Mario Kart N64 to Wii U

Mario Kart 64

There have been many games from N64, SNES and other vintage consoles coming to the Wii U Virtual Console, and even though there are already newer version of those games on the Wii U system, I think the main reason to move older games to the virtual console is the nostalgic feeling. How many of us play newer games like CoD, Battlefield and other shooting games but still like to go back to Golden Eye just to remember how much fun that was? I can say I do.  Well a new addition to the Wii U Virtual Console is Mario Kart N64, this game was one of those games that my friends and I used to play after school, we used to go rent a N64 and play all together, and well this games is great. Even as I mentioned there are better version with newer content, old school games like this will never be forgotten.

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Nintendo wanted Golden Eye less violent!

Golden Eye 007 N64

Do you remember playing Golden Eye 007 in N64? Who doesn’t? Well maybe younger kids won’t, but all those teens in the 90’s will for sure remember this game. This was a good game, it was our Call of Duty for the 90’s, it made us compete, made and destroyed friendships, it made us laugh and get mad, well it was the best game for me when growing up.

I grew up in Mexico and at the time the N64 came out, many of my friends did not have their own console, so after school we had to pitch in some money and rent a N64 for either 1 or 2 hours and play the heck out of this game. I remember playing it solo and it was not the same, I needed my friends to play with. The game was the best, yes we ended up killing our friends, and that made them mad but it was a healthy fun way to spend time with the friends after school.

To me the game was not that bad as far as blood and killing, the graphics back then were not the best so it was really not that graphic for us to tell how the person got killed, more when we used the rocket launcher or mines, if you compare that to newer games in which the gore is bad, then we can say that Golden Eye was not bad at all. And that brings me to what Nintendo thought of the killing on the game, they didn’t think it was really good, and thought the killing was too tragic. What do you think this game would’ve been with less graphic deaths? Would it have been the same? In my opinion the game was not good for the way people got killed, but it was for the competitive to be better than your friend and get the Golden Eye gun, among my friends the graphics didn’t matter as much as they do now, all it matter was that we had fun and at the end of the game walk home happy that we spend some time together, so for that Thanks Golden Eye for those cool memories you left me!

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Resident Evil 0 from N64 to Now!

RE 0 Screen Rant Article

I remember playing the first Resident Evil in Play Station, yes the original huge rectangle console, oh those were the good days, not really, today’s game quality are the best but you cant beat the nostalgia when you see an old game you used to play back in the day turned into a Remastered HD edition, in this case Resident Evil 0.

I can say I am a Resident Evil fan, i have most of the RE games, from PS One, PS2, PS3, Game Cube and N64. I recently, by recently I mean when RE 6 came out, I got the collectors edition, which has RE1, RE2, RE3, RE4, RE 5 and RE6, I can say that is the best collection I have. When I heard news about Capcom possibly releasing RE 0 in HD remastered like the first game I was happy.

I remember playing the first RE 0 on game cube, then I found out the game had been released on N64 way before it made it to game cube, I was interested on seeing how it looked so I started the research, that was back around 2010, even though the game came out on 2002. I find out old images showing the game and I can say the game changed a lot, even though the Game Cub graphics were not the best, compared to N64 they were HD to my eyes.

So I just read an article from Polygon and the game will be released on new consoles PS3/4, Xbox One/360, and PC, but the game will only be released until next year, guess we will need to wait that long for it to come out. In the mean time check out the video below, showing the evolution from N64 to the newer consoles to be release soon. Enjoy!!