Whether the games that did come out on the N64 look quaint or cringeworthy is another question.
Square's best titles left Nintendo for the PlayStation, as did Capcom's genre-leading fighting games. Whereas the SNES Classic comes with legendary RPGs like Final Fantasy III (aka FF6), Secret of Mana and Super Mario RPG, its successor only has Paper Mario. There are also almost entire genres missing. Compared to the SNES Classic's lineup, which includes strong Konami and Square games, N64's best third-party games (Rare titles aside) could be limited to Turok, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron and Harvest Moon 64. Several of the N64's remaining iconic games were transplanted to the company's handheld consoles, like the 2004 port of Super Mario 64 for the DS or the graphically updated Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 2011 for the 3DS, so you've likely recently revisited the best games the N64 had to offer.īut overall, the system's catalogue is far more uneven than the SNES', especially since many third-party developers balked at the N64's cartridge format and chose to develop for Sony's CD-based PlayStation console instead. But some of its best titles would be difficult to license - especially classics like Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark, Banjo-Kazooie and Jet Force Gemini - all made by second-party studio Rare in its heyday, before it was acquired by Microsoft.Įven if Nintendo could get the rights, many of those titles recently appeared in Rare Replay, a collection released in 2015 for the Xbox One.
Yes, there are surefire first-party games to tick off, like Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, the original Super Smash Brothers and Star Fox 64. And there are a few other practical reasons too.įirst and foremost, the N64's game library is far less suited to nostalgic throwbacks compared to its predecessors. Why? Because the next main console in the big N's lineup - the N64 - isn't anywhere near as likely to tug on our collective retro heartstrings and thus rake in the nostalgia dollars as a revived SNES (and the NES before it). It'll probably be the last retro console Nintendo releases. Either way, make your peace with the SNES Classic when it lands on Sept. The company hopes to forestall shortages this time around and has improved a few other things (like adding a few feet to the controller cables). There was a hint of caution, though, as fans remembered how demand for Nintendo's first retro console - the NES Classic - wildly outpaced supply when it launched last fall. When Nintendo announced the SNES Classic earlier this week, nerd hearts everywhere were aflutter at another opportunity to relive old gaming glory.
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