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BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): The Nintendo 64 represents one of Big N’s most iconic moments, as it brought the world the most highly rated title of all time — The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Despite the icing on the cake, the console also brought several games that became a huge success.
While Link’s adventure “tops” the generation, several others marked the lives of players. Regardless of genre or style, there were experiences for everyone and vast community support. Whoever left Super Nintendo already knew what they wanted: an N64 on their shelf.
It’s true that the popularity of the PlayStation took the market by storm in the 1990s, but that doesn’t interfere with the merits of Nintendo’s 64-bit video game. Even with adversity, she found space for Super Mario, Zelda, Star Fox, Pokémon and other classics to shine.
Time has passed and many of them are still available to fans today. Want to know which Nintendo 64 games are playable on current generation consoles? Check out the main ones:
A hit among FPS, Quake (1996) presented fans with an alien scenario — full of monsters that want to kill you, with the most absurd weapons in the entire galaxy. Fast and furious, the title was the “extraterrestrial counterpart” of Doom and one of the most insane three-dimensional adventures.
Currently, id Software decided to revisit the first chapters and re-released the “improved” classic. The remaster, which received the same name as the original, brought support for 4K resolutions, flat screens and action that remains unrestrained. The story was made available on PS4, PS5, XBOX One, XBOX Series, Switch and PCs.
One of Rare’s great classics, Banjo-Kazooie (1998) is a 3D platform game that features a bear and a bird — two friends who need to cooperate to save Banjo’s sister, kidnapped by the witch Gruntilda to take her beauty for herself.
From this, we have one of the best experiences of the time and a perfect spiritual successor to what Donkey Kong Country represented on the Super Nintendo. Today, fans can find the journey in the Rare Replay compilation, released on XBOX One and backwards compatible on XBOX Series, and in the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription.
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