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6) Resident Evil 2
Released: 1999
There’s something magical about Nintendo that so many games somehow get better when they’re released for the company’s various consoles. Spider-Man and Ridge Racer 64 were both ports that out-shined their source material, and Resident Evil 2 was no different. Touting better graphics, the ability to customize aspects of the gameplay, and costumes not featured anywhere else, Resident Evil 2 on N64 was as faithful as it was superior to the PlayStation version. Stuffed into a single game cartridge, Capcom even found a way to squeeze the title’s FMV sequences into the mix! One of the best Resident Evil games was even better on N64.
The only way this list could be better is if it was a “coming soon” list on the Wii U’s virtual console!
It would also have Rayman 2, Rocket: Robot on Wheels, Turok 2, and Body Harvest on it. Oh, and James Bond: The World Is Not Enough.
So happy to see Ridge Racer on there….
For me the best “non-tendo” N64 game were Gauntlet Legends, Battle Tanx, Forsaken, the Bomberman games and Turok games.
The Rush racing games from Midway were awesome, and Moral Kombat 4 which played better on N64 than the arcade version.
The WWF games were epic on N64. They are still in my opinion better than the ones they make today
I was going to say Ridge Racer 64 but it counts as a Nintendo developed game since it was Nintendo Software Technology, right?
Anyway, nice list! Rogue Squadron makes my list as well.
My own list would include some Turok representation, probably the 2nd one, Seeds of Evil. My goodness, was that game impressive! Expansion Pak for the win: those detailed graphics and enemy dismemberment blew my mind, along with the presentation values. And the music, wow.
Rayman 2: The Great Escape was pretty awesome as well.
The other two games on my list would have to be:
–Rocket: Robot on Wheels (wonderful 3D platformer by Sucker Punch)
–Shadow Man (one of the best mature games I have played that was ‘mature’ in more ways than you can imagine. This game had a massive world to explore).
(Looks like OG75 and KisakiProject agree with me on some of my picks.)