Can a game that kicked off a franchise that's spanned 15 years and sold well over 30 million copies be underrated?
The original Phantasy Star is very much an old-school JRPG even in its more updated forms, but it remains a piece of genre history worth experiencing.
A time-traveling JRPG with very specific rules about how time travel works, that plays as well in 2021 as it did when it first released a decade ago.
One of the finest releases on the N64, by anyone, remains a stunningly playable classic over two decades later.
I am on the right side of history.
Before there was Rockstar games and the GTA empire, DMA Designs developed a wonderfully charming game about murdering cute animal robots so that you could then take control of them.
A pre-Sly Cooper Sucker Punch developed a 3D platformer on the Nintendo 64, and it's one of the best games on the system.
Squaresoft and nearly everyone else took their JRPGs and ran to the Playstation, but the Nintendo 64 was absolutely loaded in plenty of other genres.
Bomberman, like so many other franchises at the time, made the move to 3D on the Nintendo 64.
For the second Mystical Ninja game on the N64, Konami left the realm of pure 3D to make one of the systems few side-scrolling platformers.
Rareware's tremendous N64 output is a significant part of why the console remains held in such high regard 25 years later.
WWF No Mercy might be the superior title, but there isn't a wrestling game I've spent more time with in my life than its predecessor.
