Play Space Station Silicon Valley (e) Online

Space Station Silicon Valley came out for the Nintendo 64 in 1998, developed by DMA Design. It was one of those oddball titles from the N64's library that didn't try to be another platforming mascot game. You could tell they were aiming for something different, a puzzle adventure that stood apart from the more straightforward action games of the time.

You control a microchip named EVO, and your goal is to reassemble the wrecked space station by collecting its scattered parts. The core of the game is possessing different animals. You jump into the body of a creature, from a slow moving turtle to a springy kangaroo, and use its specific abilities to solve environmental puzzles. Progress is screen by screen, with each area presenting a new set of challenges based on the animals available. The difficulty can be unforgiving; the controls for some animals are deliberately clumsy, and the physics are unpredictable, leading to a lot of trial and error. Playing it feels like a constant, quirky experiment where you are never quite sure if a plan will work until you try it.