I dug as hard as I could to find the weird and forgotten stuff but I know y'all are gonna have the best stuff, so let me have it. Show me something neat!
You should check out Duck Dodgers, a pretty great licensed platformer! Also Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, a little clunky but good Tomb Raider style game.
Wow battletanks that's some nostalgia right there played that all the time you should do a 3DO video probably the only one that wants that since it's only full of army man games (also played the shit out of those to)
I rented snowboard kids 1 and 2 quite a lot as a kid. Had a ton of fun playing with friends and mastering the rocket powered snowboard. That traffic jam at the bottom of the hill was such a tense moment and I loved it.
Still my two favorite cart/battle racing games till this day. The A.I. is brutal on the more difficult levels. The multiplayer’s frame rate is pretty hard to stomach these days but it would awesome to play an updated version with online capabilities. Those were some intense sessions.
@@kurisu7885 true, I do recall Konami has been on a roll rereleasing their back catalog that the Goemon games getting brought over here Translated and all is possible, they did it to a small number of Konami games (Not Goemon) across the various collections they made.
And if you thought the not-reloading in GoldenEye was pretty funny, imagine that all the weapons in TWINE *all have reload animations* and look really cool. ...I mean, so does Perfect Dark, but I love seeing how these work on an N64.
@@jangobango2847 Goldeneye was amazing. I loved TWINE too, since I owned the damn game and played it a lot. But Perfect Dark was really the gold standard, it got everything that was great about Goldeneye and amped it up to eleven. Just the sheer number of players and bots together with the customization available on multiplayer was mind-blowing.
@@jangobango2847 Not so. In fact, most people didn't even actually play Perfect Dark, because it was too choppy and cut down unless you got the add on Expansion Pak, AND it came out right at the last minute when everyone was leaving the N64 console. Most of my friends and family were all jamming on Goldeneye for a few years, and most didn't play Perfect Dark until much later through emulation to get the graphics boost and better framerate. Perfect Dark was actually fairly niche when it released.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that remembers Hybrid Heaven. Specifically went out of my way to get the N64 expansion pak as a kid to make the game look better XD I just remember being amazed at how great the plot and story sequences were.
I loved that game. While yes, it was absolutely bizarre, and the combat system was weird... it was definitely alot of fun once you got the hang of things. Kinda wish they would do a remaster/remake of it.
It seems like I lived a completely different childhood from the rest of my friends whenever we talk about N64. All my games were stuff like Mischief Makers or Chameleon Twist or Space Station Silicon Valley. Whenever I try to explain Buck Bumble to them they look at me like I'm insane
Absolutely adored Space Station Silicon Valley. Ironically made by who would be known today as Rockstar. We only ever rented Mischief Makers, back in the day. I remember it being really difficult, as a kid.
My dude you aren’t the only one with fond memories of BattleTanx I would rent this game so many times from Blockbuster back in the day and loved having friends come over and play this game with me!! It was so fun!!
A weird and cool 64 game that has been long since forgotten about for me is Fighter's Destiny. It's a 3-D fighter with a traditional cast, but a non-traditional gameplay style. Instead of depleting a health bar, you're gunning for points like a traditional karate match. Punches and kicks aren't worth a lot, but a throw or ring out is worth a few, and a throw-counter is worth a bunch. Fun game. And you can play as a cow. Not a cow person, just a cow standing on its hind legs and doing sick martial arts.
Yess I was hoping someone else would know about Fighters Destiny. I had the sequel and it's probably one of my favorite fighting games in general. It was so ambitious for it's time. I miss my copy.
Agreed the point system adds tremendous value and creates a strategic element, especially since one can customize the point system entirely, resulting in different scenarios. I would hope to see this series on the Switch Online Service.
@@joshuachittun9109 Getting into counter-counter-counter matches is super tense and satisfying too. I really wish another fighting game would pull off the Fighter's Destiny style, but nope, it's all gotta be "balanced" and "tournament friendly." I love the fgc for the most part, but the elitism of some of them kinda ruined fighting games to an extent.
Sucker Punch is one of my favorite video game developers because what they lack in number of games they've made, they more than make up for in the quality of each one. They use every second of the numerous years they take to make a game and turn in some pretty brilliant stuff! I don't have that many favorite game companies because I typically enjoy various games from wildly differing developers because the games matter more than the companies that make them. That being said, Sucker Punch is a company I often associate with quality, so my curiosity is automatically peaked when their name enters a conversation about upcoming games.
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon is one of my fav games on the N64 ever. It’s the feudal Japan version of OoT! With switching characters!? Fun AF! I always talk about it to friends and I always use the Giant Robo battles to entice them. Doesn’t work, at all, but I think one day it will
I heard the mention of Space Station Silicon Valley and you just triggered childhood memories. Chameleon Twist was also amazing. A game I recall playing that was really weird was Wetrix.
IDK why but i feel like a Majora's Mask from your POV is much needed. You like reading and connecting to the characters you play with and Majora's Mask does that to a T. Or do whatever you want. You're existence is dope.
As a fellow hipster kid, it makes me so happy to see someone talking about Iggy, Rocket, and Goemon! Looking forward to learning more about Second Attack-it was always fun to try and get all the different Pommy transformations.
I definitely played it a lot more than Goldeneye when I think back. I think it was an improvement, overall. It certainly was in terms of graphics and game mechanics. I just remember leaving my N64 on for days, possibly weeks at a time, to finally beat it. That was because I didn't have the memory card and couldn't save the game...might also have been why I played it so much lol. I was terrible at figuring out games as a kid and never looked at strategy guides or asked people. I had to start that game over every time I turned it on, which was a lot. I was just stoked to be able to play it.
@@Carson256 Yuuup! Another reason why it took me so long to beat it lol. I eventually had to explain myself so I could actually finish it. They weren't thrilled but eventually forgot about it. It sucked when I wanted to play a different game but knew I'd lose all my progress. Again, I SUCKED at strategy and understanding the objectives. I mainly just liked to shoot stuff and play split screen with friends.
Legitimately got really excited when you brought up Rocket: Robot on Wheels. That game's always been one of my favorites and it's awesome to see it get recognition. Personally, I was always more scared of the elevator thing that takes you to the second floor and the entirety of Food Fright than Whoopie's face, lmao.
I remember being around 10 or 11 years old, not even knowing straight what a Nintendo 64 or even what emulation was, but having the time of my life when I got my grandfather's neighbor grandson, a "computer guy" a little older than me, who didn't even live in the city at the time, to install Mario Kart 64 and Super Smash Bros. on my grandfather's prehistoric computer rolling Windows XP. How much I played those two games... Saw the guy in his grandfather's funeral a few years ago; he probably doesn't even remember the big favor he made to a small kid back then, and how thankful I am for it.
I...actually played Iggy's Wrecking Ball. It was one of those games I never owned but would rent 30 times from Blockbuster whenever it was there...which was always because look at it.
My neighbors owned a video store and had a garage sale when they went out of business,so I scooped up that one and robotron 64! RIP video mex,vista, CA
BattleTanx Global Assault is ingrained into my psyche, so many nights spent beating the campaign in coop and multiplayer with my brother. "Nuke Deployed" *tink* *tink* *tink* .... BOOOM. That, the teleport sound, the bouncing betties sound, hell each of the pickup/weapon sounds hit me hard with nostalgia.
Battle tankx Blast Corps Hotwheels turbo racing Golden eye Xena warrior princess WrestleMania 2000 Rogue squadron Shadow of the empire And clay fighters weree my favorite games
I probably played just as much 'The World is Not Enough' as I did 'Goldeneye', it was solid! I had way too much fun in the tense cutscenes because I couldn't resist punching people in the face. That remote control rocket launcher was sick though.
Watching Austin Eruption videos while wrapping presents and putting up the Christmas tree/decorations. I do this every year and it's a great tradition (:
The fact that you shouted out Snowboard Kids 2 made my entire week! I rented that game so much from Blockbusters. That's a true hidden gem right there.
I LOVED Battletanx, one of my most played N64 games for sure. It was so damn fun. I remember when I learned you could change the control scheme to rotate the tank's turret without having to turn the entire thing, for the medium tank, my mind was blown.
Mate, Iggys was my all time favourite N64 game. The trippy music and overall strangeness of the game was unbeatable for getting high with friends and playing 4 player. Loved it!
Here's hoping you don't get hate-bombed like your last video. God forbid you go for a sponsorship deal and get paid for the good work you do. You make some solid content, my friend.
I think it got a lot of dislikes cause it just wasn't a good video. I don't mind sponsorships but I had to click out of that video but I didn't dislike it.
I think Vigilante 8 is one that's forgotten a lot and so underrated, I played that game for HOURS. Re-Volt is another often overlooked one but is also a good time, it's pretty much a MarioKart clone but it has it's own twist and I haven't really seen anything similar since.
007: TWINE and Duke Nukem: Zero Hour are both so good! Super overlooked. Glad you mentioned them. If you liked Zero Hour, check out Time To Kill on the PS1. It's also a 3rd Person duke game, and a pretty damn good one.
Time to Kill is the best game of the PS1 imo It is as if they took Tomb Raider and made it actually fit for having combat sections, the level design is fun too A remake/remaster would probably sell really well
The world is not enough is not only my favorite bond movie but the video game was a huge part of my childhood I remember inviting friends over to play the multiplayer matches and the opening level in the lobby is really fun to mess around in. Highly underrated bond game.
As others have said, I'd put my vote in to cover more Bomberman games. Out of those, Bomberman Hero would be a great choice to look at simply because of how great it's soundtrack and gameplay are
Man, I remember renting Goemon from Blockbuster, and not knowing what to do. I remember this Power Ranger sequence where I was fighting this giant robot, lol. The World Is Not Enough is a great game. I did my best to beat each level to unlock things. This game was also great because it had A.I to play along/against with friends. When playing the multiplayer mode we would pick the characters with the highest health to shoot at; Jaws looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I remember that one level, where you are escaping an explosion, I couldn't figure out what to do. I kept running, and side running to have the door shut in my face each time, xD.
I loved Goemons Great adventure. Its up there as my favorite N64 games. B: 2nd Attack is probably top 2 favorite game on the system. Bomberman Hero was great too. That game was fun and the music is dope af.
Dude I would totally play a modern port of Iggy’s! That game was the shit! This whole video was a blast of joyful nostalgia for me, thanks for taking the time to put it together!
I literally screamed when you brought up iggy's wrecking balls! I played the ever loving shit out of this game as a kid and 100% it several times. I also played the shit out of snowboard kids 2. such a good game. so shitty that the attempt at a sequel on the 3ds totally missed the point.
I remember when McDonald's had video game kiosks, Iggy's Wrecking Balls was the only really fun game they had. I only played it a handful of times, but it was enough to win over my heart. My favorite character was always the giant mouth guy.
HYBRID HEAVEN!!! I have been trying to remember the name of this game for basically 15 years because it's so bonkers you can't even explain it to anyone else.
I fucking LOVED battletanx as a kid. Still is fun to go back every so often and do some janky split screen co-op for a few rounds before it gets old again.
One of my earliest memories of playing games was playing the multiplayer the 2nd one and on this one level where one of the spawns is in this big empty building I once spawned a ton of those gun turret power ups outside of the building while pretending to pause the game while my nephew went to the bathroom so that he'd be annihilated the moment he left the building.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who played Goemon. When I first heard the name I was like, "I think I played that one when I was younger..." and then the song from it played and it struck some chord inside me and at that moment I knew I had for sure.
I was a PS and PC kid, but everyone I knew who had a N64 had Body Harvest and nobody actually seemed to like it all that much. I have no idea how it ended up in everyone's collection.
The N64 is the easiest way to push my "childhood nostalgia button", and the second you talked about "Weird racers" I knew you were gonna be talking about Iggy's. One of my all-time favorite games, weird as that is. Mission Impossible is actually super underrated as well.
I had Iggys when I was a kid. Played it with a friend. It was so much fun. The stages where difficult and interesting, the gameplay was special, unlockables. Tons of fun 😁
I had Hybrid Heaven growing up! Holy crap, that brings back memories. I loved that game. It was such a unique style of RPG gameplay, and the story was friggin' bonkers. Ah man, glad to see it getting some attention.
I was just thinking about how Zero Hour never gets covered in this kind of lists... and lo and behold, here it is ten seconds after!! To this day I still consider it the *only* game where Duke could be considered an actual character and not just a walking collection of oneliners.
I LOVE Snowboard Kids! I was the only one in my group of friends who played it and for years nobody ever knew what it was. So I’m very happy to know I wasn’t the only one! (Same for Extreme G btw!)
Yes!! Thank you for showing some love to Hybrid Heaven!! I was convinced nobody remembered it, or even heard of it. I remember really loving the wrestling moves you could do in it, as I was a huge wrestling fan at the time. (It was peak attitude era, so who wasn’t???) It was one of my favs for the N64 as a kid.
One cool thing i realized (since i didn't know about raguka kids) is that the green bear with cannons glued to him appears as a special easter egg in castlevania circle of the moon twice: first as the bear ring (which has his face and is essentially a joke item since it reduces all your stats by a 100 points) and you can full-on transform into him by using the DSS combination of pluto and black dog while wearing it. The regular effect of the card combination is turning into a skeleton and throw bones just like the enemy, except you have the chance of throwing a giant bone that deals more damage than anything in the game.
The fact that I was given Hybrid Heaven as a Christmas gift when I was like 7 is rather hilarious to me now. I was so totally lost trying to play it back then.
New to your channel Austin. I’m a 33 year old life-long gamer. I grew up playing my older brother’s Atari and NES and even though I missed the arcade heydays of the 80’s arcades were still pretty big when I was a kid. I was much more into PS than N64, my brother got me into the FF games and my eldest brother is an electrical engineer that actually helped design the PS2 and I got a free one before it was released from him. I have played most of these N64 games however. Weekends back then meant going to a friend’s with an N64 playing some multiplayer golden eye for 4 hours or so, burning some CDs and then going to blockbuster to rent 3-4 games and rock out to some music. Those were the days.
"Not that anyone want's to play Body Harvest in 2021" Literally 2 minutes before clicking this video I was thinking about Body Harvest and how I wanna set it up.
BattleTanx is so often overlooked but they were one of the most consistently played multi-player games on N64 in my house growing up. My brother and cousin and our friends must have put in hundreds of hours in the multi-player modes.
Coming as a fan of the ssx series (mostly 3, but i have some hours with 2012 and a few others). It made me overjoyed to see you mention the need for a new game in the series. Not to mention my nostalgia for n64 and you covering several that i have many great memories with. Truly a hell of an introduction to the channel. Great vid, new subscriber earned tenfold.
Battletanx Global Assault is my favorite N64 game after Ocarina. My sister and I still beat it yearly on Christmas like we have for 20+ years. Great nostalgia
I actually vaguely remember Hybrid Heaven. What a weird combat system. You go around not just beating up aliens and whatnot, but you get to suplex them like you're Triple H or Stone Cold. I never owned a memory pak, so I played the same hour or so of gameplay, doing all that.
I am here hoping, HOPING for once someone acknowledges my boy Iggy. Please... Edit: YES! Oh my god FINALLY SOMEONE REMEMBERS BESIDES ME. You have absolutely no idea how happy I am to see this acknowledged again. I think I've seen a single UA-cam video cover it in the past decade.
Bomberman 64 The Second Attack is fantastic, I'm very glad to see someone else out there gets it. Seriously, that game is a favorite of that entire generation for me.
I made a commercial for Mace: the Dark Age when I was in high school. We played Nintendo during class to get footage 🤣. Everyone wanted to try it after watching our ad though!
It's amazing how many of these games I owned. Hybrid Heaven, Duke Nukem Zero Hour, Battle Tanx, Goemon's Great Adventure, Ogre Battle... Ugh I wish I didn't sell off my collection
Regarding *BattleTanx* - I owned this game when I lived on the island of Roi-Namur on the Kwajalein Atoll '99-2000 (it is well worth your time to Google that up - it's a cool place, with all kinds of forgotten history from WWII). There is ZERO to do out there when you work night shifts and have a night off after you get tired of going for moonlit walks on a tropical island beach... and, you get bored. My fellow night shift friends, or just solo - I would stay up all night playing BattleTanx, getting shit faced on Captain Morgan rum, and eating coconut crabs. It was a hell of an adventure for a 22 year old!
I'm so glad Snowboard kids was mentioned, I remember renting an N64 from blockbuster back in the day and leaving it on all weekend to try and beat it because it didn't come with a memory cartridge.
I dug as hard as I could to find the weird and forgotten stuff but I know y'all are gonna have the best stuff, so let me have it. Show me something neat!
You found Hybrid Heaven. I salute you.
Aside from having the Disc System which never came over to the west. IIRC
@@breakfastatepiphanies wrestling rpg with a crazy storyline? Fucking LOVED it.
You should check out Duck Dodgers, a pretty great licensed platformer! Also Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, a little clunky but good Tomb Raider style game.
Wow battletanks that's some nostalgia right there played that all the time you should do a 3DO video probably the only one that wants that since it's only full of army man games (also played the shit out of those to)
I rented snowboard kids 1 and 2 quite a lot as a kid. Had a ton of fun playing with friends and mastering the rocket powered snowboard. That traffic jam at the bottom of the hill was such a tense moment and I loved it.
Isn't that crazy, we used to RENT VIDEO GAMES
And don't forget getting hit by the parachute missile just before a huge cliff. That was really irritating.
Still my two favorite cart/battle racing games till this day. The A.I. is brutal on the more difficult levels. The multiplayer’s frame rate is pretty hard to stomach these days but it would awesome to play an updated version with online capabilities. Those were some intense sessions.
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The Goemon franchise deserves a lot more love.
Agreed
It really really does. Would love re-releases of the old ones, or even a new one.
@@kurisu7885 true, I do recall Konami has been on a roll rereleasing their back catalog that the Goemon games getting brought over here Translated and all is possible, they did it to a small number of Konami games (Not Goemon) across the various collections they made.
It's easily one of my all time favorite games, not just N64 games, one of my all time favorites.
My only wish is playing Mystical ninja starring Goemon and Goemon's Great Adventure on the Switch
I gotta say, for N64 those weapon models in that The World is not Enough game look really damn good.
And if you thought the not-reloading in GoldenEye was pretty funny, imagine that all the weapons in TWINE *all have reload animations* and look really cool.
...I mean, so does Perfect Dark, but I love seeing how these work on an N64.
@@UltimaKeyMaster perfect dark is the game everyone nostalgicly thinks goldeneye was lol
@@jangobango2847 Goldeneye was amazing. I loved TWINE too, since I owned the damn game and played it a lot. But Perfect Dark was really the gold standard, it got everything that was great about Goldeneye and amped it up to eleven. Just the sheer number of players and bots together with the customization available on multiplayer was mind-blowing.
@@jangobango2847 Not so. In fact, most people didn't even actually play Perfect Dark, because it was too choppy and cut down unless you got the add on Expansion Pak, AND it came out right at the last minute when everyone was leaving the N64 console. Most of my friends and family were all jamming on Goldeneye for a few years, and most didn't play Perfect Dark until much later through emulation to get the graphics boost and better framerate. Perfect Dark was actually fairly niche when it released.
TWINE is criminally underrated.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that remembers Hybrid Heaven. Specifically went out of my way to get the N64 expansion pak as a kid to make the game look better XD I just remember being amazed at how great the plot and story sequences were.
I played it a lot at a friend's house. I thought it was an interesting game. Never found anyone else who knew what it was.
I didn't even know about that game until Matt McMuscles mentioned it once. I would've loved it as a kid.
I loved that game. While yes, it was absolutely bizarre, and the combat system was weird... it was definitely alot of fun once you got the hang of things. Kinda wish they would do a remaster/remake of it.
Metal Gear 64 lol
Bro I remember doing wrestling moves in the battle system. Fun game
It seems like I lived a completely different childhood from the rest of my friends whenever we talk about N64. All my games were stuff like Mischief Makers or Chameleon Twist or Space Station Silicon Valley. Whenever I try to explain Buck Bumble to them they look at me like I'm insane
Absolutely adored Space Station Silicon Valley. Ironically made by who would be known today as Rockstar. We only ever rented Mischief Makers, back in the day. I remember it being really difficult, as a kid.
Remember Body Harvest? That never gets talked about. Basically the predecessor to GTA 3.
"Ba to the ba to the ba to the base". That'll always have free real estate in your brain. I bet the songs from Musical ninja live in there too.
My dude you aren’t the only one with fond memories of BattleTanx I would rent this game so many times from Blockbuster back in the day and loved having friends come over and play this game with me!! It was so fun!!
Me too! My parents definitely would have saved money just buying the game given how much I rented it.
I played it so many times with my younger brother. We freaking loved it.
I remember the day I saw it at our local pawn shop. I showed it to my dad and he said "Fuck yeah, we're getting this."
One of my absolute favorites.
A weird and cool 64 game that has been long since forgotten about for me is Fighter's Destiny. It's a 3-D fighter with a traditional cast, but a non-traditional gameplay style. Instead of depleting a health bar, you're gunning for points like a traditional karate match. Punches and kicks aren't worth a lot, but a throw or ring out is worth a few, and a throw-counter is worth a bunch.
Fun game. And you can play as a cow. Not a cow person, just a cow standing on its hind legs and doing sick martial arts.
He forgot to mention Clayfighter 64
Yess I was hoping someone else would know about Fighters Destiny. I had the sequel and it's probably one of my favorite fighting games in general. It was so ambitious for it's time. I miss my copy.
I talk about Fighter's Destiny any time I'm in a debate about the best fighting games of all time
Agreed the point system adds tremendous value and creates a strategic element, especially since one can customize the point system entirely, resulting in different scenarios.
I would hope to see this series on the Switch Online Service.
@@joshuachittun9109 Getting into counter-counter-counter matches is super tense and satisfying too. I really wish another fighting game would pull off the Fighter's Destiny style, but nope, it's all gotta be "balanced" and "tournament friendly." I love the fgc for the most part, but the elitism of some of them kinda ruined fighting games to an extent.
ahhhh Snowboard Kids is a total classic. it's brutally hard for newbies and is still the only game my older siblings can crush me in
Sucker Punch is one of my favorite video game developers because what they lack in number of games they've made, they more than make up for in the quality of each one. They use every second of the numerous years they take to make a game and turn in some pretty brilliant stuff!
I don't have that many favorite game companies because I typically enjoy various games from wildly differing developers because the games matter more than the companies that make them. That being said, Sucker Punch is a company I often associate with quality, so my curiosity is automatically peaked when their name enters a conversation about upcoming games.
"my curiosity is automatically *piqued" not peaked
You should definitely go more into Goemon and Bomberman!
I'm glad Tetrisphere was included, it's an incredible game. The soundtrack is amazing, and probably the most CD-like sounding on the N64.
Loved that game so much
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon is one of my fav games on the N64 ever. It’s the feudal Japan version of OoT! With switching characters!? Fun AF!
I always talk about it to friends and I always use the Giant Robo battles to entice them. Doesn’t work, at all, but I think one day it will
Yo those robot fights were the best parts of my childhood. Glad they brought them back in the sequel too.
I actually started replaying it recently, now showing it to my kids! So sad that the franchise is dead now.
Did you guys know about the mouth laser? If you enter in the right combination of buttons, Impact shoots a laser from his mouth.
I heard the mention of Space Station Silicon Valley and you just triggered childhood memories. Chameleon Twist was also amazing. A game I recall playing that was really weird was Wetrix.
Space Station Silicon Valley was so great. Creeped me out as a kid, for some reason.
I’m starting it soon. Never played it but it looks sick
I'm just glad that someone is talking about the 64. It was the very first console I ever played, in 2003-4 when the Xbox, GC, and PS2 were all out. 😂
Check out Thabeast he's currently playing every single n64 game, that guy is cool
@@elesfinter9753 Thanks, brother, I'mma look him up now! 🤘🔥
Weird forgotten N64 games are definitely something I’m super fascinated in.
IDK why but i feel like a Majora's Mask from your POV is much needed. You like reading and connecting to the characters you play with and Majora's Mask does that to a T. Or do whatever you want. You're existence is dope.
As a fellow hipster kid, it makes me so happy to see someone talking about Iggy, Rocket, and Goemon! Looking forward to learning more about Second Attack-it was always fun to try and get all the different Pommy transformations.
“The World Is Not Enough” is a top tier game. One of my favorite N64 games.
I definitely played it a lot more than Goldeneye when I think back. I think it was an improvement, overall. It certainly was in terms of graphics and game mechanics. I just remember leaving my N64 on for days, possibly weeks at a time, to finally beat it. That was because I didn't have the memory card and couldn't save the game...might also have been why I played it so much lol. I was terrible at figuring out games as a kid and never looked at strategy guides or asked people. I had to start that game over every time I turned it on, which was a lot. I was just stoked to be able to play it.
I remember that bush maze multiplayer level was so much fun on 4 players
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Then you try to keep it on and your folks turn it off when u leave 😅
@@Carson256 Yuuup! Another reason why it took me so long to beat it lol. I eventually had to explain myself so I could actually finish it. They weren't thrilled but eventually forgot about it. It sucked when I wanted to play a different game but knew I'd lose all my progress. Again, I SUCKED at strategy and understanding the objectives. I mainly just liked to shoot stuff and play split screen with friends.
Legitimately got really excited when you brought up Rocket: Robot on Wheels. That game's always been one of my favorites and it's awesome to see it get recognition.
Personally, I was always more scared of the elevator thing that takes you to the second floor and the entirety of Food Fright than Whoopie's face, lmao.
I remember being around 10 or 11 years old, not even knowing straight what a Nintendo 64 or even what emulation was, but having the time of my life when I got my grandfather's neighbor grandson, a "computer guy" a little older than me, who didn't even live in the city at the time, to install Mario Kart 64 and Super Smash Bros. on my grandfather's prehistoric computer rolling Windows XP. How much I played those two games... Saw the guy in his grandfather's funeral a few years ago; he probably doesn't even remember the big favor he made to a small kid back then, and how thankful I am for it.
I've played iggy.
I forgot about iggy.
I want to forget about iggy again.
FINALLY someone taking about rakuga kids! This game never got the love it deserves and my heart melts with joy whenever it's even mentioned!
I...actually played Iggy's Wrecking Ball. It was one of those games I never owned but would rent 30 times from Blockbuster whenever it was there...which was always because look at it.
Same
Me and me sister rented it so often our local blockbuster told us we could just have it because nobody else ever rented it except for us
My neighbors owned a video store and had a garage sale when they went out of business,so I scooped up that one and robotron 64! RIP video mex,vista, CA
My neighbor had it, and it was one of three games we played alongside Mario kart and super smash. Iggy's was far and away our favorite
BattleTanx Global Assault is ingrained into my psyche, so many nights spent beating the campaign in coop and multiplayer with my brother. "Nuke Deployed" *tink* *tink* *tink* .... BOOOM. That, the teleport sound, the bouncing betties sound, hell each of the pickup/weapon sounds hit me hard with nostalgia.
Battle tankx
Blast Corps
Hotwheels turbo racing
Golden eye
Xena warrior princess
WrestleMania 2000
Rogue squadron
Shadow of the empire
And clay fighters weree my favorite games
Bomberman Month! That is something that needs to happen... I would ascend to another dimension if Austin spent a month talking about Bomberman.
I probably played just as much 'The World is Not Enough' as I did 'Goldeneye', it was solid! I had way too much fun in the tense cutscenes because I couldn't resist punching people in the face. That remote control rocket launcher was sick though.
I never owned Goldeneye but I played the HELL out of TWINE. I thought that game was the bees knees
Loved both games actually liked twine the best was so many cool gadgets and stuff
First mission, you have to punch the receptionist in the face.
I didn't make the rules.
@@QuadinarosLS You absolutely smashed the nail on the head my friend
Watching Austin Eruption videos while wrapping presents and putting up the Christmas tree/decorations. I do this every year and it's a great tradition (:
No one cares what you’re doing
@@HistoryandReviews Yes we do.
The fact that you shouted out Snowboard Kids 2 made my entire week! I rented that game so much from Blockbusters. That's a true hidden gem right there.
I was gonna get mad that you didn't mention Rocket, then you did. Thanks for recognizing the dozens of us that remember this gem!
The 64 has such a weird lineup, I love that I only knew some of these games.
Iggy's Wreckin Balls was a cool Monkeyball-esque thing before Monkeyball was even conceived.
(I could be wrong here.)
I LOVED Battletanx, one of my most played N64 games for sure. It was so damn fun. I remember when I learned you could change the control scheme to rotate the tank's turret without having to turn the entire thing, for the medium tank, my mind was blown.
...... holy crap I forgot about that.....
Mate, Iggys was my all time favourite N64 game. The trippy music and overall strangeness of the game was unbeatable for getting high with friends and playing 4 player. Loved it!
Here's hoping you don't get hate-bombed like your last video. God forbid you go for a sponsorship deal and get paid for the good work you do. You make some solid content, my friend.
I think it got a lot of dislikes cause it just wasn't a good video. I don't mind sponsorships but I had to click out of that video but I didn't dislike it.
I think Vigilante 8 is one that's forgotten a lot and so underrated, I played that game for HOURS. Re-Volt is another often overlooked one but is also a good time, it's pretty much a MarioKart clone but it has it's own twist and I haven't really seen anything similar since.
Always makes me smile to see a new upload. Having a rough day but this is cheering me up. Thank you!
I hope everything gets better for you. I wish you all the best and hope that your best days are ahead :)
Same!!!!!
Battle tanx was one of my favourites growing up. Used to play against my cousin all the time. Can’t believe its considered forgotten
007: TWINE and Duke Nukem: Zero Hour are both so good! Super overlooked. Glad you mentioned them. If you liked Zero Hour, check out Time To Kill on the PS1. It's also a 3rd Person duke game, and a pretty damn good one.
Time to Kill is the best game of the PS1 imo
It is as if they took Tomb Raider and made it actually fit for having combat sections, the level design is fun too
A remake/remaster would probably sell really well
The world is not enough is not only my favorite bond movie but the video game was a huge part of my childhood I remember inviting friends over to play the multiplayer matches and the opening level in the lobby is really fun to mess around in. Highly underrated bond game.
As others have said, I'd put my vote in to cover more Bomberman games. Out of those, Bomberman Hero would be a great choice to look at simply because of how great it's soundtrack and gameplay are
Man, I remember renting Goemon from Blockbuster, and not knowing what to do. I remember this Power Ranger sequence where I was fighting this giant robot, lol. The World Is Not Enough is a great game. I did my best to beat each level to unlock things. This game was also great because it had A.I to play along/against with friends. When playing the multiplayer mode we would pick the characters with the highest health to shoot at; Jaws looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I remember that one level, where you are escaping an explosion, I couldn't figure out what to do. I kept running, and side running to have the door shut in my face each time, xD.
I loved Goemons Great adventure. Its up there as my favorite N64 games. B: 2nd Attack is probably top 2 favorite game on the system. Bomberman Hero was great too. That game was fun and the music is dope af.
Dude I would totally play a modern port of Iggy’s! That game was the shit! This whole video was a blast of joyful nostalgia for me, thanks for taking the time to put it together!
I literally screamed when you brought up iggy's wrecking balls! I played the ever loving shit out of this game as a kid and 100% it several times.
I also played the shit out of snowboard kids 2. such a good game. so shitty that the attempt at a sequel on the 3ds totally missed the point.
I remember when McDonald's had video game kiosks, Iggy's Wrecking Balls was the only really fun game they had. I only played it a handful of times, but it was enough to win over my heart. My favorite character was always the giant mouth guy.
HYBRID HEAVEN!!! I have been trying to remember the name of this game for basically 15 years because it's so bonkers you can't even explain it to anyone else.
I fucking LOVED battletanx as a kid. Still is fun to go back every so often and do some janky split screen co-op for a few rounds before it gets old again.
One of my earliest memories of playing games was playing the multiplayer the 2nd one and on this one level where one of the spawns is in this big empty building I once spawned a ton of those gun turret power ups outside of the building while pretending to pause the game while my nephew went to the bathroom so that he'd be annihilated the moment he left the building.
BattleTanx and Snowboard Kids 2 were two of my favorite 64 games!
Same video...but with *DREAMCAST* 😍🥰
Glad to see I'm not the only one who played Goemon. When I first heard the name I was like, "I think I played that one when I was younger..." and then the song from it played and it struck some chord inside me and at that moment I knew I had for sure.
Thank you for still loving this glover homie :')
no probs, fellow glover homie
I love how when he was asking "you know who's also cool?" The character CoolsRoy from Rakuga kids was still on screen
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together is in my opinion the best tactical role playing game ever made. Even better than Final Fantasy Tactics.
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I remember being blown away when i played conker. One of the best surprises in Nintendo history for me along with goldeneye and eternal darkness.
I was a PS and PC kid, but everyone I knew who had a N64 had Body Harvest and nobody actually seemed to like it all that much. I have no idea how it ended up in everyone's collection.
The boxart is amazing
The N64 is the easiest way to push my "childhood nostalgia button", and the second you talked about "Weird racers" I knew you were gonna be talking about Iggy's. One of my all-time favorite games, weird as that is. Mission Impossible is actually super underrated as well.
N64 had some of the most unique games of just about any console. Wish they would still experiment like they did.
The cartridge of Rocket chilling on my tv stand thanks you for reminding the world that it’s great
I had Iggys when I was a kid. Played it with a friend. It was so much fun. The stages where difficult and interesting, the gameplay was special, unlockables. Tons of fun 😁
I had Hybrid Heaven growing up! Holy crap, that brings back memories. I loved that game. It was such a unique style of RPG gameplay, and the story was friggin' bonkers. Ah man, glad to see it getting some attention.
Fighter Destiny is an underrated gem, that narrator and that music were awesome. I would like you to give it some love
Snowboard Kids 1 was awesome! Great memories playing that game with my cousins. The courses had so much personality.
I was just thinking about how Zero Hour never gets covered in this kind of lists... and lo and behold, here it is ten seconds after!! To this day I still consider it the *only* game where Duke could be considered an actual character and not just a walking collection of oneliners.
i will never forget the classic line "its time to kick ass and chew bubblegum.. and im all out of gum now" - Duke Nuke'Em
I remember Goemon games. Great childhood memories with playing those for so long.
Blast Corps and Tetrisphere are my two favorite weird N64 games.
Tetrisphere really was the best puzzle game on the N64, happy to see it gets some love on this vid
OH and Goemon was sick. THAT ROBOT SONG
I LOVE Snowboard Kids! I was the only one in my group of friends who played it and for years nobody ever knew what it was. So I’m very happy to know I wasn’t the only one! (Same for Extreme G btw!)
Yes!! Thank you for showing some love to Hybrid Heaven!! I was convinced nobody remembered it, or even heard of it.
I remember really loving the wrestling moves you could do in it, as I was a huge wrestling fan at the time. (It was peak attitude era, so who wasn’t???) It was one of my favs for the N64 as a kid.
I LOVED both Snowboard Kids and The World Is Not Enough back in the day. I vividly remember playing them both for hours.
I love how you opened with Snowboard Kids 2. That was my childhood.
One cool thing i realized (since i didn't know about raguka kids) is that the green bear with cannons glued to him appears as a special easter egg in castlevania circle of the moon twice: first as the bear ring (which has his face and is essentially a joke item since it reduces all your stats by a 100 points) and you can full-on transform into him by using the DSS combination of pluto and black dog while wearing it.
The regular effect of the card combination is turning into a skeleton and throw bones just like the enemy, except you have the chance of throwing a giant bone that deals more damage than anything in the game.
Thanks for the tip! might have to see if it's still in the collection
The fact that I was given Hybrid Heaven as a Christmas gift when I was like 7 is rather hilarious to me now. I was so totally lost trying to play it back then.
Snowboard kids 2 was my absolute favorite game for n64! So glad you brought up this classic
New to your channel Austin. I’m a 33 year old life-long gamer. I grew up playing my older brother’s Atari and NES and even though I missed the arcade heydays of the 80’s arcades were still pretty big when I was a kid. I was much more into PS than N64, my brother got me into the FF games and my eldest brother is an electrical engineer that actually helped design the PS2 and I got a free one before it was released from him.
I have played most of these N64 games however. Weekends back then meant going to a friend’s with an N64 playing some multiplayer golden eye for 4 hours or so, burning some CDs and then going to blockbuster to rent 3-4 games and rock out to some music. Those were the days.
"Not that anyone want's to play Body Harvest in 2021" Literally 2 minutes before clicking this video I was thinking about Body Harvest and how I wanna set it up.
So glad you mentioned Snowboard Kids. I used to rent that game all the time.
BattleTanx is so often overlooked but they were one of the most consistently played multi-player games on N64 in my house growing up. My brother and cousin and our friends must have put in hundreds of hours in the multi-player modes.
"Do you like having the ability to see?" in an ad read is terrifying on multiple levels.
Coming as a fan of the ssx series (mostly 3, but i have some hours with 2012 and a few others). It made me overjoyed to see you mention the need for a new game in the series. Not to mention my nostalgia for n64 and you covering several that i have many great memories with. Truly a hell of an introduction to the channel. Great vid, new subscriber earned tenfold.
I'm a bit of a gaming hipster myself too, I like picking up the weird unnoticed games over what's popular.
Battletanx Global Assault is my favorite N64 game after Ocarina. My sister and I still beat it yearly on Christmas like we have for 20+ years. Great nostalgia
I actually vaguely remember Hybrid Heaven. What a weird combat system. You go around not just beating up aliens and whatnot, but you get to suplex them like you're Triple H or Stone Cold. I never owned a memory pak, so I played the same hour or so of gameplay, doing all that.
I am here hoping, HOPING for once someone acknowledges my boy Iggy. Please...
Edit: YES! Oh my god FINALLY SOMEONE REMEMBERS BESIDES ME. You have absolutely no idea how happy I am to see this acknowledged again. I think I've seen a single UA-cam video cover it in the past decade.
Bomberman 64 The Second Attack is fantastic, I'm very glad to see someone else out there gets it. Seriously, that game is a favorite of that entire generation for me.
Excellent video. Just got back into restoring my old N64 and have been having a blast playing the old games and even some I hadn’t played before!
Battletanx was so much fun. I loved the seemingly post apocalyptic setting, it felt very “Terminator”
I made a commercial for Mace: the Dark Age when I was in high school. We played Nintendo during class to get footage 🤣.
Everyone wanted to try it after watching our ad though!
Me, before watching this video: Please talk about Rocket: Robot on Wheels
Austin: I've got one last game I wanna talk about...
Me: YAY!
To this day I can still remember the snowboarding kids tracks thanks for the nostalgia
It's amazing how many of these games I owned. Hybrid Heaven, Duke Nukem Zero Hour, Battle Tanx, Goemon's Great Adventure, Ogre Battle... Ugh I wish I didn't sell off my collection
PLEASE MORE GOEMON VIDS. I dont wanna have to be a youtuber, but sometimes I feel like the only person who loves it.
Regarding *BattleTanx* - I owned this game when I lived on the island of Roi-Namur on the Kwajalein Atoll '99-2000 (it is well worth your time to Google that up - it's a cool place, with all kinds of forgotten history from WWII).
There is ZERO to do out there when you work night shifts and have a night off after you get tired of going for moonlit walks on a tropical island beach... and, you get bored. My fellow night shift friends, or just solo - I would stay up all night playing BattleTanx, getting shit faced on Captain Morgan rum, and eating coconut crabs.
It was a hell of an adventure for a 22 year old!
I love that all of the forgotten games in this vid were my favorites growing up.
dam rocket robot on wheels was gas, holding my cart until it reaches $1k
Snowboard kids 1 And 2 and the first Goemon game were some of my absolute favz glad to see them get some love here.
I'm so glad Snowboard kids was mentioned, I remember renting an N64 from blockbuster back in the day and leaving it on all weekend to try and beat it because it didn't come with a memory cartridge.
I totally got Quest 64 after seeing FF7 on a friend's PS. I went from excited to sad in about a half hour.
I wasn't terribly bright in jr high.
“What other N64 games had musical numbers?” Uh The Great Mighty Poo of course. One of the greatest compositions in history.