Nintendo 64 classics

Order by the North American release year. You place all 30 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

Nintendo 64 classics
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How to play the Nintendo 64 classics timeline game

Every card is a game people remember from the Nintendo 64, from platformers and kart racers to shooters played four to a couch. The developer's name sits under each title, and you order the deck by the year the game reached North American stores. One game goes down first with its year showing. Slot each new card into a gap on the line. A good call flips over the year; a bad one still sends the game to its proper place, at the cost of one of your three lives.

The console had a short run, so the years stack up quickly and many cards tie. Any spot among matching years counts as right. Japanese launch dates can mislead you here, because some games crossed the Pacific months later. Sequels help only if you remember which came first, and a studio's name can nudge you toward its busiest stretch. Think about which holiday season you unwrapped a game; how old it feels now won't help.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 30 cards you might be dealt, with 2 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Super Mario 64 Nintendo EAD
  • Pilotwings 64 Paradigm Simulation
  • Wave Race 64 Nintendo EAD
  • Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire LucasArts
  • Turok: Dinosaur Hunter Iguana Entertainment
  • Mario Kart 64 Nintendo EAD
  • Star Fox 64 Nintendo EAD
  • GoldenEye 007 Rare
  • Diddy Kong Racing Rare
  • Yoshi's Story Nintendo EAD
  • 1080° Snowboarding Nintendo EAD
  • Banjo-Kazooie Rare
  • F-Zero X Nintendo EAD
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Nintendo EAD
  • Mario Party Hudson Soft
  • Super Smash Bros. HAL Laboratory
  • Star Wars Episode I: Racer LucasArts
  • Pokémon Snap HAL Laboratory
  • Donkey Kong 64 Rare
  • Mario Golf Camelot Software Planning
  • Mario Party 2 Hudson Soft
  • Pokémon Stadium Nintendo EAD
  • Perfect Dark Rare
  • Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards HAL Laboratory
  • Mario Tennis Camelot Software Planning
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Nintendo EAD
  • WWF No Mercy AKI Corporation
  • Paper Mario Intelligent Systems

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