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> Besides the well known stuff like mario, zelda, etc. Please nothing that will
> cost me an arm and a leg or was sold only in Japan.
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Sure here's some with some basic reasons why...probably copies n this from other threads but I don't care to read all that crap. ;) I'll leave out 1st party stuff and other 2nd party well knowns too as they're obvious pickups.
*Beetle Adventure Racing*
-Basically a game working off the NFS3 engine, but inside those (for then) brand new beetle cars. Great driving experience, HUGE long timed tracks, decent AI, great visuals and audio as well.
*Blast Corps*
-Freelance demolition using anything from seemingly normal demolitions stuff to crazy robots and trucks with smashers built into the side wasting the entire countryside between point A and B so a rampaging active nuke truck doesn't go critical.
*Bomberman Hero*
Screw what the bomberman fanboys think, a 1P bomberman can be fun and this one was a hell of a lot of good times. He can convert into a flight mode, sub, and more, has hidden stages and a 1-5pt scale rank for each depending on the points you rack up. Cheezy story, good gameplay.
*Castlevania Legacy of Darkness, NOT CV64*
Where CV64 was a buggy beta shovelware with a broken camera, muddy textures, broken physics so jumps were long/short (never right), wonky collisions, questionable framerate and more.... LOD fixed that and added in the full intended title with the wolfman story, the brave knight Henry, and finally the 'full' CV64 game AFTER all that. Highest of recommendation here, only great 3D castlevania game still to date.
*DOOM64*
Many morons passed this over as a PC port, IT IS NOT. The title is a full fledged DOOM title onto its own. Game even brings up a pair of lost concepts in the supposed 'doom bible' which are a lazer gun in 3 piece you find and a real demonic final boss you kill it with. Very hard game, nastier by far than the PC title...very worth the effort.
*Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine*
Very much like the PC title but adds and repairs a lot. The game has more stages which is nice, but the real nice thing is that the very broken camera and poorly scripted control the PC had is replaced with a ripoff of the Ocarina of Time control setup and works wonders. With the 4MB exp pack the game runs 60fps in 640x480 mode highres(no mud textures) and like the PC has full audio, full speach!, and full level constructs...a must for any adventurer and rare. Game was only sold via lucasarts homepage for a month, rest went to blockbuster rental as the stupid asshole (Lucas) wanted to whore that awful Battle for Naboo title instead the same launch day.
*Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon* (The first one two on the system in 3D)
Basically a precursor to come of what Ocarina of Time would be, but in Goemons wacky world. You can play as four different people (hotswapped out as they're found) in the game and venture around various castles and deal with one hell of a nonstop wacky warped plot. Great gameplay, camera behaves, decent challenge but nothing too hard...just fun.
*Star Solider: Vanished Earth*
Only shooter on the N64 outside Japan. A pretty decent title with 10 stages. A vertical shooter 2D in play, 3D in depth and has a pretty decent level of difficulty to it. Some overkill shooter fanboy losers hated it, but the average shooter or casual shooter player found it enjoyable.
...also Mega Man64 (Megaman Legends on PSX) was a great late title on the N64 (as was Resident Evil 2 if you like the series) as in both their cases they're excellent and upgraded conversions (for the most part.) While the FMVs and verbals are all in capcom cheapo'd a bit and they're tinny/artificated a bit, but the full gameplay areas, controls, stories, plotlines are all exceptional and worth a go if you don't have them on the PSX already.
Honorable mention also goes to both puzzle games here: Tetrisphere and Pokemon Puzzle League. Each you could get boxed for like $10 these days. The first is just tetris on a sphere endlessly done or with some weird objectives but very addicting and fun to muddle through, had co-op. The pokemon tainted other is panel de pon and if you know the series it's worth a go.
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