GoldenEye Is 19 Years Old Today! Nintendo's "Coolest" Game Ever?

[bigtakilla]

Soundwave said:

bigtakilla said:

Turok, Star Fox, and Yoshi's Island all came out 2017. I am definitely not saying any of these games would have been as big, but to say the N64 would have been dead until holiday 2018 is a bit much.

I assume you're saying 1997? Heh. 

Turok and Star Fox were already out by this point, Nintendo's holiday line up for 97 basically was only Diddy Kong Racing. 

Unfortunately though GoldenEye wasn't strong enough to prevent the Playstation from overcoming the N64 and starting to really outsell the N64, before that the N64 was outselling the Playstation fairly regularily in North America. But Final Fantasy VII came in September 1997 and too many other games, the N64 just couldn't plausibly stand up to it, though GoldenEye kept its head above water at least. 

Without that game I think Christmas '97 and 1st half of '98 at least would've been really, really ugly. 

That damn CD-ROM decision or inability for Nintendo to at least compromise with their development partners. Imagine if Nintendo had GoldenEye AND Final Fantasy VII for fall 1997 .... game over man, game over. 

Well, looking it up, I was mistaken about Yoshi's Island (which released 1998), but the other 2 released in 1997.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fox_64

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turok:_Dinosaur_Hunter