Pokemon Stadium
ESRB Rating: E
Description: First of all, you need the Game Boy games, or at least one of them. Although it is possible to play using 'rental Pokemon', half the fun of this game comes from seeing the Pokemon you raised yourself battling in 3D. The myriad of features, including mini games and a chance to play the Game Boy game on the TV at FOUR times the speed (or normal speed if you prefer), make this game a great addition to the collections of all Pokemon fans out there.
Our Rating: 6 - Rate this game
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Pokemon Stadium 2
ESRB Rating: E
Description: The highly successful Pokémon Stadium was less of a stand-alone game and more of a graphical expansion pack made to accompany the best-selling Game Boy Color Pokémon games. The premise was simple: Raise your Pokémon on the handheld and send them into battle in full color 3D against friends or the CPU on your N64. The game certainly had nowhere near the amount of depth available on the Game Boy but made the perfect companion piece for the Pokémon enthusiast who needed everything. This year's Pokémon Stadium 2, appropriately housed in a gold and silver cartridge, improves upon the original's formula in nearly every category, although its status as a quality stand-alone game is still questionable.
Our Rating: 6 - Rate this game
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F - Zero - X
ESRB Rating: E
Description:
It's taken a while to get here, but Nintendo's 64-bit update to the old SNES classic, F-Zero, is here. F-Zero X is a stunning achievement in that it's truly the first racing game that runs at a brisk 60 frames per second, even in multiplayer. In fact, more than anything else, it is this feature that is F-Zero X's claim to fame. Does the rest of the game stack up? Well, it depends on what you're looking for.
Our Rating: 7 - Rate this game
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Hey You Pikachu
ESRB Rating: E
Description: Hey You, Pikachu! for the Nintendo 64 is a game that will likely be overlooked by people who consider themselves to be hard-core game players. The game pairs this year's hottest franchise, Pokémon, with the even greater fad of voice recognition, and its playpen-oriented features and minimalist difficulty focus the game squarely at younger audiences - a niche often under-appreciated in today's consumer marketplace. Factor in its suggested $80 retail price, and it is easy to see why many people will fail to take Hey You, Pikachu! seriously. It's a shame, too, because once you give it a closer look, Hey You, Pikachu! is a highly addictive game that both children and adults can enjoy.
Our Rating: 8 - Rate this game
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Bomber Man 64
ESRB Rating: KA (Kids to Adult)
Description: Bomberman is easily the most prolific character in video game history, having appeared in titles for every major system since the original NES - and with multiple versions on quite a few. And yet with so many installations, every game until now (with the dubious exception of Panic Bomber on the Virtual Boy) has maintained the same premise: The player plays as a little robot who tries to be the bomb he throws. The robot character drops bombs to clear his way through the playing field's blockades and obstacles, attempting to blow up his enemies all the while. But if he doesn't run like hell to get away from the blast, he'll go up in smoke as well. Besides obviously clearing pathways, the advantage to blowing up obstacles is that power-up items appear from within the wreckage that either help or hinder him. These power-ups include the kick boot (to propel the bomb forward), the glove (to chuck the bombs airborne), fire (to expand their blast radius), extra bombs (the more the merrier), or the dreaded skull icon, which grants the formidable Bomberhea (which is kind of like red kryptonite to Superman, giving a different disruptive effect with each exposure).
Our Rating: 8 - Rate this game
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Diddy Kong Racing
ESRB Rating: KA (Kids to Adult)
Description: Diddy Kong Racing, Nintendo's big game for the holidays, appeared out of nowhere. At E3 in June, no one even knew it existed. Banjo-Kazooie and Conker's Quest were to be Nintendo's killer games for the fourth quarter. But when it became apparent that neither was going to be ready this year, Nintendo pulled the old switcheroo and opted for Diddy Kong Racing, which, in the grand scheme of things, probably wasn't supposed to see the light of day for months.
Our Rating: 7 - Rate this game
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Star Wars Episode 1: Battle for Naboo
ESRB Rating: T (teen)
Description: Two years ago, LucasArts struck gold with Rogue Squadron, an arcade-style shooter that incorporated a wide variety of mission objectives and nearly every spacecraft found in the Star Wars films into an excellent, though flawed, package. Since the release of Rogue Squadron, the Star Wars franchise has seen another film join its ranks, prompting LucasArts to bring us a revision of the Rogue Squadron formula with Star Wars: Episode I: Battle For Naboo.
Our Rating: 3 Rate this game
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1080 Snowboarding
ESRB Rating: E
Description: 1080 Snowboarding is one of the best snowboarding games available on any system. It's an exhilarating-looking game with a great combo-driven trick system and tracks that are actually fun to race. It also requires a lot more skill than most of the competition.
Our Rating: 9 - Rate this game
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Mario Tennis
ESRB Rating: E
Description: Mario Tennis, fresh from the folks behind Mario Golf, is Nintendo's latest Mario-titled sports behemoth. Unlike golf, however, tennis is a fast-paced sport dripping with precision-based nuances and a variety of timing-oriented quirks. Camelot, a company known for its prowess on the greens, delivers a quality tennis presentation that strikes gold on the three points that matter most: value, gameplay, and fun.
Our Rating: 8 - Rate this game
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Super Mario 64
ESRB Rating: K-A (Kids-Adult)
Description: The story, in a Koopa shell: Our hero, Mario, receives a note from Princess Toadstool inviting him to Toadstool Castle for a cake...but when he arrives, the castle is deserted and a nasty, disembodied voice tells him to get lost. Yes, Princess Toadstool has yet again gotten her royal keister in the sling, and the bad guy gang of Bowser, Boo, et al, have overrun (and apparently redecorated) Mushroom Castle - hanging a collection of magical, wobbly-membraned paintings/portals that portray scenes from the fantastic worlds to which they're connected. Via Mushroom Castle's enchanted murals, players will find vast alternate worlds: Snowing planes of slippery ice slopes; mist-shrouded lagoons containing sunken ships; archipelagos of airborne islands; haunted castles wrapped in perpetual midnight; and red, seething expanses of lava-flooded obstacles. These worlds are slowly filling with monsters, the Princess herself is missing, and only one man can set things right.
Our Rating: 7 - Rate a game
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A bugs life
ESRB Rating: E
Description: Like any medium, the video game has a target audience. Every game ever produced has been geared toward a specific type of player, and as such, children's video games often have a distinct simplicity. A Bug's Life, however, deftly avoids that stereotype and delivers a worthwhile experience to a more mature audience without losing its appeal to those who are younger.
Our Rating: 2 - Rate a game
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Tonic Trouble
ESRB Rating: E
Description: Webster's dictionary defines Tonic as "A medicine that increases the strength and gives vigor of action to the system." While that definition may apply to the storyline, it certainly doesn't describe this game in relation to the N64. Tonic Trouble ultimately fails to deliver and only stands out as a shining example of how not to do a platform game.
Our Rating: 9 - Rate a game
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