Game Reviews8.4/10
Wipeout 64 Was Written Off for Not Being Made by Psygnosis — It Deserves Another Look
Wipeout 64 review: Psygnosis's lone Nintendo 64 racer, rated 8.4/10 for analog control, four-player split-screen, and mirrored tracks.
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Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews8.4/10
WCW/nWo Revenge Review: AKI’s Grappling Masterclass on the Nintendo 64
A review of WCW/nWo Revenge, AKI's 1998 Nintendo 64 wrestling game with 60+ wrestlers, a deep grappling system, and the 40-man Battle Royale mode.
Game Reviews7.7/10
Top Gear Rally Gets the Driving Right and Little Else
Top Gear Rally hit the N64 in 1997 with real suspension physics, weather, and tuning — wrapped in six seasons of grinding against 19 AI cars.
Game Reviews7/10
Star Wars Episode I: Racer Review: The N64 Podracer That Still Holds Its Line
Star Wars Episode I: Racer review: LucasArts' 1999 N64 podracer nails the afterburner risk loop, split-screen and Time Attack. Score: 7.0/10.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Space Station Silicon Valley: A Plasticine Space Station and a Robot With No Body of His Own
Space Station Silicon Valley review: DMA Design's 1998 N64 platformer where a robot borrows animal bodies, plus the Fat Bear Mount glitch and its legacy.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Proxy Studios builds a turn-based wargame around supply lines and weather, and the result holds up under the demands it makes.
Shadow Empire review: VR Designs' 2020 turn-based wargame with 4X reach, procedural planets and RPG leaders, scored 7.9/10 on IMDb.
Game Reviews7/10
San Francisco Rush 2049: What the Record Actually Establishes
San Francisco Rush 2049 hit the Game Boy Color in 2000. Here's what the sparse record actually says about the racing game — and what it doesn't.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Rocket: Robot on Wheels: Sucker Punch’s Physics-Driven Debut Still Holds Up
Rocket: Robot on Wheels was Sucker Punch's 1999 N64 debut — the first console game built on a real physics engine. Our review of its worlds, tickets and legacy.
Game Reviews8.9/10
Resident Evil 2 on the Nintendo 64: The Impossible Port That Actually Worked
Resident Evil 2 on Nintendo 64: how Capcom squeezed a two-disc survival horror classic onto a cartridge, and why it still holds up.
Game Reviews9.1/10
NFL Blitz Review: Midway’s Seven-on-Seven Chaos Still Holds Up
NFL Blitz threw out penalties and substitutions for seven-on-seven arcade chaos. How Midway's NBA Jam team made football's best arcade game.
Game Reviews7.1/10
Mischief Makers Review: One Great Idea, Not Enough Game
Mischief Makers hit the N64 in 1997 with a grab-and-shake mechanic unlike anything else. Twenty-eight years on, it's still a 7.1/10.
Game Reviews6.8/10
Hybrid Heaven’s Ambitious Ideas Outrun What the N64 Could Do
Hybrid Heaven, Konami's 1999 Nintendo 64 action RPG, mixed Tomb Raider exploration with turn-based limb-leveling combat. A bold, uneven curiosity.