GoldenEye 007

Pretty much defined my high school years as the standard go-to multiplayer when friends came over. It looks creaky today but I'd still play it without a moment's hesitation.

Traumatic memories of getting stomped over and over again by friends who actually owned the game.

Another college staple and another overrated game. Whomever created 4 player split screen needs to die. I'm extremely biased here, as I hate 90% of first person shooters, but my rating is how I feel personally about the game. Also the N64 controller is pure trash.

It's like the exquisitely gonzo N64 controller and this game were made for each other. There was a supernatural fluidity in the way millions of pubescents around the world could synchronize their brains to the on-screen movement and play for hundreds of hours - fuck, even my Dad could play it. But I still stomped his ass with Oddjob every time.

I still play through this game on Secret Agent difficulty every year and I never don't enjoy almost every minute of it (almost, because the fog in the statue park and jungle levels can be annoying to navigate). But overall this game still plays super smooth to me, there's this great almost tactile physicality to firing the weapons and getting hit and flinging yourself around corners to hide from guards. The music is great too. Still my favorite Bond game and one of my favorite games.

None of you assholes pick Oddjob!

Don't make the same mistake I made and went back to this 20 years later. But 20 years ago there were many, many, many sleepovers of everyone dying of laughter with gameshark codes making everyone tiny and blowing them up with remote mines so they'd go flying.

Perfect. Way better than it has any reason to be.

Classic.

Didn't play it much as I didn't have an N64, but these were fun times playing on a split screen at a friend's place. Klobb 4life.