Quake

Quake

Developer: Midway   Publisher: Midway    Release: 03/24/98   Genre: Fps The Nintendo 64 library was far from being as diverse as the PlayStation. However that also meant that the genres it specialized in were really good. Aside from racing games...
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XIII

XIII

Developer: Ubi Soft    Publisher: Ubi Soft    Release: 11/25/03   Genre: FPS In 2003 the first person had not reached its saturation point yet. But you still needed to do something different to stand out. Ubi Soft licensed the French comic...
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Doom 64

Doom 64

Developer: Midway    Publisher: Midway    Release: 04/04/97    Genre: Action In the mid-90s Doom was an institution unto itself. It was not the very first fps but it popularized the genre to the point Doom clone became a phrase. And just...
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Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime

Developer: Retro Studios   Publisher: Nintendo   Release: 11/18/2002   Genre: Action Metroid Prime should not have worked. As Nintendo brought all of their intellectual properties into the third dimension on the N64 Metroid was conspicuously absent. When...
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James Bond 007: Nightfire

James Bond 007: Nightfire

Developer: Eurocom    Publisher EA Games   Released: November 18, 2002   Genre: FPS    Platform: PS2, GameCube, Xbox Goldeneye: 007 for Nintendo 64 presented a sea change in how the James Bond license would be handled going forward. While the few...
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Goldeneye 007

Goldeneye 007

Developer: Rare    Publisher: Nintendo    Release: 08/25/97   Genre: Fps Goldeneye 007 should not have been a success. There were a number of factors working against it. It was released in 1997, two years after the film hit theaters. It was...
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Daemon Summoner

Daemon Summoner

Ugh, this one is a personal embarrassment on my part.  Back in 2008 when I began buying European PS2 games I bought Daemon Summoner because it was dirt cheap and the name sounded cool.  The first red flag should have...
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James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire

James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire

Developer: Electronic Arts     Publisher: Electronic Arts     Released: 2001, 2002     Genre: FPS Electronic Arts first forays into the Bond license were not all that well received.  Tomorrow Never Dies and the PS One version of the World is Not E...
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