[iup=3592628]Seven[/iup] wrote:That video is brilliant. So many things about SM64 I've learned, and the guy is brilliant.
I was only planning on having a quick look. Watched the whole thing
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:26 am
by speedboatchase
[iup=3592811]Dark Dragon 64[/iup] wrote:N64 magazine rated Turok 2 higher than GoldenEye, which I loved. I still haven't quite gotten over how wrong that was.
Review scores for the first two Turok games were mental. A lot of magazines (including the official Nintendo magazine) rated the original along very similar lines to Super Mario 64.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:24 pm
by Glowy69
Has anyone mentioned body harvest yet?
Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:34 pm
by Parksey
glowy69 wrote:Has anyone mentioned body harvest yet?
I really enjoyed Body Harvest when I got around to playing it in 2001. It had already dated by then (arguably it was dated on release), but it was still a lot of fun.
I got to the last Earth level and always meant to go back and complete it. If I were immortal (and so far evidence suggests I am), I would ideally go back and play it again someday. I dread to think how dated it is now though.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:39 pm
by Starquake
Body Harvest was fun at the time, although I found it a really really hard game. I imagine it has aged terribly though.
Re: Nintendo 64 turns 18 this week
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:40 pm
by Glowy69
[iup=3593352]Parksey[/iup] wrote:glowy69 wrote:Has anyone mentioned body harvest yet?
I really enjoyed Body Harvest when I got around to playing it in 2001. It had already dated by then (arguably it was dated on release), but it was still a lot of fun.
I got to the last Earth level and always meant to go back and complete it. If I were immortal (and so far evidence suggests I am), I would ideally go back and play it again someday. I dread to think how dated it is now though.
Yeah it was glitchy as hell. But I remember it being amazing. I wouldn't want to play it now. Would ruin my memories of it. Turok was amazing. The first one and its fog. The second one and that brain drilling gun?
Nintendo consoles have probably provided me with the most fun during my gaming years. The cube moreso. But the n64 was amazing.
I'm probably on my own but I didn't really get on with Mario
