April 13, 2013

The Nintendo 64 sibling nostalgia special

Date played: April 9th
Platform: N64
Session fun rating: 7/10

I was hanging out with my brother on a lazy afternoon when he spotted the Goldeneye and Top Gear Rally N64 cartridges on a shelf. We started with a little nostalgia trip down the first single player level of Goldeneye 64. That game looks fucking ugly, controls like ass and has some of the dumbest enemies ever, yet it's still kinda fun. We then jumped into multiplayer and played a quick License to Kill pistol match on the Stacks level. License to Kill makes the game into a one hit kill which helps negate the awful aiming. It was pretty fun and kind of ridiculous, yet very old!

We then played some Top Gear Rally. This one holds up a bit better but has a few rough edges as well. The game plays well but only has a couple of tracks and looks pretty awful overall. We played some split screen and while it took a lap or two before warming up, we ended up with some pretty close races.