...according to
Matt over at IGN, who claims to have spoken with some key Rare folk about the possibility of some of Rare's past greats
to be in Nintendo's Virtual Console's starting lineup during GDC. While it's pretty much a given that this would be the
case, what with Rare being alligned under the cold, Borg-like, Microsoft Game Studios, no-shows will undoubtedly be
Killer Instinct, Perfect Dark, Banjo & Kazooie, Goldeneye 007, and Blast
Corps.
That last one hits this Blogger especially hard.
I know many people would say the N64's strongest game was Goldeneye 007 or Perfect Dark, some might claim its stellar first-party offerings in Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64 were superior, but for this Blogger no other experience on the console could top the sheer ecstasy of uppercutting buildings as a giant mech and bulldozing gas stations in Blast Corps. It was like a digital incarnation of my childhood with Tonka trucks and Transformers.
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3-28-2006 @ 7:33PM
marshall409 said...
NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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3-28-2006 @ 8:30PM
Jouten Za said...
No Killer Instinct?! Bah! That was like the bane of the 64's existance!
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3-28-2006 @ 11:56PM
Ronaldo said...
Oh my. I had totally forgotten my months with Blast Corps......
Rare should consider that if they don't let us buy from them on the Rev, then we will all go buy the N64 version used. Which, they would go on making no money off those huge games.
So we can give money to someone other than Rare to play Rare's games, or they can decide that they want to turn a profit. It's really only up to them.
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3-29-2006 @ 1:04AM
crabs said...
bu...bu...bu...wait...that means no donkey kong games! bu...no....lies, that's retarded, noooo rape NIPPLES! i'm pissed...no...i want my donkey kong games! how can i live w/o being able to play all 4 of the ones from super again? i was so looking forward to it...lame...screw u rareware...screw u...
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3-29-2006 @ 8:43AM
Darth Pelican said...
I still play Perfect Dark like every week, that game was way ahead of its time.
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3-29-2006 @ 12:50PM
stapleboy said...
Just when I thought I'd gotten over the fact that Microsoft bought Rare!
I doubt there's much question of Rare wanting to make old titles available on Virtual Console. Depends who (Nintendo? Rare? space monkeys?) owned what rights and whether they are now property of Microsoft.
If they are Microsoft property, well, case closed. And I might have to find a 64 copy of Blast Corps :)
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3-30-2006 @ 12:36AM
Jason Anderson said...
Ffffffffffffffffff....
UCK!
I WANT PERFECT DARK! I WANT GOLDENEYE! I WANT JET FORCE JEMINI! I WANT BANJO-KATOOIE! AND I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO BY A 360 AND PAY FOR LIVE TO GET IT!
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