Top 5 Best Selling Nintendo 64 Games of All Time
By Yenoscyu
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At least there are 350 titles of Nintendo 64 games that have been made in the console’s life span. Most of the Nintendo 64 games are very fun to play either for single player or with your friends. Some of them are very popular and have the sales far beyond other Nintendo 64 games.
Here I will give you the Top 5 Best Selling Nintendo 64 Games that I’m sure you guys will be very familiar with the titles.
5. Super Smash Bros.
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Released in 1999, this game takes fifth place in the Top 5 Best Selling Nintendo 64 games by having the sale of at least 5 million worldwide.
Super Smash Bros. is a fighting game featuring a variety of famous characters from Nintendo. There are 8 playable characters since the beginning of the game and there are 4 secret characters that can be unlocked after completing certain activities. Each character has special and cool moves, power-ups, and the ultimate weapon such as Mario’s Fireball, beam swords, and baseball bats.
This game is one of Nintendo 64 games that full of fun and easy to play. To access all moves for all characters, you can use the same one-attack-button and one-control-stick direction combinations. You can play alone but it’s more fun when you play it multiplayer up to four people.
Definitely, Super Smash Bros. is one of Nintendo 64 games you should play.
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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Ocarina of Time is the first game in The Legend of Zelda series that carries a free-roaming 3D game. Released in 1998, the game is one of Nintendo 64 games that received very positive feedback from many reviewers and gamers, especially for its gameplay, graphics, and level design.
In Ocarina of Time you will control Link from third-person perspectives. You will adventure in the land of Hyrule that requires you to battle many enemies, make new friends, and travel through time with your Ocarina. The game is also filled with challenging puzzles that will sharpen your brain.
Ocarina of Time is also one of Nintendo 64 games that received numerous awards, such as “Console Game of the Year”, “Outstanding Achievement in Software Engineering ” and even a soundtrack of this game in 2001 was one of the top ten video game soundtracks.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is in fourth place in the Top 5 Best Selling Nintendo 64 games with sales estimated at 7.6 million worldwide. Nintendo has translated the 2D Zelda games into the 3D world perfectly. It’s one of great Nintendo 64 games you must play.
3. GoldenEye 007
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This game was released in 1997. It’s a first person shooter game based off the 1995 James Bond film, GoldenEye. The game was a commercial and critical success. It has received numerous awards such as “Console Action Game of the Year”, “Interactive Title of the Year “, and” Console Game of the Year “. Besides in the Top 5 Best Selling Nintendo 64 Games, GoldenEye 007 is also listed as one of The Best Nintendo 64 Games from many reviewers.
In GoldenEye 007, as James Bond you must pass through 20 action-packed missions to prevent a global financial meltdown by recovering the key to a devastating Soviet orbital weapon. The game has precise and tight controls, great gameplay, realistic and well-animated characters, detailed environments, zoomable sniper rifle, and cool sound effects. You can also play deathmatch games in split screen up to four players in multiplayer mode.
GoldenEye 007 at least has sold 8 million copies worldwide and makes it occupy the third place in the Top 5 Best Selling Nintendo 64 games.
2. Mario Kart 64
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Mario Kart 64 is very fun to play especially in multiplayer along with three others. Nintendo has done a great job to change the game from the original to beautiful 3D computer graphics. There are 8 playable characters in the game and 16 great tracks from Nintendo and Mario video games.
In this racing game there are a variety of cool items you can use to improve your skills or even slow down your enemies, such as invincibility stars and speed boosting mushrooms. Just be careful because your enemies have the same opportunity to use the items.
Released in 1996 in Japan, Mario Kart 64 places the second position in the Top 5 Best Selling Nintendo 64 games by the number of sales of more than 9 million copies worldwide.
1. Super Mario 64
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Super Mario 64 was one of two Nintendo 64 games that launched at the release of the console. This game has received very positive feedback from fans and critics of various aspects of the game such as gameplay, musical score, and graphics. So it’s not surprising if Super Mario 64 is one of Nintendo 64 games available that received many awards and regarded as “the greatest games of all time”.
Super Mario 64 is a 3D action platform game. Here, as Mario, you have to save Princess Peach from Bowser. Mario can do a lot of movement, including double and triple jumps, backflip and wall jumping. Even at some courses Mario could have a special skill such as immune to most damage, underwater walk, and fly.
Super Mario 64 is a fantastic game that is able to apply the new standard in 3D platform game. This game has taken the crown in the Top 5 Best Selling Nintendo 64 games with sales reaching 11.62 million copies worldwide.
Well, that’s a brief explanation of the Top 5 Best Selling Nintendo 64 Games of All Time. I’m sure as a true Nintendo fans you have played those great and fun Nintendo 64 games.
Happy gaming.
