[ashark]

Coming to it through emulation years later (I played a few multiplayer games a ton at friends' houses, but barely touched the single-player parts of the N64 library—my only home console until college was an NES) I've found a lot of games that hold up well outside the ten or so really, really good multiplayer games I already knew about. A few might not make it for licensing reasons (Microsoft is all over Perfect Dark now, and Goldeneye's probably never gonna be re-released, plus there are two pretty good and one kinda OK Star Wars game none of which I'd expect to make it) but I think they could easily find enough that have held up for a 20-30 game Classic system.

[EDIT] of all the systems of my youth that I only got to play at friends' and relatives' houses, the one that's been the most disappointing to adult-me is the Sega Genesis. I'd have killed for one as a kid but... it's kinda crap. Most (not all) of its best games are available on the SNES and are as good or better there. The exceptions are few, and mostly not that amazing anyway—again, it definitely does have some real gems! Just way fewer than I thought.

[ZenoArrow]

The SNES had some amazing games, but the Mega Drive had M.U.S.H.A. so it's not really a fair fight. ;-)

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