Top 3 Launch Games Of All Time - The Bear and Badger

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Vela wrote:

Super Monkey Ball

Good shout. The first one was so pure, so hard, so brilliant.

I'm rubbish at it, but Monkey Target alone puts it up that high.

I used to Monkey race my flatmate to see who was going to the shops to buy the munchies. Tense affairs when you're so stoned the thought of going for a piss seems like a monumental achievement.

Vela

My (now) wife stopped talking to me for a day after I landed on one of the stars in the ocean in Monkey Target.

Bollockoff

Sonic Adventure
Power Stone
Panzer Dragoon

Vela

Other top quality launch games that come to mind:
Wii Sports, Ghost Recon Shadow Wars, Wii Play (Tanks), Toy Commander, Kuru Kuru Kururin and WipEout Pure.

Blue Swirl

Was Kuru a launch game for the GBA? (I vaguely remember a Wii version, was that launch?)

Vela

According to wikipedia it was in Australia and possibly Europe.

RedDave2

1. Mario 64 - one of the true great games and sold many of us on that strange new joypad nintendo had designed

2. Ridge Racer - I didnt buy a ps at all but I know many a person who was wowed by the conversion of namcos coin-op. And rightfully so, it still looks great now.

3. Halo - although i was late to the ms party, i knew enough that i had to get halo. It felt like a real leap from my ps2 stuff which is exactly what a launch title should feel like.

honourable mention - wii sports - i know i've banged on about this one before but it was a fantastic way to showcase the wii and is probably the greatest game that isnt actually very good

dishonourable mention - daytona usa on the saturn (euro launch only i think) - a terrible display for a new console that looked shit next to both the competition and the game it was a conversion of.

Escape

Doom - 32X
Virtua Fighter - Saturn
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection - PSN

The first two for single-handedly making their hosts attractive for a time, and Dark Res because it got me into online gaming.

mk64

monkey wrote:

1. Super Mario World
2. Mario 64
3. Tetris

Win

Escape

Shuttle.

Moto70

All been mentioned by others but for me it has to be:

1. Mario 64 (N64)
2. Combat (2600)
3. Wipeout (PS)

Paul the sparky

Close Perm, but it's:

Mario 64
Wipeout
Halo

Moto70

Ah right, 2 out of 3 ain't bad!

My excuse is that I never had an Xbox so never experienced Halo (at launch, I did borrow an Xbox and play it at a later date). I am quite glad about the bundled game with the Xbox One, it's like the good old days again where you actually got a game with your console!

RamSteelwood

both wrong:

1. Mario 64
2. Super Mario World
3. Wii Sports

mk64

wii sports over tetris? How old are you?

RamSteelwood

old enough to have been there, but not rich enough to have a gameboy as well!

mk64

thats ok.

Anyone here brave enough to admit they owned a gameboy but didn't put Tetris in their top 3?

Paul the sparky

Yeah, me. It's the best puzzle game ever, but it's still only a puzzle game.

GooberTheHat

Power stone
Sega rally
Super Mario world.

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mk64

Paul the sparky wrote:

Yeah, me. It's the best puzzle game ever, but it's still only a puzzle game.

Bet you put more hours into it that the other games you quoted put together

TheDJR

Liveinadive wrote:

No Wipeout so far?

Yeah, apart from everyone who said Wipeout. Unless you mean a game of the Paul Daniels quiz show.

JonB

mk64 wrote:

thats ok. Anyone here brave enough to admit they owned a gameboy but didn't put Tetris in their top 3?

I didn't think that far back. But yeah, it's a good one.

davyK

Paul the sparky wrote:

Yeah, me. It's the best puzzle game ever, but it's still only a puzzle game.

Woah ! Way to dismiss an entire genre and a game that will still be played in 50 years.

Hulka T

1. Mario 64
2. Halo
3. Super Mario World

Man I might even see if I can find a copy of SMW online!

retroking1981

Mario 64 is the best. It was just mind blowing on every level. It introduced us all to the analog stick. The first time I played it I went right for the trusted D-Pad, within the hour I was a pro with the stick, long jumping and back flipping with inch perfection.

Nothing will ever beat 1st March 1997 for me.

mk64

the tip-toe'ing when I first edged forwards on the stick. I gasped

monkey

I replayed both SMW and 64 recently and personally think that SMW has stood the test of time a bit better. It was the pinnacle of the 2D platformers that had been iterated on for a decade before.
64 on the other hand carved out a new type of platformer all on its own. Very revolutionary but it's got a few rough edges by today's standards, as you'd expect.
I realise people aren't necessarily picking favourites by these retrospective standards.

mk64

the thing is the best parts of m64 outshine the best parts of smw. SMW is more polished and well made but things like princess' slide and racing koopa were just immense.

davyK

Top be fair - SMW is the pinnacle of its genre and M64 is the first in its.

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