Super Mario 64 was a revolutionary title with free-roaming analog degrees of freedom, large open-ended areas, and true 3D polygons as opposed to the 2D sprites of past Mario titles including Clash. Super Mario 64 established a new archetype for the gen...

Developed by Treasure, Mischief Makers stars a robotic cleaning maid named Marina on a mission to rescue her kidnapped creator from the clutches of an evil emperor. As with most evil folk, the emperor isn't about to just hand over the aging scientist, ...

This game is featured in full 3D, thus the directional controls change. Bomberman is able to walk in eight directions with a rotating camera facing in eight directions and with three different zooms. His bombs have a different effect than in other game...

By pressing the B button, players are able to have their controlled character stick out his or her tongue. Using the analog stick, players are then able to control the movement of the tongue. This enables the player to obtain power-ups from a distance ...

The game begins by allowing players to choose from the Story, Trial, and Practice Modes. (An Options menu is available from the main menu, as well.) For the full single-player experience, the Story Mode contains the substance of the game. From there, t...

Players navigate Goemon through forests, fields, dungeons, and other three-dimensional models of medieval Japanese places. Goemon and his friends can walk or run, jump, attack, and use special abilities to cross terrain, pick up money, and defeat adver...

Banjo-Kazooie is comprised of several non-linear 3D worlds in which the player must gather jigsaw pieces, or "Jiggys", to progress. Banjo and Kazooie are aided by Bottles, who teaches them new abilities, and Mumbo, who uses magical powers to transform ...

Gex is appearing in his own game on the Nintendo 64 with GEX 64: Enter the Gecko. The series jumps to 3D, adding a whole new dimension of playability to the title. The story is simple, as it sets up a reason for Gex to visit various levels that are bas...

Bomberman Hero controls very differently from Bomberman 64. In Hero the character can jump, has more lives, faces tougher bosses, and has the ability to throw bombs farther. There are several different areas to be encountered, each with about five diff...

The wacky team from DMA Design has created an equally off-the-wall product in Space Station: Silicon Valley, a 3D platformer of sorts that puts players in control of a variety of different robotic animals. All of the madness takes place in the future a...

The Nintendo 64 gains another 3D platformer with GLOVER. As the story goes, Glover was once the glove of a wizard who was performing a very powerful spell. After an accident, the wizard's gloves fly away and each one is able to move by itself. One glov...

The Emperor Monk of Pandora has begun raiding the Out-Sector Colonies, stealing vital gold supplies from the free systems. The Federated Hegemonies have no choice but to ask the Lode Runners to stop the raids and put an end to the Emperor's rule. Unabl...

The game changed certain aspects of the original, such as the character designs and the switched colors of the main characters. New moves were added such as a parachute that could be deployed to make a slow descent and that could be used in conjunction...

A Bug’s Life is a comic action game with different goals in each of 15 levels. Most of the goals deal with getting the main character, Flik to do events that match the storyline of the movie. When the player finishes a level, that player can proc...

Join Starshot and his fellow circus performers as they try to erase their debts and fend off their dastardly nemesis, Virtua Circus. Virtua Circus, it would seem, aims to kill off all smaller circuses, and monopolize the business. Starshot, an upstart ...

As Ed the extraterrestrial, you must retrieve a mysterious can that was accidentally dropped from space and is causing havoc on Earth - solve zany problems and avoid traps in this cartoon-like adventure game.

Essentially an updated version of Goemon 2 (Super Famicom) featuring polygonal 2D sidescrolling levels that require platform jumping, whacking enemies, pushing around boxes or rocks, and puzzle solving. There are five distinct areas in the game, from t...

Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko for the Nintendo 64 is a 3D game that features the popular secret agent Gex in even more outrageous situations. This time, Gex must save his fellow agent X-Tra from his nemesis Rez. To accomplish this, he must collect remote con...

Earthworm Jim 3D borrows much of its gameplay from other platformers of the era, notably Banjo-Kazooie and Super Mario 64. New locations in Jim's brain are opened up by collecting Golden Udders, and new levels in each location are opened by collecting ...

It's hard to deny that Super Mario Bros. started a new era in platform gaming, but there was no successor that better embodied Super Mario's groundbreaking ideas than Rayman 2: The Great Escape. With its enchanted storybook look beautifully translated ...