

Perfect Dark was way ahead of its time on the N64—basically GoldenEye’s cooler, sci-fi cousin. You play as Joanna Dark, this badass secret agent taking down shady corporations and aliens (yeah, it gets weird). The campaign’s got these sprawling missions where you sneak around, hack stuff, and occasionally go guns-blazing when stealth fails—which, let’s be honest, it always does.
But the real magic? The multiplayer. You can tweak everything—bot personalities, weapons, even how much they swear when you headshot them. My friends and I wasted whole weekends just making the dumbest custom matches (pistols-only against suicidal AI? Sure, why not). The graphics were janky even back then, but the sheer amount of stuff to unlock and mess with made up for it.
Still holds up if you can handle the N64’s controller cramps.
Must-play games
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Super Smash Bros. (n64)
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Wwf Wrestlemania 2000 (j) (n64)
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Fifa 99 (europe) (n64)
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Jikkyou World Soccer 3 (j) (n64)
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Command & Conquer (e) (n64)
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Paperboy (e) (n64)
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Destruct Derby (n64)
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O.d.t. (usa) (proto) (n64)
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Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (e) (n64)
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V-rally Edition 99 (e) (n64)
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Big Mountain 2000 (n64)
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Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling (n64)