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Just stating the obvious.

N64 games..... pretty standard to be ripped to sherds.

I'm gonna play it and have SO MUCH fun, guys.

We should set up a "GTZ Nintendo Switch Goldeneye Night" tbh, just so I can absolutely OBLITERATE you all.

I'd be up for it if my internet speed is willing...

Beings you are theJaw, does that mean you will play as Jaws? :D

I played Goldeneye pretty recently and was surprised how much it held up. Although this is coming from a 39 year old who lived and breathed the N64/PSX days. I imagine a 15-25 year old would hate these. Which is great, a bunch of old folks playing a multiplayer FPS. I might stand a chance haha.

I have often wondered what games hold up and what don't in the eyes of the younger generation. Home consoles have been around 50 years now and have been a part of pop culture for at least 35 of those years. Alot of games those of us born in the early 80s would call classic but would kids coming up today consider them good. That's why I don't really mind remakes, brings classic story and gameplay with modern graphics.

I'm the opposite, I played the crap out of Goldeneye back in it's prime and loved it so much, but now I think it's aged horribly. I've gone back to it a few times in my adult life and each time it seems worse and worse.

That said, I'd probably be down to jump on an online match with some of y'all, that could be fun

I borrowed Bayonetta from the library and the presentation of this game is wild. I never played it on PS3 or Wii U despite owning the 1+2 combo pack on Wii U and 1 on PS3. I'm playing it handheld right now.

Goldeneye is playable now.

Starting up now, we gotta get a GTZ Goldeneye night going soon.

Oh this is awful actually.

The game looks great, unfortunately it plays exactly as I thought it would without an N64 controller. If Xbox got updated modern controls, it's the winner. I'll probably try playing around with custom buttons, but like most n64 games, this just doesn't work well on a standard controller. Hopefully N gets there head out of their ass and releases a decent supply of n64 controllers.

theJaw wrote:

This only took 3 minutes lol

theJaw wrote:

You're playing a Nintendo 64 game. They're all awful.

Besides Superman 64.

Scott wrote:

Same. We played constantly. I went back a handful of years ago and dear god ... It's best to leave this one locked up in the memory vault.

Count me in the minority, I still love it.

Tons of articles and videos on customizing controls already. I had plans to try to somewhat replicate the n64 controls on joycon, but many are showing adjustments to make it "modern" fps controls. Will be playing around with it at home later this afternoon. Once I get something I like best believe I'm ripping through single player again, at least on agent mode.

Yeah, I saw several comments on Reddit that walk you through adjusting the control scheme:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/1...

I'm actually much more interested in giving this game another chance with a more modern control scheme.

Can you remap the controls on the Switch version? I'd totally give that a go after work if so.

Yep, check the top comments in that Reddit thread I linked.

GoldenEye was one of the few Nintendo 64 games that supported dual analog sticks by plugging in a second controller (for campaign mode), so that part at least should've translated well to a modern controller.

That's a weird feature.

Scott wrote:


For a three handed controller...

theJaw wrote:


You will have to remap controls outside of the game using the Switch controller mapping setting. (I presume, haven't looked at the details). This will change the button mapping for all games, but you can always go back to defaults.

Goldeneye was only good to me for multiplayer. Me and my cousins used to tear into split screen coop back on the day. I never got passed the 2nd level in Goldeneye single player back then. It was all about multiplayer and finding that golden gun and yelling at the annoying person who picked Odd Job.

I loved the single player too. I enjoyed beating each mission on each difficulty, then trying to unlock all of the cheat codes.

Went ahead and booted up the ole Xbox SX being I have Rare Replay Digital. You have to manually go to the MS Store and download the (Goldeneye) game, it says you own it. I assumed it would auto update. Will have to compare the two.

Adjusted the controls to "standard" on Switch and it's much better. Next up, break out the pro controller and try it docked.

Update: Halfway through single player with pro controller docked. This is pretty awesome. No issues with slow down so far, graphics crisp 64 bits. Having fun trying to remember what to do. Getting all cheats likely beyond my current ability, not sure if you get the same speed in this control style with strafing forward. This isn't n64 Goldeneye, but it's a bastard child with modern controls. I'm excited.

is this a purchased game or is it part of the the N64 collection?

longhornsk57 wrote:

The latter but you can also get it on Xbox.

I changed the button mapping according to the top post in that reddit link. It plays just like most modern shooters now.

that sounds pretty dope, going ot get it going for sure

For years, I thought the Donkey Kong game I loved as a kid was "Mario vs. Donkey Kong" on GBA but anytime I played that game, it was fine but it never felt right. Welp I JUST realized that the game I was ACTUALLY thinking of was the original Game Boy game simply titled "Donkey Kong". The game has GB versions of the original arcade levels, but then the Mario vs. DK style levels kick in with new enemies and the whole key shtick. I never realized it was this game for years because it's just called "Donkey Kong" so I just assumed it was a port of the arcade game with nothing else. Weird. Anyhow, very pumped to replay this one. I just love the level designs. They need to make more games like this bad boy.

theJaw wrote:


After the internet became a thing this became known as Donkey Kong '94. A true gem and testament to what a good idea and programming can achieve with limited resources. Great soundtrack too! One of my favorite games.

Ahh thanks for the info, I wish I knew that years ago haha. Also one of my favorite games, I’m so happy I found it again.

I mean, just look at this gorgeous retro art. I love it.
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Rhapsody sequels releasing later this year

https://store.nisamerica.com/rhapsody-marl-kingdom...

Donkey Kong '94 was actually the first video game i ever remember playing. Lots of good memories there

DK ‘94 is a great game and Mario vs. Donkey Kong was a pretty good spiritual sequel.

Sun wrote:

Yah, I'm definitely going to give Mario vs. Donkey Kong another go when I finish DK 94. It never felt "right" to me when I started it previously, but that's because I thought it was an entirely different game haha. So hopefully I dig it more now that I've scratched the ol' DK 94 itch.

Nintendo's Mario Kart ride at Universal limits riders to ~40in waistline. The internet is raging...

What waistline is acceptable for accommodating? I'm sure 40 inches is far beyond acceptable in Japan.

Maybe it'll motivate some people to lose weight. Nintendo, weight losing motivators!

KCPenguins wrote:

Haha of course the internet is raging. They have every right to limit the ride how they deem safe.

Kommie wrote:


Well... they've been pushing this for quite some time.

Also many headlines are saying it's only for "thin people". I'm 6 foot, and my waistline is 34. Per BMI I'm considered obese... Good to see the media considers me thin while rail thin models are being depicted as "healthy".