Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster

[Captain Quazar]

Does anyone else realize the fact that the N64 has very few shoot ‘em ups? I don’t mean FPSs. Here’s a list of the ones that I know of.

- Star Fox 64
- Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth
- Sin & Punishment
- Aero Fighters Assault
- Dezaemon 3D (more of a shmup maker but it includes a few built-in ones as samples)
- Knife Edge: Nose Gunner
- Viewpoint 2064 (unreleased)

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Does anyone else realize the fact that the N64 has very few shoot ‘em ups? I don’t mean FPSs. Here’s a list of the ones that I know of.

- Star Fox 64
- Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth
- Sin & Punishment
- Aero Fighters Assault
- Dezaemon 3D (more of a shmup maker but it includes a few built-in ones as samples)
- Knife Edge: Nose Gunner
- Viewpoint 2064 (unreleased)

Because the machine was a slow piece of shit that didn't have the ability to handle sprites well.

What is the common feature of all those games you listed? They used polygonal graphics instead of sprites.

Another factor is that the Saturn's sister arcade system, the Titan, was actually the platform most of the SHMUPs released around that period were made for and porting from Saturn to anything else was too painful for the sales an N64 port might possibly bring in. Saturn outsold the N64 in Japan by a good margin.

 

[Baraka Obama]

Does anyone else realize the fact that the N64 has very few shoot ‘em ups? I don’t mean FPSs. Here’s a list of the ones that I know of.

- Star Fox 64
- Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth
- Sin & Punishment
- Aero Fighters Assault
- Dezaemon 3D (more of a shmup maker but it includes a few built-in ones as samples)
- Knife Edge: Nose Gunner
- Viewpoint 2064 (unreleased)

It has very few RPGs, fighting games, strategy games, beat 'em ups, puzzle, and adventure games too.

Most of those were just seen as dead genres in the move to 3D in the late 90s. RPGs are an exception, that made a better move to 3D but along the way did so more with heavy use of FMVs which needed CDs.