N64 Quake (USA) Nintendo 64

[Yousef Yousef]

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• Quake (USA) Nintendo 64
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[Alarond]

Thanks for sharing this game and adding it to the Repo, although the Nintendo 64 version, which in itself is not bad for a first-person shooter game, but at the same time is impressive for the time Especially that it lets you play, it doesn't look bad and the sound quality is decent, it is still a game of that genre of the Nintendo 64 that only has 32MB if it comes uncompressed, but the big but of this version are the loading times that are long and Pretty weird for a cartridge but, well. A pretty decent port of a great game.

The loading times, in a N64 game, was always related to games with compressed data. It is literally the time the game needs to decompress the levels of this Quake 64. It is NO that bad, but it's always shocking to find loading times in a N64 game (not very common).

(If the game has 32MB of uncompressed data, the only reason it was not released uncompressed, it was the price of the 32MB cart in the moment of its release... which I suppose was too expensive for the third party).

It is NOT a bad port, it was a good game by then. BUT, obviously, now you can play free Quake in a potato-PC, and you will get mouse controls and you can select a lot more of resolution with better framerate. So... only for nostalgics and N64 fans.

Fun fact: Quake NEVER had a Playstation port. It is (probably by far) the most important game until then it never got a port for the Playstation. It was ported for Saturn and N64, though.
Being Quake the huge title it is in videogames history, it is almost incredible it never had a PSX commercial release. One of the worst "misses" Playstation 1 have in its catalogue, for sure.
Quake II did appear in PSX (as it did for N64) but it has no real connection with the first one, only the title.

 

[Mopeybloke]

No shade towards Aubrey Hodges, but don't play this version.

 

[Erik Óptero]

"Uuuh-huuu, theese little eartquaakes.../heeeEEere we go again.../uuuh-huuu, theese little earthquakes.../doesn't take much to R.I.P. us into piieeECess..."

Tori Amos, ^-^-<3.

 

[linkllego]

Thanks man for the upload!

 

[MalakianXVII]

That main menu theme.

 

[StopTheCatastrophe]

Like when I could only play Doom on SNES and had no idea how better and smoother the real PC version was.

 

[Vile]

I remember have played this version, but it's definitely one of those ports that people played due to not have access to the original, maybe good for retro lovers, but the control at least to me makes preferable to go to the latest pc port, especially because is not heavy for modern pcs and adds improvements.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Thanks for sharing this game and adding it to the Repo, although the Nintendo 64 version, which in itself is not bad for a first-person shooter game, but at the same time is impressive for the time Especially that it lets you play, it doesn't look bad and the sound quality is decent, it is still a game of that genre of the Nintendo 64 that only has 32MB if it comes uncompressed, but the big but of this version are the loading times that are long and Pretty weird for a cartridge but, well. A pretty decent port of a great game.

 

[Sayo Sayo]

I believe these N64 maps were backported into the Nightdive remaster.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Interesting list of changes.

Quake (Nintendo 64 version)

A port of Quake was released on March 24, 1998 by Midway Games for the Nintendo 64, also known as Quake 64. The port is based on a heavily modified Quake Engine. This port was brought to PC with the Quake Enhanced remaster released during QuakeCon 2021 as a downloadable add-on. There is no...

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