Tag Archives: N64

Everyone loves a good video game secret. Developers love to hide them in places players would never think to look, and players love exploring every nook and cranny of their favorite games hunting them down. But this being the age of the internet, streaming, and constant dissection and discussion, most …

Well that was unexpected Sometimes a change of pace is good. We may love a game to pixels and be happy to while away our days in its digital landscape, but once you start hitting 10, 20, 50-hour benchmarks, variety starts to become a necessity. It’s not hard to inject …

Twenty years changes many things, but this much is true: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars is the best role-playing game starring a plumber with Boogie Nights facial hair and big ups. Many games have challenged the title held by this collaboration between Nintendo and Squaresoft. Paper Mario …

Long, long ago, back in the before times, we rolled our multiplayer action at home splitscreen style. We’d play Goldeneye 007, four tiny guns and blocky hands each in their own quadrant, on a fuzzy CRT television and we would love it. Part of the fun of splitscreen shooters back …

Don Bluth and Gary Goldman met one another at Disney back in the 1970s, right when its animation was starting to get super weird and super awesome. Their artistic partnership went on to revolutionize movies with pictures like The Secret of Nimh and An American Tail as well as video …

Jude Wilson (opens in new tab), an aspiring environment artist, has captured nostalgia. By remaking the Facility level from GoldenEye 007 for the N64 from scratch in Unreal Engine 4, he’s given himself and us a chance to relive the past – only a little nicer looking this time. That’s …

For the old school console fan, 2015 is a paradise of fresh delights. Axiom Verge oozes that classic console feeling when it starts up on PlayStation 4. The grinding wub-wub-wub of the distortion field weapon and its glitchy effects warping the blocky environment seem like they were lifted right out …

Speedruns are built on glitches, exploits, and anything else that can get you from the start screen to the credits as quickly as possible. Few games have as active and dedicated of a speedrunning community as Super Mario 64 – which is why one of their number is offering a …

If you pay close attention in Bloodborne, you learn that a werewolf’s ultimate weakness isn’t quicksilver or wolfsbane – it’s doors. Specifically, it’s doorframes that are too big for their hulking bodies to fit through. You can stand on the other side and comfortably hack them to death without any …

The outside of Peach’s Castle was 3D gaming’s gentle introductory playground. It seems oddly sparse today: just a cluster of trees and a lake devoid of traditional game-like challenge. But that’s the point. Nintendo built Mario 64 on a foundation of technological breakthrough with its sprawling 3D worlds, but nothing …