Getting Goldeneye 007 on Nintendo 64 at LAUNCH August 1997 - My Retro Life
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- This is the story of how I got Goldeneye 007 for Nintendo 64 within days of its release back in August of 1997.
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Finally i can play goldeneye..on Nintendo switch and xbox 🙏
I’m so excited!
They also made a fan sequel based on gold finger the movie. It works on original hardware.
Greatl video! I don't always subscribe, but when I do...best believe you're doing many things right!
I liked it also Turok 2 for me still gets a lot of play time.
My dad and I used to watch James Bond movies together when I was young. He got Goldeneye for me after it had come out though my mom thought it was too violent. We definitely werent rich so it was a big deal for him to get it for me when it wasnt my birthday or christmas. I remember playing it so much. A few years later I foolishly traded it for a game boy color.. When he passed away in 2004 from cancer luckilly I was able to get my exact copy of the game back from my friend who I had traded it to when I was younger as he just happened to have it sitting in his attic. I keep the game cart stored in a special place. This game and my father will alway be in my heart. One reason I connect so much with this channel is because I was born in 85 and watching your videos is like watching a part of my own childhood again.
What a nice story and a great loving dad. were you still allowed to play the game after your mother found out it was too violent?
Nice story and hold forever on to that cartridge.
Oh man im also an '85 kid what was wrong with our generation we traded everything! i also traded my copy of Banjo kazooie for a ps1 game i never got it back but i got the game at some point again. So sry about your dad man, it sucks. I also watch this channel cause we have so many in common Tyler is '86 though i think. Haha my mom also thought Goldeneye was violent the morals of the times! Looking at it now its almost funny! Imagine if instead of Goldeneye our N64's played a copy of Doom 2016 xDDDD parents would go apeshit!
I was born in 85 too. Such a great time to be alive and I played this with my brother for so many hours and days. Great memories forever.
I grew up a huge Bond fan and one Christmas my family got me a bunch of James Bond VHS tapes including Goldeneye on the N64. Man…. It’s crazy to me because at such a young age, I was going’s through that game like I played it before! That’s until I tried 00 Agent and that’s when I really had to try by best and explore. My cousins would come over and we’d play Multiplayer for hours trying all the different game modes and levels. Wish I could time travel back. Good memories
GoldenEye was the first time I stayed up all night playing a video game. Stayed over my cousin's house and somehow we ended up playing until dawn. My aunt was freaked out we didn't sleep.
We played goldeneye at family parties. Adults were getting drunk we were playin in my big cousins room tearing that shit up lol good times. Then gran turismo 3 came out. Dude we did 3 days straight lol
Bro same, that's crazy. I went over my aunt and uncles house and stood up all night playing it with my older cousin. Ur story has a happier ending tho cuz for some reason, being only 10 and staying up all night made me feel sick to my stomach and I spent the next day in bed all day recouping 😂
The day after release day I remember hearing that a few acquaintances of mine had gotten Goldeneye. I quickly biked to their house and asked if I could see what all the hype was about. What I witnessed that day was pure gaming gold. After playing hours of 4 player split screen I rushed home and begged my parents for the game. Although I would'nt recieve the game until a few months later during Christmas of that year, I spent everyday after school at various friends houses forming some of the best core memories of my childhood. Bravo Rare Bravo
You biked home and begged your parents but you still happened to be old enough to have acquaintances?
@@dustinharrison3491 lol they were friends from school but I didn't consider them close friends. Isn't that what an acquaintance is?
@@Nintendos lol. Yes, that's an acquaintance alright. I just gotta be difficult in the comments when I'm on CZcams while being sick. Along with the DayQuil and the NyQuil, throwing shade in the comments is another form of medicine.
@@dustinharrison3491 shaaaadup
It always seemed like this was one of those games were if you didn't have any buddies to play multiplayer with then the game sucked
Goldeneye was absolutely mind blowing! Some of my favorite multiplayer memories are of this juggernaut of a game. 🤘
Crazy for a team of people who had never made a game before
They also made a fan sequel based on gold finger the movie. It works on original hardware. it's pretty decent.
The animations when enemies take damage are still better than most modern games.
You aren't even kidding. It's crazy how many games today still don't feature location-specific damage animations.
That is what i remember the most. The animations when shooting enemies made it so much fun! Besides that the zooming and aiming with guns. Oh and this sounds strange but I am a 90s kid-young adult and i remember when we took ecstasy with friends and we played it for a whole weekend. The sound and everything Was crazy then 😀
the guy choking is the best
@@penguinjay I liked seeing them jump and grab their ass when you shoot them in the butt.
@@Chubzdoomer actually Killzone 2 does
The 4 player on this was legendary, played it for months non stop
Months? Nay, decades!!!
We played it for yrs even after perfect dark we went back to goldeneye multiplayer
My friends and I had so many sleepovers on the weekends in high school and would play 4 player all night. Tostinos pizza rolls in the oven with us all camped out in my friend's bonus room. Such great memories.
I remember the first time I died and the screen filled with blood. I was so amazed by that. Nothing was cooler
Goldeneye gave me the dopest Christmas of all time as a kid. Hearing the beginning heartbeat intro just symbolized to me this was not a regular friendly Nintendo game. The levels and music are timeless in my opinion
Completely agree
With GoldenEye now on NSO as of last night, this video's timing is perfect! Well done, Tyler!
PRREEEETYYYY sure it was intentional
@@starwindamada5313 nah. It was by coincidence 😅
Yeah, except the Switch version absolute blows chunks.
I remember play Goldeneye for the first time at Walmart. Mom and I were out shopping and mom was seeing how much fun I was have and she bought me that game. I remember it was the last copy the store had. Mom knew I love games and I was good at them. I sure miss her.
Rest In Peace to her. Glad that you have that awesome memory of her purchasing it for you.
Dude, Goldeneye was probably the first video game I ever saw. I was little and according to my parents, Dad would play the game in front of my cradle and even give me an unplugged controller to "play along" with him. And even now I have a fully boxed copy with my Dad's original copy he handed down to me with my retro collecting. Goldeneye will always hold a special place in my heart filled with split-screen memories of playing with my little brother, and playing through Facility over and over again. Awesome video Tyler, always happy to hear your memories from back in the day! (I was born in '98 so I didn't get to experience the 90s, the 2000s were my 90s lol)
Thanks for sharing that. Loved hearing about your Dad gaming with you in the crib!
Glad you were a facility guru too, it was one of if not the best campaign level. It was fun to just run it and memorize. The music was on point. It had scripted events and all this and that stuff happening. We went through facility on 00 agent over and over just perfecting it. It's great to see the good players of today do even better, but man, that was so fun before the internet, knowledge about games and stuff like this REALLY brought people together.
@@penguinjay Oh definitely. I have a retro setup in my house and I hope I can have my friends over for us to hang out and play games like it’s the 90s.
Goldeneye is what got me into video games... I really had no idea what games even were until I went to a friend's house after school in THE third grade, he shows me this "James Bond" game and I'm like.. what.. James Bond? Those books on tape by Ian Fleming? No.... this was it, and soon after I had an N64 for Christmas. Finally, on Jan 26 (1998) my Dad came home from visiting his mother in Florida and surprised me with a copy of Goldeneye. Best day of my childhood.
I was always the last to get consoles out of all of my friends. When my best friend got Goldeneye first, I became obsessed with it. 4 player co-op was a staple for sleepovers and all-nighters. I eventually got my N64 with Goldeneye and Turok on Christmas of '98. It was the best gift my parents ever gave me, and I still have everything.
Now thats an awesome comment i got OoT on christmas of 98! '98 man that year never dissapoints! xDDD
i had never played goldeneye up until a month ago, i mostly grew up on the older call of duty’s but you can tell that a game is legendary when it transcends its own outdatedness and is a pure joy to play. i felt like i had travelled back in time to a period i wasnt even alive for
Glad you could understand! Thanks for watching
You just had to be there, then. That was the only way to play together. Sitting next to each other and getting all your friends in one room. Those were the days...
@Twice is the Worst Girl Group 19 lol
I remember my friends and I used to have this fun trick we did. We would play proximity mines and I would hide mines in the best places. The best place to put them is on the boxes of proximity mines themselves, because then they blow up when someone tries to take some and it destroys the mines in the process.
Very good memories. Everytime when i came back from school i played this with friends for years.
Literally my childhood happiness
Bro I can't imagine what it would be like to not only lose my father at such a young age, but also have a father who was so invested in my interests and then just not be around anymore. My heart aches for you but no one will ever know your pain and despair besides you.
That being said, becuase my father was never really around for my interests and mainly just stuck his nose to his work, I am determined to be half the father to my son as your father was to you. My son is 4 yrs old as of January 1st. He can swing around in spiderman miles morales, collect dog bones in paw patrol and cut down a tree in Minecraft. But when I put that NES controller in his hand and turned on super Mario bros 3, his eyes lit up like I've never seen. He can't comprehend the basics of jumping on top of enemies or dodging but he just loves running around and the bright colors and easy controls. I am excited for my son to make my life as amazing and happy as you made your father's. Your channel is amazing, you and your dads bond is incredible and your lifelong journey with gaming is outstanding. I hope this year does you well, you deserve it all. Keep it up man, love what you do.
Really appreciate this comment... Thanks bro!
Hands down the single most played game of my entire life. Proud of it too!
+1. This and Perfect Dark gives me some awesome flashbacks from my childhood.
I think all kids from that generation love the n64. Such good memories
I’ll NEVER forget the first time I played Goldeneye. Up to that point it was Quake in the computer lab at school.
I remember I was 16 working at a Wendy's in Anniston, AL and I got my first paycheck...quit my job....went to the bank to deposit it and then went to Walmart to purchase GoldenEye and the Rumble Pak ....priorities man...I knew this game was going to be something special. When they finally announced the game being re-released on Switch and Xbox I called my best friend from back home and told him the news. It is amazing how much clicked as soon as I started replaying this game. Great video/Great memories
I was lucky enough to be one of the 1st guys outside the devteam to play Goldeneye 64 at Rare’s hq at Twycross in the uk…I was a journalist at the time and remember thinking this game was revolutionary…fond memories…looks so dated now but I remember my colleague at the magazine that I worked taking Goldeneye to parties with him to show it off…ah happy days
My favorite Bond film. I remember playing the demo for this in WALMART while on vacation in Kissimmee,FL. Couldn’t wait to return back to Brooklyn to play it! Was ALWAYS a group of us playing multi player!
I am a huge Bond fan before video game fan and Goldeneye was the first Bond film that I ever saw. Needless to say my parents bought this for me on launch and I have core memories with me trying to beat this game with my friends and even sisters' friends. I remember being in the basement while my sister was on the computer blasting All Star and Mambo No. 5 trying to get through the jungle and control room. It was the first game that the entire family actually played together with multiplayer until they got sick of me winning easily every time. This game made me take a deep dive into the Bond films.
Oh man, Mambo Number Five. That is Summer 1999 memories.
I remember hearing about Goldeneye during the summer of its release from my buddies at the YMCA daycare. I asked my Grandpa to buy me it for Christmas or my birthday and by February the following year it was in my possession. I loved it. I loved using the GameShark with it and going wild in the game throwing mines everywhere creating huge explosions. Id have friends or my cousins come over and do multiplayer with me. It got intensely competitive. I still remember the screen peaking accusation hahaha 😆. Good times. Last time I played it must of been in 2010.
Man I remember using the GameShark pro on this game creating my own codes for infinite health and ammo and other stuff.. Such good times!!!
I remember at the time there was nothing quite like GoldenEye available to gamers. From the very first second of playing the game it became evident just how much effort and detail the developers at Rare had put into this game. Rare obviously were big fans of the James Bond series.
Such a nice retrospective. It's easy to forget the amount of freedom that Goldeneye introduced to the genre.
I remember seeing this in Target and getting to play the snow level a little bit. The next few weeks I would daydream about all the other missions that were in the game. Eventually I got it, but I had to always play it in secret because my dad thought it was too violent. Friggin parents.
I first played the demo at Blockbuster. My mind exploded :)
4 player complex is one of my fondest memories of my teens. Stayed the night at a buddies when it came out and it was him, his step bro, stepbros friend and me. We must have played for 4 hours straight. Had many more multiplayer games with other friends as well and it was always awesome.
Dude, you unlocked a childhood memory of mine. Back in Austin, TX in the 90s, I used to go to a store called “Game Force.” At some point after I saw it, they renamed it “Game Zone.”
I remember when this game came out it was really hard to find this game. Every store was sold out. I think we spent around 2-3 hours on the phone calling around to find a copy. We did manage to find a store with 1 copy left. All the good memories of being able to play this game for the first time. There was nothing else like it at the time.
oh man.. Goldeneye is my jam forever. I still play it to this day. it was so huge and revolutionary when it came out. I used to walk to my friend's house at 7am just to play for an hour before going to the bus stop for school lol
Golden Eye and the Rumble pack. Will always love these memories. The feeling of that rumble was so good. Probably still holds up today!
I remember getting this and mario 64 and wcw/nwo world tour as my 1st 3 games for Christmas with the system....this brings back great memories....I love your channel please keep up the good work and my condolences on your dad passing 🙏🏽 ❤️
I went to a friend's and tried it...I don't think I had ever seen motion capture before (maybe it's not)...there was a moment on the snow level watching the guards walk through the sniper scope I was truly amazed by how realistic they moved
The way you describe your experience from seeing it at the store to actually playing it really resonates with me. Undoubtedly an incredible leap for the genre and one which also left me speechless as a kid. Thanks for sharing.
I remember as a kid, about 8 years old, seeing an older kid playing Goldeneye at Toys R Us prior to it's release. He was playing Facility and he was shooting glass containers. Thought it was the most realistic thing I has seen in a game and was mesmerized by the graphics.
GoldenEye was my second game I bought for my N64 ... WOW it was amazing.
Played this game always when we have birthday party's with 4 player splitscreen.
So many good memories with this amazing game.
And agreed I was excited with the followup game only did not have the specieal touch any more never knew why 🙄
I watched the movie in theatre's in December 1995 with my dad and I loved every moment of it.
1996 passed by and I enjoyed playing pirate copies of PS1 games and I had no clue Goldeneye the game was being made....
I got Goldeneye on VHS for Christmas in 1996 and basically watched it over and over....
Then in Christmas 1997, I went over to my best friends house who got the N64 for Christmas, his parents only got him Goldeneye the game and we were so amazed playing it for the first time after mainly playing Mega Drive games for so long. I remember our parents partied on New years even 1997 and we did was play multiplayer againts each other all night.
So many good memories of friends from school all playing this huddled around a tiny CRT tv shouting at each other. Good times.
This was the game that made me have to upgrade to a Nintendo 64 from my SNES. Countless weekends spent playing multiplayer in the late 90s into the early 2000s- even after next gen systems had come out. It probably wasn’t until Halo that GoldenEye was bested.
Perfect dark with the expansion pak was top tier only second to halo amazing time.
I remember playing this til dawn on my cousins place, they had one of those big tv sets, it was awesome, we even played tournaments with elimination rounds, because there were so many of us 😅 he lived on a apartment building and basicly every kid on the building went there to play the game.
This a legacy game!! Revolutionary. Thanks for sharing your amazing experiences with this game, MRL!
I blew my very first Christmas bonus as an apprentice on an N64 with Starfox (or Lylat Wars, as it's called over here in Austria/Europe), International Superstar Soccer 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Turok and of course, Goldeneye. I finished my workday (it was a Friday so I had the whole weekend to look forward to) and I was nervous as hell on my way home XD Goldeneye blew my mind as it did yours, it was a complete gamechanger. I still play it regularly and I can't imagine ever not enjoying it. An absolute masterpiece!
I'll never forget the first time playing this game. It was Christmas 1997. I opened all my gifts and opened up the N64 console only to find my parents didn't get me any games to play!! "Doesn't it come with Mario???" They said, NO!! So my dad quickly recommended going to the local Blockbuster to rent some games. I rented Goldeneye and a few others, but man what a ride it was playing that game. I don't think I slept that whole night....Memories.
I remember watching a friend play it at his place. I had never heard of FPS or even seen a James Bond movie, but seeing him play it blew my mind. It was so realistic, that's all I could think about. I play still regularly on the N64, just to be back in the exciting 90s.
And it started my fanboyism of Bond too
Golden eye was one of the games that made me love the n64! Me and my brothers and friends would play this all the time. Great memories! Great story you shared. As a matter of fact I think I’ll play this right now. 😂 on another note I remember being blown away at shadows of the empire as well! Great game
Those were the days, wish i knew how many hours i put into goldeneye back in the day
I remember playing goldeneye along time ago but not until a little more after 1997. it wasn't until the early 2000's because i first played tomorrow never dies on the ps1. But i still remember great memories of the old 007 classic games it was a blast
When this game came out , a lot of my friends were parking their cars by a friend's house that was close to school. And almost every day after school we'd walk home and hang out and play 4 player Golden Eye.
The parents were cool and there always be at least 4 to 6 teenagers hanging out for a couple hours after school.
I loved Goldeneye the movie and when the game finally came out, I got it for Christmas 1997 and still have it to this day. An absolute classic. it was the first fps game I ever played and is still one of the best. It gets so difficult later on especially if you're trying to unlock the two secret levels. So difficult in fact that one level is still locked.
You should try to finally beat it!
Your right I should. I usually try to 100% my games so Goldeneye shouldn't be any different. I just have to keep the rage quitting under control. 😄 Great video by the way. I've seen a few of them and it's nice to watch your videos and remember when these games and consoles were new and exciting.
What was amazing to me was that it wasn't really a first person shooter in the sense that we knew the genre back then. You're James fucking Bond, you're a secret agent. You have specific tasks within each mission and dying wasn't the only way to fail the mission. It was so much more than a regular fps.
14 years old when this beast came out. Truly blessed to grow up in the 90s. I'm now approaching 40 and still play it.
I put in serious play on it, I hate when people don't give it enough time to appreciate it. Bc it is so good. I can't just beat all the missions 00 agent, but most of them. And at least once for all of them. It's not hard. it's painful to watch people not strafe run or just basic movement. Starfox 64 is like that too. I dominate in that. I forget people legit struggle in it.
90's the best days.. best of both worlds = outdoor play and technology
Once again, you have taken me back to a blast in the past! Flash back Friday!! I was in 5th grade the year this dropped, and my good friend during those years had a N64 (I was a SEGA and PlayStation owner) and I would spend the night every weekend and play with him and his family.
Also, a little sidenote
Anytime, I find myself in a bad mood whenever I have some free time your channel gives me life!!
Thank you Tyler!
I was 12 when this came out and it was beyond it's time for sure. one of the best games on the n64 of all time.
Me too I was born in 85
Snap. Christmas 97. 12 year old me.
I built a table that sat in the middle of the TV. Two of my friends sat on the floor and two sat on chiars. We played on teams; everyone could see their teamates screen but not the others. We called it blind bond.
I put so many hours into this game. The only game that trumped Golden Eye during the N64 era was Perfect Dark, that was like Golden Eye on steroids. Great times.
Yep with the expansion pak from blockbuster and never gave it back lol
My mom ran a day care and kids always brought games and consoles over. Seeing that footage of everyone sitting on the living room floor, eating pizza and playing goldeneye with friends!
God what a great time to be alive!
I made sure my coffee table had some Christmas 1997 relics on it before firing up Goldeneye last weekend: Star Wars Trilogy Special Editon on VHS, Final Fantasy VII, cart copies of San Francisco Rush, Diddy Kong Racing, Goldeneye, and a Suncoast Video 1997 Spawn Movie coffee mug.
My best friend called me and was like I got Goldeneye. I was so clueless. I was like you don’t even like Bond. He was like come over. It is so good. We played the hell out of it. By the end of the week, I had purchased the game.
It was truly a system seller and introduced a lot of kids to James Bond
Goldeneye was a gem. I remember I had a friend like you who had it while no one else did for awhile. I had Doom 64 and Mischeif Makers but for whatever reason 007 escaped my grasps at the start. However, Eric had Goldeneye and lucky enough he lived a few houses down. Needless to say that cartridge ran the gamut between he and all of his friends. I remember we would take it to our other friends place whos parents had a masive 80 inch television at the time hooked up to a sound system and let me tell you, it was like we were playing it on the silver screen itself in our young minds. Shortly after I came home from school one day and my Grandma surprised me with my very own copy. This was like playing it for the first time all over again, because now it was my copy. I finally went through the campaign at my leisure and all was right in the world. Keep up the great videos Tyler, you envoke so many memories from my childhood and I cannot thank you enough.
Gaming with a sound system attached is awesome. Been doing it since 2006 and can never go back to standard television speakers again. I remember when I finally blew my speakers in 2016, I absolutely could not play video games or watch television or movies until I got new speakers
@@deezy81 It really does put the experience on another level. Especially with modern games where sounds come from so many different channels. You are definitely doing a disservice to yourself if you aren't playing on a multispeaker system or at the very least a great surround headset.
@@PolecatsRock For real.
i remember getting it for christmas, i actually still got photo of me holding it up at my grandmas house. I played it at i think it was target, they had a display stand with game playing, i did few levels and i was hooked, and i got it that christmas. between goldeneye and perfect dark is two games i have most fond memories of growing up. well and finally beating smw on snes
So cool that you have that photo still
I haven’t played Goldeneye in probably 20 years. Brought my n64 and Goldeneye into work and at lunch have been playing with the younger coworkers. It’s been so funny. I think I’m about 150 kills to 5 deaths this last week.
I was there baby!!! My friends and I played it all the time and I remember going to one of those "SURGE" soda conventions where there was bounce houses, inflatable boxing, trampolines with velcro suits, virtual surfing, and there was a tiny room with an n64 with goldeneye playing on a large projector on a wall and guess where the 3 hundred kids ended up for the majority of that convention? You guessed it, and my friends and I were taking everyone on!!!
I remember the first time I played this game very vividly. My buddy brought it over my house on a school night and it was the most amazing experience. I must have purchased it that same week and I was hooked. I played that game daily for probably a year. Amazing game and a moment in time for sure.
Does this video ever take me back to a time & place. Holy teenage flashbacks Batman.
😂😂😂
I have so many great memories of this game, me and my two older brothers and their friends playing this game literally all day everyday for months. I lost most of the time when we played 4 players but I had a blast and every now and then I’d win and feel like a million bucks because they were all 10 and 12 years older than me I was 9 or ten had my whole life ahead of me great times
In my case, I had it around the 2000 as we got everything later in South America but I was AMAZED! I never thought I could play with 3 friends in the same TV those crazy deathmatches and the story mode was like nothing before. I played WAY more than Perfect Dark (that I got around 2001/2)
I dont remember if I had seen the game in a magazine first, I think I played it at Walmart on a kiosk, which lead to me getting it. I was only like 8 or 9, and got stuck in some spots, but my friends at the time and I played it so much. Years later, I also played it a lot with my nephews and tonight, we played the switch online together for a bit with plans to play more tomorrow.
I'm really discovering GoldenEye for the first time (mostly) through the recent Perfect Dark PC port. I've been playing Perfect Dark N64 since I was 4 years old in 2007... Regularly, with my dad. 17 years later and we're still playing PD together. Until the fan PC port, we didn't really play with mods at all. Now, we're learning the GoldenEye multiplayer maps from the GoldenEye X mod that were ported to Perfect Dark, featuring many of the single player and all of the original multiplayer arenas from GE in PD.
It's giving me a newfound appreciation for GoldenEye. Don't get me wrong, PD is still the best game of all time for me. The mechanics, level design, texture work, use of color, audio, music... sheer customization in the Combat Simulator with bots, heads/bodies, names, team names, etc etc. etc... When I was a kid I tried GoldenEye and was so disappointment it wasn't just, 'more Perfect Dark'. Now, it can be-- and IS for me. Bringing over all of the great content from GoldenEye, but not the inferior mechanics which bog GE down after having played PD exclusively for so long.
I was 14 when 007 came out and still remember the day it came out. Within a week my brothers and I went to the local game shop and picked it up. We played it religiously and I still am playing to this day
I got this game back in 1997 too at the age of 15. It was life at the time. And now its on the switch. What a time to be alive
GLorious times!
me and my dad had some hours in goldeneye i sure do miss those days for sharing your content man
Oh man, revolutionary game right here. I was 9 when it came out and I had 3 older brothers I’d play that all day and all night with them. We loved it, couldn’t get enough. Our favorite game setup was the complex with proximity mines. Everyone was dying left and right but man did we laugh our ass off and have a good time. We’d only stop playing to watch wwf and wcw pay per views. God I miss those days
Bud had a very similar experience including playing with all my buddies. My brother & I were sitting one day playing quarterback club 99 when our dad came in the room and sat Goldeneye on top of the tv in front of us. Both of our eyes were lit & we couldn’t believe it! It’s a moment me n my bro will never forget! So glad to see them honoring it on Xbox. It’s so funny to think about all those games costing $50-$60 a piece back then. Def worth every cent ! Thanks to our old mans!
My best friends house had an open door to all the kids in the neighborhood. I remember 6-10 kids cramped into a room when Goldeneye released. Winners kept playing, losers rotated out. My best friend and i never lost. It was basically the neighborhood trying to beat the two of us. Fun times.
I remember watching my brother play this after school every day. Good times. The multi-player was phenomenal. Revolutionized the genre.
GoldenEye 007 was gaming & GFX PORN at an absurd level at the time
I got Goldeneye alongside my N64 for Xmas. I remember shouting my mum into my room to see something utterly mind blowing - i could shoot bullet hioles into the walls and etch my initials. Safe to say she was floored by this.
"Aim good, I could write my name in cursive with the Tommy on the wall.."
When I Used To Go To My Grandparents House After Preschool Back In My Hometown When Me And Uncle Used To Lived The Same Town I Remember Seeing My Uncle Playing Goldeneye On The Nintendo 64
Goldeneye 007 is still one of my favorite n64 games. My buddies and I played countless hours on multi-playr.This game brings back sooo much nostalgia. My buddy had a trappleline we would always jump on it .When we ran out of energy, We would bring the old school T.V. outside and play Goldeneye 007 for hours .
I was in middle school when this game came out. I remember setting up shop in our garage and inviting friends over to play goldeneye. Skateboarding and N64. Loved the 90's 🔥
What I gather from your videos is not just the nostalgia of video games but the community who were luck to have such a great dad who would do anything for their kid/kids. I see more comments about the dads buying them the game or console they reallly wanted although they were very expensive then and even now, but it’s the dads that love seeing their kid smile for eternity. The memories is all but what some of us have now because of a passing of a father or divorced. Not taking anything from the mother but I’m my experience it’s the dads. Selfless hard working dads and the love they have for their kids.
I was born in '96 and remember watching my dad and his younger brothers play GoldenEye.
My dad was telling me about going to the local mall, and they had a big screen set up for people to compete in GoldenEye multi-player.
My cousin got it that Christmas 1997. My family went to their house for Christmas. I remember being blown away, watching my cousin work his way through that first Dam level. I distinctly remember the part where you have to shoot the lock off the gate before opening it. I just thought that was so cool and unbelievable. I got my own copy sometime in 1998. My friends and I spent countless hours playing that game.
This game is beyond important to me.
When I small and coherent around 2001 ( 6 years old ) my brother was frequent playing this game with his older friends. After hardships , friends dying or growing older. My brother and I now hold a wonderful connection with each other through GOLDENEYE 007.
you nailed it. I try to tell people who slate the game now how impressive it was. Quake was amazing but this was James Bond and amazing!
Goldeneye walked so Halo could run.
It was as important for the N64 as Super Mario 64 was.
Legendary title, great to see it available on current hardware.
system link halo I think is what Goldeneye couldnt compete with (that and modern controls lol). System link halo in my computer networking class and later on in college on multiple tvs and projectors was so much fun. Goldeneye will always be the OG though.
I just got the n64 logo tatted on my arm such a iconic system and a huge part of my childhood💯🔥💯
#hardcore💪🏿
Get N or get out!
My older brother and I used to play this a lot. This and Bad Fur day multiplayer . He passed away, but Ill always remember us playing n64
Man my most cherished memory playing this game was after getting out of school and sitting in my old room of my grandparents’ house with my cousins. The house has since been torn down 😢 but playing with my cousins there was my most cherished memories. I also remember my uncle coming in to join the fun.
My parents HATED this game because it was so immersive and realistic. Really didn’t like that I played it, but it’s what made FPS my favorite genre to this day. They were relieved I turned out pretty normal ahaha
If they hated it, you where lucky they didn't get rid of it.
I still remember my buddies mom taking us to toys r us so he could get this game I really didn’t care about but once he turned it on and I watched him play that first stage I had to have it for my bday. We had so many amazing nights playing multiplayer.
Goldeneye was my first Nintendo 64 game. Will never forget it. It is one of the few games in my history that left a permanent mark on my gaming memory.
I want to say thank you for providing this glimpse into your childhood, it's so interesting seeing that era through the perspective of your father like this. And that is the spirit that makes these videos so interesting and with this strange feeling of tragedy and yearning. I think he would have loved what you did with the videos!
Great Video, Tyler! This video game was played big time on my street from me, my older brother, and friends. Multiplayer on this game was only out done later by Halo 1 and 2 for me. But split screen FPS in my eyes all really started here (console wise). Awesome close up pics of my limited edition 2 color Goldeneye cartridge. lol
Man you always hit the nail on the head with your videos
I remember playing this at my friend's house thinking that this was the only thing that mattered in the universe. We used to play this day and night.
When gta 3 came out it was the same way.