Psh, you call this a list? N64 has no gaaaaemz!!11!!!

Seriously though, what an amazing catalog. Probably my second favorite console ever and imo, the best multiplayer console there ever was. I sank hundreds of hours into Goldeneye, Mario Party, Perfect Dark and Mario Kart 64 with friends.

And like many others, my console is over 15 years old and still going strong.

Happy Birthday, N64! While it was a good console, but I didn't enjoy as much as the SNES and the GameCube! I don't know, I just have a hard time enjoying games like Goldeneye due to how dated they are..

Yep. The best console ever indeed. I don't see any conceivable way any other console will ever get as many instant classics as the N64. Surprised to see Mischief Makers on there, not really a well known game I thought.

Would the N64 be the console that started Nintendo's decline with 3rd parties though? Everyone KNOWS the Super Nintendo had massive 3rd party support. N64 still had some, but it feels like it started to head downhill at that point.

that was the last nintendo system i truely enjoyed.

dont forget about Turok 2, that cererbal bore was a son of a bitch to get away from on 4 player split screen.

Of course! It was all thanks to those damn cartidges!

Eighteen years seems like a strange milestone, but, whatever, I'll take any opportunity to honor one of the best home consoles ever made :)

The console itself is durable and reliable; the controller, though inefficiently shaped, allows amazing precision and control thanks to its analog stick; and the library, however small, includes some of the finest video games of all time. Nintendo struck gold twice in the area of 3D gaming, first with Super Mario 64 and then, two years later, Ocarina of Time, arguably the company's crowning achievement. Ocarina's sequel, Majora's Mask, was similarly great, surpassing its predecessor in several ways.

Nintendo also got a little help from its friends during the N64 days, most notably from British developer Rare, which reached a creative and technical peak during the fifth generation. Between 1996 and 2001, Rare released eleven N64 games, all of them good, some of them extraordinary. Rare proved its skill with action-platform games (Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, Banjo-Tooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day), racing games (Diddy Kong Racing, Mickey's Speedway USA), shooters (GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark, Jet Force Gemini) and the odd action-puzzle game (Blast Corps).

In addition to Rare, several other studios supported the N64 with excellent games. These include Factor 5, LucasArts, Iguana Entertainment (several employees of which went on to found Retro Studios), AKI Corporation, Boss Game Studios, and Left Field Productions.

That being said, the N64 library was weak in a few areas. It had a dearth of RPGs and fighting games, especially when compared to its competitors' libraries. But its strength in other genres, famously platform, action-adventure, shooter, and racing, compensated for those gaps. In the end, despite some problems -- an unorthodox controller, Nintendo's reliance on antiquated cartridges, and the absence of high-profile role-playing and fighting games -- the N64 stands today as a shining example of 3D gaming done right, of developers pushing the technical and creative boundaries of video game design and producing, in the process, many of the medium's greatest games.

Great system. Unforgettable times with Mario Kart, Goldeneye and Killer Instinct an four guys with pizzas and beers...

The fact that so many of you can name game after game that should be included on this list but aren't (in that I agree with basically all of the suggestions) is proof that the list of classics on N64 is near-endless. The Golden Age of gaming the 5th Gen .

I think (not completely sure though) it has to do with this Atari 2600 game, for which the copyright in Europe hadn't expired yet or something:

Star Fox on SNES in Europe is also called 'Starwing' instead. Why they didn't just use Starwing 64 for Lylat Wars I don't know .

The Nintendo 64 is older than me. By a full two years, in fact.

Still doesn't stop me from enjoying the remakes of its games!