Lucifer Ring
Developer: Soft Machine Publisher: Toshiba EMI Release: 12/23/98 Genre: Beat em up In the US the side scrolling beat em up went in to hibernation during the 32-bit era. While the US would receive a few stand...
Tag: 1998
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Developer: Factor 5 Publisher: Nintendo Release: 12/07/98 Genre: Action Nintendo enjoyed a long, fruitful partnership with Lucas Arts when it came to Star Wars. Going back as far as the NES the games were best sellers and...
S.C.A.R.S
Developer: Vivid Image Publisher: Ubi Soft Release: 12/04/98 Genre: Racing In the United States nearly 1/5 of the Nintendo 64 library consists of racing games. That is overkill. One might say they are fond of each other. Racing...
Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth
Developer: Hudson Soft Publisher: Electro Brain Release: 12/15/98 Genre: Shooter As a shooter fan growing up the Star Soldier series was a staple of the genre. From its various entries on the NES to its blowout on...
Elemental Gearbolt
Developer: AlfaSystem Publisher: Working Designs Release: 08/10/98 Genre: Rail Shooter Working Designs, while famous for localizing many a RPG that would have never left Japan, would also publish games spanning a variety of genres. Often their...
1080° Snowboarding
Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Release: 04/01/98 Genre: Sports The extreme sports explosion of the fifth generation was something to behold. Whereas this genre was practically non-existent before it became a huge draw in short or...
Mission Impossible (Nintendo 64)
Developer: Infogrames Publisher: Ocean Release: 08/14/98 Genre: Action-Adventure Mission Impossible was one of the earliest Nintendo 64 games announced. There were lofty promises made as it would attempt to capture the essence of being a spy in ...
Thunder Force V – Perfect System
Developer: Technosoft Publisehr: Working Designs Release: 11/13/98 Genre: Shooter With the advent of 3d the shooter genre was in a weird place. For the most part most developers were content to pump out exquisite 2d games that would never...
Off Road Challenge
Developer: Avalanche Publisher: Midway Release: 06/30/98 Genre: Racing When the 3d revolution hit racing games were one of the genres that benefited the most. To this day they continue to be showcases for new hardware and this was...
Cruis’n World
Developer: Eurocom Publisher: Nintendo Release: 09/29/98 Genre: Racing Cruis’n USA was our first look at the N64 hardware, at least that was what we were lead to believe. Despite the eventual misconception the future looked bright as the ga...