Three special guests help Jonny remember the ups and downs of Nintendo 64. Starring: Billy Berghammer, Chris Kohler, and Evan Burchfield!
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rfn/15493/episode-89-when-im-n64
It really wasn't all that great.
This special episode is a full-length retrospective on one of history's least appreciated consoles, the Nintendo 64. To make the occasion even specialer, we brought in three guests to accompany Jonny down memory lane: Evan Burchfield from NWR (and formerly of The Nformant), Chris Kohler from Wired's Game|Life, and freelancer Billy Berghammer (formerly of Game Informer and founder of this very site).
Our motley crew dives into the system's launch, hardware oddities and drawbacks, success of the platform (or lack thereof), and our favorite non-obvious games. It's an in-depth look at a turning point in Nintendo's history, as well as a fond remembrance of a time that brought all four of us into the gaming media. Don't miss this exciting and hilarious and blood-curdling and spine-tingling and love-mongering episode!
Credits:
This podcast was edited by James Jones.
Music for this episode of Radio Free Nintendo is copyrighted to Rare, Natsume, and Hudson and is included under fair use protection.
Music for this episode of Radio Free Nintendo is used with permission from Jason Ricci & New Blood. You can purchase their new album, Rocket Number 9, directly from the record label, or download it from iTunes, or call your local record store and ask for it!
HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE JET FORCE GEMINI?!?!
HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE JET FORCE GEMINI?!?!
I never really played JFG much, from what I did it was alright but I never was thrilled with it though I did appreciate a female protagonist in it.
PS: When is episode 2 of the Lords of Thunder podcast coming. I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more LoT podcast!
Listened to the whole podcast, I have never played Winback or Body Harvest, so I can't comment but I do agree with Evan about the Castlevania games for N64 being underrated. Speaking of underrated I was shocked no one brought up Shadows of the Empire when talking about Star Wars games. Yeah the game may not have been super polished, but it was quite diversified and really started putting the pieces together for fun space battles. It is easily one of my favorite games on N64, in fact I played it a bit via emulation and it still is a solid game. I really remember the neat codes that allowed you to take control of different characters.