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[Pilgrimzero]

I've owned one. And short of stuff like Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Mario 64, Smash, and the 2 Zeldas, I can't think of any other games I'd call "Classic". And frankly I don't think any of them have aged well.

Um. Doom 64?

And being larger games than NES and SNES, maybe top 15?

 

[maxcriden]

For reference in case anyone wants to see it:

List of best-selling Nintendo 64 video games

My choices from this list:

Mario 64
Mario Kart
OOT
SSB
Pokémon Stadium
DK64
Majora's Mask
Star Fox 64
Mario Party 2
THPS
Wave Race
Ep. 1 Racer (if Pokémon Stadium can't make it)
Mario Tennis
Kirby 64
1080° Snowboarding
F-Zero X

I'm assuming Rare games would not be on this platform.

Edit: I think Kirby 64 has aged notably well as one of the only 2D sidescrollers on the system. That one still held up very well playing it through for the first time a few years ago.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

In all seriousness I think the rights to Doom 64 are a right minefield. William GT who developed it are defunct.

Really without Rare games the N64 Classic would need padding substantially.

 

[AuthenticM]

You couldn't have Goldeneye or most of Rare's games because of licensing issues.

I'm not even sure there are 30 games I like for this console.

 

[Rizzi]

Mischief Makers?

 

[Trago]

There would definitely be a lack of Rare's games, which would be unfortunate.

 

[James Scott]

That would probably be hard without RARE. They likely couldn't get all the stand out 3rd parties either. Maybe 15-20 since the games are bigger?
Mario 64 and the Zelda's would be obvious. Kirby, Smash, Mario Party (all 3?), Yoshi's story, Sin and Punishment and maybe mischief makers

 

[Jack The Nipper]

It's sort of pointless to have these things unless all the games you buy on VC work on it imo

30 isn't that hard imo

SM64
Mario Kart
Fzero
Zelda
Zelda
Pilotwings
Wave Race
1080
Diddy Kong Racing
Blast Corps
Smash
Paper Mario
Yoshis Story
Crusin USA
WCW
Star Fox


and as long as they can get stuff like Bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark etc it would easily make 30.

 

[snowsabre93]

The problem in my mind wouldn't be a lack of 30 classics per say but the fact that most of these games have just aged Horribly. From wonky control schemes (Jet Force Gemini) to strange camera controls due to it being such primitive 3D, they just don't play well.

 

[redcrayon]

Lylat Wars/Star Fox 64 is the main one I return to.

Otherwise:
Jet Force Gemini
Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Perfect Dark
Blast Corps

That would be the five I'd like to see outside of Zelda/Mario.

 

[clevbrowns94]

There would definitely be a lack of Rare's games, which would be unfortunate.

Yeah, no Goldeneye in particular and it wouldn't feel like a good collection without it.

 

[Crayon]

The n64 classic would come with more like 10 games. :/ Despite having a few greats, there is little else worth revisiting.

 

[James Scott]

The problem in my mind wouldn't be a lack of 30 classics per say but the fact that most of these games have just aged Horribly. From wonky control schemes (Jet Force Gemini) to strange camera controls due to it being such primitive 3D, they just don't play well.

Nah, they haven't aged any worse than most of the NES Classics games. Jet Force wouldn't be on there anyways.

 

[Dark Cloud]

People ask for a N64 Mini, but I don't think it'd be as good as people think because Rare won't be there at all.

 

[reggieandTFE]

Mischief Makers was pretty rad.

 

[Mushroomer25]

I don't know if they need to do 30, but they can easily fill a cartridge with some all-star titles. That said, licencing is going to be the big hurdle.
- Smash 64
- Mario Kart 64
- Super Mario 64
- Ocarina of Time
- Majora's Mask
- Wave Race 64
- Donkey Kong 64
- Starfox 64
- Mario Party 2
- Mario Golf

Are all instant acquisitions, and would by their own sell a $60 machine. Anything else, and they'd need to work out a deal with Rare.

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

There won't be 30 games on the N64 mini (or the SNES mini for that matter). Not because of technical/space or even quality reasons, but because of value. They'll want to keep the Classic Mini line affordable and SNES/N64 games are simply worth more than NES games, so they won't include as many.

There would be 15-20 tops.

 

[ModBot]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Try this again in 2020.