20 Essential N64 Games You Must Play Before You Die
Possibly the most influential console lineup of all time.
To this day, I still regret selling my Nintendo 64.
Drawn in by the allure of the shiny purple GameCube as a short-sighted 12-year-old, I'm sure my younger self thought it pointless to keep a piece of hardware that was clearly inferior to its successor in every way. Oh, how wrong I was.
Don't get me wrong, the likes of Resident Evil 4, Killer7, Pikmin and the Metroid Prime series provided more than enough reasons to buy the petite device, but not at the expense of the N64's vast back catalogue.
There's always the obvious classics like Super Mario 64, Perfect Dark and Majora's Mask that people remember fondly when they look back on the days of the 64-bit cartridge, but composing this list has given me a chance to shine a light on certain games that have simply slipped from memory and help others to (re)discover them.
Now, which should you play first...
20. Blast Corps
If you enjoy causing wanton destruction on a city-wide scale for no reason other than because you like explosions, then Blast Corps is the game for you. Construction vehicles, trains, dune buggies you name it - if it has wheels, you can drive it straight through the nearest building. Even back-flipping into the roof of skyscrapers while inside a gigantic battle suit is a thing here.
All this needs to be done while racing against the clock to stop a runaway truck fitted with nuclear weapons from charging head-first into the nearest obstacle and making the surrounding citizens very, very dead.
Despite being one of Rare's first games for the Nintendo 64, it instantly became a classic oh high quality destruction, and you're in luck if you want to give it a play - it's on the Xbox One's Rare Replay Collection.