All N64 Games

[Cube]

Kuru Kuru Fever

• JP release: 2003 (Arcade)
• EU release: N/A
• NA release: N/A
• Developer: Takumi
• Publisher: Aruze
• N64 Magazine Score: N/A

Out of all the Aleck 64 games, I enjoyed this one the most. It’s a colour matching puzzle game using fruit (which means no colourblind issues), which has an interesting mechanic. You need to match groups of four, but if you match four of your character’s favourite fruit, then your whole board will flip, pushing the bottom tiles to the top.

Once the tiles drop down to the bottom, if there are any groups of three, these will now form a combo, and your area will then flip again, now groups of two will mix. This carries on (scoring any groups of two after each flip), and getting past 4 will trigger a fever and send loads of tiles to the next screen. I was having a ton of fun, but the CPU is a bit relentless – I went from having a clear screen to my entire area being filled due to an insane combo.

Fun

Remake or remaster?

I’d definitely like to see this expanded with a few more modes as a full game.

Official Ways to get the game

There is no official way to play Kuru Kuru Fever

[Cube]

Aleck Bordon Adventure: Tower & Shaft 
 

• JP release: 2003 (Arcade)
• EU release: N/A
• NA release: N/A
• Developer: Aruze
• Publisher: Aruze
• N64 Magazine Score: N/A

This is the second Aleck 64 game that got a Game Boy Advance release. While the title screen says “4th Story”, I can’t find any earlier Aleck Bordon, so I’m not sure if he’s named after the arcade hardware, or if it’s just a coincidence. This arcade game includes two different games: Tower & Shaft, both similar to auto jump games, like Sonic Jump and Doodle Jump.

Tower

In Tower, Aleck automatically runs, changing direction when he reaches the end of the screen. You hold a button to charge up a jump, but it resets if you hold it down for too long or if Aleck walks off the edge of the platform, making it very difficult to time right. Different platforms have different properties, such as moving down, bouncing Aleck, or making him faster, along with some powerups like a higher jump. Your goal is to get to the top of the tower.

Shaft

Shaft is the opposite of Tower, as you have to make your way to the bottom of the tower, with spikes heading down to harm you. If you go too fast and go past the bottom of the screen, you die. You have a health bar in this, and there are spiked platforms that cause you damage.

Both games are simple and short, but extremely difficult.

Fine

Remake or remaster?

This might work well as modes in a mobile game.

Official Ways to get the game

There is no official way to play Aleck Bordon Adventure: Tower & Shaft 

[Ashley]

On 3/4/2025 at 1:50 PM, Cube said:

The main difference is that there’s a hamster on the table

Well I'm sold 

[Cube]

Hi Pai Paradise 2
 

• JP release: 2004 (Arcade)
• EU release: N/A
• NA release: N/A
• Developer: Aruze
• Publisher: SETA
• N64 Magazine Score: N/A

The final Aleck 64 game is unfortunately a fairly boring one: another sexy anime Mahjong game, this time it has something to do with going to a hot spring. I did notice that there are now hamster tiles, but I’m not sure if they do anything.

?

Remake or remaster?

If you really want to play this kind of sexy mahjong game, the Super Real Mahjong collection will fulfil what you want.

Official Ways to get the game

There is no official way to play Hi Pai Paradise 2

(I do wonder if they repurposed the arcade units from the first game or something)

 

[Ashley]

8 hours ago, Cube said:

I did notice that there are now hamster tiles

 

[Cube]

Portal 64
 

• JP release: N/A
• EU release: N/A
• NA release: N/A
• Developer: Valve, lambertjamesd
• Publisher: N/A
• N64 Magazine Score: N/A

I wanted to end things on a high note, so I looked at more recent unofficial releases. There’s a small homebrew community, such as the N64 Brew group, making some fun little minigames in jam sessions, plus a few reproduction cartridge releases of games that aren’t really designed for the N64. But it was this partial port of Portal that interested me the most, as it really shows what the N64 can do.

This version of Portal works on a real N64. There are some graphical settings relating to how deep portals can go (essentially, how many times portals can repeat until you get a texture, instead of seeing more rooms), so you can stretch your console to the limit, but it’s an amazingly built conversion. Everything works and feels how it should – the physics and momentum is great, and placing, looking, and going through portals is wonderful. It even has the full dialogue from GLaDOS.

Unfortunately, only the start of the game is here, and it ends shortly after getting the full portal gun (so you can at least play with placing both portals yourself). Valve messaged the developer and suggested they stop, because of Nintendo’s N64 libraries being involved in the coding, so the project was cancelled. Still, even this early version is a wonderful example of what the N64 hardware was capable of.

Great

Remake or remaster?

Well, we have the original Portal. A little spruce up would be nice, though (keeping the original style, not like the hideous RTX version).

Official Ways to get the game

This fan project is no longer available officially due to a takedown notice from Valve. The original Portal is available on Steam, Xbox Series (Portal: Still Alive via Backwards Compatibility), and Portal: Companion Collection on Switch.

[Dcubed]

I tried it out on a real N64 via the Everdrive, and it really is just mindblowing how well done the demake is.

Just goes to show how much untapped potential there really was, and how modern programming knowledge and techniques can squeeze so much more juice out of these ancient consoles

But yeah, shout-out to the Switch version of Portal 1 & 2.  One of the best Switch ports out there, runs like a dream and has full motion control aiming support too!

Edited yesterday at 04:00 PM by Dcubed

[Cube]

So, that's the end of the journey, and I enjoyed it massively, so much that I'm going it with other platforms. I found plenty of games I really enjoyed that I would have never have tried if I wasn't doing this, and it's been an absolute blast. Thank you everyone for reading and your comments.

I did create a list of my favourite and least favourite games. 

50 Least Favourite N64 Games

100 Top N64 Games

 

Worst 50:

50. Asteroids Hyper 64
49. Blues Brothers 2000
48. Mike Piazza’s Strike Zone
47. Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt
46. Razor Freestyle Scooter
45. Rampage: World Tour
44. The Glory of St Andrews
43. Alice in Cardland 64
42. Premier Manager 64
41. Mortal Kombat Trilogy
40. Super Robot Spirits
39. Rantarō the Ninja Boy 64 Game Gallery
38. Nagano Winter Olympics ’98
37. Jeopardy!
36. Bass Rush: ECOGEAR PowerWorm Championship
35. Pro Mahjong Extreme 64
34. Elmo’s Number Journey
33. ECW Hardcore Revolution
32. WCW Backstage Assault
31. Parlor Pro 64: Pachinko Simulation
30. Pachinko 365 Days
29. Monster Truck Madness 64
28. War Gods
27. Cruis’n USA
26. Fighting Force 64
25. Aero Fighters Assault
24. FIFA 64
23. Doraemon 2: Nobita and the Temple of Light
22. J.League Live 64
21. Virtual Chess 64
20. GT 64: Championship Edition
19. WCW Nitro
18. Waialae Country Club: True Golf Classics
17. Earthworm Jim 3D
16. Bassmasters 2000
15. Carmageddon 64
14. Fox Sports College Hoops ’99
13. Elmo’s Letter Adventure
12. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
11. Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
10. Tom and Jerry in Fists of Furry
9. Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
8. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
7. Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals
6. ClayFighter 63⅓
5. Monopoly
4. ClayFighter Sculptor’s Cut
3. The Powerpuff Girls: Chemical X-Traction
2. Heiwa Pachinko World 64
1. Taz Express

Top 100

1. Banjo-Kazooie
2. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
4. Super Mario 64
5. Custom Robo V2
6. Rocket: Robot on Wheels
7. Shadow Man
8. Jet Force Gemini
9. Blast Corps
10. Perfect Dark
11. Custom Robo
12. Space Station Silicon Valley
13. Banjo-Tooie
14. Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer
15. Diddy Kong Racing
16. Mario Artist Polygon Studio
17. F-Zero X + Expansion Pak
18. Body Harvest
19. Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
20. Wonder Project J2
21.Star Fox 64
22. GoldenEye 007
23. Rayman 2: The Great Escape
24. Star Wars Episode I: Battle for Naboo
25. Mario Kart 64
26. Paper Mario
27. The World Is Not Enough
28. Worms Armageddon
29. FIFA: Road to World Cup 98
30. Wave Race 64
31. Puyo Puyo Sun 64
32. Pilotwings 64
33. Sumo 64
34. Beetle Adventure Racing!
35. Getter Love: Panda Love Unit
36. Mega Man 64
37. Hey You, Pikachu!
38. Yoshi’s Story
39. Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
40. Magical Tetris Challenge
41. Mario Golf
42. Destruction Derby 64
43. Super Smash Bros.
44. Mario Tennis
45. Donkey Kong 64
46. Virtual Pro Wrestling 2: Royal Road Succession
47. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
48. Pokémon Puzzle League
49. Extreme-G
50. Bomberman 64: Arcade Edition
51. Excitebike 64
52. Rakugakids
53. Quake II
54. International Superstar Soccer 2000
55. WWF No Mercy
56. Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber
57. Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
58. Sin & Punishment
59. Conker’s Bad Fur Day
60. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
61. Buck Bumble
62. Quest 64
63. Let’s Go By Train 64
64. WinBack
65. Hybrid Heaven
66. Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey
67. Mission: Impossible
68. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
69. Re-Volt
70. Doshin the Giant
71. Extreme G 2
72. Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA
73. Harvest Moon 64
74. Duke Nukem: Zero Hour
75. Legend of the River King 64
76. Hydro Thunder
77. 1080° Snowboarding
78. Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion
79. Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
80. DOOM 64
81. S.C.A.R.S.
82. Robotron 64
83. Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes
84. San Francisco Rush 2049
85. Mischief Makers
86. Snowboard Kids
87. SimCity 64
88. LEGO Racers
89. Duck Dodgers Starring Daffy Duck
90. Xena: Warrior Princess: The Talisman of Fate
91. Pokémon Stadium 2
92. Bangai-O
93. Goemon’s Great Adventure
94. Charlie Blast’s Territory
95. Wipeout 64
96. Mickey’s Speedway USA
97. BattleTanx
98. Mario Artist Talent Studio
99. NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC
100. Road Rash 64

 

[Ashley]

Top 50 games with a hamster in, go! 

How many games were there on the console in the end? 

[Cube]

2 minutes ago, Ashley said:

Top 50 games with a hamster in, go! 

How many games were there on the console in the end? 

My personal list was 431, with the 64DD, Aleck 64 and prototypes/unreleased games.

For official N64 games my count is 391, but there's debate over some regional sports games, as some people count similar games with different teams as the same game (even though they have more differences then lots of yearly sports games).

[Dcubed]

3 hours ago, Cube said:

So, that's the end of the journey, and I enjoyed it massively, so much that I'm going it with other platforms. I found plenty of games I really enjoyed that I would have never have tried if I wasn't doing this, and it's been an absolute blast. Thank you everyone for reading and your comments.

I did create a list of my favourite and least favourite games. 

50 Least Favourite N64 Games

100 Top N64 Games

 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

Worst 50:

50. Asteroids Hyper 64
49. Blues Brothers 2000
48. Mike Piazza’s Strike Zone
47. Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt
46. Razor Freestyle Scooter
45. Rampage: World Tour
44. The Glory of St Andrews
43. Alice in Cardland 64
42. Premier Manager 64
41. Mortal Kombat Trilogy
40. Super Robot Spirits
39. Rantarō the Ninja Boy 64 Game Gallery
38. Nagano Winter Olympics ’98
37. Jeopardy!
36. Bass Rush: ECOGEAR PowerWorm Championship
35. Pro Mahjong Extreme 64
34. Elmo’s Number Journey
33. ECW Hardcore Revolution
32. WCW Backstage Assault
31. Parlor Pro 64: Pachinko Simulation
30. Pachinko 365 Days
29. Monster Truck Madness 64
28. War Gods
27. Cruis’n USA
26. Fighting Force 64
25. Aero Fighters Assault
24. FIFA 64
23. Doraemon 2: Nobita and the Temple of Light
22. J.League Live 64
21. Virtual Chess 64
20. GT 64: Championship Edition
19. WCW Nitro
18. Waialae Country Club: True Golf Classics
17. Earthworm Jim 3D
16. Bassmasters 2000
15. Carmageddon 64
14. Fox Sports College Hoops ’99
13. Elmo’s Letter Adventure
12. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
11. Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
10. Tom and Jerry in Fists of Furry
9. Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
8. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
7. Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals
6. ClayFighter 63⅓
5. Monopoly
4. ClayFighter Sculptor’s Cut
3. The Powerpuff Girls: Chemical X-Traction
2. Heiwa Pachinko World 64
1. Taz Express

Top 100

1. Banjo-Kazooie
2. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
4. Super Mario 64
5. Custom Robo V2
6. Rocket: Robot on Wheels
7. Shadow Man
8. Jet Force Gemini
9. Blast Corps
10. Perfect Dark
11. Custom Robo
12. Space Station Silicon Valley
13. Banjo-Tooie
14. Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer
15. Diddy Kong Racing
16. Mario Artist Polygon Studio
17. F-Zero X + Expansion Pak
18. Body Harvest
19. Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
20. Wonder Project J2
21.Star Fox 64
22. GoldenEye 007
23. Rayman 2: The Great Escape
24. Star Wars Episode I: Battle for Naboo
25. Mario Kart 64
26. Paper Mario
27. The World Is Not Enough
28. Worms Armageddon
29. FIFA: Road to World Cup 98
30. Wave Race 64
31. Puyo Puyo Sun 64
32. Pilotwings 64
33. Sumo 64
34. Beetle Adventure Racing!
35. Getter Love: Panda Love Unit
36. Mega Man 64
37. Hey You, Pikachu!
38. Yoshi’s Story
39. Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
40. Magical Tetris Challenge
41. Mario Golf
42. Destruction Derby 64
43. Super Smash Bros.
44. Mario Tennis
45. Donkey Kong 64
46. Virtual Pro Wrestling 2: Royal Road Succession
47. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
48. Pokémon Puzzle League
49. Extreme-G
50. Bomberman 64: Arcade Edition
51. Excitebike 64
52. Rakugakids
53. Quake II
54. International Superstar Soccer 2000
55. WWF No Mercy
56. Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber
57. Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
58. Sin & Punishment
59. Conker’s Bad Fur Day
60. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
61. Buck Bumble
62. Quest 64
63. Let’s Go By Train 64
64. WinBack
65. Hybrid Heaven
66. Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey
67. Mission: Impossible
68. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
69. Re-Volt
70. Doshin the Giant
71. Extreme G 2
72. Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA
73. Harvest Moon 64
74. Duke Nukem: Zero Hour
75. Legend of the River King 64
76. Hydro Thunder
77. 1080° Snowboarding
78. Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion
79. Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
80. DOOM 64
81. S.C.A.R.S.
82. Robotron 64
83. Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes
84. San Francisco Rush 2049
85. Mischief Makers
86. Snowboard Kids
87. SimCity 64
88. LEGO Racers
89. Duck Dodgers Starring Daffy Duck
90. Xena: Warrior Princess: The Talisman of Fate
91. Pokémon Stadium 2
92. Bangai-O
93. Goemon’s Great Adventure
94. Charlie Blast’s Territory
95. Wipeout 64
96. Mickey’s Speedway USA
97. BattleTanx
98. Mario Artist Talent Studio
99. NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC
100. Road Rash 64

 

Nice lists.  I'm surprised that Custom Robo and Shadow Man are so high.  Nice to see some variety that goes against the usual suspects with a list like this too

Also, no Superman 64 on the worst game list.  Nice.  There are FAR worse games out there than that one.

[Helmsly]

It was very enjoyable to read through this thread over the past year or so, I learned of quite a few games I never knew existed as well as reading on how well or poorly some of the classics have aged.

[Jonnas]

This has been an excellent journey, very enjoyable to accompany, and I was very glad to have been part of it Nostalgic in many parts, and informative in many others.