they might make you want to smash your
single joystick controller into a
million pieces but you just keep coming
on back welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be counting down our picks
for the top 10 hardest n64 games I need
to get home go to bed cuz I don’t feel
very well at all for this list we’re
revisiting some of the hardest games
ever produced for the n64 we’re not
interested in games that are hard
because of bad programming horrible
level design or buggy controls we’re
looking for titles that are
intentionally challenging and pushed
players to their limits number 10 – rock
dinosaur hunter take the fast-paced
action and gore of quake and the
exploratory nature of – Raider rapid and
some of the best graphics a console
could offer in 1997 and you get well
something totally new refreshing and
challenging in this genre challenging
FPS your environment is really large and
eternally shrouded in fog keeping the
adrenaline high as deadly foes come
charging towards you from seemingly out
of nowhere
a fun shooter in its own right Tarak
raised the bar with complex level design
tricky at satisfying puzzles well hidden
collectables and daunting labyrinths
number 9 an Joe to eat a sequel to the
1998 hit banjo kazooie this action
platformer sold over 3 million copies
and solidified this berenberg combo as
one of the n64 s most beloved franchises
no matter how tough they made it in
banjo-tooie we couldn’t give up on him
the levels were huge and interconnected
making all those pesky jiggy’s even
harder to find it in the original full
of difficult tasks like racing canary
mary and cloud cuckoo-land and the epic
final boss fight flash trivia with
gruntilda this was the type of game
where you had to assemble a team of
neighborhood kids in order to beat it
the breat blast core
time limits in action puzzlers are
always stressful but a runaway nuclear
carrier really puts the pressure on in
blast core you’re switching between
eight different vehicles ranging from a
bulldozer to an armored mech as you
attempt to clear the path for this
rolling doomsday device by destroying
buildings bridging gaps and moving other
objects in the environment the
difficulty increases with each level
smash crates switch vehicles fill a hole
in the ground line up boats to create a
makeshift bridge and move on to the next
obstacle by the last few stages serious
problem solving skills are required to
avoid catastrophe number 7 Star Wars
Episode one racer
say what you will about The Phantom
Menace it made every kid wanna be a
podracer no matter how hard it looked
this game feels fast like really fast
tearing across icy sandy and swampy
alien race tracks the turns are sharp
the drops harrowing and the competition
fierce the AI racers are aggressive
always looking to bump you as they pass
setting you off course and damaging your
delicate podracer wide tracks turn into
narrow tunnels with sudden splits and
devastating obstacles as you struggle to
keep your racer in one piece
the only easy thing to do in this game
is crash number 6 Conker’s Bad Fur Day
Inc I know it’s gonna happen now ever
wonder what diddy kong’s squirrel buddy
conker was up to when he’s not racing
well a lot of M for Mature rated
behavior apparently right whose Ram is
it yeah what again this action
platformer feels a lot like an adult
version of Donkey Kong 64 and it seems
like it was brought up to an adults
difficulty level to match the game’s
plot takes you through all types of
wacky settings as you navigate tricky
obstacles such as a hallway full of
laser tripwires infuriatingly tough
platforming and some pretty badass boss
battles
escaping Omaha Beach under heavy
artillery fire is no walk in the park
nor is the hoverboard over lava section
number-5 mischief-makers an oddball gem
developed by treasure mischief-makers
was the first 2d side-scroller to be
released on the n64 and is now
remembered as criminally underrated
admittedly total playing time feels
short once you’ve mastered the game but
what it lacks in length it makes up for
with its unique challenging gameplay and
steep learning curve in true treasure
style you’re thrown into action so
hectic it verges on being overwhelming
all while trying to solve complex
puzzles in order to move forward the
very distinct grab and shake mechanic
was also a totally new experience for
even the most seasoned 2d side-scroller
enthusiasts number 4 f-zero X at 60
frames per second this felt like the
fastest racing game ever in 1998
the developers actually opted to
decrease the quality of the graphics in
favor of a higher framerate and
lightning fast gameplay and it really
shows your reflexes needed to be
razor-sharp if you had any hope of
winning the intergalactic ground Prix
the game was praised for its highly
responsive controls which were essential
to navigating the corkscrews sharp turns
and gravity defying tracks the collision
physics were also way ahead of their
time and with every other racer trying
to knock you into oblivion that was both
a blessing and a curse number three
perfect dark Oh Joanna dark just when we
thought no one could steal the title of
the most smouldering ly sexy n64 secret
agent from James Bond you stole our
hearts with your futuristic spy capers
okay okay forget about it I’m going to
let the Institute know we’ve made
contact the spiritual successor to the
widely successful Goldeneye
double-oh-seven
Perfect Dark actually isn’t too hard on
regular difficulty on perfect agent
however the mission objectives are
nearly impossible taking goldeneyes
double O agent mode to the next level
you’re facing tougher strategic AI and
alien enemies that can kill you with a
single slap perfect agent without a
doubt was the greatest test any FPS fan
could face on the n64 number 2 Space
Station’s Silicon Valley hard and deeply
strange a bad acid trip tainted by mad
cow disease while watching terminator is
pretty much the only way this game could
have been conceived wait it was
developed by an early version of
Rockstar North lamb I guess this is
actually kind of tamed by those
standards here you play as a microchip
and you possess dead robotic animals
each level is unique in its design and
challenges requiring a number of
specialized Robo animal corpses in order
to solve the puzzles and complete the
usually twisted objectives in fat bear
Mountain for example you’re told to kill
the angry animals cute I guess
don’t let the graphics fool you it’s
tough and it’s not for kids
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
number one jet force Gemini it’s a
shooter a puzzler a platformer and an
exploration game using three playable
characters with distinct abilities who
are separated at the beginning of the
game you fight through massive well
designed worlds all of which need to be
revisited once your characters have
reunited to unlock doors retrieve items
and move forward tribals populate the
world and all of them need to be saved
without a single casualty just to get to
the last level as for the final boss
battle it’s brutal and exhausting but
deeply satisfying there were some
challenging titles released on the n64
and then there was this game in which
rare through everything they had at you
do you agree with our list oh you are
well Chama what are some of the toughest
n64 games you’ve ever played for more
memorable top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com any
questions no good away you put the
hang-up
you
single joystick controller into a
million pieces but you just keep coming
on back welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be counting down our picks
for the top 10 hardest n64 games I need
to get home go to bed cuz I don’t feel
very well at all for this list we’re
revisiting some of the hardest games
ever produced for the n64 we’re not
interested in games that are hard
because of bad programming horrible
level design or buggy controls we’re
looking for titles that are
intentionally challenging and pushed
players to their limits number 10 – rock
dinosaur hunter take the fast-paced
action and gore of quake and the
exploratory nature of – Raider rapid and
some of the best graphics a console
could offer in 1997 and you get well
something totally new refreshing and
challenging in this genre challenging
FPS your environment is really large and
eternally shrouded in fog keeping the
adrenaline high as deadly foes come
charging towards you from seemingly out
of nowhere
a fun shooter in its own right Tarak
raised the bar with complex level design
tricky at satisfying puzzles well hidden
collectables and daunting labyrinths
number 9 an Joe to eat a sequel to the
1998 hit banjo kazooie this action
platformer sold over 3 million copies
and solidified this berenberg combo as
one of the n64 s most beloved franchises
no matter how tough they made it in
banjo-tooie we couldn’t give up on him
the levels were huge and interconnected
making all those pesky jiggy’s even
harder to find it in the original full
of difficult tasks like racing canary
mary and cloud cuckoo-land and the epic
final boss fight flash trivia with
gruntilda this was the type of game
where you had to assemble a team of
neighborhood kids in order to beat it
the breat blast core
time limits in action puzzlers are
always stressful but a runaway nuclear
carrier really puts the pressure on in
blast core you’re switching between
eight different vehicles ranging from a
bulldozer to an armored mech as you
attempt to clear the path for this
rolling doomsday device by destroying
buildings bridging gaps and moving other
objects in the environment the
difficulty increases with each level
smash crates switch vehicles fill a hole
in the ground line up boats to create a
makeshift bridge and move on to the next
obstacle by the last few stages serious
problem solving skills are required to
avoid catastrophe number 7 Star Wars
Episode one racer
say what you will about The Phantom
Menace it made every kid wanna be a
podracer no matter how hard it looked
this game feels fast like really fast
tearing across icy sandy and swampy
alien race tracks the turns are sharp
the drops harrowing and the competition
fierce the AI racers are aggressive
always looking to bump you as they pass
setting you off course and damaging your
delicate podracer wide tracks turn into
narrow tunnels with sudden splits and
devastating obstacles as you struggle to
keep your racer in one piece
the only easy thing to do in this game
is crash number 6 Conker’s Bad Fur Day
Inc I know it’s gonna happen now ever
wonder what diddy kong’s squirrel buddy
conker was up to when he’s not racing
well a lot of M for Mature rated
behavior apparently right whose Ram is
it yeah what again this action
platformer feels a lot like an adult
version of Donkey Kong 64 and it seems
like it was brought up to an adults
difficulty level to match the game’s
plot takes you through all types of
wacky settings as you navigate tricky
obstacles such as a hallway full of
laser tripwires infuriatingly tough
platforming and some pretty badass boss
battles
escaping Omaha Beach under heavy
artillery fire is no walk in the park
nor is the hoverboard over lava section
number-5 mischief-makers an oddball gem
developed by treasure mischief-makers
was the first 2d side-scroller to be
released on the n64 and is now
remembered as criminally underrated
admittedly total playing time feels
short once you’ve mastered the game but
what it lacks in length it makes up for
with its unique challenging gameplay and
steep learning curve in true treasure
style you’re thrown into action so
hectic it verges on being overwhelming
all while trying to solve complex
puzzles in order to move forward the
very distinct grab and shake mechanic
was also a totally new experience for
even the most seasoned 2d side-scroller
enthusiasts number 4 f-zero X at 60
frames per second this felt like the
fastest racing game ever in 1998
the developers actually opted to
decrease the quality of the graphics in
favor of a higher framerate and
lightning fast gameplay and it really
shows your reflexes needed to be
razor-sharp if you had any hope of
winning the intergalactic ground Prix
the game was praised for its highly
responsive controls which were essential
to navigating the corkscrews sharp turns
and gravity defying tracks the collision
physics were also way ahead of their
time and with every other racer trying
to knock you into oblivion that was both
a blessing and a curse number three
perfect dark Oh Joanna dark just when we
thought no one could steal the title of
the most smouldering ly sexy n64 secret
agent from James Bond you stole our
hearts with your futuristic spy capers
okay okay forget about it I’m going to
let the Institute know we’ve made
contact the spiritual successor to the
widely successful Goldeneye
double-oh-seven
Perfect Dark actually isn’t too hard on
regular difficulty on perfect agent
however the mission objectives are
nearly impossible taking goldeneyes
double O agent mode to the next level
you’re facing tougher strategic AI and
alien enemies that can kill you with a
single slap perfect agent without a
doubt was the greatest test any FPS fan
could face on the n64 number 2 Space
Station’s Silicon Valley hard and deeply
strange a bad acid trip tainted by mad
cow disease while watching terminator is
pretty much the only way this game could
have been conceived wait it was
developed by an early version of
Rockstar North lamb I guess this is
actually kind of tamed by those
standards here you play as a microchip
and you possess dead robotic animals
each level is unique in its design and
challenges requiring a number of
specialized Robo animal corpses in order
to solve the puzzles and complete the
usually twisted objectives in fat bear
Mountain for example you’re told to kill
the angry animals cute I guess
don’t let the graphics fool you it’s
tough and it’s not for kids
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
number one jet force Gemini it’s a
shooter a puzzler a platformer and an
exploration game using three playable
characters with distinct abilities who
are separated at the beginning of the
game you fight through massive well
designed worlds all of which need to be
revisited once your characters have
reunited to unlock doors retrieve items
and move forward tribals populate the
world and all of them need to be saved
without a single casualty just to get to
the last level as for the final boss
battle it’s brutal and exhausting but
deeply satisfying there were some
challenging titles released on the n64
and then there was this game in which
rare through everything they had at you
do you agree with our list oh you are
well Chama what are some of the toughest
n64 games you’ve ever played for more
memorable top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com any
questions no good away you put the
hang-up
you
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