A gleeful Gargette re-enters the sumptuous and magical fairy tale world created by his beloved Rare. Banjo-Kazooie debuted on N64 in the summer of 1998, before the bear ‘n’ bird […]
Tag: N64
GoldenEye 007 Quick Rinse
The name’s Pea, Mushy Pea. Darren Gargette shows you how its done with the best James Bond game ever made – Goldeneye 007 for the N64, with a slight technical […]
Quake II Quick Rinse – Strogg enough
Darren Gargette’s id Software retrospective continues with 1997’s Quake II. PC version shown.
Super Mario 64: “Thank you so much for playing my game!”
Dave “The Unstoppable Games Animal” Perry would be jealous of Darren “dezm0nd” Gargette’s Super Mario 64 skills. Darren owns the original PAL N64 cartridge but is capturing the game emulated […]
Diddy Kong Racing: Alakazoo, this is for you
Darren Gargette travels back in time, not literally, to revisit rare’s beloved N64 classic Diddy Kong Racing from Christmas 1997. Does it hold up after years of countless mascot themed […]
Between GoldenEye 007 and Halo: Combat Evolved – the console first-person shooter 1998-2001
Conventional wisdom, and a couple of throwaway comments on our recent Halo Anniversary podcast Issue, say that after Rare’s 1997 Bond smash and before Bungie’s 2001 game-changer, there weren’t any first-person […]