10 Dream N64 Games We Need On Nintendo Switch

GoldenEye 64 remains the gold standard for old school platform shooting, and with its granddaddy status and well known IP, it’s still remembered fondly (even if it’s a little janky to revisit). Less well known in the mainstream but beloved by early 00s gamers is Rare’s spiritual sequel, Perfect Dark, a game that takes everything great about GoldenEye and basically improves on it in every way.

The campaign is inventive, lengthy, and impressively varied. The player takes rookie agent Jo Dark from corporate espionage to a shootout on an alien planet, and it’s dealt with seriously, unfolding at a great pace.

Like GoldenEye, though, Perfect Dark really comes to life in the multiplayer. Its four person possibilities were endless - so many weapons, play modes, maps, and characters. And that’s before adding sims, computerised opponents who could be cannon fodder or lethal killers at your discretion.

There were so many building blocks that you could easily overwhelm the game, turning the graphics to mush. Were the Switch to overcome that - and with online support - this could reinstate itself as an all time great multiplayer game.