Kotaku: Nintendo 64

Why Conker Went From Cute to Crass

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:00:00 EST

Rare's Conker used to be a nice little squirrel. He was cute, he had polite friends, and he was going to be starring in a very Nintendo platformer for a Nintendo console. More »

Here's a Christmas Classic Because Hey, Why Not

Owen Good — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:00:00 EST

If TBS can give us a 24-hour marathon of "A Christmas Story," then we'll wish you a Merry Christmas with video gaming's counterpart, the unforgettable boxing of a NINTENDO SIXTY-FOURRRRRRR! YES! YES! More »

Transforming a Nintendo 64 Into a Portable

Brian Crecente — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:40:00 EST

There aren't instructions here, not unless you're really good at figuring out what's going on in a bunch of images. But it's still fascinating to watch a Nintendo 64 get picked apart and then pieced back together again as a portable. More »

Separated at Birth? The 3DS' New Gimmick and James Bond's Weird Face

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:20:00 EDT

Some people think that the 3DS' new second-circle-pad add-on is ugly. They mock it. They deride it. But maybe the 3DS "slide pad" is a beautiful homage to one of history's greatest video game box-art optical illusions. More »

How Unusual Was The 3DS Price Cut?

Max Abrams — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:00:00 EDT

Many people in the gaming community were taken aback by Nintendo's announcement last night that the 3DS would be dropping price from $250 to $170 only five months after its initial launch in America and after fewer than 900,000 units have sold in the U.S. More »

You Can Win for Losing in Super Smash Bros.

Owen Good — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:30:00 EDT

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From the creator of "Elemental Kombat" comes this, a tale of cosmic justice delivered when some guy wins four in a row with Kirby in Super Smash Bros and starts douching it up. He totally had that coming. More »

'Is Navi Annoying?' and Other Questions We Asked the Creators of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:00:00 EDT

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Kotaku recently asked eight questions of the chief creatives responsible for the Nintendo 3DS remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, questions like "Why does Link auto-jump?" and "Do you think Navi is annoying?" More »

Did They Improve The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time's Graphics Enough For You?

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:00:00 EDT

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Here's a new trailer for the June-scheduled 3DS re-make of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. The graphics have been improved, though my memory already made them look as good as they appear in this new trailer. More »

To-Do In Early May: Watch Live Zelda Ocarina Concert On My Computer

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:40:00 EDT

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Heather in St. Louis appears to be obsessed with playing the ocarina. She's got a hit YouTube channel full of dozens of videos of her playing Zelda songs, along with Donkey Kong songs, Final Fantasy songs, and even a Nelly song. (She manages to have a different ocarina in just about every other one of these videos.) More »

Nintendo, Let's Have Great Metroid & Zelda 25th Anniversaries

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:00:00 EST

On September 13, 2010, Nintendo celebrated the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. In 2011, two of its other great adventures, Nintendo Entertainment System games Metroid and The Legend of Zelda reach the same milestone. We should celebrate, Nintendo. More »

The Manly Art Of Posing With Video Game Systems

Stephen Totilo — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:00:00 EST

I've never posed with a video game system. I doubt you have either. But the top men in video games do that any time there's new gaming hardware to show off. How cool can you look posing with plastic? More »

The Very Short And Entirely Fictional Movie About Nintendo 64 Cheat Codes

Stephen Totilo — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:00:00 EST

In this short film, the Nintendo 64 controller is so amazing it can input cheat codes that do the dishes and upgrade the N64 to an ... Xbox 360? Then a guy in a V for Vendetta mask shows up. More »

Star Fox For Nintendo 3DS 'Ups The Star Fox Mania'

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:00:00 EST

There's a new old Star Fox coming to the Nintendo 3DS, a remake of the Nintendo 64 classic that, according to Nintendo, "ups the Star Fox mania" with a pair of new features, seemingly designed for Star Fox maniacs. More »

Let's See If Superman 64 Really Is The Worst Game Of All Time

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:00:00 EST

Some people say Superman 64 is the worst video game ever made, but why trust them? One brave man is doing the YouTube equivalent of flying faster than a speeding bullet. He's playing the game for us to watch. More »

GoldenEye 007 Then Vs. Now: How Far Bond Has Come

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:00:00 EST

GoldenEye 007 for the Wii may feature a new James Bond and all-new graphics, but as this comparison video shows, Activision's remake of the 1997 Nintendo 64 game stays impressively true to its source material. More »

The People Who Made GoldenEye Were Almost Purchased By The People Who Are Making GoldenEye

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:30:00 EDT

Rare owned by Activision? Could have been! More »

He Obviously Has Control Issues

Mike Fahey — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:20:00 EDT

The subject of photographer Jason Michael Smith's Nintendo Time! series might need some controller wearing tips. More »

She's In Complete Control

Mike Fahey — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:20:00 EDT

Toronto-area model and psychedelic artist blackfeatheredcrown shows her devotion to Nintendo in a very appealing fashion. Catch the whole set on her Flickr page. More »

The Haunting Of A Majora's Mask Cartridge

Owen Good — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:00:00 EDT

So there was this guy, and he bought a Majora's Mask cartridge from a creepy old guy, and it had wicked scary glitches in it, like Link would burst into flame while the Song of Healing played backward, and ... More »

What Wii Party And Mario Party Have In Common

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:00:00 EDT

Mario Party games, those party games featuring...Mario, aren't actually made by Nintendo. They are made by Hudson Soft. And it's no wonder they are similar to the newly released Wii Party. More »

Summer Video Game Movie, Banjo Kazooie

Stephen Totilo — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EDT

Even if you owned a Nintendo 64 and loved playing Banjo Kazooie as I did, you may not think of Rare's bear-and-bird action game as a summer game. One wonderful part of it was. More »

A Very Special Cameo

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:00:00 EDT

Alpha Protocol is a spy game that SEGA is publishing. Know what I spy? More »

Hoth in Video Games: A Thirty-Year Battle

Stephen Totilo — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:40:00 EDT

On the 30th anniversary of the release of The Empire Strikes Back, let's take a look at video games' favorite scene from that movie: the battle of Hoth. Developers have been trying for almost a full 30 years to get it right. More »

If We Had DLC a Decade Ago

Owen Good — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:30:00 EDT

Actually, we did. They were called "unlockables" and, after playing the game a lot, you got them for free. Seen via Reddit. More »

Slaps to the Death — and Stop Looking at My Screen!

Owen Good — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:30:00 EDT

Honorable people agreeing to the terms of a duel to the death. As this spoof shows, and as any one who's ever played Goldeneye knows, the negotiations take forever, and the outcome is well more ridiculous than suspenseful. More »

'Gold N’ Fly' Combines Nintendo 64 James Bond Classic With Jay-Z, Nas, T.I.

Stephen Totilo — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:00:00 EDT

The 13 year wait is over. New York rap producer Alex Kresovich has merged the music of 1997 Nintendo 64 James Bond classic GoldenEye 007 with big-time rappers' rap lyrics. More »

The Prettiest Custom Nintendo 64 You'll See Today

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:30:00 EDT

Or at least the most feminine and flowery, as hand painted by Kotaku tipster James, who describes his creation as Cath Kidston-inspired and for his girlfriend, not his grandmother. More »

With The Help of Friends, Blind Man Beats Legend of Zelda

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:00:00 EST

If you thought finishing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was difficult, imagine doing it blind. More »

Perfect Dark XBLA Could Get More New Maps, Weapons

Brian Crecente — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:00:00 EST

The Xbox Live Arcade remake of classic Nintendo 64 shooter Perfect Dark sings on the Xbox 360, mixing the game's original geometry with high-definition graphics and a silky frame rate without tinkering with the unique controls. More »

This Guy Has All The Nintendo 64s You Could Ever Want (But Why?)

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:00:00 EDT

As seen on The Veneziani Journal. More »

Master Photoshop The Legend of Zelda Way

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:40:31 EDT

Despite more than a decade of futzing about with Adobe Photoshop, my digital painting skills are considerably amateur. Creating something like David Cousens' The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask piece above is beyond my skills... or is it?! More »

Old Is New: Nintendo Released A Bio Sensor A Decade Ago

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The Wii Vitality Sensor tracks a players pulse while playing. A novel Nintendo idea — or is it? More »

Perfect Dark XBLA Looks Sharp, No Expansion Pak Required

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:00:00 EDT

Rare's Nintendo 64 first-person shooter Perfect Dark is coming to Xbox Live Arcade later this year. Winter, says Microsoft. This is what it looks like. More »

When Team Fortress 2 Meets Super Smash Bros...

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:00:04 EDT

...things turn out remarkably well. This mash up of Team Fortress 2 classes and the original intro for Nintendo 64 fighter Super Smash Bros. is a near-perfect shot-by-shot recreation created in Garry's Mod. More »

Perfect Dark Teased On Xbox LIVE

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:00:22 EDT

This screenshot from developer Rare shows what appears to be an icon for its Nintendo 64 first-person-shooter Perfect Dark in an Xbox LIVE folder. More »

Edge Recounts Nintendo's Dark Times

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:00:01 EDT

Nintendo may be the console king of the mountain, thanks to its runaway success with the Wii and Nintendo DS. But it wasn't always so, as Edge Online explores. More »

Japanese Gamers Invent New Way To Play Super Mario 64

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:20:18 EST

A pair of Mario 64 enthusiasts have reinterpreted the rules of Super Mario 64, resulting in a clever and at times hilarious way to play the Nintendo 64 classic—in short, avoid the 1UP mushroom. More »

Study: Video Game Physiques Give Guys Body Image Issues, Too

Owen Good — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:00:00 EST

Playing as super buffed up hunky dudes can make men insecure, according to a Kansas State study. But read on, if these stories are correct, this piece of scholarship has some serious problems. More »

This Retro Nintendo 64 Game Ad Is NSFW Maximum Risky!

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:00:00 EDT

With the family friendly route Nintendo has taken the last couple of years, it's easy to forget games like ~~Nintendo~~ Rare published, Rare developed, Nintendo 64 exclusive Conker's Bad Fur Day. This post is a reminder. The M-rated game with its raunchy humor had M-rated ads, appearing in places like Playboy. Check out the late night cable TV spot after the jump. It's MAXIMUM RISKY stuff, Diddy Kong Racing this ain't. More »

What to Give the Perfect Dark-Obsessed Gamer

ogood — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT

A laptop sentry gun, of course. Or, well, a lot of pipes and electrical tape, and scrap metal shaped into the notorious weapon. Reader Thomas Masheder and his pal regularly play Perfect Dark for N64 to this day. And when his pal turned 25, Thomas went off to the hardware store in search of parts to build his gun. More »