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Essentials, N64

N64 Essentials: Wave Race 64

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Some of my fondest memories from my formative years have the Nintendo 64 as their focal point.

Whether it was indulging in loud-mouthed, profanity-laden four-playerΒ GoldenEye, Perfect DarkΒ andΒ Duke Nukem 64Β deathmatches or just me and my similarly non-sporty school friends desperately trying to understand the appeal of the World Cup through the use of EA’s imaginatively titledΒ World Cup 98, this console holds a special place in my heart.

And yet somehow up until now I’d never played one of its most well-respected games:Β Wave Race 64. And now I am kicking myself for not checking it out sooner.

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Essentials, N64, Puzzlers

Puzzler Essentials: Tetrisphere

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Imagine Tetris. Then imagine it wrapped around a sphere. Then forget whatever you just pictured, because Tetrisphere is nothing like that. It’s still great, though.

TechnicallyΒ TetrisphereΒ is a little outside of MoeGamer’s normal remit in that it was not developed by a Japanese company, nor was it ever actually released in Japan. It did, however, find its home on a Japanese games console — the Nintendo 64 — and as such it totally counts. Particularly as it’s an awesome puzzle game, and we’re all about awesome puzzle games.

So how can one possibly make something as simple and elegant asΒ TetrisΒ work in a three-dimensional, spherical space? Well, as I’ve previously alluded to, you don’t; you do something a bit different.

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