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Day 29: A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving

I first played this in the days where you would hire games around Saturday lunch and play them non-stop until Sunday afternoon.

I would have been about 10 and staying at a friends house for the weekend and he wanted to hire this. I complained so much ‘racing games are crap’

Mario Kart was like no other racing game of it’s time. I ended up playing this until the wee hours of Sunday morning. Racing games were no longer crap.

Since then I have owned every Mario Kart on a Nintendo home console. Including this little gem even though I bought it well into the Gamecube generation. Mario Kart Double Dash even featured in my 30 Day Video Game Challenge list.

Day 13: Game Played More Than 5 Times

Where after some though I concluded that I had probably played it well over 250 times.

Day 11 Game System of Choice
check out the other days of my 30 Day Video Game Challenge

I mentioned in a post the other day that I would have to put some thought into this challenge question. The System of Choice. I think these pictures here are more than enough evidence to justify a decision.

I have never owned an Xbox but have a PS3 and although games like Skyrim, Oblivion, Dragon Age were only available on Sony or Microsoft, they weren’t enough to stand up against what I have always had. A Nintendo.

My choice was always going to be a Nintendo system it was just a matter of which one.
Not the Wii U - it’s too early to tell
Not the SNES - I actually had a Mega Drive in that era. Not that the SNES isn’t an awesome system
I ruled out the NES because although it has a bagillion classic games it’s a bit far in the past to hold weight against more recent developments
I ruled out the Wii because of the overkill of shovelware party games. Tough decisions needed to be made.

This left me with the Gamecube - The most underrated system of ALL time with classics like:
Wind Waker - my favourite Zelda game
Mario Kart Double Dash - my favourite Mario Kart
Mario Golf - my favourite golf game ever
Tales of Symphonia, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance, … this was what sealed the victory. Although a lot of my favourite games were on the Gamecube. I had favourites and more on the Nintendo 64

Again, look at these game pictures above and try and disagree that the Nintendo 64 isn’t a great choice for Game System of Choice

Check out the N64 sales information here
Annnnd. One of the N64 commercials in Australia here

Day 10: Best Gameplay of the 30 Day Video Game Challenge

I chose Goldeneye for best gameplay for 1 significant reason. It was the first legitimate FPS as well as the first game to show the true potential of a Multiplayer game.

The single player missions incorporated a bunch of firsts into the gameplay. Covert style missions with objectives. Different levels of difficulty. Cheats you could get without cheating but by earning them with skill (I was so proud when I finally unlocked the Invincibility Cheat).

The multiplayer was something never experienced. Death matches with heaps of different customisation levels. Sure CoD fans today would look down their nose at what the Goldeneye 64 could offer but I would say it’s fair to say without Rare and Goldeneye 64 (and later Perfect Dark) there would be no CoD like we have today.

What I think was the best and most underrated aspect of Goldeneye 64 was the controls. Everything was perfectly balanced. The aiming (and assisted auto-aim) meant anyone could get in and have a real chance. The R-Trigger aiming with crosshairs was simple and intuitive. The controls made a new type of game with a new type of multiplayer seem familiar.

Hover Bond is spotted

64’s were tough as balls, bet it still works

well maybe not player 1 or 2 cause they have lost the connections but im sure if you could get player 3 and 4 going it would totally still do the job.

I see that it looks like it was found on a beach… probably spent some time in the ocean being munched on by a giant squid. Just hang it on the line for a bit to dry it out and it will be good to go.

Probably wont be able to play any game that needed the expansion pack though.

Its just a little cosmetic dammage, could probably sell this on ebay for $20 as slightly used.