My Memories of The Nintendo 64

Millennials like me have great memories of growing up with the video games of the Nintendo 64. Always excited playing those games with my brothers. In this blog I post about my favourite Nintendo 64 games. Have in mind that this is just a personal list: some classics that I didn’t play back then or played when I was an adult may be left out.

Super Mario 64

One of the first games that we played was Super Mario 64. It was a very important game in the 3D platforming genre. It was the first big game that featured Mario’s now iconic voice (“It’s a me, Mario”), included very fun levels like Tick Tock Clock and Jolly Roger Bay, introduced Metal Mario and an epic battle with Bowser. It had everything a Mario-game should have, and gave a new dimension to Mario.

Duck Dodgers Starring Daffy Duck

I also have good memories about this Looney Tunes game. It was fun to play as Daffy Duck and I specifically liked the museum level where museum pieces can be destroyed. It was a very funny game.

Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros is now a very long series and the most recent Super Smash Bros has a way more advanced character choice than the first one, yet the first game invented it all: a game where Nintendo’s icons fight each other. It was the birth of one of my favourite video game franchises.

Pokemon Stadium

Who doesn’t love Pokemon fights? This game had them on 3D. Although the story campaign from the Gameboy was missing, it also had memorable minigames, like Run, Rattata, Run.

Donkey Kong 64

This in one of the highlights in the Donkey Kong video games. It introduced new characters (that sadly were in later games rarely used again), it opened with the funny DK Rap, it had nice challenges like collecting items, fight bosses, play minigames… But I love the final battle with King K. Rool at the end of the game. As the character was intimidating first, he gets defeated in a comedic way. We also enjoyed the multiplayer.

Banjo Tooie

Although I didn’t play the original Banjo Kazooie game until 6 years ago when I was already an adult, when I was a kid we had lots of fun with the sequel Banjo Tooie. The dark opening scene impressed me, but loved the gameplay and the creative move-set, the fights with the character Klungo, the funny quiz at the end and the final confrontation with the antagonist Gruntilda.

So this is my nostalgia. And back then when you bought a game, you got the complete game. Nowadays it’s update here, update there…

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