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Star Wars Shadows of the Empire was one of the first third party games to launch for the Nintendo 64. LucasArts postponed the release to give the developers a bit more time to clean things up. That does not happen all that often. Anyhow, not being able to use the main characters from the movies […]
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Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Was Almost a Nintendo 64 Launch Title – December 3rd, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
December 3rd, 2020 
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Nintendo 64 Classic Shadow Man Receiving PlayStation Xbox Switch Getting Remastered
March 24th, 2020 Carl Williams Shadow Man getting a remaster is interesting. Currently planned for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam for PC’s, this remake is kind of a head scratching announcement. As usual for these remasters, fans can expect 4K resolution, better shadow mapping, per-pixel lighting, anti-aliasing, and new content. That last one is the most […]
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New Doom 64 Level Connects Doom Eternal with Nintendo 64 Classic
March 20th, 2020 Carl Williams Unless you have been living under a rock lately, you know about the launch of Doom Eternal. If not, it just occurred on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (Steam for instance). This latest release in the franchise is a return to its roots somewhat. Twitch gameplay, stuff explodes nicely, and there is challenge around […]
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GoldenEye 25 Re-Imagines Nintendo 64 Classic in Unreal Engine
May 4th, 2019 Carl Williams Before we get too far into this, please be aware, this is probably never going to be finished and released. Considering the convoluted ownership of the rights it may get farther along than most remakes like this would. Now onto the fun. A small group of dedicated fans are working on remaking GoldenEye from the […]
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Canceled Nintendo 64 40 Winks Game to be Released
February 14th, 2018 Carl Williams The first independent release for the Nintendo 64 since Nintendo shut down the factories is about to be released. You read that right, Piko Interactive are running a Kickstarter for the world’s first independently released Nintendo 64 title, 40 Winks. This is important for a few reasons, not only because it is the first independent […]
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Last Legion UX – Fan Translation of Nintendo 64 Game Released in English
January 18th, 2017 Neil Reive Last Legion UX is a third person action fighting game that was developed by Yuke’s and published by Hudson in 1999 for the Nintendo 64. The game is a fighting game in the same vein as Virtual On, where players get to equip their mechs with different weapons, different combinations, and pit against each other […]
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Link’s Awakening Re-Imagined Using Ocarina of Time on Nintendo 64
October 27th, 2016 Carl Williams When we hear about a cool mod or hack it is more often than not simply a character swap or something. Sega’s Streets of Rage 2 is a popular subject of fan mods (we have covered more than a few here). What about the other side of hacks and mods though, the side where the […]
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Super Mario Run 64 Hacks Nintendo 64 Classic into iPhone Style Runner
September 9th, 2016 Carl Williams With the announcement that Nintendo is releasing an actual game on Apple’s iPhone it got the gaming world buzzing. Not just any game but a Mario game. A running game at that. Endless running. Personally, I could not care less about endless running games and don’t really care if it features Mario, Sonic, Zelda, my […]
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Did Sega Turn Down the Nintendo 64 Hardware?
August 20th, 2016 Carl Williams It is almost the point that gamers can point to that was the fall of Sega. Releasing a ton of add-ons for the Sega Genesis seems to be the point that most game companies point at when asked why they didn’t support the Sega Saturn. That Sega was all over the place. They were actually. […]
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Nintendo 64 Disk Disk Drive Development Kit Including Disk Surfaces
July 12th, 2016 Carl Williams The Nintendo 64 Disk Drive, aka N64 DD, was never released in North America but did see a very limited release in Japan. The limited release in Japan was not because Nintendo didn’t make enough- apparently they made 100,000 units available but only sold 15,000 of them over a 14 month period. Along with the […]
