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Mario Party 2 is a multiplayer party game that takes advantage of the Nintendo 64 hardware. Namely the four players at once capabilities. This allowed Hudson Soft, the developers, a lot of freedom in how the Mario Party line of games play. Even if you do not have three friends to play with you can […]
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Mario Party 2 Continues Nintendo Genre Take Overs – January 24th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
January 23rd, 2021 
Carl Williams 
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Tags: hudson soft, Mario Party 2, multiplayer, nintendo, party 
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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 Carl Williams 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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Best Retro Football Video Games Ever Made
October 21st, 2020 Carl Williams Retro games that hark people back to the good old pixelated days of button-bashing are making a comeback right around the world, with people going potty for everything from game soundtracks being repackaged as vinyl special editions to old consoles fetching more than their modern counterparts online.
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Posted in Dreamcast, Genesis, NES, News, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega Tags: football, sports 3 Comments »
Super Mario 64 Land Romhack Combines Two Great Mario Games
November 29th, 2019 Carl Williams Super Mario 64 is probably above reproach at this point. It is a classic and that is that. While it is tough to improve upon a classic, one rom hacker has done just that. How? By combining Super Mario 64 with another great Mario game, Super Mario 3D Land from the Nintendo 3DS platform. The […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Nintendo 64 Tags: bandit gaming, rom hack, Super Mario 3D Land, super mario 64, Super Mario 64 Land No Comments »
Super Mario 64 Recreates Original Game
June 4th, 2019 Carl Williams You have to hand it to modders sometimes. They make some of the wackiest entries in titles we love. Some of those entries are wild and fun, others are just weird. Luckily this one falls in that first category. You can now play Super Mario Bros using the Super Mario 64 engine.
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Piko Interactive Secure Shadow Madness and Milos Astro Lanes Rights
May 21st, 2019 Carl Williams Rescueware is alive and well at the Texas based headquarters of Piko Interactive who have recently announced three new retro titles have been rescued from history. Piko, for those that do not know already, purchases the rights to classic games and works to re-release, port, improve, finish them for fans. Their latest acquisitions are nothing […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, PSOne, Sony Tags: Milo's Astro Lanes, piko interactive, rescueware, Shadow Madness No Comments »
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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Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Windows Tags: bandit gaming, GoldenEye, remake, Unreal Engine No Comments » Super Mario 64 Receives Improvements from Fan
July 4th, 2018 Carl Williams The iconic Super Mario 64 on the Nintendo 64 is an irrefutable classic. There are problems with it but for the most part, it is a classic game that changed gaming. Sure, prior to the 3D debut of Mario and the gang there were other third dimension-based action adventures. The problem with those earlier titles […]
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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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Today in Gaming History: Virtual Chess 64
June 10th, 2016 Dash The Bomber Virtual Chess 64 was the one and only Chess simulator on the N64. Contrary to popular belief, VC64 was not the 64th game on the series, but rather the one and only of its kind in the console. It was developed by Titus Software the same company who produced Superman 64. But, unlike Superman which […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Nintendo 64 Tags: Board games, Chess, titus, Virtual Chess, Virtual Chess 64 No Comments »
