This summer, Nintendo opened up a new channel of their subscription service Nintendo Switch Online Plus Expansion Pack tier specifically for M-rated Nintendo 64 games. Aptly titled MATURE 17+, it’s a separate application from the one that houses the other Nintendo 64 classics like Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.…
Sometimes dreams really do come true. Mere hours ago, Nintendo dropped their big June Direct, and while it was firmly focused on the current Nintendo Switch and not its successor, it was still full of huge announcements. The biggest, of course, being that Capcom’s Marvel games are finally coming to modern devices. Marvel vs. Capcom…
Originally released as an exclusive for the Nintendo 64 back in the fall of 2000, Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion finally made its way to modern machines in 2023 with the loving crafted Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion – Remastered, helmed by Nightdive Studios. Nightdive of course was the developer also responsible for resurrecting the…
DEVELOPER: Acclaim Studios Austin (original)/Nightdive Studios (remaster) PUBLISHER: Nightdive Studios REVIEWED ON: Nintendo Switch from a copy purchased by the author. To read out thoughts on the Nintendo 64 original, click HERE. It’s fair to say that the Nintendo 64 was kept afloat against the juggernaut that was Sony’s first PlayStation because of Nintendo’s own…
Since their inception, Nightdive’s name has become synonymous with high-quality remasters and remakes of classic first-person shooters. Just this year alone they launched a critically acclaimed remake of System Shock 2, and modern updates for both Rise of the Triad and Quake II. Thanks to Nightdive Studios, players who grew up with Acclaim’s Turok series…
I can remember it like it was yesterday. While taking a trip to my local Wal-Mart, one of the first things that greeted me when I walked in the door – other than an actual greeter – was a TV with a new console hooked up to it. In it was a cartridge for the…
DEVELOPERS: Iguana Entertainment (originals)/Nighdive Studios (remasters) PUBLISHERS: Acclaim Entertainment (originals)/Nightdive Studios (remasters) REVIEWED ON: PlayStation 4 (slim) from copies purchased by the author. When players think of the Nintendo 64’s library, they tend to think of big, first party Nintendo titles like Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time or four-player party…
Over the past two and half weeks or so, I’ve been posting a story a day from a series of short anecdotes I crafted last fall. For those who have been keeping up with my posts, I wish to say thank you and I hope you enjoyed my indulgent trip down memory lane. In case…
A co-worker and I at a former job I once held mutually agreed that we wouldn’t want to be born at any other time. This came from sharing stories about being a kid when the NES came out and growing up with classics like The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros. and countless other games…
In 1996, Nintendo released their third home console to the market, the Nintendo 64, a system four times more powerful than the measly 16-bit Super Nintendo. We argued a lot about numbers a lot back in the day like we knew what we were talking about or it actually meant something. “The PlayStation’s only 32-bit,…
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